The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1904-10-28
Members Of the Medical Pro-
fession Pay Him Tribute.
RecaIIReminiscences and Many
Stories Are Told.
An Enjoyable Feast and a Full
Round Of joIIity.


From Tuesdays Daily.
Not until he is about to be sundered
from his associates is good useful citi
zen fully appreciated in the community,
where he has lived. Then, for the first
time, people begin to have some adequate
conception of his real value and then it
is that compliments are poured forth
that could have no purpose in being
otherwise than perfectly sincere. Such
was the farewell rendered last night to
DR.. E. J. Davis by other physicians and
friends in the ordinary at the Saulpaugh
hotel.
Twenty-eight in all sat at that ban
quet board and were indeed a goodly
representation of workers and leaders
of the city besides several visitors from
outside. The assemblage included Drs.
Z. j. Davis, president of the Blue Earth
County Medical society; C. o. Cooley of
Madelia, j. w. B. Welcome, Sr. of
Sleepy Eye, Helen Hughes, j. w. An
drews, G. r. Curran, c. F. Warner, ]. NJ.
Edwards, A. o. Bjelland, o. C. Stricken
of New Ulm, Jane Hughes, Ida Osborn,
c. j. Holman, Madge Timmerman-Hol
man, 2. G. Harrington, E. d. Steel, d. d.
Smith, L. F. Schmauss, j. S. Holbrook,
A. G. Liedloff, William Frisbie, ]. A.
Hielscher, and l. D. Webster; also Hon.
G. s. Ives of st. Paul, formerly lieu
tenant governor; Judge Lorin Cray,
Rev. George w. Davis, Judge w. N. Ply
mat, and Charles E. Wise.
Rev. Davis asked the blessing and
after many courses of superb viands,
served by the. fair mattresses of the ho-
tel. DIR. Cooley, the POSTMASTER of the
evening, arose to announce the main
purpose of the gathering. AS friends of
DIR. E. j. Davis the company had con-
vened that evening to chow their high
esteem of good feeling of him, who was
about to depart to work in new field
of duty. This was an occasion when the
worries and cares of life were laid aside
and forgotten. Reyery and rhyme are
mans immediate cure for what he must
undergo. There are times when he can
forget all that is onerous, can leave his
load behind and traverse over hill and
dale as if equipped with air pinions.
Though these outings often exist in his
mind alone, yet they have the same eff
feet as real ones, as far as enjoyment
and recreation are concerned. The toast
master now called upon DR.. Welcome, as
one who had had experience of more
bad cases, bad roads, and other bad
things than any other physician present,
to respond to toast on "Reminis.
cences."
DIR. Welcome gave brief resume of
the history of DIR. Davis life since he
came to Mankato thirty six years ago,
a graduate of the medical school at Al
udHy. LIE duuieSS was lcciiiHS WITH
jokes on the doctor, especially in re-
gard to his early professional career
here. The speaker said he wished to in
dicate how DR.. Davis had grown, un-
til now he is man of whom the medi-
cal profession is justly proud.
Judge Plymat in response to the toast,
s. Relation of Lawyer to Doctor" called
to mind time when he was telling a
war story and had remarked that in one
battle he counted the number that had
fallen as he fired and the total had
reached hundred and seven. A doctor
spoke up and said that was nothing to
the number he had killed. Many people
have such conception as this of both
professions. The truth is that both the
professions essentially consist in making
a first duty of the interests of a client.
Both have been elevated and ennobled
in modern times by the advent of women
into their ranks. If there is any profess
sion to which that of the law must yield
in faithfully taking care of the case en-
trusted to it, then surely that profess
sion is medicine. A noble example of
the righteous exercise of the power of
medical skill is the career of the honored
guest of the evening. Deal gently with
him, gentle Time.
"Women in the Medical Profession"
was the subject of an address by DR..
Helen Hughes, who opened by remark
ing that the women in the field of medi-
cine are so often treated to a roast that
it is something of a diversion to get a
toast. Women has at all ages of the
worlds history been recognized as the
alleviator of suffering. Women prac-
ticing the art of healing is no new thing.
Tablets have been unearthed in Greece,
showing that there were women doctors
in that land when il held the intellec-
tual leadership of the world. Women
have worked in the medical art more or