Runnels Co, TX - District Medical Society Holds Successful Meeting 

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Ballinger Ledger - Date Unknown

The twenty-ninth annual meeting of the Fourth District Medical Society 
closed here Tuesday afternoon.  At the final business session Dr. 
Charles F. Bailey, of Ballinger, was elected president of the 
organization for the next year; Dr. D. D. Wall, of San Angelo, vice-
president; and Dr. D. J. Jordan, of Brady, secretary-treasurer.  Brady
was selected as the next meeting place next October, the exact date to 
be set later by the officers.

The Ballinger meeting was declared to have been one of the best in 
the history of the group.  Prominent specialists of the Southwest
read papers on various diseases which are attracting much attention 
in the profession today.  These papers declared to have been among 
the best heard at any meeting of the organization, and the discussion
which followed, were considered of vital importance by the members.

The visiting doctors were guests of the Runnels County Medical Society
at a banquet at the Central Hotel Monday evening.  Dr. T. R. Sealy, of
Santa Anna, toastmaster, presented numbers on the program in a pleasing
manner.  These numbers included a vocal solo by Mrs. J. A. Schnable, 
dance numbers of a class instructed by Mrs. Schnable, and a reading by
Mrs. Charles F. Bailey.

Dr. Sealy paid high tribute to Drs. A. S. Love and W. B. Halley, of 
this city, terming them pioneers in hospital practice in this section 
of the state.  He praised them as physicians, surgeons and gentlemen
and all present stood at attention in honor of these popular Ballinger
surgeons.  Dr. Love was ill and unable to attend the banquet and Dr.
Halley had been called away on business and neither was present to 
receive the special tribute.

The doctors were guests of the Rotary and Lions clubs at luncheon 
Tuesday noon.  The guest speaker for this occasion was Dr. John 
Potts, of Fort Worth, specialist in the treatment and prevention 
of tuberculosis.  Dr. Potts delivered a pointed message for both 
physicians and laymen, indicating that the way to stamp out this 
dread disease was by education of the young people.  He stated that
he would like to see it a required subject in high school and declared
great numbers of people are reduced to poverty and put on charity 
simply because they do not know how to prevent this plague.