Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 41, Number 26, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 December 1908 — Dr. Zuech Leaves Wheatfield. [ARTICLE]

Dr. Zuech Leaves Wheatfield.

Dr. Lucius Zuech, who has been practicing medicine at Wheatfield for the past five years, has left that place and accepted an opportunity Co study major surgery at Grace hospital, In Chicago. The doctor will leave his family at Wheatfield, but never expects to again take up his practice there. He is a splendid citizen and in every respect a fine man and during his yean at Wheatfield he endeared himself to TEhf people there and made many friends’ in Rensselaer and at other points where he has occasionally visited. He was enjoying the very best success at Wheatfield, and left there with considerable reluctance, but the leading surgeon In the Grace hospital, who has been acquainted with Dr. Zuech for several years, Impressed on him that he should take up the surgical branch of his profusion and gave him a fine opening at thae hospital and the doctor thought it too good a chance to let slip. He arranged with' another doctor to take nft' the practice at Wheatfield, but the new doctor* did not stay, and at present the town is without a physician. As it is a town of 500 or more and there Is some fine agrleu itural country there it will bo a good field for some doctor. The people of, Wheatfield are said to have taken the doctor’s departure Tfey much to the most general regret prevailed at his departure. . Subscribe tor the Daily Republican.