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From: "Nancee\(McMurtrey\)Seifert" <>
Subject: [IADECATU] DAVIS CITY, IOWA; 1897 -- by GEO. T. WILLIAMS (part 7)
Date: Thu, 11 Sep 2003 16:51:09 -0500


The Davis City Advance, Davis City, Iowa
Thursday, January 7, l897

'DAVIS CITY and DECATUR COUNTY'
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'DR. J.B. HORNER'

A good physician is an absolute necessity in every town, as the health of a community should always be looked after first, and we are sure that Davis City is to be congratulated on having within her midst such an eminent and competent physician as Dr. J.B. Horner, a physician and surgeon who has been practicing for the past twenty-two years. Dr. Horner was born in Wisconsin, and raised on a farm, and came to this state in l855 while but a small boy. He received a common school education there, thence going to the Iowa Wesleyan University, at Mt. Pleasant, and began reading medicine in l87l, and attended lectures in Chicago in l874. Practiced eight years and then took another course and graduated in l882 at the Bennet College of Electic Medicine and Surgery, of Chicago. He has been in Davis City for twenty-one years, and is the best practitioner in the city and one of the oldest in the county. Is chairman of the Board of United States Examining Surgeons of Decatur County!
, and is frequently called to adjacent cities, in consultation. Last winter he took a post graduate course in New York City. The doctor has held nearly every office in the town, owns a fine residence and office all in the same block. He also has a large library and subscribes for the leading medical journals, and has a fine set of surgical instruments and electric battery. Makes a specialty of the eye, and diseases of women, and also uses the anti-Toxine Diphtheria cure. In the years l89l-2 he was president of the Iowa State Electic Medical Society. The doctor is very prominent in Democratic politics as well as in business matters.

'DRS. WHEELER & WAILES'

In speaking of physicians, let us by no means omit the worthy firm of the above named gentlemen.

Dr. W.J. Wheeler, the senior member of this firm, was born in Indiana, and raised on a farm. Served in the war in Company E, 67th Indiana, and was superintendent of the medical department. He has been a practicing physician for forty-two years, and in which capacity he has proven himself a most efficient and untiring worker in administering to the ailments of the people. He is a post graduate of Cincinnati, and was examining surgeon under President Harrison. He owns a good home in the city, and also a business block and a two hundred acre farm.

Dr. J.W. Wailes, the junior partner in the above firm was born in Appanoose County, and was raised on a farm, and is a graduate of the college of Physicians and Surgeons, of Keokuk. He has been practicing medicine for six or seven years, and took a special course in the study of disease of the nose and throat, and in this particular branch is most proficient. He is vice-President of Decatur County Medical Association and (both are members of the same), is also a member of the school board.

Their office is 20x60 feet, and is provided with first class electric batteries, and also with the wonderful X-Ray Light. This feature alone should be a drawing card, as the X-Rays enable them to locate fractures and bullets with the utmost correctness. They furnish all their own medicines and hold consultations with physicians outside of town. Dr. Wailes is local physician and examiner for all old line insurance companies.

'HARVEY & POST'

This firm was established in l894, and is the largest lumber firm in the city. They have two sheds, one l8x80 feet, double decker, and one l4x50 feet. In commencing a building, whether it is a house or any other building, the first thing you look after is the lumber for the frame work, and a faulty lot of lumber in that important place may eventually rack the building, no matter how well the carpenter work may be done. Then when one has a good solid frame it is equally important that the siding be of good quality, and people do not consider that siding and plastering a house is all that is necessary, as they want a house that will keep out the cold, and therefore side it, then cover it with building paper, then weatherboard it, making it a complete house instead of a shell. The roof is also an important part of the structure and we will insure you that you will have a first class roof if you buy the red cedar shingles handled by Harvey & Post.

This yard has a complete stock of cement, lime, building material, Ft. Dodge stucco, hard and soft pine, sawed posts, nails, paints, builders hardware, sash, doors, blinds and screens. In fact, anything you want to build a house, barn, fences or cribs, and you can get as good prices on a large bill of lumber as any other firm will give you west of the Mississippi River or east of that stream either.

Refine Harvey, the senior member of the firm was born in Vermont and came west to this country in l853, and commenced farming at a time when this country was swarming with deer, wild turkey and Indians, there being over 500 of the latter within a few miles of the present site of Davis City. He saw Chicago when he could buy the land there for $l0.00 per acre. Mr. Harvey now owns considerable town property and twenty-one acres adjoining this city, having sold off all his big farm.

John H. Post was born in Wisconsin and was raised on a farm, coming to this city in l892. Mr. Post is one of the popular business men of Davis City, rushing and enterprising.

To Be Continued . . . 'J.C. KESHLEAR & CO.'

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