The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1910-02-14
DOCTORS MEET IN
CONVENTION HERE
Tri-State Medical Association Con-
venes in jefferson Hotel
Tuesday Morning.
TO READ MANY PAPERS
Program Contains Number Of In
terestlng Features Including Sew
eral Novel Entertainments.
TO READ MANY PAPERS

The twelfth annual convention OF
the Tri-State Medical Association will
meet Tuesday morning In the audi
torium of the Jefferson hotel. It will
continue through Thursday.
There Will be no night sessions, all
the business being transacted during
the morning and afternoon. while
during the evenings an elaborate pro-
gram of receptions, banquets, smokers
and other forms of entertainments
Will be carried out.
DR. Joseph A. White, of Richmond,
will call the meeting to order, and
Will be followed by Governor Mann,
who will welcome the medical dele
gates to this city and 10 the State.
The response will be made by DR..
Hubert A. Register, of Raleigh. and
the annual address of DIR. LeGrand
Query, of Columbia, g. c.. president
of the association, will them be de-
liparsd-
During the five daily sessions over
one hundred papers will be read and
discussed. Many will be on technical
matters, but other subjects such al
tuberculosis symptoms and treatment,
care for the criminally insane. pure
food laws and regulations in which
everyone is vitality interested VIII be
debated
To Have Many Papers.
On account OF the large number of
papers and the limited time during
which the convention will be in ses-
sion, the time for the reading of each
paper has been cut to twenty min
utes, while individual discussion Is to
continue not more than Ave minutes.
OF particular interest, however, to
those attending from other cities Will
be the clinics which have been ar
ranged for Wednesday and Thursday
mornings. These will begin at $50
o clock and end at 9:45 o'clock. We'd
nesday the clinic will be in Memorial
hospital; Thursday, in the Virginia
hospital
The entertainment features of the
convention viii include reception
Tuesday night by DIR. Stuart MCGUIRE.
a luncheon in the home of DR.. Allison
Hodges Wednesday afternoon and a
buffet supper at the Westmoreland
Club Wednesday night. which will be
followed by a vaudeville participated
in by actors now playing In the local
theatres.
wednesday afternoon the wives OF
the visiting physicians will be enter.
tanned at the Woman's Club, and
later in the evening will be taken on
an automobile tour OF the city.
Il
citation will be elected for the en-
suing year. In order that no presi-
dent may preside In his own state,
the association elect for each year
president from that State IN which
the preceding convention was held
The last convention having been In
South Carolina, DIR. Query. OF Column
bia, now occupies the executive chair.
and as the 1910 convention taxes
place here the 1911 president will be
virginian. probably a Richmond
physician.
Officers OF Association.
The present officers, members OF
the Council and Committee on Ar.
rangements are as follows:
President, Dr. LeGrand Query. Co.
lumbia, 8. c.; e-Presidents--Dr.
Joseph A. White, Richmond: DIR. Will
Fam W. Mckenzie, Salisbury. N. CT;
DR., j. Wilkinson Jervey, Greenville.
S. c.; Secretary-Treasurer, DR.. j..
Howell way, Waynesville. N. G.
Executive Councillor. stephen
Harnsberger, Catlett, Va; DIR. Stephen
II. Tayloe, Washington, y. c.: DIR. H.
f. Mcconnell. Chester, S. c.: DIR.
James S. Irvine, Danyille, Va; DIR. A.
]. Crowell. Charlotte, N. c., DIR. A. E.
Baker, Charleston, S. CT DR. Robert
c. Bryan, Richmond: DR. James A.
Burroughs, Asheville, N. c.; DIR. Rolfe
E. Hughes, Laurens. S. c.
Committee on Arrangements--Dr.
Joseph A. White, DIR. j. Shelton Hors-
ley, DR.. j. Allison Hodges, DIR. Robert
c. Bryan. DR.. George Ben Johnston,
DIR. John G. Walton and DR.. Stuart
Mcclure.