The Cortland Democrat, Friday, June 16,
1893.
PAGE FOUR—EDITORIALS.
The Standard and Barnum.
The
town was pretty well filled with people last Friday, who had noted the
announcement in the Standard, "that Barnum & Bailey's Greatest
show on earth would exhibit in this place June 9th," and were promptly on
hand. To say that they were about as mad as they could be, hardly fills the
bill and no one can blame them. The Standard didn't mend matters much by
treating the entire subject as a good joke in its issue of Saturday. To make the
situation still worse our neighbor attempts to reap some capital by claiming that
it proves that the Standard is read by everybody, and that Cortland
merchants had acknowledged the fact and had already assured them that
hereafter, they would know where to place advertising. A three
line notice stating that Barnum's show would exhibit here on a given date is
the announcement of an important event that happens only once in two or three
years; while the statement in the Standard that any one or all of our
dry goods merchants are selling calico at the regular price or even a little
under, is the announcement of a fact that is interesting to only those who are
in need of the calico. The calico can be obtained most any time, and anywhere,
while if readers would see Barnum, they must attend on the one and only day he
exhibits here.
It would have been better for the Standard
to have acknowledged that it was guilty of gross carelessness,
adding a suitable apology for it. Meanwhile citizens of every town in the
county, will hereafter regard every statement printed in the Standard
with suspicion, and will turn to the columns of the DEMOCRAT for
reliable information on all subjects, knowing that they will not
be disappointed. "Be sure you're right, then go ahead."
[We copy articles as they were printed, past rules of grammar included—CC editor.]
COUNTY
MEDICAL SOCIETY.
The Annual Meeting Held in the Supervisors' Rooms Thursday.
The Cortland County Medical
society held its annual meeting at the supervisors' rooms
in Cortland, Thursday afternoon. The members present were Drs. Angel, White,
Bennett, Dana, Higgins, Jewett, Edson and Reese of Cortland, Bradford, Whitney
and Green of Homer, Hunt of Preble, Hendrick of McGrawville, Neary of Union
Valley, Trafford of Marathon and Kinyon of Cincinnatus.
After the reading of the minutes
and reports of officers and committees the society proceeded to the election of
officers and delegates for the coming year with the following result:
President—Dr. H. D. Hunt.
Vice-President—Dr. C. B.
Trafford.
Secretary and Treasurer—Dr.
Frank H. Green.
Board of Censors—Dr. H. T.
Dana, Chairman, Drs. A. J. White, H. C. Hendrick, Jerome Angel and H. O.
Jewett. Delegates to the American Medical Association—Drs. Dana, Hendrick and
Higgins.
Delegates to the Central New
York Medical Association—Drs. Kinyon and Trafford.
Delegates to County Medical
society— Whitney, Onondaga; Reese, Chenango; Trafford, Broome; Higgins,
Chemung; White, Tompkins.
Dr. Higgins presented the name
of Dr. L. T. White of Homer for admission to the society. The name was referred
to the board of censors who retired and afterward returned to report that they
had considered Dr. White's name favorably and he was then elected a member of
the society.
Dr. J. V. Kendall of Baldwinsville,
a classmate of the late Dr. Caleb Green, was present and by vote of the society
was asked to participate in the proceedings. Dr. Kendall paid a fitting tribute
to the memory of Dr. Green with whom he had been intimately connected since
1844. Dr. Hendrick, Jewett, Higgins and Hunt then followed with remarks of
respect for the memory of their late fellow member, and it was voted that the
resolutions prepared by the committee appointed for that purpose, on the life
of Dr. Green, be incorporated in the minutes and handed to the county papers
for publication.
Dr. Higgins then presented an
interesting case of club foot in a child eight months old which he had recently
operated on using the Phelps or open method of treatment. The child was present
and a cast of the foot taken before the operation was shown, showing that an
excellent result had been obtained. The case was discussed by Dr. Jewitt and
others.
Dr. Reese followed with a
paper on "Appendicitis." The patient was treated by the expectant
method and made a good recovery. The society then adjourned.
F. H. GREEN, Secretary.
The following resolutions of
respect were passed by the Cortland County Medical society at their annual
meeting, June 8, 1893:
WHEREAS, In the dispensation
of Divine Providence our worthy and beloved friend and brother in the medical profession,
Dr. Caleb Green, has been removed from our midst, our society, and from his
large sphere of usefulness, therefore
Resolved, That we
recognize in Dr. Green a man of elevated moral character, sympathetic nature
and refined manner, a friend of a charitable and amiable disposition, who had
endeared himself to a large circle by his kind and gentlemanly deportment.
Resolved, That Dr.
Green was the true type of the high-minded, trained and skillful physician,
ever ready to respond cheerfully to the calls of rich and poor alike, relieving
their sufferings by his assiduity and skill, and aiding his professional
brethren by his wise counsels.
Resolved, That by his
death medical science has lost one of its most earnest cultivators; our society
and medical profession one of their oldest and most devoted members; the poor
have lost a comforter in their hour of need, and we have all lost a friend.
Resolved, That as a
practitioner Dr. Green was kind, attentive, accurate and conservative. In
society he was social amiable, benevolent, truthful, and charitable.
Resolved, That we
sincerely deplore his loss, and tender our heartfelt sympathies with his family
and friends in their bereavement.
Resolved, That a copy
of these resolutions be transmitted to the members of his family and other near
relatives and county papers.
H.O. JEWITT, Chairman of Committee.
FROM EVERYWHERE.
Auburn will celebrate its Centennial
on the third and fourth of July.
Job E. Hedges, the assignee of
the H. H. Warner property, says Mr. Warner's assets will amount to only
$50,000. The patent medicine man's capital was mostly wind.
The County farm near Binghamton
contains about 105 persons. Among the inmates are many men once prominent in business
affairs. One of them is 102 years of age.
George and Albert Barton, two
Owego boys, were recently having a Wild West show at their father's home, when
George shot Albert in the jaw with a revolver which he "didn't know was
loaded."
The two glass factories at
Ithaca have been or are soon to be shut down, and it is said that they will not
be reopened. The glass trust owns the plants. A hundred or more men will thus
be thrown out of work and Ithaca will lose a fine little industry.
Two years ago an idiot boy was
put under the charge of Dr. Roswell Park of Buffalo. Doctor Parke sawed a big
"Y" in his cranium and wedged the skull back thus enlarging it. The
brain expanded, and the boy is now of sound mind and perfectly healthy.
"Railroad Jack" is
no more. He has been around the Central depot in Albany for the past few weeks
and has gradually grown weak. He died Tuesday morning in the baggage room of
the depot. The body will be shipped to a taxidermist. Jack was thirteen years
old and was famous for his travels.
When the survivors of the war
steamboat Sultana, which blow up in the Mississippi in 1865, with the loss of
over 1,800 lives, held their annual re-union at Maryville, Tenn., a few days
ago, James Lawton, who was supposed to have been drowned in the disaster,
appeared, much to the surprise of everybody.
In the United States several
of the legislatures have done away with capital punishment. Thus the extreme
penalty for murder does not exist in Michigan, Wisconsin, Rhode Island and
Maine. But the State of Iowa, having abolished the death penalty, was compelled
by the subsequent increase in crime to restore it.
"Big Frank," the
famous boxing kangaroo, made his first appearance in this country in Madison
Square garden last week in a boxing match with a burly negro. He is over six
feet tall when standing on his hind feet prepared to fight. On his fore feet he wore a pair of regulation gloves. Frank used his
powerful tall as a third leg, and thus managed to stand erect when the negro
struck him a powerful blow. The bout ended by the negro being whipped in three
rounds.
Dryden Woolen Mills.
Arrangements have been made by
which the Dryden woolen mills are to be run a few weeks longer, and all wishing
wool carded would do well to bring the wool at once. There also remain a lot of
desirable remnants which will be closed out very cheap.
Elegant Dental Parlors.
Mr. M. B. Ingalls has lately
made some great improvements in his dental parlors in the Wickwire building,
and he now has the finest operating rooms to be found in this section. The
waiting room has been newly carpeted and enlarged, and new furniture added. The
operating room has also been enlarged and otherwise improved. Mr. Ingalls
largely increased business made it necessary for more room in which to do his
bridge and plate work. To meet this demand he has secured the rooms over Robbins
cigar store and a door has been cut through to connect with the main rooms. In
the new rooms are located an operating chair and the laboratory. It is here
that the intricate bridge and plate work will be done, in which Mr. Ingalls has
gained a large practice. The extracting of teeth is also done in this room
entirely separate from the rooms where teeth are filled. The rooms are
pleasantly located, light, cheerful; they were tastily arranged, and reflect
credit upon the doctor's good judgment. We are pleased to note this improvement,
and bespeak for the doctor a largely increased practice.
HERE AND THERE.
The western union telegraph
office will hereafter be open until 9:30 P. M.
The adjourned telephone
meeting will be held in Firemen's hall this evening at 8 o'clock.
The E. C. & N. will run a
special excursion to Sylvan Beach next Sunday. Round trip tickets for $1.
Mary Pickert has been
appointed postmistress at Freetown Corners, and H. H. Pudney has been appointed
postmaster at Taylor Centre.
A human skeleton was found
Tuesday while workmen were digging the cellar on the lot where the cobblestone
school house formerly stood.
W. S. Freer will give an
Independence party at his hall in Higginsville on Monday evening July 3d. Music
by Happy Bill Daniels orchestra. Bill $1.25.
There is a law in this state
requiring land owners and lessees to cut all weeds along the high ways adjoining
their property between the 15th of June and the 1st of July, and August 15th and
September 1st. Don't allow weeds to go to seed.
We call the attention of our
readers to the notice of special election to be found on this page. The
question of sewerage is one that comes home to every citizen and everyone
should read the notice carefully. The date of the election has been fixed for
Tuesday, July 6.
Messrs. J. W. Keese and A. W.
Gates were served with papers last week requiring them to appear yesterday
before the Attorney General in Albany to show cause why an action in the
Supreme Court should not be commenced against them to remove them from office,
on the ground that they failed to file the proper oath of office within the
time prescribed by law, after being elected to the office of Excise
Commissioners of the town of Cortlandville. The result of their interview with
the Attorney General was not known at the hour of going to press.
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