24 T H E JO U R N A L From the Williamsport Saturday E vening Review, February 23, 1895 Society brother of the groom, acted as bestman. The approachof Lenthas certainlyaffec- After a reception and supper the couple ted society and placed it practicallyat a left on their weddingtour, on their return standstill in this city. T#e Ret'fea' for che from which they will reside at Sinnema- two weeks past has had but few social honning, where Mr. Baird fills a railroad events to publish. position A delightful musical was given for the b:neat of the Christ church organ fund last Personal Monday evening at the residence of Mrs. J. V. Brown. Col. Coryel called his staff officers to the city Tuesday evening last for consul- Miss Helen Bentleygave a high Tea, last tation Thursday afternoon, in honor of Miss Rapp, of Baltimore. Manager Davis, of the Williamsport Passenger Railway Company, is attending Miss Emery entertained the Tuesday the electrical convention in Cleveland. Night Whist Club this week. This was the Ohio last game of the series. City Engineer George Noble Harrison was in New York City Snyder won first men's prize, and Miss this week Jennie Weed first ladies'prize. There were Steve Harrison was in the city this week three progi:easing tables Mr. and Mrs. John G. Henderson were Lash Tuesday night Miss Helen Turner in Danville over Sunday last gave a country sleighing party at che home R. P. Blackburn,the West End drug- of her father, Jacob Turner. Those present gist, has sent out notices speaking in from this city were Miss Helen Bentley, flattering terms of the celebrated Huyler's Miss Maud Otto and Hiester Otto. confections. Mail and special orders receive An Assembly under the auspices of a prompt attentionfrom Mr. Blackburn committee of well-known young men was Lewars & Co., are handling the Victor given in the new Armory, at Sunbury, and Crescent bicycles this spring Thursday evening last. The music was furn- James W. Sweeney, the editor of THE ished by a band and orchestra,and a very SUN, and our efficient postmaster,has been enjoyabletime was indulgedin. Among giving general satisfaction since his term the guests present from out of Sunbury of office began. Mr. Sweeneyis certainly a were: Mrs. Joseph C. Bucher, Mr. and winner and deserves his success, although THE Mrs. Philip B. Wolfe, MissesKathryne D. some people do find fault with his Blair and EJeanoi:M. Barber,of Lewisburg; 'cuckoo" Democracy Miss Bertha Datesman. of West Milton: Several evenings ago Clyde Duble went Miss McCloskey,of Buffalo, N. Y.; Messrs. homeafter a social eventand laid his satin John 'W. Bucher, Lewis Rothermel, Philip lined full dress suit in a bureau drawer and B. Linn, RussellE. Kelly and Fred Wagner, left The drawer open. In the morning he was attracted by a noise in the bureau JOURNAL of Lewisburg; Miss Lou Jameson, of Blooms- bury; Miss Vasatine,of Catawissa,and and upon investigation Clyde found that Messrs. Frank lkeler and Sam H. Harman. the family cat had crawled into the open of Bloomsburg. drawerduring the night and before mor- OFTHE Mrs. J. V. Brown gave a pi:ogressive pedro ning found herself the mother of five little card party, Tuesday evening last, at her kittens. The young druggist chloroformed residence on East Third Street. the cat and presentedthe kittens to his girl friends On Wednesday evening, at the residence LYCOMING HISTORICALSOCIETY of the bride's parents, Long Reach, Herbert L. Baird, of Sinnemahoning, and Miss If you have any contributions, Maude E. Updegraff were joined in mar- please send them to: riageby Rev. E. P. Morse,of the Newberry L. Rodman Wurster Presbyterian church, in the presence of about seventy guests. Miss Lizzie Reinhard Proctor Star Route acted as bridesmaid, while E. H. Baird, Williamsport, Pa. the J O U R N A L of the Vol. I No. 6 November, 1957 LYCOMING HI STORI CAL SOCIE TY PUBLISHED BIANNUALLY IN WILLIAMSPORT, PENNSYLVANIA Doctors on Horseback and in Gtgs NIR. GIBSON (;. ANTES. P]tESIDENT NIR. (I}HAI\LESS. STOEVER, 3RD.V '. P]IESIOENT Conapiled by Miss Katherine Bennett from various sources MR. .[AMES P. PRESSLER, ]ST. V'ICE PRESIDENT MR. F]O\Vann J. LAN[ADE, TF]=ASUI\EI\ NIR. SAM-UEI. J. DORNSIFE, 2ND. VICE PRESIOENT ]yIISS DELLA C. DOOSON, SECIUTARY and read by EDITORS Dr. L. E. Wurster before the Lycoming Historical Society DR. LEWIS E. TnEISS MR. MICHAEL N'I. WARGO The first physicians in the West Branch water in the hospital that he claimed caused MISS 'MILDRED E. KELLY MR. L. ROOMAN WURSTER Valley were the post surgeonsstationed at bad successin his cures. He remained at ExUa Copies of The Journal Fifty Cents Each Fort Augusta,Sunbury, during the French this post until detailedto accompanythe VOLUMEI and Indian war. And the first doctor of Forb;s-Bouquet expedition to the western OCTOBER,1957 NUMBER SIX whom there is any record was Dr. John frontier Morgan of Philadelphia. We have no proof After three years he felt he had learned PRESIDENT''S MESSAGE that Dr. Morgan practiced medicine in this aJJ the army could teach him and in 1761 vicinity. We do not know of a certainty left to attendthe University of Edinburgh, The first tneeting of the 1957-58 Fall afternoon during Octob:r and Novemb:r that there were white inhabitantsin this then the most renownedmedical school in and Winter Season was held on October from 2:00 p. m. to 4:39. How well you r section at the time. The region was not the world. 3rd. and was well attended. offer your service as assistantHosts or openedfor settlementuntil 1768. But it is Dr. Morgan was consideredone of the Dr. Lester K. Ade delivered a very inter- Hostesses, and the number of visitors who an established fact chat before that time, most brilliant students who had appeared esting address on ''The Evolution of the come to see the exhibits, will determine hardy pioneers ventured into the wilder- at this scientific center, and rhe thesis he Public Schools the amountof time the Museum will be ness and erectedrude habitationsat rhe presentedafter two years study, was a Dr. Lester G. Shannon. Chairman of open after the first of the New Year. mouthsof screamsemptying into the river. definite contributionto medicine the Progmm Committee, has prepared an Will you do your part to help make our Dr. Morgan later becamethe most cole- He then journeyedto Paris to attend interesting series of meetings f or the months Historical Society interesting and success- braced physician in America and the lectures at the Academic Royal de Chirugie ahead. We hope you will show your fillU ? circumstancethat led him to the provincial and so impressedits membersthat they interest by attending as many as possible Gibson G. Antes Fort Augustaat the time ( 1757) the north- electedhim to their fellowship The Museum will be open eachSunday President en] limit of civilization, is interesting to From Paris, he visited Rome [o sit at the trace. feet of Morgagni, the father of pathological Though he was but twenty-twoyears old, anatomy. There again, though he came to he was already as well trained as a colonial study, he remained to instruct Program Lycoming County Historical Society doctor could be. He had ben graduated in There was such lack of communication the first classof the collegeof Philadelphia in Europe at the time, that every faculty Dr. Lester G. Shannon, Chairman of th: Program Comnlittce: announces th and had apprenticed himself for six years in the various cities he visited was a self- following speakers and their subjects: to John Redman, a young doctor who had contained unit; its discoveries rarely went October 3 expensivetraining in Europeanuniversities. beyond its walls. Young Morgan was EVOLUTION OF THE PUBLIC SCHOOLS When che first public hospital in something of a missionary, disseminating Dr. LesterK. Ade America was founded by Benjamin Franklin scientific knowledge from one medical and Dr. Thomas Bond, Morgan, while yet center to another November7 -- OCTAGON HOUSES Redman's student became irs first apache- While he was experiencing these Euro- cary, a position which enabledhim to study pean triumphs, Dr. Morgan was formulating Mrs. Bertha Lyman Guptill the practice of Philadelphia's leading plans for rebuilding American medicine on December 5 doctors. a scientificfoundation. He returned to Exp[orer Scouts, Post No. 14] wi]] present authentic Indian Dances and When the British anlly, sent over to London and submitted his plans to Thomas Ceremonials. fight the French and Indian war, brought Penn, Proprietary Governor of Pennsylvania, what was rarely seen in the colonies, a who became so enthusiastic that he gave January 2 HOBBY NIGHT group of well-trainedsurgeons, Dr. Morgan him a letter to the trusteesof the College joinedthe Pennsylvaniamilitia as a med- of Philadelphiarecommending Chat I)r. February 6 ical lieutenant so that he might watch the Morgan be allowed to establish a medical PENNSYLVANIA GERMANS THROUGH THEIR ART British doctors work. If he was disappointed school in connection with the college. Dr. Walter E. Boyer [o find himselfside-tracked at the crude When he returned[o Philadelphia,Dr March6 -- frontier, far at the confluenceof the north Morgan talked two days to the trusteesof THE SUSQUEHANNA \TALLEY and west branchesof the river Susquehanna, the college and when he finished had torn Dr. John Carter he gave no sign. The records show he American medicine to shreds and had April 3 -- conscientiously practiced the art of healing insulted every native-trained doctor in the FORT AUGUSTA under adverse conditions, frequently deplor- country Dr.