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veterinarians, residents of the State of New Jersey, whether 
members or not, are invited to attend. 
IOWA STATE VETERINARY MEDICAL ASSOCIATION. 
Secretary Brown writes us that the next meeting will be 
held in Des Moines, January 23 and 24, 1901, and that every¬ 
thing indicates an unusually good meeting. 
The North Carolina State Veterinary Medical As¬ 
sociation will meet in Raleigh this month, when strenuous 
efforts will be made to have several bills passed looking to the 
protection and advancement of the profession in that State. 
The South Dakota Veterinary Medical Association 
holds an important meeting at Station Hotel, Huron, S. D., Jan. 
15, and Secretary Foster invites all veterinarians to be present. 
NEWS AND ITEMS 
Dr. C. M. McFarland, of Cincinnati, spent his holiday 
vacation with his parents and friends in Kansas City, Kansas. 
The Chicago Veterinary College has an attendance 
this session of 93 students. Quite an improvement over recent 
years. 
Charles Tomlinson, D.V.S., son of Dr. Wm. J. Tomlin¬ 
son, of Williamsport, Pa., was shot and killed the latter part of 
December, in West Virginia. 
Dr. H. V. Boyce, an employee of the Bureau of Animal 
Industry of Sioux City, visited friends in Kansas City during 
holiday week. 
WE hear that Dr. Olof Schwarzkopf, while at Tokio, Japan, 
received a wound in his hand, which became infected, and he 
had a serious time with it for a number of days, finally recover¬ 
ing. He has, we believe, been ordered to Manila, P. I. 
Horse Power Supplants the Auto. —The extensive cab 
business of R. H. White & Co., of Boston, which has been em¬ 
ploying twenty-eight automobiles in its service, has dismissed 
them and gone back to the horse as a motive power. 
On account of continued illness in the family of Dr. Joseph 
W. Parker, of South St. Joseph, Mo., he has been obliged to 
resign his position as Secretary of the Missouri Valley Veteri¬ 
nary Medical Association. Dr. W. Ross Cooper, 1714 Kansas 
Avenue, Kansas City, Mo., has been appointed to fill the va¬ 
cancy. 
