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. o' / * I 1 1 ♦ ^ ^tandari VOL. XXIX, WALTERBORO, S. C, APRIL 3, 1907. NO. 34. DR. KERSHAW Defends Colleton Medical Society. Editor Press and Standard: With all 6t this controversy and general expression of views going on in the county paper, it seems to me that it behove^us of the medical profession, either^to make our position clear and to abide by our resolutions, or to re sign from our position. These reso lutions were not the result of any hasty action on our part, as some seem to think, but were the result of a careful and painstaking effort, to remedy, if possible, some of the business which we could arrange satisfactorily if some of his patients,: who are able to pay him would do , so, instead of baying a new horse or buggy which they do not need. The trouble with a whole lot of pec-! pie in this controversy, la that they do not know what they are talking ♦ about, never having tried the prac tice of medicine at all; especially in the country. They do not take into consideration that we are constantly having to purchase new books, in struments, and appliances so as to be able to give the best possible ser vice when called and also to support our families. Let those of you who are in such haste to censure us for CAMPAIGN STILL OPEN Not for Clerk of Court or Sheriff but The Press and Stand- ard’s Great Contest. Cast Your Votes. The following list of names represent the candidates entered and the number of votes re ceived so far in the great voting contest of THE PRESS AND STANDARD: GREATEST OFFER EVER MADE. In Colleton County. most pressing of existing evib. There la no use for some of the pul- Jk to grow hysterical over this mat ter, even if some do import contract phyakians, as has been suggested, these same physicians will either have to join the county association, and abide by the by-laws, or be denied all professional assistance and consultation with the membefj of the society, and as a great many of you’ve doubtless aware, there is bound to come a time in almost every family when there is heed fc r consultation. I doubt if some of those who are preparing to ( fight us are aware of the fact that it is not only the local society that they are preparing to fight, but the State and National societies also, and that it is one of the iron clad rules of each and every one that they will not consult with an uneihetical phy sician aad I may add for the edifica tion of such as care to know, that this rule is rigidly adhered to Colle ton, Charleston and Dorchester counties. I would like to ask any one of these men that are saying that we Ore charging “exorbitant fees,” if they individually, are aquai e with their accounts with their re spective physicians, and if they can truthfully say that a single one of us have charged them an exhorbi- fee since this resolution has bean in effect? All of this mauldin senti ment .abount the poor man and his rick wife or child is very good melo drama, but mighty poor business. When this same poor unfortunate eemes into your store to get his ad vances in order that be may try to , provide the bare necessities for his family, do you gentlemen, who have taken up the cudgel in his behalf, out of the kindness of your heart, my to him, “just go ahead, old fel low. get whatever you want, and come day when you are in town, ‘ Just stop in and pay me, you need not bother to give me a hen or mort gage!” And there is not a jingle one of you that has net had his phy sician say pracikaUy that same v, thing to you on several occasions, end as for our daring to request some sort of security fer our ser vice! Why we would be forced to, -. , , A . . dl tot leave the eounty. mi ytt we | ow " “• “ d e ™ k " or to ■*“« • an eogaied in . aerfeet* legitim.*: I™ t** ^ ~ **- 1 aadtonest busfueaOieeaaed to the to rveeh with our Uox ist same State that you are in. Wefco have eur stock in trade, for which we had to pay, yet you demand that we conduct our business on senti* mental lines, you decry the very idea . that we let the spirit of eommercial- , km, so universally prevalent, even to the pulpit, in these strenuous days, eater into our profmuon, even to the extent of protecting ourselves from the dead-beats and riff-raff of the country. Why should we not be ! trying to protect ourselves, pause a moment and ponder theee things. Right here I wish to state for the benefit of those whom it may eon* cern, that Dr. J. T. Taylor, of Adams Run and myself have been charging the same rate of mileage contained in this fee *bill, for the last three years when ever we did charge it all. We, both, have cer tain areas in which we charge a cer tain amount for a visit, the same as physicians in a town, add it is only when called upon to go without theee boundaries (which are known te the people residing therein), we charge mileage, and it dont make any dif- fererence what you gentlemen say, we are entitled to and furthermore we intend to collect it. Our charges are going to remain exactly what they have been for the last three yean, and I trust that this will set the minds of our good people at rest. If you men had done as a gen tleman in this community did, and had not been in such a huffy to jump at conclusions, you would (have found your fears were groundlem, he, when he heard all this talk going on, took the trouble to some and ask me to explain the spirit of the resolutions to him, and I may add that he went away perfectly satis fied, and in perfect sympathy with our movement. In the editorial above referred to, you say that if we know of any such dead beats as are pictured, it is our duty to publish them m a warning to the rest of the people in the country. Why, my dear sir, if we were to send you such a list, of the people that we KNOW are able to pay us and that keep put ting us off from year to year, otjk wont even acknowledge the receipt of a hill from us, yon would not only not care to prints^, but you would be inclined to doubt the evi dence of your own eyes, because it is not, as some think, the poor and ! needy man that owes us most and longest, but he that hath an high place ia the esteem of his fellow man. The names of some of cur most prominent social aud political people ane on that list. I will cite you an instance of a lit tle happening which occurred in my DISTRICT NO. 1. Miss Annie Bellinger, W’boro Miss Effie Jones, McLaunn, Miss Eva Williams, W’boro, Miss Martha Goodwin, Smoaks, Miss Leonie Padgett, W’boro, Miss Lucia Patterson, W’boro, Miss Kate Ramsey, “ Miss Lula Griffin, Ruffin, Miss Annje Rich, Moselle, Miss Edna Stokes, W’boro, Miss Florrie Jones, McLaurin, Miss Nell DeTrcvifle. W’boro, Miss Ada Butler, W’boro, Mish Edith Hyrne, W’boro, - Miss Josephine Robertson, Williams, Miss i illie Kate Stokes, W’boro. . Miss Jessie Breland, “ Miss Ola Avant, W’boro, Miss Ethel Howell, W’boro, Miss Addie Linder, Spokes Miss Lizzie Easterlin, Round, Miss Bessie Kohn, W’boro, Miss Lucy Williams. ** Miss Nettie E. Caldwell. Lodge, Miss Annie Savage, W’boro, Miss Hattie Glover, “ v Miss Wiiheimina Strobe!, W’fcom, Miss Wiiheimina Bennett, Me Lauras, Miss Annie Utsey, Smoaks, Mrs Ella Herndon, Ruffin, DISTRICT NO. 1 Miss Annie Getsinger, Getsinger, Miss Sue WjUiams, Salkehatchie, Miss Estella Smoak, Getsinger, Miss Maude Vam, Hendersonville, Miss Clare Smith, Cottageville, Mkw Jennie Lee Ackerman, Cot’ville Miss Sue Haines, Salkehatchie, Miss Dell Benton, Getsinger, Miss Edith Ware, Adams Run, Miss Isabel'Thomas, Ritter, Miss Maybell Beach, Round, Miss Gusste Heyward, White Hall, Miss Annie Bishop, Getsinger, Miss Lillie Chaplin, Osborn, Miss Gladys Mellard, Osborn Miss Janie Addison, Getsinger, Miss Bessie Cannon, Hendersonville, Miss Kate Langdale, W’boro, Miss Ida Lee Risher, Stokes, Miss Lula Atkinson. Stokes, . Miss Annie Beach, \Valterix>ro, Miss Eliza O’Bryan, Miss Sadie O’Bryan. •• Miss Ariine Sanders, W’boro, Miss Mary Warren, “ Mi«s Bertha Beach. W’Boro, Miss Anna Kinard, W’Boro, Miss Molly Beach, W’boro, Miss Golly Hiers* W’boro, These are the young la< lies Who will make ifee race for the prizes to be give*. No new candidates will be received after this* AH these young ladies. ire popular and well known, and each one has a good change to win. All any candidate will have to do is to show a lively interest and hu nle for votes. Don’t think you have no chance because you do dpt lead the list this week. W s are going to do all we can to help each one to win, so call on its for suggestions. We h ive no ilavorites. Remember the coupons during April will count five votes. Save th im and Ate* A TWO TRIPS TO THE JAnESTOtm EXPOSITION AND TWO LADIES UOLD WATCHES, M YEAR GUARANTEE to he given to the four mott popofcr young Indira in Colleton County, provided 25,COO votra he cast OUR PLAN IS THIS An? yonng lady voted for bef*T» March 27th. wtd be considered a candidate. After that tune no new names will bs allowed. All neraons paying •nhacriptama either old or new subscriber* wiM entitled to vote for any jo mg lady so Colleton County whom they wovM like to win one of theee prhe* The yonng lady receiving the hisdv rat number ot vote* in each diwiieS will ba entitled to one of the trip* lr» the expoutton. The one renetvmg the next higbeat, will be entitled u* the gold watch. . We ban divided tb« «tmty rat* two districts, aa follows; , * ' District No 1. All peraona wb«fR* their null at Wnltorboro, W»ISim%. Stokea, RufBn, Ladgw Vtimer, Khrhardt, MoUncin- P monks. ‘ District No. *. Ill \m*m+ _ their mail at Ooltagevillw^ OWwngsn- Round, Ritter, Green If ton, Salkehatchie, WhRrUbtli detawwiUa, Megrattw Osborn, Adams, Horn Brant, -fonlj . •nhoro. Young’s Wand, Week* mtii • i oryan, Tomm nfifowiD 5 months sobacription toTBvrtflft and Standard, vote*. /% months ■whacription toYkrErw* - and Standard, 50 votes. $ 1 years eobecriptioa In Tbs Vimm l and Standard, 100 vofe* , * yean aotworiptran th The Fmfli 1 < and Standard, Votes. 1 i S years subscriptVtn to Tie 1 and mallard, Mw vote*. Oanpeaa srilk also ha pubHrteiThp* - each week’s issue, good for one veto. OONTB8T OPENS TEBRILiBY' FIRST AND CLOSE# JUNtf Pi*' TEKWTH. All enhawiberr paring after Jan. Viet, will be-entitled to* wto So clip the ajttnabed ooayfW*« id out the wanks, and mail it' town# wfobyonr TparitUo<*v- ftonezreerdf* writ ba gi tan and tha* re lull's pah- Hdted each week u aMUbne I V. NOW IS THK TYldR TO ENTUI YOUR CAN* Bit ATE Watches are on enhibitkm at 8- Ptan’s a>id J. A. Vote Vote Vote dry Stems. In June 1904 I warn requested to go andaeeaJady living about a mile from my house, I found ln>r suffer ing with a surgical disease, and ad vised her immediate remoa al to a hospital far treatment; this was done. I at the husband’s request, going down and performing the operation. She marie a rapid re covery and left the hospital in four teen days, imagine my surprise when _ 1 got a bill from the hospital for her allowed to conduct our own (i thi *j* ras a11 - in the way we see fit, as long as we * almly ‘ nfonaerf me that he had had do not touch that second heart of P***®* 1 * Jn M "U P*tient,and the great American People, i, e. I notice that “J. B. D.” reports 0 as imaginary conversation to tins effect, that whenever a .doctor comae la little is his house he deaaaad* his pay at once, now this may be -construed in two ways, either that the doctor has gotten wise to the fact dhat he will have trouble in cdlactiag this debt, ar it is a vivid stretch on “J. B. Dl’s” imagination, because mo doctor is going to demand a fee mt once lor any other reason that -the one as signed. He also leaves .this inference t i ___ to keep up with the times, there is tately. The funers 1 services were con- mothing else isr us.to do but charge ducted at the nesiaence of Mr. Jas, In Mne cases. Aud i*- Gk " ,er b)rEw DrCT,rau, "' dI) "- . _ - ,, ... Je Is Tuesday morning at ten o’clock, p»w. gMieoen. *1! w of h »t ^ ter wUch ^ intcrr . to crom yowr bridge till you get to ed at Live Oak eunetery. it. wait till you see some of us de- Mr. Glover asw the son of Mr. Jas. nping the poor and needy some of £. Glover antiwss in the forty-third lthose acts of charity and benevo- .year. He was well known and liked fence that we are .ia the habit of. fry every one who knew him, and had practicing, and wait till we charge filled many important responsible seme of you an exhorbitant fee and position. *ben you will Jte justified in attack- The Press and Standard aympathix- 1 <3 I r the bill charged to me. This bill, however, I was aMe to collect through the courtesy of hhi (heir pocket-book? The very idea of our doctor aa a man of fomipaw is, repugnant to a great many of us, jO^ploycr. In August 19#4 ttim but it is only the shadow of the past, “f whan asfcn who could afford to study S? who, ?„ made September I sent him medicine, could also afford to prac tice it for the good of their fellow on the revenue which they -from it for the support of theffi- and in a bill for _ $21.50. He has not only paid this ’•Ud were in now dep^dent HU, but h« done hi. best to kart me y in this and other eonununitien. he has had two positions which paid him $45 a month, he has gotten mar ried since the death of hi« first wife, and now is conducting a black' smith shop which supports this family of six, and he has made no effort to pay me a nickle. Now if you think that this is any fairy tale, I will ba da* lighted to give his nuns and add» •elves and their families. You say in a recent editorial, that tile doctors look “pretty so-eo r thank JUU,” but who wants his doctor to to see a* attic person with his to his readers, in the same article, and while what be states was in corporated in the hill, hr has either willfully npsled a great many peo ple, or he has bees misinformed as to She bill as a whole, when he agys that we are trying to prevent She ghriag of medicine by mg hut ali- eeaoad physician, for there was a clause in the bill that dwtinctir states that this‘’bill was not meant to prevent the domestic prescribing Inotiet that someone lot to say ia this affair, and that he that he, ‘Ttestens” to things. Why, may I aric tids undue haste, why anything from has at ail, if, he says in a subsequent his bills have always bean as ■unable! why dees he not wait until ae is hit before he this mm are compelled to combat in all of our husfamm Why dsas he aot rnah into . print when he mm that the price of floor has gone op, or any of the neesmary things of life? that the men who the fro it has been in a “z: ingus ia the mannrr which you have, mad not .until then. Just fe es with the bereaved relatives. too are human, obligations member that are that we also have to meet, that to look wc cannot affoad and money takas up by the beats and rifi-ratf of the country, that we do not purpose withdrawing eur help and . sympathy from such as we deem worthy but ealy from them that we know to b» un worthy, that we have net formed any trust, and that all we ask of you is to mind fow own business, and let us do the same with ours, and that pm exerriae that same charity towards us that you ask us toextend to you. Theodore Gourdin Kershaw, Meggetts, & C. 's. Election of OCHcorv at St. J At a meeting wf the congregation also have families ml St Jude's held the Monday after support, and that Easter the following named* gentle- to bare our time pwen were elected: Wardens—a G. Hyrne, C. C. An derson. Vestrymen—J. D. Warren, C. C. Ttocy, W. A. Black. H. W. Black. Jr, and E. Ladnou Fishbume. Deputies to the General Council— C C. Anderson, C. C. Tracy, H.' W. Stack, Jr, and W. J. Fishbume. Alternates to Above—J. D. War ren. W. E. Fraser, E. Ladson Fiah- hume and M. C. Rims. It is ripWran fc. Folieor (Jtovor Dead. Monday morning about eight o’* clock, E. Palmer Glover died at his home here of an acute attack of con gestion of the liver. Mr. Glover hhd been rather unwell for some time but was thought to be improving. He hud gotten up and dreawd to go off on the morning train, but his sister ob jected m she did not think him enough. He than went to the and looked The last entertainment of the local lyeenm asaoceation was held at .the Court house last evening. A good sited audience of tne most cultured people of Walterboro were present and enjoyed e\e-y minute of the de lightful entertainment furnished by the Parlasd-Newksl! Company. 'Hie features of the evening were the bell ringing and the brass quartette. The tinging of the quartette was also en cored time after time. A woraan miiy not ~ ^ about acting going to- the Ihultibleami a lot about whohaiwIhAMfe