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GODSPEED■Aeleven ydaife- apd Mrs, Oppenheimer, who .was Miss Dolly Fisher, had lived here sin^te 184*7, Greenwood has lost two more drfj the old timers who will be very gtnferally missed.The doctor came here in 1898, andnLnir. With thedeparture of __________S. S. Oppenheimer and their little I °boy /or Spokane, last Saturday, anoth-1 ^ er link with the early days of Green- * wood is gnrieyand as the' doctor had! i. ’ i • , . nbeen here. in rcontinual practice for | ^b*e tlfor a ,/fear practiced alone. I *Greenwood was in its hey-day of prosperity and the country docked j ^ with miriprs and prospectors. There was only5; a small hospital, conductedby Dr. jakfcs, the pioneer doctor of»• •the district,who had ministered to the«% • «medical tihtnts of the whole district, from Peicion to Marcus, for several• If]years alcuie, when only scattered | J! camps jiexisjfcjfc and whose self-deny-ing services in those early days will never be fArgotteirby those who knewhim. In 1899 Dfs. Jakes and Oppenheimer Hdrmed a partnership, and* • *t ' .enlarged thc^hospital, making it in every way efficient and sufficient for4 • •the needs of the community. The- • # * % . ♦two doctorslt;budt *up~ a large practice,and until Dr Jakes left in 1902 forfc • . *San Franciscq.' the partnership lasted. Since then Dr.- Oppenheimer has. ^ practiced alone, and in all the eleven | ^ years he has resided in Greenwood• t a, - *has attended jnost strictly to the relief[f his many patients.* . * •The doctor !is a graduate of Me-b *1'* pSill university^ and ;a son of Isaac• j f 11Dppenheimer/' nbvv irt Germany, and he nephew'of .DaviJ Oppenheimer,:or some time mayor of Vancouver.'• * f *’Before leaving. the doctor was the ccipient of ahtfarewd) address from he members of tfte Greenwood Mines’ union.'-*clt;NisqMrs. Oppenheimer came to Green-wo»d -withr hlt;T; p«ceatfc' and an elder lister, as a young girl, • and- was uni-'ersally popular. ,The possessor of a* * cvoice, she hai1 Ialtlk C \ cX local conceits and entertainments, I ^ tnd since her marriage has taken an ictive pan ffr the lmany social events n the city. * . I CiIn a mining town, where those who | o :ome prepare to leave (after having nade a fortune), we get used to see-ng the old timers depart year after ear for far away green fields, and, hough new people come in to take heir places, it is always sad to see hose, whose lives have been part of he life of the town, leave after so ong a sojourn, and the Dr. and Mrs. Dppenheimor carry with them the :ood wishes of their many friends rere to their new home in Spokane, n which the Times heartily joins'
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Greenwood Boundary Creek Times
Greenwood, British Columbia, CA
Fri, Jul 23, 1909
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