Barton County KS Archives Biographies.....Amend, Bros. 1884 - 
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Author: Great Bend Tribune

AMEND BROS, DENTISTS

IN writing the different articles for the history of Barton County and Great
Bend, there is none that is more a story of success and enterprise than this
one, which recounts the building up an establishment of which the people of
Great Bend and Barton County, as well as those of surrounding counties, are
justly proud. This establishment is known as the Amend Brothers Dental Parlors
which are located over 1417 1-2 Main street. Those who visit the parlors for the
first time, after having become accustomed to the ordinary dentists' office, are
compelled to exclaim, "Wonderful!" And it is wonderful when it is taken into
consideration that without any attempt at flattery, or stretching the
imagination it can be truthfully said that nowhere in the state of Kansas nor in
Kansas City or St. Louis, can there be found a dental parlor that will excel the
Amend Brothers establishment when it comes to completeness of equipment,
sanitary methods or general beauty and convenience. The firm of Amend Brothers
consists of Walter A., Eldon R., and Leslie L. These young men are sons of Mr.
and Mrs. Jchn W. Amend, who were early settlers in the eastern part of Kansas,
having come to this state from the state of Missouri.

[photo] Amend Bros., Sanitary Dentists

   Mrs. Amend was left a widow twenty-two years ago and it is largely due to her
guidance and pride in her boys that they have made a success in their work.

   Walter was born in Brown County, Kansas, in 1884, and when he arrived in
Great Bend in 1901, he accepted a position in the dental office of A. D.
Raffington. In 1905 he graduated from the Western Dental College of Kansas City,
Mo., and shortly after he had received his diploma he opened the business that
has since grown to its present importance. In 1907 Eldon R. Amend received his
diploma from the same college and joined his brother, Walter, in the parlors in
this city. Eldon was born in Iowa, in 1877. Leslie L. became a member of the
firm in the spring of 1912. He graduated from the same college where the other
members of the firm studied and mastered their profession. Leslie was born in
Missouri, in 1882, and received his diploma from the above mentioned college in
1906, and before coming to Great Bend practiced at Sterling, Kansas. Associated
with the Amend Brothers in their business are: Dr. Fred C. Pressl and Dr. Roy R.
Johnson, both of whom are well fitted to maintain the reputation of the parlors.
In addition to enjoying an extensive local practice representatives of this firm
make frequent and regular trips to towns surrounding Great Bend and Barton
County where the Amend Brothers' quality of dental work is well known and
appreciated. These towns are located on the Santa Fe railroad as far west as
Garden City and as far east as Geneseo on the Missouri Pacific and to Ness City
on the latter road, and as far south as Pratt. Within this radius there are
forty towns, which are regularly visited and where this firm's practice is
steadily growing as a result of modern methods and painstaking, careful
attention. The Amend Brothers Dental Parlors in Great Bend are furnished with
everything known to the modern practice of dentistry. The furniture is of
mahogany, while the walls are finished in pure white with green trimmings. Three
operating booths are equipped with the finest instruments which are kept clean
and sanitary by the most advanced methods. The instruments used at the parlors
are of the modern kind, many of them being operated by electricity and they are
the kind that reduces pain to a minimum and makes operations that were formerly
painful almost devoid of any unpleasant sensation. Every appliance that will in
any way add to the up-to-dateness of the parlors have been supplied by the firm
regardless of expense and time. It is indeed fortunate for the people of this
section of Kansas to have an establishment of this kind in Great Bend, because
when they seek treatment at this modern institution they can do so with the
knowledge that no matter how far one may travel or to whatever city they might
go better treatment cannot be found nor can one have higher class work done at
more reasonable prices.


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From "Biographical History Of Barton County" (1912)

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