Omaha daily bee., 1906-08-27
DOCTORS HERE THIS WEEK
Annual Meeting Of Medical socisty Of the
Missouri Valley.
INTERESTING PROGRAM PREPARED
An Schools OF Medicine IneIudea In
Membership and . Large Attend
ance Il Expected--Estertaf--
meat for Visitors.


The nineteenth annual meeting Of the
Medical Society OF the Mlssoury Valley will
be held in Council Bluffs Thursday and
Friday. September 6 and T. The session will
be held IN the large hall at the Grand,
where the society will asso have It's head
, quarters during the meeting. The member
ship Of the orga nixatior Is made UP from
Iowa. Nebraska, Missouri, Kansas. South
Dakota and wyoming. while It also has
members In illinois, Wisconsin and Minne-
sofa The annual meetings OF the society
in the past have generally been well at
tended and at least one hundred members
are expected TO be IN attendance at this
years session.
The membership Of the society is not
confined TO any one school Of medicine but
as the program states Is "a free lance
scientific body with no political or ethical
chickering's to clog its wheels of progress. :"
Any reputable practitioner of regular medi-
cine Is eligible for membership.
| The officers Of the society follow:
President. J.. %. sunmsrA Jr;; Omaha;
Ts fowp sseomd Vice a. presSent g.
MacTae, sr.., Council Bluffs: secretary.
Charles Wood Fassett. 81. Joseph.
These compose the standing committeesi
Puhlication-C Charles Wood Fassett, st.
| Joseph; Daniel Morton, 81. Joseph; w. l..
Kennsy. st; Joseph;
]. NJ. Akin, Omaha: X. McConaughy. York.
Neb.; u: Parsons, Malvern, Ia; w. T..
yusiciai-s. Grover Burnett. Kansas city:
! A. D. Wilkinson, L1neoln; r. c. Moore.
Omaha; A. r. Wright, Carroll, Ia; A. q.
Van Mansfield ASHLAND. Neb.; v. l. Trey
nor, Council Bluffs,
Opens Thursday Morning.
The opening session will be held Thursday
morning at 10 O'Clock. when the meeting
will be caIed to order by DIR. r. w. Dean
of Council Bluffs, chairman OF the COM
mittee on arrangements. Charles W. Nc
Donald, president of the Commercial club
will deliver the address of welcome. which
will be responded to by DIR. q w. Clark Of
Grinnell. Iowa, president OF the Iowa State
Medical society. The balance Of the morn
ing session win be devoted to the reading
of reports of the oficers. committees and
the, transaction OF miscellaneous business.
At the afternoon session Thursday, papers
will be read by 8. Grower Burnett Of
Kansas City. Harry Everett OF Lincoln,
Neb. Barnard A. McDermott OF Omaha, r.
e. Coulter Of Omaha, T. 70. Potter Of ct.
Joseph. c. b. Hardin of Kansas city. o. B.
Campbell of 81. Joseph. Leroy drummer
OF Omaha, Mary Strong Of Omaha, George
r. Butler OF Chicago ana w. L. Kennedy
of St. Joseph.
At the evening session Thursday. Presi-
dent John =. Summers, Jr.. OF Omaha. will
deliver his annual address. and DIR. Richard
G. Moore will deliver an GRAFTON on medi-
cine s.. 80. % -, !, ~, -.
Seventeen papers on various subjects
compose the program for the Friday SEES
sions. which will begin at $50 a. m. An
evening session viii be held in the event
Of the program not being completed In the
afternoon. Those on the program for pa
pers are: LII. Uhls. Ossawattamio Kan;
Frank p. Norbury. Jacksonville. ILL.,; d. C.
Brockman. Ottumwa, Ia: Leo M. Crafts.
Minneapolis, Mimi: Halsey NJ. Lyle. Kan
sas City Palmer Findley. Omaha; Emil
Ries Chicago: ID. s.rFairehild. Des Moinee;
A. C. Stokes Omaha: w. T. E1am, st.
Joseph; J. p. Lord. Omaha: Alfred schlek,
Chicago: C. o. Thienhaus. Milwaukee,; f.
Damour, >Boiokow, Mo-; W. r. Waugh
Chicago; w. r. Milroy. Omaha; T. N.
Bogart. Excelsior Springs, Mo.
The election OF officers and the selection
OF place for the meeting In March will be
held at the morning session Friday.
| AZ the street fair and carnival will be in
progress during the meeting the visiting
medicoe WIN be afforded plenty OF amuse-
| ment and entertainment The local COM
mittee on arrangements win see to It that
all the courtesies OF the street fair and
carnival ara extended to the visitors who
will be provided with complimentary tick
| including the carnival grounds.
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