Evening Republican, Volume 15, Number 118, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 May 1911 — County Medical Society to Be Organized in Rensselaer Today. [ARTICLE]

County Medical Society to Be Organized in Rensselaer Today.

All the doctors of Jasper county have been asked to come to Rensselaer this Thursday afternoon in order that a county medical society may be organized., It i# probable that too Remington physicians and also Dr. Fyfe, of Wheatfleld, will be in attendance. It is likely that some step will be taken toward the foundation of a hospital in Rensselaer. Nearly SI,OOO has been turned into the state hydrophobia fund by county auditors, and it is now thought the money will be available this year. Under the law none of the fund, can be used until it reaches $2,000. Reports from several coUfity auditors to the 'effect that they had distributed their dog taxes before the law went ipto effect led to the fear that less than $2,000 would be paid in this year. When that amount is obtained the state hoard of health may begin providing means for giving the Pasteur treatment to persons infected with hydrophobia. Dr. A. R. Kresler has received a paper from Hendley, Kans., which contains a notice, of the death there on May sth, of Dr. George P. Shoemaker, whosA wife was formerly Miss Mary Johnson and a number of years ago a resident of Rensselaer and a cousin of Dr. Kresler. When Dr. Kresler was still attending medical college he went to Hendley, Neb., during his summer vacation and practiced medicine for Dr. Shoemaker during the latter’s temporary absence.' Dr. Kresler said he never knew of a man so universally loved as Dr. Shoemaker and the papers which related his death spoke of him as the community’s most beloved citizen, a friend of all and a public benefactor. He left a wife and five children and a community of sorrowing friends to mourn his death.