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Show ROY EDWARDS BETTER; WILL RETURN HOME SOON Roy Edwards, who was frightfully injured at the sugar factory some two months ago, when he was thrown on a belt conveyor, sustaining a broken leg and severe friction burns, is making mak-ing splendid headway towards recov- ery, according to Attorney C. M. Edwards, Ed-wards, who visited his brother at the hospital while on a recent trip to Salt Lake. Roy, the brother stated, is now getting along fine and it is expected he will be able to return to his home in Gunnison about the 20th of this month. Considerable skin grafting was necessary to close the ugly wound j caused by the stuffing of the flesh : where the leg was so badly burned 'and the last operation of this kind ' was performed last Saturday. A j place about six by six inches has been grafted and the skin from the : ig'nt leo- was used in patching up ths wound. i ! Mr. Edwards has hosts nf friends I here who will be glad to haar of his ' progress towards complete recovery j and that he will soon return to his home. When he sustained the injury ,his condition was regarded as serious. The leg wis broken at the point where the burns were inflicted and in order to get the bone to set properly fnr healing it was necessary to snlice the beak with bones, set in place i by bone screws. |