Jasper County Democrat, Volume 12, Number 52, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 October 1909 — RENSSELAER GIRL SUPT. OF NURSES [ARTICLE]

RENSSELAER GIRL SUPT. OF NURSES

At Mary Thompson Hospital, Chicago, Which Position She Takes Monday. Miss Fannie McCarthy daughter of Mr. and Mrs. George D. McCarthy of this city, and a graduate from the Columbia Hospital in Washington, D. C., will go to Chicago Saturday to take a position as superintendent of nurses in the Mary Thompson hospital. She will begin her duties Monday morning and will have charge of all the nurses in that big institution. Miss McCarthy is said to be high up In this line of work, and she was recently at the hospital nursing Mrs. F. A. Ross of Rensselaer, who underwent an operation there. So impressed with her work were the hospital officials that she was offered the position as superintendent of nurses, which commands a salary of SIOO per month. The many Rensselaer friends of the young lady will be pleased to learn of her good fortune in being appointed to so prominent and responsible a position.