SMALL DAUGHTER OF MR. AND MRS. NATHAN FORGE HIT BY
RED FRONT GROCERY TRUCK IN MAIN STREET
The community was shocked at four o’clock this afternoon when it became known that little Mary Frances Forge, aged six years, had been struck by one of the delivery trucks belonging to the Red Front Grocery in East Main Street opposite the Catholic Cemetery.
The little girl was on her way home from school when the accident happened. One of her companions chased her and she left the sidewalk and darted into the road to escape her pursuer. The truck was coming from a westerly direction....
Nathan passed his hand across his eyes. He took a long breath, held it, released it raggedly.
“Takes grit to live sometimes, doesn’t it, Bill? Just grit!” he said.
Little more was spoken on that ensuing two miles before the train drew alongside the Paris depot platform.
IV
It takes grit to live sometimes—just grit!
Milly naturally was the more grief-stricken of the two in the hectic days which followed. But it was Mrs. Anna Forge who shed the most tears and acted generally as though the bottom had dropped from the universe.