Evening Republican, Volume 16, Number 270, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 November 1912 — TUSCOLA MEDICS CAUSE TROUBLE [ARTICLE]

TUSCOLA MEDICS CAUSE TROUBLE

Dr. J. A. Overton, Osteopath, Made Defendant in Suit and Won Victory by DlsmJssaL •’ f „

Dr. J. A. Overton, better known hero as Albert, a brother of Mrs. J. W. Childers, has been the subject of an attack by the regular doctors of Tuscola, 111., where he is located. He was recently made the defendant in an action brought by the medical men, which alleged that he was practicing medicine without a license. The case dragged along for some time but the medical men failed to make a showing and the case was finally dismissed. The medical men are preparing to start another action, however, and Dr. Overton is getting ready to carry it to the supreme court if necessary. In a brief letter from Dr. Overton, he starts by reporting the birth or Sept. 27th of a 10%-pound son, named Robinson Clark Overton, the osteopathic physician of the morrow. He also states that he has been busy while enlarging and remodeling his office this fall, and that the rush of business caused him to take- in an associate doctor. He says: “In the meantime we have had some unpleasant notoriety, but some of the hest “publicity propaganda” which any man could ask and I will soon need another associate doctor.” Mr. and Mrs. Thos. Robinson, of Medaryville, parents of Mrs. Overton, are visiting them at Tuscola, and Mr. Robinson says that is the greatest corn land he ever saw, hut thinks it doesn’t look quite so good since the democrats had an election. In closing his interesting letter Albert says: “Baby reads The Republican regularly as we all do.” He pens a postscript which rfeads: “In the “abbreviations” column of the future dictionaries we will find G. O. P. to mean “gone out of politics.”