Dr. C. R. Barnum, Optometrist, installs new equipment, 1938

BARNUM

Posted By: Sharon R Becker (email)
Date: 5/1/2015 at 16:25:12

The Leon Journal-Reporter
Leon, Decatur County, Iowa
Thursday, July 14, 1938

Page 4. The above is a picture of the re-arranged and decorated optical parlor in which Dr. C. R. Barnum, optometrist, has been recently replacing his previous equipment with new and modern instruments developed within the last few years. This includes the new project-o-chart, the latest vision testing chart obtainable.

With this improvement, Dr. Barnum, who has been practicing optometry in Leon for 16 years, is even better qualified than before to give his patients the best of service in conserving their eyesight.

After graduating from optical school at St. Louis, he was employed for several years by a registered optometrist and graduate of the Southwestern Optical College of Kansas City, Mo. While in this employ he had full advantage of a post graduate course of the LaGrange system of refraction with the reinoscope and prism exercising for muscular imbalance. He is also a graduate of the Holmes Optical College of Des Moines. Dr. Barnum passed the Iowa State Optometry examining board in 1921.

A few years ago he took special instruction under R. M. Peckham in muscular imbalance and fusion. Last summer he took post graduate work at the eye clinic of the Northern Illinois College of Optometry in Chicago.

Dr. Barnum is a member of the Iowa State Association of Optometrists, American Optometric Association, and the Foundation Program of Modern Analytical Optometry.

Transcription by Sharon R. Becker, April of 2015

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