CEDAR COUNTY, NEBRASKA - To Save a Boy’s Life [Son of Frank Peters]
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NOTE:  THE WYNOT TRIBUNE CEASED OPERATIONS IN THE LATE 1930s.


Wynot Tribune 5-18-1916

To Save a Boy’s Life

	The fifteen year old son of Mr. and Mrs. Frank Peters was taken 
suddenly ill with appendicitis last Saturday afternoon. Dr. Jones 
decided that an operation was necessary to save the boys life. There 
would be no train to Sioux City until Monday morning, and the roads were 
almost impassible for an automobile. It was late in the afternoon and no 
crossing could be had at Yankton by the time the ferry could be reached.  
The boy must be taken to a surgeon at once and it was either a special 
train or an attempt to make the trip with an automobile. As the railroad 
company would ask over $2000 for a train to the city, the automobile plan 
was adopted. 

	Henry Jurgens Jr. driving a Buick touring car left here at nine 
o’clock Saturday night with the boy and his father and Dr. Jones. The 
trip was made to Sioux City, arriving there about three o’clock Sunday 
morning. 

	Surgeons immediately performed the operation and the boy at this 
writing is getting along as well as could be expected.

	The trip was one of the most difficult ever made in an automobile 
over this route. The roads were deep with mud and rain fell during most 
of the trip. Mr. Jurgens and the doctor returned to Wynot at five o’clock 
Sunday afternoon.