Local Hospital Opens
Doors Again
The Richard Baker Hospital, which closed in December, 1917,
while its surgeon and proprietor, Dr. J.H. Shuford went to war, was formally
reopened today, nearly 18 months later. In the meantime its surgeon has seen
service in France, where he went as captain and returned with the rank of major
and much experience in his profession.
The reopening of the hospital will be good news to the
people of Hickory and this entire section. Dr. Shuford has been eminently
successful as a surgeon and Richard Baker Hospital, well located, has been a
real blessing to the community.
Miss Ruth Wicker, formerly with the hospital, is expected
home in a few weeks from France, where she went in Major Shuford’s unit, and
will return to Hickory to assume the duties of head nurse. Four nurses already
have been secured and as many more will be employed soon.
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