Bloomington (Monroe County, Indiana) Daily Telephone, October 15, 1925, p. 1. COUNCILMAN J. A. WELLS OPERATION; IMPROVES Councilman J. A. Wells, the successful business man, is improving nicely after an operation Tuesday day [sic] evening at the Bloomington hospital by an Indianapolis specialist, the trouble being double hernia. It will be at least two weeks before he can return to his home on Indiana avenue.