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Show INJURED BOY IS NOW ON ROAD TO FOLL RECOVERY Donald Swenson, the 16-year-old Harrisville boy who was shot In the face October 1 while returning from a duck hunting expedition, Is reported as recovering nicely from the accident. The charge from tho 12-gauge shotgun toro off part of his left cheek bone, part of tho top of his left ear and a piece of- his skull on the loft side about the slzo of a dollar, taking the skin and flesh from this part of his head. Tho doctors who arc in charge of tho young man have reported that he is entirely out of danger now and tho wound Is healing rapidly. The flesh has boon drawn together over the left cheek bone and a natural growth Is starting to close the piece of Bkull taken away by the charge of shot. Swenson was shot about 10 o'clock on the morning of October 1, as he was returning from the sloughs west of Plain City. He was in the roar seat of a wagon. Tho front seat was occupied occu-pied by two companions and an automatic auto-matic shotgun which lay across the seat with the muzzle pointing up. A jolt discharged tho gun and the chargo of shot struck tho young man in tho face. Waynerd Swenson, an uncle of Donald Swenson, is at the Deo hospital hos-pital at present suffering from spinal meningitis. He is about 30 years of ago. nn |