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Medical Society Elections.
—At the annual meeting of the Mobile County Medical Society held in Mobile, December 2, under the presidency of Dr. Edward S. Sledge, the following officers were elected: president, Dr. George C. Kilpatrick; vice president, Dr. William W. Perdue; secretary, Dr. Willis W. Scales, and treasurer, Dr. Edly W. Cawthorn.—Madison County reelected Dr. Carl A. Grote president of the medical society and Dr. Thomas E. Dryer vice president.
Gorgas Memorial Unveiled.
—A drinking fountain, presented by the local chapter of the Daughters of the American Revolution to the Gorgas Public School, was unveiled, November 24, at Toulminville, a suburb of Mobile, as a memorial to General William C. Gorgas. Toulminville was the birthplace of the