The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-05-27
|. DENTISTS HERE.
They Are Renewing Acquain-
lance and Talking Shop.
First Woman Dentist in World
Is Present.
SESSION A LARGE ONE.
President Esterly's Address to
Be Given Tonight.
Sessions Being Held in Repre-
sentative Hall.

The thirty-sixth annual convention of
the Kansas State Dental association is
in session in Topeka today with head
quarters at the Copeland hotel though
the business meetings and programs are
being held in Representative hall. At
the opening meeting this morning which
was held for the purpose of disposing
of the preliminary work of the associa-
ton one-fourth of the total member
ship answered to roll call.
The association was organized a.
Lawrence in 1872 and has held annual
meetings continually since that time
most Of which have been in Topeka. At
the present time the membership
amounts to 800 and there are about a
dozen applications on file which will be
acted on during the present session.
Among those present at the meeting
today is DR. J. D. Patterson of Law
renee who is the only charter member
of the association who is now a MEM
Der. The roll of membership contains
the name Of Mrs. Lucy Taylor who is
now a practicing dentist in Lawrence
and who was the first woman in the
world to take a degree in dentistry She
graduated from the Cincinnati College
of Dental Surgery in 1867 and has been
an active practitioner since that time.
The address OF the president of the
association. George A Esterly. which
was to have been delivered this morn
ing was postponed until this evening
when a larger attendance is expected,
as members are arriving on every train.
The session which will be held in Repre-
sentative hall this evening will be call
ed at T:30 to enable the visitors to take
advantage of an invitation to attend
the Novelty theater as the guest of Col
oneI James Chappelle of the Copeland
hotel
entertain the visitors with a trolley
ride Tuesday afternoon when the
Country club and Vinewood park will
be visited. Steps are being taken
meeting and it is likely that in the
future more attention will be paid to
the entertainment of visiting men,
bers than in the past.
Tuesday morning Will be devoted to
the clinics of the session which viii
be held in the annex at the Copeland
hotel when SO different phases of
dentistry will be covereA by as many
demonstrators from Kansas and Mis-
Il think that the present session
will be one of the largest and best at
tended ever held said Dr. Esterly of
ton mot only in point of attendance
but in interest as well. Each sue
ceeding meeting for several years
past has been better than its prede-
one will eclipse anything OF the kind
ever held in the state
"Our mem bership is constantly in
creaSing- and anticipate the addition
of at least a dozen new members if
not more at this meeting Many of
the memb ers have brought their wives
with them and this has suggested a
new feature and in the future it is
more than likely that the social feat
ure will be made more of than N the
past
The real work of the meeting will
commence tomorrow morning when
numerous papers will be read supple
contents by the mem hers. The follow
ing are the pa pers which are to be fol-
lowed by, discussions though no
definite assignment has been made on
the program:
"A Neglected Point J. D. Patter-
SON Kansas City. Mo: "Amalgams.
Formulas and ManipulationS. Edward
Bumga rdner. Lawrence: why Nature
Needs Assista nee and How to Assist
Her" F G. Corey. Council Grove:
Lantern lecture or "Dentftion." Martin
Dewey. Kansas CITY: Cement" T. F.
Purcell Kansas City: Local Organf-
zation." w A. McCarter- Topeka:
Omar E Griffin. G:rard: Dentistry
az a Vocation" c. g. Allen. Kansas
City: Continuous Gum Plate" D. J.
Mcmillan. Kansas Civ; 'Pyorrh oea
the Treatment, the Prevention from
the Standpoint of an Amateur ''Arti-
fetal Porcelain Roots. translation
from the Spanish r. Mathews WITCH
Filings" s z. Johnson. Leavenworth:
Fractures showing models, F. A.
Rooster, Topeka; Dentistry in the