The Press Gazette from Hillsboro, Ohio • 39

Community Support Keeps Hospital Going I SECTION hose Were the Days INANCING OHIO PEOPLE SINCE 1912 and These Are the Days 'f is the answer A The city Loan AND SAVINGS COMPANY Jim ByrdManager 1 113 Main St i Hillsboro Sentice High St pointmcnt and discharge of all em ployees J7 ULLERTON'S faith in the first place in his system of forecasting made him pursue the scandal Hugh apparently talk much to any one about his He first picked up the system from a Bos ton baseball fan He refined it to a point where 4t was peculiarly his How it worked no one has been able to say exactly He insisted that his predictions were based en tirely on figures and that no guess work was involved Cincinnati won the series but til the porcupines would chew through them at those places and so cut his firewood for him as he did about two jnost sensational games the one played Sept 23 1908 in New York in which Mer kle did not touch second base and the subsequent playoff on the fol lowing October 8 children moved away A few years later the home was lost to the Western Southern Life Insurance Company which had a large mortgage on it But thp com pany did not foreclose until 1909 after the death of both Mr and 45 Year Old Institution Now At Crossroads Opened in The history of Highlands Com 'rilsh'i plan did not work out The Business Association of that ULLERTON Connor says wrote with just as much author ity and with as much insight and when he was tell ing about Old Ab up In the Michi gan woods who found that if he poured rings of salt water around the fallen timbers on his back lot a yB IN THAT YEAR the following physicians were practicing medi cine in Highland County: A Beam BD Granger Glenn Hoimes William Hoyt Larkin j) McBride Mc Bride McCohnaughey Nelson A Russ Edmonston Hoyt 3 Jones Glenn Martindill Mer cer Ambrose Holmes Roads Tame Cropper Gibson RW Pratt Roberds Chaney Granger McKinney Mc Nulty IL Teachnor Var ney Mathews (Buford) 0 Eyler unk Mason Kleckner (Lynchburg) Wilson The hospital changed to the name of Highland County Hospital a company for profit was in busi ness for about six years However it did not prove good financially In 1920 Mrs Charles Whisler offered 910000 as a gift if the hospital could be kept open to everyone There was a meeting of the doctors and it was agreed to pay off the old company and form a new one altogether This was to be a non profit corporation and the building would then become non taxable The name was changed at this time to the Hillsboro Hospital Corporation The affairs of the corporation were to be administered by a board of eight trustees composed of men and a board of 12 com posed of women The board Of Indy managers was to ha ve charwW the internal administration of Qhe hos pital building including the ap lerton was convinced from his own figures that something was wrong It was known that a lot of New York gambling money had been placed on the underdogs in the series Not encouraged by anyone ullerton wrote a series of articles making specific accusations of a by gamblers naming the fix ers and the fixed The Chicago Tri bune where ullerton then worked refused to publish the articles so he vtook them to the New York Evening World whose editor water ed them down a little and turned them loose Late in 1920 prose cution of the scandal began ullerton later gave up his pre diction system because the intro duction of the lively ball and the (CONTINUED ON PAGE 4) ORIGINALLY the home of'W Bowers built In 1883 this 1 Highlands Community Hospital today The owner In construct ing the mansion attempted to outdo the old Greyetone Mansion Just across the street built the previous year The first hospital was started In this building built at a cost of 130000 In those early days with 17 rooms In April 1914 THE LOCAL hospital was origin ally the home of Bowers It is located on a portion of the 18 acre tract of land sold to Mary Ann Bowers in J874 by the owner An drew Barry This acreage was part of the original survey by Otway Byrd who did surveying in this dis trict then a part of theVirginla Military District Before the property came into the Bowers family the Oakland male Seminary a very famous school founded in 1839 was locat ed on this tract of land Bowers a former Cincin natian owned and operated a con fectionery and restaurant on West Main Street on the present site of Grocery In 1883 Bowers had the old Oak land emale Seminary building torn down and a new building erected at the present site of the local hospital No expense was spared in the' building of this ela borate home Mr Bowers had it built with the idea of outdoing Greystone mansion which was the home the Beecher family just across the street 'Greystone had been built the year previous Mr Bowers had the feudal idea that this home would be the home of his entire family When his daughters and sons married they were Ml to live there together as one big happy family This clan RECOGNIZED as an authority on baseball and one of the great baseball writers of all time his biggest scoop was his expose of the "Black Sox' scandal in 1919 Aside from that he was widely known across the nation At one time it became a kind of an in formal guessing contest among the many people who knew both Jim arley ranklin po litical manager and Hugh uller ton which man knew more people personally across the nation He made his solid and lasting reputation as a baseball writer but it was an innate genius of his for the human touch which brought him into the areas beyond the lim its of his specialty Laurence Connor associate editor of the Co lumbus Evening Dispatch recalls Connor who worked with ull erton at Columbus gave a eulogy last Deciember for Hughie when the name was added to the roster of the Ohio Journalism Hall of ame at Columbus ULLERTON naturally knew people in all walks of life He hated sham and double dealing in any field of work He often openly be spoke his dislike for John McGraw He did not believe that association with an Havana race track about which some shady tales were told was either proper or ethical for a man as eminent as he was in baseball ullerton was working at the Co lumbus Dispatch on Easter Monday of 1990 when the most disastrous institutional fire of history broke out in Ohio Penitentiary The paper had been to ullerton rounding up a few printers and others and making a quick confirm ation of the early reports of 300 or more nean issued an extra His headline stood up There were 321 dead at the final count His greatest contributions ac cording to Connor in the profes sion of journalism was his ability proven time and again to forecast accurately the outcome of either in dividual baseball games or whole series of games and his persistence and finally the success with which he set out to prove that the 1919World Seriei 'fcas fixed THE PRESS GAZETTE HILLSBORO OHIO riday July 12 1957 THE BOARD in 1920 consisted of the following men: Chauncey Joseph Head Daniel Mor gan Hugh Morrow 0 Pence Prouty Spargur and Granville Barrere The board of managers consisted of the following women: Mrs Beecher Miss Cora Bell Mrs Evans Mrs? Huggins Mrs Kerns Mrs Will Kibler Mrs Lacy Mrs Will Larkin Mrs Daniel Morgan Mrs! Charles Scott Mrs Lloyd Shirley and Mrs Spargur In January 1921 the deed of real estate by Mrs Whisler to the hos pital corporation was accepted There was one string attached to this deed This 'string was that if the hospital should at any time be closed for a period of a year: it would then go to the Ohio Baptist Association This condition under which the hospital came to Hillk boro put it strictly upto the peo ple of the community to make good Mrs Whisler aside from buying the hospital so that it could be kept open to everyone made many many other contributions to aid in its improvement In December of 1934 she gave another $10000 for the purpose of installing an elevator the remaind er of the mojiey toJqp5ed in other Improvements oh the building During and following the sec ond World War days the board of trustees and the board of lady managers made a valiant struggle to keep the institution open to the community Registered nurses and all other help was extremely diffi cult to obtain duetto their absorp tion by various government agen cies In 1948 the title was cleared by the granting of a quick claim deed by the Ohio Baptist Association 'IN 1914 when the hospital was first organized Mr and Mrs Wil liam Browning an elderly couple from Rainsboro were hired as ma tron and superintendent of the in stitution She had charge of cook ing and the 'housekeeping' The su perintendent fired the furnace helped make garden milked the cow fed the chickens and was gen eral handyman Most of the vege tables were raised in the garden on the hospital grounds and the can ning of fruits and vegetables was done in the hospital kitchen The Brownings were succeeded in April of 1918 by Mr and Mrs Walter Snyder of Washington Nurses in training at that time were Leanna Crosson (Mrs Clar ence Layman) Iris Reno (Mrs Wal ter Stinson) Wynona Dryden (Mrs Sweeney) and Myrtle Maxwell (Mrs Vernon Spargur) Class instructors included Drs Hoyt Bohl Cropper and Roads The living quarters in the early days on the first floor The Snyder family remained on duty at the hospital until April 1921" At that time the boarij of lady managers decided that it would be better to hire a register ed nurse to serve as superinten dent and also as head nurse Miss Mary A Williams of Indianapolis was secured to serve in this ca pacity and Miss Annie May ain was named "acting" head nurse Other workers at that time include Mr and Mrs Mahaney Mrs Carey Pence Bessie Blakie Lizzie Greggeson William Blakie and Mil burn Baker' Mrs Dorothy Winters followed and then 'Miss ern Doster of Green field served until October 1947 when HC Dlllahunt a full time trained administrator was employ ed! Dlllahunt resigned in May 1953 to go to a hospital in DeKalb Hl' Dillahunt came here at a time when the plan of operation of the hospital was undergoing a change He was the first full time trained administrator Under his manage ment and the new plan of opera tion a records system one for pa tients and another for finances was initiated A medical staff was also formed during this time and several departments added includ ing a surgery section nursing di vision (diagnostic equipment and service extensive laboratory facili ties and Improved food service During the period from "1947 through the early a num ber of changes in the building it self were made One of the major developments was the revamping of the basement for outpatient and laboratory facilities Joseph Hew succeeded Dillahunt as administrator Hew yent to Portsmouth General Hospital in early 1954 He was replaced by (CONTINUED CM PAGE 4) Among the names Hillsboro has Contributed to the world of journal sm that of Hugh Stuart ullertonanks as one of the top on the list Son of Hugh Stuart aqd Mary Alice ullerton he was born in Hillsboro on Sept 10 1873 He at tended grade school and high school at Hillsboro and was a stu lent at Ohio State University from 1891 to 1893 He began writing for lhe newspapers here at the age of15 3 He was married to Edith Zollars of ort Wayne Ind Aug 8 1900 They had one daughter Dorothy Zollars ullerton (Mrs Lloyd Burns) and one son Hugh uller ton Jr now a sportswriter for the Associated Press When MOAEY is the question "CITY Congratulations Hillsboro On Youi) 150th Birthday Business Association of that day organized early in the endorsed the project kin September 1912 a plan to raise $30000 for the purpose of building additions to the hospital repalrihg remodeling furnishing and Equipping was announced Two professional promoters Bert Wells of Dayton and Grant Whitslar were placed in charge Teams of solicitors were organized Lists of names were prepared in tne county area for a solicitation By Oct 2 $18000 had been rais ed but moYe money was needed Many furnishings were made and just as they are today The hospital wasfinally ready lor opening in April of 1914 The history of Highlands Com munity Hospital reveals some strik ing parallels Organized originally as a stock company and later as a non profit' corporation its rise through lhe years has been predi cated oh one outstanding community support Now just years later me nospnai is at a familiar crossroads with its future contingent on just what Hillsboro and nearby residents want In the Way of hospital facilities The institution has progressed considerably since its doors first opened in 1914 Much of this came about through gifts and donations Since ho tax money has ever been spent on the hospital progress has been necessarily limited Virtually all improvements have been the di rect result of charitable gifts from local and area residents and groups? It has i been this help through the years that has sustain ed the local institution CONGRATULATIONS HILLSBORO ON YOUR 150th BIRTHDAY ROM HIGH LAND COUNTY'S OLDEST AND MOST RELIABLE AUTOMOBILE DEALER IN APRIL 'of 1922 Miss annie McCloud of Kingston Ontario Can ada was secured as superintendent and head nurse after the resigna tion of Miss Williams Miss Mc Cloud resigned in April of 1924 and was succeeded by Miss Joyce who served until October of that year Miss Blanche Dunlap of Chil licothe then took thd post She re mained" October 1925 She' was succeeded by Miss Mary Musser of Pennsylvania She re tained the' post for 20 years re signing in October 1945 due to ill health Mrs Agnes Mauer of Cincinnati wu' secured to fill the vacancy I IT WAS about 1910 that a group of doctors here began talking about forming a stock company for the purpose of building a hospital in Hillsboro It until April 1911 the movement really got un derway 1 A general hospital was planned to be owned by a stock company Shares were sold at $50 eacbr The shares went rapidly and in May 1911 directors of the Hillsboro and Highland Hospital Company as it was called were elected They in cluded: A Beam Hoyt Dan Morgan Cropper and Dr Ma son A committee was picked to look fora site Doctors of that time had purchased many of the shares More money was needed however beforea building could be started By ebruary 1912 it came to the attention of the stockholders that the Bowers home was up for sale The company bought it that month A newspaper story of that timetoted: house was originally erect ed at a cost of more than $30000 It is 60 by 84 feet and has 17 rooms Halls 12 feet wide run through the upper and lower floors The ceil ings are high and it is elegantly finished in black walnut The house is surrounded by about foyr acres of land and the lawn has many beautiful shade trees "The house will be entirely re modeled and equipped and will have from 30 to 40 rooms when ready for use It will be heated by hot water lighted by electricity and gas have bath and toilet rooms pn each floor and have every equip ment and convenience of a model hospital" THE COMPANY had been incor porated for $6000 Another $4000 was needed to equip the hospital There was some controversy over means of raising the money There (vksltome debate over the company and some revision in its organiza tion war effected in 1912 The We Are Celebrating Our 45th Birthday Also During July 1957 since the advent of the amazing "horseless carriage" has a new car caused so much consternation as the 1957 ord' Truly the high pointjn moderate priced transportation You don't have to be to enjoy big car perform ance Why not come in and see the "NEWEST" 1 4 ftk tr Hillsboro Auto Co 1807 proud carriage horses pull ed surreys and carriages through the streets of i I Isboro as the people of the village went about the business of building a new community to the rhythm of those hoofbeats Hugh ullerton Became One Of Top Men in Journalism Job rih St' vv JLt HL Wl A 1 MfaAfeL tr fa if '7 i 5 i i 1 4 4 i 4.