Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 254, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 November 1917 — Hospital at Francesville Has Closed Down. [ARTICLE]

Hospital at Francesville Has Closed Down.

Francesville Tribune. Dr. F. L. Sharrer is now located at Banton Harbor, Mich., having opened an office there last week. ’ The doctor made the change from here because of the opportunity for more extended ability in his profession of surgery and because of the dearth of surgeons in that' city on account of the war. The Hope hospital which the doctor opened here several months ago, which has been well patronized, will be closed and future cases will be sent to Benton Harbor. Misses Ella and Emma Swing, the nurses, will have charge of many of the cases at Mercy hospital, where Dr. Sharrer will be the operating surgeon. Dr. Sharrer graduated from the University of Illinois in Chicago in 1906 and at onde became ah interne in the Toledo hospital, has taken several post-graduate courses, and has practised surgery during the past eleven years. As a surgeon he has had excellent success based upon the mortality rate of such cases, above the average of many with longer experience in the profession, and his locating at Benton Harbor gives him an unlimited field to realize that to which he has looked forward since graduating from the university a few years ago.