--Roberts Herald. 23 May 1923.
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Sunday, March 19, 2017
Our Doctor is Ill
The most shocking blow that has struck our village in many a year was that last week when word was passed around that Dr. Colteaux was dangerously ill at his home here. We are glad to report that the doctor is considerably improved this week and while we all have hopes that he is on the road to ultimate recovery and will be back in his old time from again, the fact that he must take an enforced vacation and must rest for a good long time was a blow and it was hard for us to realize the truth.
As a boy in the schools of Roberts, Dr. Colteaux was a model student. His duties always came first and pleasures afterward. In his sports he always took the lead. He was the most energetic of the lot. No matter what company he was in, he lead and others followed. As a young man in the store he was always attentive to his duties. In the medical collage, in a class of considerably more than a hundred, he led the class and delivered the valedictory address. When he began the practice of his profession, here in his own town, among his own people, where his whole life history is known, he began his work and his success was the most wonderful that has ever come to the knowledge of the people here. But with it all there was one thing that Dr. Colteaux never learned and that was to disappoint the people.
His skill was known and in demand. Suffering humanity called him and he could not say "No." Many a time for weeks and weeks he has gone from place to place, and almost the only sleep he could get was in his car between calls. Going, going, going, and when he reached his office there would be anywhere from twenty-five to one hundred people waiting for consultation. And he could not tell them "No." Many is the time that he has told us that he was tired and wished he might go away to get some rest. And he has said, "In a few more weeks I am going away," but there was always some one or many who wanted his services here at home and he could not refuse their request.
Did he do this for the sake of the money? No, ask the thousand who have been benefitted by his skill and you will not find one who will say that his practice was for the sake of accumulating money. When his patients paid him he took the money because his investments to equip himself to do his work required money but he would go just as far, use just as much skill and be just as patient, for suffering humanity, though he knew that he would never receive one cent for his services.
A man of skill, of wonderful ability, a man of high principle, and greatest of all a man whom everybody loves. He has no enemies. This man is very ill but he is getting better and will be back in his office. Perhaps not for several months, but he is coming back.
--Roberts Herald. 23 May 1923.
As a boy in the schools of Roberts, Dr. Colteaux was a model student. His duties always came first and pleasures afterward. In his sports he always took the lead. He was the most energetic of the lot. No matter what company he was in, he lead and others followed. As a young man in the store he was always attentive to his duties. In the medical collage, in a class of considerably more than a hundred, he led the class and delivered the valedictory address. When he began the practice of his profession, here in his own town, among his own people, where his whole life history is known, he began his work and his success was the most wonderful that has ever come to the knowledge of the people here. But with it all there was one thing that Dr. Colteaux never learned and that was to disappoint the people.
His skill was known and in demand. Suffering humanity called him and he could not say "No." Many a time for weeks and weeks he has gone from place to place, and almost the only sleep he could get was in his car between calls. Going, going, going, and when he reached his office there would be anywhere from twenty-five to one hundred people waiting for consultation. And he could not tell them "No." Many is the time that he has told us that he was tired and wished he might go away to get some rest. And he has said, "In a few more weeks I am going away," but there was always some one or many who wanted his services here at home and he could not refuse their request.
Did he do this for the sake of the money? No, ask the thousand who have been benefitted by his skill and you will not find one who will say that his practice was for the sake of accumulating money. When his patients paid him he took the money because his investments to equip himself to do his work required money but he would go just as far, use just as much skill and be just as patient, for suffering humanity, though he knew that he would never receive one cent for his services.
A man of skill, of wonderful ability, a man of high principle, and greatest of all a man whom everybody loves. He has no enemies. This man is very ill but he is getting better and will be back in his office. Perhaps not for several months, but he is coming back.
--Roberts Herald. 23 May 1923.
Saturday, March 18, 2017
Appreciation for the New Roberts Hosptial
THE COLTEAUX HOSPITAL
(The following article was handed us by a citizen of Roberts who greatly appreciates the benefits to be derived from the new Hospital in Roberts and would like to have us all show our appreciation in some emphatic way. -- The Editor)
After all it is only natural to be both proud and pleased as we think of the Colteaux hospital, and consider that it is the only well equipped hospital within a radius of thirty-five miles. Roberts, with its less than 500 inhabitants, has been lifted out of the rank and file of villages, and given a position of distinction.
Who wouldn't be proud?
This is the greatest boost that has ever been given to our little village. That is, of course, if the project gets the publicity it undoubtedly deserves.
Publicity and Dr. John A. Colteaux however, never, never, meet by design, only accidentally. If the doctor only thought as highly of himself as others think of him; if he only lacked modesty, we would be sure of publicity by the car load.
As it is, if there is to be publicity, it must come from some other source. Dr. John is not musician enough to toot his own trumpet; and anyway, he is always far too busy looking after the aches and pains of those who come from miles to crowd his hospital. If only Bosworth was here. Having finished his life of Samuel Johnson, that classic among biographies, how he would leap to the task of writing the life of Dr. John Alfred Colteaux, M. D.
Bosworth would do full justice to the humble beginnings of our homegrown product. There would be never-to-be-forgotten pictures of John's school days, when he was showing that "the child is father to the man;" the village bakery and restaurant with John in baker's cap helping his devoted parents, but dreaming of other work that called him persistently to the larger service of suffering humanity; the years of struggle to make both ends meet as John plowed his way through the Chicago College of Medicine and Surgery to emerge with flying honors as the valedictorian of a graduating class of 150; then the practice in his own hometown and the rapid spread of his fame as a skilled practitioner; the constant urge to possess himself of the very latest appliances known to surgery, that he might give his patients the best treatment possible; the always growing practice overflowing the cramped, restricted space of his old quarters; the search for a building that would give him the scope he needed for his work; and the buying of the largest residence in town and turning it into a well equipped hospital. What a wealth of material for a Bosworth, in detail, these bare outlines would make.
And the end is not yet. Dr. John is still a young man, and the world will ever beat a path to the door of the man who can and will serve it.
Do we really appreciate the services of such a man or have we taken everything for granted? Is the saying fulfilled among us that a prophet is not without honor save in his own country and among his own people? Perhaps the only way in which we can be brought to realize the worth of our possession is in deprivation, to hear from afar the shouts of exultation rising from the throat of some great city that has been lucky in our loss.
Let me close this panegyric with two Why-nots. Why not a Roberts Commercial Club or a Chamber of Commerce? Every day brings a number of strangers to the hospital from all over the country. Is anything being done to encourage these strangers to take interest in the town outside of the hospital? What a chance for business for those who invite it. Why not get together and invite that business? Let these strangers who daily come within our gates feel that the whole town is glad to see them.
The other "Why-not" I wish to ask, has the advantage of being free from that taint of selfishness. Why not send a representative committee of our town people to wait upon Dr. Colteaux with the request, that, since he has honored Roberts by establishing a hospital here, he should set a day for a formal opening?
Dr. Colteaux has set a high mark in service to humanity in the opening of his hospital; let us, his fellow townspeople, show our appreciation of the man himself and of his noble work. A public celebration would be a good beginning.
--Roberts Herald. 31 January 1923.
(The following article was handed us by a citizen of Roberts who greatly appreciates the benefits to be derived from the new Hospital in Roberts and would like to have us all show our appreciation in some emphatic way. -- The Editor)
After all it is only natural to be both proud and pleased as we think of the Colteaux hospital, and consider that it is the only well equipped hospital within a radius of thirty-five miles. Roberts, with its less than 500 inhabitants, has been lifted out of the rank and file of villages, and given a position of distinction.
Who wouldn't be proud?
This is the greatest boost that has ever been given to our little village. That is, of course, if the project gets the publicity it undoubtedly deserves.
Publicity and Dr. John A. Colteaux however, never, never, meet by design, only accidentally. If the doctor only thought as highly of himself as others think of him; if he only lacked modesty, we would be sure of publicity by the car load.
As it is, if there is to be publicity, it must come from some other source. Dr. John is not musician enough to toot his own trumpet; and anyway, he is always far too busy looking after the aches and pains of those who come from miles to crowd his hospital. If only Bosworth was here. Having finished his life of Samuel Johnson, that classic among biographies, how he would leap to the task of writing the life of Dr. John Alfred Colteaux, M. D.
Bosworth would do full justice to the humble beginnings of our homegrown product. There would be never-to-be-forgotten pictures of John's school days, when he was showing that "the child is father to the man;" the village bakery and restaurant with John in baker's cap helping his devoted parents, but dreaming of other work that called him persistently to the larger service of suffering humanity; the years of struggle to make both ends meet as John plowed his way through the Chicago College of Medicine and Surgery to emerge with flying honors as the valedictorian of a graduating class of 150; then the practice in his own hometown and the rapid spread of his fame as a skilled practitioner; the constant urge to possess himself of the very latest appliances known to surgery, that he might give his patients the best treatment possible; the always growing practice overflowing the cramped, restricted space of his old quarters; the search for a building that would give him the scope he needed for his work; and the buying of the largest residence in town and turning it into a well equipped hospital. What a wealth of material for a Bosworth, in detail, these bare outlines would make.
And the end is not yet. Dr. John is still a young man, and the world will ever beat a path to the door of the man who can and will serve it.
Do we really appreciate the services of such a man or have we taken everything for granted? Is the saying fulfilled among us that a prophet is not without honor save in his own country and among his own people? Perhaps the only way in which we can be brought to realize the worth of our possession is in deprivation, to hear from afar the shouts of exultation rising from the throat of some great city that has been lucky in our loss.
Let me close this panegyric with two Why-nots. Why not a Roberts Commercial Club or a Chamber of Commerce? Every day brings a number of strangers to the hospital from all over the country. Is anything being done to encourage these strangers to take interest in the town outside of the hospital? What a chance for business for those who invite it. Why not get together and invite that business? Let these strangers who daily come within our gates feel that the whole town is glad to see them.
The other "Why-not" I wish to ask, has the advantage of being free from that taint of selfishness. Why not send a representative committee of our town people to wait upon Dr. Colteaux with the request, that, since he has honored Roberts by establishing a hospital here, he should set a day for a formal opening?
Dr. Colteaux has set a high mark in service to humanity in the opening of his hospital; let us, his fellow townspeople, show our appreciation of the man himself and of his noble work. A public celebration would be a good beginning.
--Roberts Herald. 31 January 1923.
A Most Valuable Asset
ROBERTS HOSPITAL
MOST VALUABLE ASSET
It Is Recognized and Has Friends At Home and Abroad
Recently the Herald editor was visiting at a place about fifty miles from Roberts and was introduced to a gentleman who said, "You are from Roberts, that is where Dr. Colteaux lives." At other times people have said, "I have been at Roberts. I was at the hospital there." These and other similar remarks show that the Roberts Hospital is known over a wide area. After considering the subject for some time we have wondered whether the people at home know the hospital as well as they should.
Many of our home people, not having had occasion to know the inside workings of the place do not know it so well as some others who have come many miles to receive the care which it gives. With that thought in mind we went to Dr. Colteaux to see what we might learn about the place.
The outside is that of a home. A beautiful brick structure which, were it not for the sign, a stranger would take for one of the best residences in the village. After entering the building the home idea still remains within. Everything is arranged with the idea of having the patient feel that while he or she is there it is a home and they are receiving the care and attention that the home gives.
This hospital was equipped seven years ago last March and was then considered the most up-to-date hospital within a radius of fifty miles. No expense was spared to make it as perfect as could be done. Everything went well for a time and then Dr. Colteaux's health failed for a short time which temporarily put the hospital out of use but as the doctor regained his strength it became once more the busiest place in Roberts.
When the hospital here was first equipped everything in it was the very best that money could buy but as time passes new inventions are made, new ideas are put into practice and what was up-to-date might become obsolete. With this thought in mind the doctor disposed of every piece of apparatus which was contained therein and then once more refitted the place. Within the past month he has had the whole building gone over. Every bed, every piece of furniture, every piece of apparatus, and even all of the operating instruments are new. Everything is the very latest design, newly constructed and recently placed.
The walls have all been tinted a beautiful soft gray pleasing to the eye, and restful. The beautiful curtains also have that soft gray coloring. Attractive pictures adorn the walls, and if there is anything omitted that would tend to make the place more attractive it is an oversight on the part of those looking after the place.
The white color has disappeared from everything in connection with this hospital except from the covers of the bed and the nurse's uniforms. The dominant gray has taken its place.
The electrical room is equipped with different machines for electrical treatment. Then there is the X-Ray machine, the very latest design that could be gotten,also includes some parts designed especially for this room. Also a dark room for developing X-Ray pictures.
There are bathrooms on every floor. The consulting rooms, the business office, the reception rooms and the waiting rooms take up most of the first floor. The heating apparatus and the Laundry is in the basement.
The operating room is nicely arranged with plenty of light and with frosted glass windows to avoid the glare and lighting inequality that would come from plain glass.
Cost is the one thing that comes last in the consideration of any improvement that Dr. Colteaux ever contemplates. The comfort of his patients is first, beauty in arrangement comes second and after all other elements are carefully determined that of cost has little effect.
At the time of our visit to the hospital there were five patients being cared for, and there were three nurses attending to their needs, but the number of nurses is not fixed. The doctor has a number of nurses on his list who attend to patients either in their homes or at the hospital as the doctor's needs demand.
The people of Roberts have a justifiable pride in the hospital and also in the doctor who heads this institution. Dr. Colteaux is a native of Roberts. Has lived here all his life expect the time spent in the University preparing for his profession, and a few short seasons when he has been away resting from his labors and recuperating his health. We formerly feared that he would leave us to locate in some large city where his talents would be more in demand but fear passed with us long ago. When we see the congestion of automobiles that gather in the parking space around the hospital every day during Dr. Colteaux's office hours we realize that those who need his services can come to the small town just as easily as they could go to the large city. We remember that as a boy in school Dr. Colteaux accomplished what he undertook to do. In his early business career he proved his success in that line. Even in sports he was a great success. Now in his chosen career he is recognized throughout a wide territory.
A write up of the hospital can not be complete without saying something of Dr. John W. Viers. He had been practicing in Chicago for the past twenty-five years but because he realized the benefits of living in a smaller community where he would have the advantages that come to rural lives he decided to cast his lot with us. His office is located in the Roberts hospital where he has charge during Dr. Colteaux's absence and where he attends to his general practice.
--Roberts Herald. 20 August 1930.
MOST VALUABLE ASSET
It Is Recognized and Has Friends At Home and Abroad
Recently the Herald editor was visiting at a place about fifty miles from Roberts and was introduced to a gentleman who said, "You are from Roberts, that is where Dr. Colteaux lives." At other times people have said, "I have been at Roberts. I was at the hospital there." These and other similar remarks show that the Roberts Hospital is known over a wide area. After considering the subject for some time we have wondered whether the people at home know the hospital as well as they should.
Many of our home people, not having had occasion to know the inside workings of the place do not know it so well as some others who have come many miles to receive the care which it gives. With that thought in mind we went to Dr. Colteaux to see what we might learn about the place.
The outside is that of a home. A beautiful brick structure which, were it not for the sign, a stranger would take for one of the best residences in the village. After entering the building the home idea still remains within. Everything is arranged with the idea of having the patient feel that while he or she is there it is a home and they are receiving the care and attention that the home gives.
This hospital was equipped seven years ago last March and was then considered the most up-to-date hospital within a radius of fifty miles. No expense was spared to make it as perfect as could be done. Everything went well for a time and then Dr. Colteaux's health failed for a short time which temporarily put the hospital out of use but as the doctor regained his strength it became once more the busiest place in Roberts.
When the hospital here was first equipped everything in it was the very best that money could buy but as time passes new inventions are made, new ideas are put into practice and what was up-to-date might become obsolete. With this thought in mind the doctor disposed of every piece of apparatus which was contained therein and then once more refitted the place. Within the past month he has had the whole building gone over. Every bed, every piece of furniture, every piece of apparatus, and even all of the operating instruments are new. Everything is the very latest design, newly constructed and recently placed.
The walls have all been tinted a beautiful soft gray pleasing to the eye, and restful. The beautiful curtains also have that soft gray coloring. Attractive pictures adorn the walls, and if there is anything omitted that would tend to make the place more attractive it is an oversight on the part of those looking after the place.
The white color has disappeared from everything in connection with this hospital except from the covers of the bed and the nurse's uniforms. The dominant gray has taken its place.
The electrical room is equipped with different machines for electrical treatment. Then there is the X-Ray machine, the very latest design that could be gotten,also includes some parts designed especially for this room. Also a dark room for developing X-Ray pictures.
There are bathrooms on every floor. The consulting rooms, the business office, the reception rooms and the waiting rooms take up most of the first floor. The heating apparatus and the Laundry is in the basement.
The operating room is nicely arranged with plenty of light and with frosted glass windows to avoid the glare and lighting inequality that would come from plain glass.
Cost is the one thing that comes last in the consideration of any improvement that Dr. Colteaux ever contemplates. The comfort of his patients is first, beauty in arrangement comes second and after all other elements are carefully determined that of cost has little effect.
At the time of our visit to the hospital there were five patients being cared for, and there were three nurses attending to their needs, but the number of nurses is not fixed. The doctor has a number of nurses on his list who attend to patients either in their homes or at the hospital as the doctor's needs demand.
The people of Roberts have a justifiable pride in the hospital and also in the doctor who heads this institution. Dr. Colteaux is a native of Roberts. Has lived here all his life expect the time spent in the University preparing for his profession, and a few short seasons when he has been away resting from his labors and recuperating his health. We formerly feared that he would leave us to locate in some large city where his talents would be more in demand but fear passed with us long ago. When we see the congestion of automobiles that gather in the parking space around the hospital every day during Dr. Colteaux's office hours we realize that those who need his services can come to the small town just as easily as they could go to the large city. We remember that as a boy in school Dr. Colteaux accomplished what he undertook to do. In his early business career he proved his success in that line. Even in sports he was a great success. Now in his chosen career he is recognized throughout a wide territory.
A write up of the hospital can not be complete without saying something of Dr. John W. Viers. He had been practicing in Chicago for the past twenty-five years but because he realized the benefits of living in a smaller community where he would have the advantages that come to rural lives he decided to cast his lot with us. His office is located in the Roberts hospital where he has charge during Dr. Colteaux's absence and where he attends to his general practice.
--Roberts Herald. 20 August 1930.
Sunday, November 27, 2016
Mr. and Mrs. Anthony Colteaux
Mr. and Mrs. Anthony Colteaux and Dr.
--Shared by Shirley Meece on the Ford County, Illinois Heritage page.
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