Dr. Meyer Solomon, recently released from military service, has resumed practice in Chicago.

Yeggmen held up Dr. Jerome J. Weil of Chicago in Kenilworth recently, taking $14 toll, but returned $1 carfare.

Major George W. Clarke, after discharge from the service at Camp Bowie, has returned to his former home in Roseville.

Dr. B. V. McClanahan, who was on the surgical staff of Great Lakes Naval Hospital for six months, has returned to Galesburg.

Dr. A. Lee Alderson, after service abroad as Major in the Medical Corps, has returned to his home in Vera.

Major Arthur Fletcher, after two years' service in France and Germany, has resumed practice in Danville.

Dr. B. F. Zobrits, formerly of Camargo, was discharged after 27 months' service and has been. visiting in Decatur and southern Illinois.

Dr. George G. Davis has been appointed chief surgeon of the Illinois Steel Company, succeeding Dr. James Burry, deceased.

Dr. Thomas J. O'Malley, Chicago, after an extended service as major, M. C., U. S. Army, at Camp Merrit, N. J., has been discharged from the military service.

Dr. B. O. Swinehart, of Cooksville, has purchased the practice of Dr. J. N. Thresh of Danvers and has resumed practice in the latter place.

Dr. Roswell Pettit, of Ottawa, acting surgeon of the U. S. Public Health Service, gave an address in La Salle before the Anti-Tuberculosis Society of that city.

Dr. William Arthur Clark, formerly a member of the staff of St. Luke's Hospital, has been discharged from the army and has left Chicago to work in the department of orthopedic surgery at the Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minn.

Captain Harold Swanberg, M. C., U. S. Army, has been discharged after over two years service in charge of the X-Ray Laboratories of the Army General Hospitals at Fort McPherson, Ga., and Fort Sheridan, Illinois, and has opened a Roentgen Laboratory at Quincy, Ill., where he is limiting his practice to this specialty.

News Notes

-Kankakee is to have a new emergency hospital, construction to begin soon.

-Champaign county has purchased a site for a tuberculosis sanitarium near Sidney.

-The new hospital for tuberculosis in Logan county occupies a beautiful farm of 400 acres, five miles from Rockville.

-Christian County has voted a tax for the building and maintenance of a county tuberculosis sanitarium.

-A 10-acre site has been purchased near Rantoul for $10,000 for a county tuberculosis sanitarium.

-The German-American Hospital, Chicago, changed its name, October 20, to the Diversey Parkway Hospital.

-By the will of the late John Kirby, of Monticello, his late residence is given as the site for a hospital with an endowment of $100,000 and $50,000 more "if needed."

-Plans and a contract for a $60,000 tuberculosis sanitarium have been approved by the Tazewell county supervisors and the county sanatorium board.

-Dr. Anthony Biankini was tendered a farewell dinner by the Czecho-Slovak citizens of Chicago October 28. He left for Europe the following day.

-If you notice a $12,000 radium tube floating down the drainage canal, the Illinois river, the Mississippi or anywhere west of Florida, call up Dr. Henry Schmitz, whose patient is said to have shed it in St. Mary's hospital, Chicago.

-It is reported that the Will County Medical Society passed a resolution to bar reporters from meetings of the society, but the secretary will give out proceedings to the press when matters transpire of interest to the public.

-At the meeting of the physicians of Canton, October 9, the Canton Physicians' Club was reorganized, with Dr. Harvey H. Rogers, president, Dr. Charles N. Allison, vice-president, and Dr. Everett P. Coleman, secretary.

-At a largely attended "get-together" meeting of the District Medical Society of Illinois, in Pana, Oct. 30, the following officers were

elected: president, Dr. H. E. Monroe of Shelbyville; vice-president, Dr. R. L. Morris of Decatur; secretary, Dr. F. A. Martin of Pana; treasurer, Dr. Morley of Vandalia *

-The Wesley Memorial Hospital has adopted a key to be worn by, members of the resident staff who have completed a satisfactory term of service. Former Wesley interns who completed one year of service with honorable record may secure keys on application to the superintendent or to Dr. D. W. Propst.

—Dr. Frank P. Norbury, of Springfield, offers to act without salary as director of a clinic for mental hygiene in Springfield in collaboration with the public schools, the juvenile court, the Red Cross, the Associated Charities and the State department of public welfare, provided a trained clinical psychiatrist is financed.

-Drs. A. F. Zwich, Joseph E. King, Frank A. Butler, Harlon H. Gordan, Charles W. Wren and Wesley E. Burnett are said to have been arrested, charged with prescribing habit-forming drugs to drug addicts. One of these defendants is said to have issued 3,000 prescriptions for morphin and its derivatives.

-Major-Gen. Sir Anthony Bowlby and MajorGen. Sir Robert Jones, R. A. M. C., were in Chicago, November 1 and 2, and addressed a joint meeting of the Chicago Surgical Society and Chicago Orthopedic Society and were entertained by the members of these societies at dinner at the University Club.

-At the annual meeting of the Chicago Gynecological Society, held October 17, the following officers were elected: president, Dr. Arthur H. Curtis; vice-presidents, Drs. Henry F. Lewis and Philip S. Doane; secretary, Dr. Joseph L. Baer; treasurer, Dr. Charles B. Reed; editor, W. C. Danforth, and pathologist, Dr. Carey Culbertson.

-The Chicago Tuberculosis Institution has already one traveling clinic and hopes, through the sale of Red Cross Christmas Seals, to secure sufficient funds to purchase a second automobile. The car is a completely equipped clinic which travels a regular route through the county towns. It is to be accompanied by a physician and a nurse.

-At a meeting of the Chicago Medical

Society, Nov. 12, after a paper by Dr. Rudolph W. Holmes on "Midwife Practice-An Anachronism," President John V. Fowler was instructed to appoint a committee to confer with Francis W. Shepardson, director of the department of education and registration, with regard to an investigation of the midwife situation in Chicago.

-Drs. George Thomas Palmer, C. W. East and White, of the State Department of Health, addressed the Alton Public Welfare Council, Nov 12. Dr. Palmer advocated the early establishment of a tuberculosis sanitarium for which the people of the county recently voted. Dr. East, who has been holding clinics in Alton for the treatment of crippled children, and Dr. White both advocated the establishment of clinics to protect children from tubercular infection.

-Rev. James Moore Hickson, the English clergyman who introduced divine healing into two Episcopal churches in Chicago recently, has met with some success according to church papers. Some of the clergy hail him with open arms and will continue his services. Others are skeptical and compare him with Dowie and Christian Science. Even the Church papers admit that the great majority of his "patients" show no miraculous cures.

-The Southern Illinois Medical Association held its 44th annual meeting, Nov. 6-7, in East St. Louis, which had been delayed a year on account of the influenza epidemic. About 100 delegates attended and the following officers were elected: president, H. H. Roth, Murphysboro; first vice-president, C. E. Eisele, East St. Louis; second vice-president, H. C. Moss, Carbondale; secretary-treasurer, A. B. Capel, Shawneetown; assistant secretary, Dr. C. W. Lillie, East St. Louis.

-The Abbott Laboratories of Chicago favor us with a copy of "Abbograms," an exceedingly attractive 8-page publication, edited by and for employes of the Laboratories. The current issue is dated November, 1919, and is number 3 of volume 1. A turkey in full array heads the leading article, "A Hymn of Thanksgiving." The number is replete with contributions in prose and verse and carries some excellent cartoons. Emanating from the home of the American Journal of Clinical Medicine, the style of "Abbo

grams" is, of course, secundum artem and it will be a welcome visitor to the employes and their friends.

-The Gradwohl Biological Laboratories, of 928 N. Grand Avenue, St. Louis, have issued an exceedingly attractive and valuable 32-page pamphlet called "The Doctor's Laboratory Manual." The present issue is volume 1, number 1, November, 1919. The announcement states that the object of the publication is to place before the profession both the simple tests that the physician can make himself, as well as the more complicated tests that require the facilities of a modern laboratory. Numerous quotations from standard literature, together with well written descriptions of the methods pursued in this laboratory make it a valuable handbook of ready information for the busy practitioner.

Marriages

LOUIS SAVITT to Miss Bess Sparberg, both of Chicago, October 26.

SOL BERNARD KOSITCHEK, Chicago, to Miss Josephine Kapp, at Battle Creek, Mich., Oct. 30.

ROY LAFAYETTE OWENS to Miss Mary Veronica Murphy, both of Chicago, October 1.

HOMER P. MACNAMARA, Springfield, Ill., to Miss Mabel Palmer Cowdin of Chapin, Ill., Oct. * 27.

Deaths

GEORGE O. TAYLOR, Chicago; Rush Medical College, 1868; died at Hot Springs, Ark., November 14, from malignant disease.

SAMUEL C. HEWITT, Chatham, Ill.; (license, years of practice, Illinois, 1878); aged 84; a veteran of the Civil War; died at his home, October 6.

CLAYTON W. CARSON, Chicago; Rush Medical College, 1884; aged 59; died in his automobile, near St. Luke's Hospital, November 8, from angina pectoris.

WILLIAM FINLEY SEMPLE, Chicago; Rush Medical College, 1881; aged 58; a Fellow A. M. A.; died at his home, October 12, from angina pectoris.

LUTHER HOLT, Iuka, Ill.; Washington University, St. Louis, 1887; aged 57; a member of the Illinois State Medical Society; died at his home, August 23, from valvular heart disease.

THOMAS F. LEECH, Downers Grove, Ill.; Jefferson

Medical College, 1866; aged 78; a veteran of the Civil War in which he served as surgeon, U. S. Navy; died at his home, October 30.

FRANCIS DRENNAN FLETCHER, Capt., M. R. C., U. S. Army, Springfield, Ill.; Rush Medical College, 1902; aged 39; a Fellow A. M. A.; died in Liverpool, England, July 30, five days after an operation for perforating gastric ulcer.

EDWARD TRACY ROBINSON, Chicago; Bennett Medical College, Chicago, 1906; aged 40; while motoring from Casper to Sheridan, Wyo., was instantly killed, July 25, when the car ran off a bridge, crushing Dr. Robinson beneath it.

TREVANIAN V. DUPUY, Chicago; Miami Medical College, Cincinnati, 1889; aged 57; formerly safety director of Ironton, Ohio; was found dead in Jackson Park, Chicago, October 28, death being due to a gunshot wound of the head, self-inflicted, it is believed, while despondent on account of ill health.

CHAUNCEY W. COURTRIGHT, Chicago; Cleveland University of Medicine and Surgery, 1877; Northwestern University Medical School, Chicago, 1887; aged 69; a Fellow A. M. A.; a member of the staff of the Englewood, Washington Park, Lakeside and Fort Dearborn hospitals; died, November 9, from carcinoma of the bladder.

JOHN MULLER, Chicago; College of Physicians and Surgeons, Keokuk, Iowa, 1876; aged 78, for four years professor of languages at the University of Upsala, Sweden; interpreter at the Oriental Congress in Stockholm; lecturer at the Universita Populari, Milan, Italy; once lecturer and demonstrator of anatomy at St. Louis Medical College; died in Alexian Brothers Hospital, Chicago, October 24.

MARTIN D. FOSTER, Olney, Ill.; Eclectic Medical Institute, Cincinnati, 1882; Hahnemann Medical College, Chicago, 1894; aged 58; mayor of Olney in 1895 and 1902; for six terms congressman from the Twenty-Third Illinois District, and thereafter a member of the government commission to adjust war mineral claims in the Western states; died at his home, October 20.

JOHN Ross, Pontiac, Ill.; Rush Medical College, 1894; aged 52; a Fellow A. M. A., one of the best known practitioners in Livingston county and secretary of the Livingston County Medical Society for the past twenty years continuously; died at St. James Hospital, Pontiac, Nov. 18, from injuries sustained while driving across railroad tracks in Pontiac, his automobile being struck by a special fast train.

JUNIUS MERWIN HALL, Chicago; College of Physicians and Surgeons in the City of New York, 1874; aged 68; for fourteen years a medical inspector under health commissioner of Chicago, and on duty during the smallpox epidemic of 1880 and 1881; for many years a member of the attending staff of the Passavant Memorial Hospital; died at his home, October 30, from cirrhosis of the liver.