Evening Republican, Volume 20, Number 118, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 May 1916 — DOCTORS TO PICNIC AT ADE'S IN AUGUST [ARTICLE]

DOCTORS TO PICNIC AT ADE'S IN AUGUST

Jasper-Newton Medical Society Will Entertain District M. D’s. at, & Picnic Affair. Dr. M. D. Gwin, who has been the president for the past year of the tenth district medical society, completed him term of office Tuesday, when the society held a meeting in Valparaiso. Dr. E. H. Powell, of Valparaiso, was chosen president, Dr. H. 0. Mertz, of Laporte, vice-president, and Dr. E. M. Shanklin, of Hammond, secretary. The doctor's from Rensselaer, namely, Gwin, Washburn and Johnson, carried with them an invitation for the society to meet at a picnic in August at the George Ade home and the invitation was accepted. The exact date has not been set, but will be announced later. The M. D's. were enthusiastic about visiting Hazelden and the picnic promises to be the best gathering the doctors of the district have ever held. Jerry Garland is one of the latest Ford car owners. A number went to the college last evening to witness the turnverein given by the students and pronounced it a great success. In the republican presidential primaries in Vermont both Roosevelt and Hughes were on the ticket and returns from the Tuesday vote showed Hughes to lead Roosevelt about two to one.

■ A Washington dispatch says that Carranza and his advisers now understand the motives of the U. S. govj eminent. Carranza has the average citizen of the United States beaten if he does understand . We plead ignorance. —rnrnmmmm Miss Agnes Platt, deputy county' recorder, has been unable to be at the office for several days. She was siezed with a pain in the left side and extending to the head just after she came-to the office Monday and went to her home. Since then she has been unable to leave the house. Horace Hollingsworth, of Des Moines, lowa, secretary of the Associated Charities and Corrections, stopped off here for a short visit with his nephew, E. L. Hollingsworth and family, on his way home from the general conference of the association held at Indianapolis this week. The little daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Fred Amott was bitten on the hand by a dog Monday evening. The dog, however, was not mad and no serious results are expected. The incident, however, suggests the question, “Why is a dog?”