The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1920-11-09

his discharge, in December of that
service with the Fourteenth Field Am
bulance Corps, B. E. F. He was with
this organization until June 9, 1919
| serving during its stay in the Meuse
| Argonne sector and later going with it
| into Germany as a part of the army
of occupation. June 9 he received
orders to return to the United States,
and was discharged upon arrival in
this country
! Captain Grant Huffman was called
into service on Armistice Day, proceed
ing to Fort Riley, Kas, where he was
engaged for six weeks as an inspection
officer, as we'll as taking charge of a
dispensary. He also had charge of a
company of troops. He was discharged
Dec. 81. 1919.
/ Napoleon La Bonte. J. S. Craig L. Y
Dean, and F. l.. barrow were East
Ravens contribution to the forces of
democracy.
Record of Dentists.
| DR.. z. A. Wysong, a practicing dent
list in this city. entered the service
Aug. &c; 1918, as a member of the
Twenty-third Infantry at Camp Sher-
man and served in this capacity until
year.
i DR.. H. E. Moss, a dentist here at
the time of the war, joined the service
| in a professional capacity.
DR.. Paul Williams, another dentist,
was commissioner first lieutenant in
the Officers Reserve Corps, in August,
1917. but was not called into service
He is a member of the Medical Officers
Reserve corps and as such is subject
to call until 1922.
Age was no bar to DR.. J. NJ. Thurs
J ton, 225 North Eighth street, who was
! II years old when the government
called upon him Aug. 3, 1918. He re-
ceived notice on that date that his
name had been placed on the army
medical reserve list, but was not called
into active service. DR.. Thurston was
one of the first to respond when Fort
Sumter was fired on in 'G1, and he
served as private and corporal in the
Civil war.
Served as Dentists.
| DR.. R. H. Kolp and DR.. Hugh d.
! Morris, both dentists of Cambridge
City, served in professional capacities
in the war, with the rang of lieutenant.
DR.. w. G.. Squires, of Milton, who
was head of Consumption board No. 2.
until he entered the service. attained
Nhe rang OF captain. He no longer
resides at Milton.
DR.. +. b. Ramsey. Of HagerStown,
had the rank of lieutenant, serving in
the medical corps. DR.. Roy e. Fox,
also of Haserstown, was in the regular
army prior to the outbreak Of the
war. and is now stationed at San
Francisco. With the rank of major.
DR.. Loop, OF Economy, a practitioner
Of Economy, served in the medical
corps.
! Hugh Morris, Stewart Smith and
Fred Leavcll, dentists of Hagerstown,
were assigned to dental work when
they were accepted.
Influenza Epidemic.
The time of the great influenza cpl
dc mic is not so far gone but that
people can remember the spread of
that dread disease over this country
in the fall of 1918. Thousands of
soldiers in camp were stricken; hos
pitfalls, not only in camps, but in
civilian communities as well, were
filled to overlooking, and physicians
and nurses worked night and day, put
ting forth their~utmost efforts to stop
the spread of the plague.
Public meetings were forbidden,
,
every measure known to science was
employed and still the disease grew
more and more malignant. Gauze
masks covering the nose and mouth
were a common sight, and all business
was affected in a greater or less de-
gree by the disease.
Medical Service Taxed.
1t was at this time probably that
the medical service reached the max
imum Of its efficiency and usefulness
to the country. At time when al
most every person in the country was
being hampered in his regular pur-
suits. occupations which were helping
to win the war Just as surely as the
work Of the doughboys going cover the
top" was helping toward that end. the
medical service in this country and
abroad had to perform double task
| 1t is due in large measure to its work
not only in treating cases at first hand,