On April 18, 1940, the Park City Daily News reported that a dentist from the State Health Department was in the area to perform needed dentistry on poverty-stricken youths.

The dentist was, at the time of the article, working on the children at Potter Orphan Home. He would then move on to Alvaton schools and end with the city schools.

The dental work done was free to children whose parents couldn’t afford private dentistry and only if they were in first, second, or third grade.

– “Way Back When in Warren County” is compiled by researchers at the Warren County Public Library and appears twice weekly in the Bowling Green Daily News. For more information about the library, visit warrenpl.org.