St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1916-10-18

the court house Friday morning and
| in the Colonial theatre Friday after
noon, came the report of the nomin-
ating committee Of officers and COM
mittees for the ensuing year. DR.. G.
H. Beecher of Burlington was elect
ed president; DR.. c. w. Rowland Of
Shoreham, vice president, and DR..
w. c. Kicker of st. Johnsbury, Sec
rotary of the society.
DR.. John H. Williams of Rochester.
N. z, who failed to arrive Thursday,
delivered his address upon diabetes
"Our Present Conception of the Dis
ease and Its Treatment" Friday
morning, and later held. a clinic upon
the disease.
One of the features of the meeting
was the surgical clinic conducted dur
ing the morning by DIR. Ellsworth
Elliot, Jr., of the Presbyterian hos.
pital, New York City. He spoke on
the subject, Certain Features of the
Symptoms and Treatment of Gall.
stones"
He also delivered an grafton on sur
gerry in the afternoon, subject "a
Consideration of Certain Unusual
Features of Gall Trouble and It's Sur
gical Treatment
The 1880 annual meeting of the so.
ciety then adjourned and the dele.
gates who remained to the closing
session hurried for the last trains fo1
their homes.
The complete list of officers and
committees elected by the house OF
delegates for the ensuing year is as
follows:
President, DR.. c. H. Beecher, Bur-
lington; vice-president, DIR. G. w.
Rowland, Shoreham; secretary, w
q. flicker, st. Johnsbury; treasurer
e. II. Martin, Middlebury; auditor, A.
S. Patch, Windsor; counsellor for
second district, S. w. Hammond, Rut-
land; counsellor for fourth district,
c. ]. Rumrill, Randolph.
Executive committee-O. G. Stick
ney, Barre; c. S. Leach, Hyde Park
Publication committee-A. s. NJ
Chisholm, Bennington; E. Fl. Martin
Middlebury.
Legislative committee. w. Sears,
H. H. Swift, Pittsfeld.
Medical education committee-Dr
F. E. Clark, Burlington.
Neurology committee-Dr. E. D
Ellis, J. D. Hanrahan, Rutland. M. H
LS00yy 0nAQ0ACOu1ys
Medico-legal committee-E. A
Hyatt, ST. Adams.
Health and public instruction com
mittee-C. F. Dalton, Grace Sher-
wood, J. J. Dervin, J. A. Stevenson,
Charlotte Fairbanks.
Delegate to Connecticut River Med
ical society, A. L. Miner; Maine Med
ical society, T. r. Stiles; New Hamp-
shire Medical society, D. S. Drake;
Massachusetts, Medical society, E. L.
Osgood; Connecticut Medical society,
G. w. Howard; Rhode Island Medical
society. G. r. Anderson; New York
Medical society, J. A. Stevens.
Anniversary chairman. H. Blod-
gett, Bellows Falls.
Nominee for board of medical ex-
aminers-W. S. Nay, Underhill; w.
L. Ravens. Chester.
Alternate to A. M. A-Dr. F. T.
Kidder. Woodstock.
Officers of the house of Delegates
President, P. E. McSweeney, Burling-
on; first vice-president, f. T. Kidder,
second vice-president, w. E. Lazelle;
secretary, F. E. Steele.
A large majority of the doctors at
tending the convention Thursday re-
manned over to the Friday session
and some others came for the even.
ing session Thursday and remained
throughout the day Friday. Among
those arriving for the later meeting
were: Drs. F. e. Steele, Jr., of Wa
terbury, w. B. Arnold of st. Adams,
F. e. Clarke, o. N. Eastman, H. G.
Tinkham, p. E. McSweeney and J. c.
JENNIE of Burlington, G.. w. Scott,
Randolph, Homer L. Watson, Mont
PEELED, F. A. Edmunds, Bethel, r. MI.
Wells and f. L. Lanpher of Orleans,
e. w. Kidder, Woodstock; o. F.
Clough, Poultney, D. c. Jarvin,
Barre, H. e. Sargent, Island Pond,
T. o. Kurtzman, New York City, and
E. S. Ellis, Poultney.