Lycoming County can boast of one thing that few counties in the United States can. That is a sheriff who is a dentist, Dr. E.B Bardo.

A sheriff-dentist is an unusually handy man to have around a jail for one of the ills that men confined behind bars are subject to aching teeth which need filling or extracting.

Men suffering with a toothache as a rule usually have to resort to a small wad of cotton saturated with said-to-be-sure tooth drops that will relieve the suffering patient from pain immediately.

The suffering patient behind the bars secures a small wad of cotton which saturates in the tooth drops and places it in the cavity. But he has been misinformed, for the tooth aches more than ever. He asks that a dentist be sent to the prison to give him relief. The dentist is too busy in his office treating patients who have had previous appointments with him and far too busy to get away from the office and go to the county jail to give service to the inmate suffering with the toothache in a place like that.

Suffering from tooth ailments no longer exists among the inmates of the Lycoming County jail. Sheriff E.B. Bardo while elected to look after the official business at the sheriff’s office and county jail, is a full-fledged dentist with many years of experience in that noble profession.

When a prison at the county jail is suffering with a toothache, the sheriff-dentist gives the prisoner relief by extracting the aching molar. Several prisoners have already been given relief.