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Indiana News

Members of the Indiana branch of the American Chemical Society held their annual banquet at the Severin Hotel, Indianapolis, on the evening of February 27. There were guests from all parts of the state, among them being Dr. P. N. Evans, professor of chemistry at Purdue University, who spoke on the subject "Sentiment in Science." This was the only formal address of the evening, the remainder of the program being given to merry-making. Members of the society who have recently left Indiana were mourned as dead, those present marching around a bier containing effigies of the departed while a funeral dirge was softly played. Those who have left the state are Dr. C. S. Woods who was represented by a wooden monument inscribed "We Mayor Wood"; Jack J. Hinman, who was represented by a snow man, slowly melting away; Professor Richard B. Moore, by a lawn mower; F. S. Hereth, by a figure grasped by an octupus labeled "New York."

An interesting decision has been handed down by James E. Deery, judge of the Indianapolis city court in the case of Lee G. Nash, a druggist at Delaware and Twenty-fifth streets in that city, who was arrested for operating a "blind tiger." In fining Mr Nash $50 and costs and adding a sentence of thirty days in jail, Judge Deery held that a quantity of malt liquor found in a registered pharmacy is prima facie evidence of the operation of a "blind tiger." Mr. Nash has taken an appeal from the decision to the Marion County Criminal Court and is out on bond pending a hearing of the appeal.

A large white owl recently discovered a stuffed and mounted member of its family on display in the show window of Edward C. Schultz, a druggist at Batesville. The owl flew against the window glass, smashing the glass into many pieces. It then attacked and nearly destroyed the mounted bird and damaged considerable goods. Mr. Schultz finally killed the owl with a stove poker and the owl will be mounted and stuffed and placed on display. The owl killed by Mr. Schultz is the first that has been seen in the vicinity of Batesville for many years.

Following a brief illness, Willard S. Pugh died at his home in Greenfield from apoplexy on March 4. Mr. Pugh was fifty-four years old, was born in Alexandria, Ind., and had also been a resident of Indianapolis and Anderson before going to Greenfield. He was seventeen years a retail druggist in Indianapolis and was engaged in similar business in Greenfield until he was appointed postmaster last May. He is survived by his widow and one son, Minor Pugh. The body was taken to Alexandria where funeral services and burial took place.

Emanuel A. Fink, who was the proprietor of a drug store at Wood street and Michigan avenue, South Bend, succumbed to bullet wounds sustained when he was held up one night recently. The hold up man shot three times, two bullets taking effect, one in Mr. Fink's breast and the other in his left hand. Mr. Fink was taken to a hospital where he died after a few days. The holdup man escaped by jumping through a plate glass door. Mr. Fink was forty-five years old.

In the burning of a large business block at Terre Haute on March 9, E. H. Bindley and Company, wholesale druggists suffered a heavy loss. The drug firm's loss was about $60,000 while the total loss to all of the business concerns involved was more than $300,000. There was an explosion of oils in the basement of the drug concern's building, but fortunately none was injured.

G. Barrett Moxley, president of the A. Kiefer Drug Company, has been elected a member of the governing board of the wholesale trade division of the Indianapolis Chamber of Commerce for a term of three years. Among the holdover members of the board is William J. Mooney, president of the Mooney-Mueller Drug Company.

Indianapolis firemen, acting under orders from the Indianapolis board of safety recently cut the wires connecting thirty automatic sprinkling devices in mercantile establishments with the sprinkler alarm board in the quarters of the Indianapolis Salvage Corps. The city gave as its reason that overhead wires are not

permitted in the down town district. Among the concerns affected were the Daniel Stewart Company and Ward Brothers, wholesale druggists. Efforts are to be made to obtain new quarters for the board and to run the wires through the underground conduits of a telephone company.

Julius A. Haag, an Indianapolis druggist, has bought the property at 37 South Illinois street, the consideration being $60,000. The purchase was made as an investment. During the last month Mr. Haag and his brother, Louis A. Haag, opened a new drug store at Illinois and Pearl streets to take the place of the store that was closed when the old Occidental Hotel building was razed to make room for a new sixteen story structure.

The John H. Gander Company has been organized and incorporated with an authorized capitalization of $10,000 at Evansville to conduct a retail drug business. Those interested in the company are John H. Gander, Carrie M. Gander and John Kohl.

Mr. and Mrs. G. Barrett Moxley have returned to their home in Indianapolis after a month's visit in the Bermudas. Mr. Moxley is president of the A. Kiefer Drug Company.

After a short illness, Dr. Edward Funk died at his home in Corydon on February 17. He was forty years old and is survived by a family. Dr. Funk for many years had conducted the Corner Drug Store, of which he was the sole proprietor.

Charles E. Vestal, formerly connected with the A. Kiefer Drug Company, Indianapolis, for many years, died at his home in Knightstown during the last month. He had been ill for several months and his death was not unexpected.

John E. Kreps, for some years in the bookkeeping department of the A. Kiefer Drug Company has been appointed chief clerk and statistician to the Indianapolis city board of health and charities.

Married.

Fred W. Gehrung, assistant manager of Marshall's Store No. 7 at Cleveland, and Miss Queenie L. Felton, were married Saturday, March 14, at Cleveland.

West Virginia News

Every drug store in West Virginia will have been inspected and its characteristics recorded before the first of July. Members of the State Board of Pharmacy are doing the rounds at this time and they have found so far that the pharmacists of the state are enjoying lucrative trade which makes theirs commensurately advantageous in comparison with other businesses.

The greatest advance of the trade is being found in the southern section of the state, due to the rapid development of this section during the past few years.

Up-to-date pharmacies in the smaller towns are thriving now, because nearly every druggist who has taken advantage of the opportunities afforded in the new towns has been introducing metropolitan ideas and that fact alone suffices to popularize their establishments. Ten years ago there was probably not a half dozen soda fountains in towns of West Virginia under 1,200 population, but now high priced fountains are found in nearly every town where there is any business enterprise at all.

Following the enforcement of the prohibition laws the fountain will become more generally popular. But the fountain instance is merely suggestive of the growth of the drug and pharmaceutical trade. Usually it is found the drug stores of the various towns, as well as of the cities are recognized as being among the leading business establishments.

Good pharmacists are in demand and almost every graduate has had a position awaiting him for months or possibly years. These pharmacists as well as the other clerks about the drug stores are being paid better salaries now than were formerly believed possible. They are earning more by introducing new ideas that are profitable to the owners of the

stores.

An honor roll of successful pharmacies of West Virginia would contain many names even if every possible business attribute were necessary before compiling the list. Some of these have been established but a comparatively short time and some are in towns that do not appear on some of the older maps. An inspection of the records of the bankruptcy courts fails to show a single pharmacist quitting business because of business reverses. Nearly every other business is mentioned in these records.

New stores in the larger cities and enlargement of the old ones are reported every month

and the drug stores of the state are without question showing as much business progressiveness as can be found in any other line.

Take the Guyan Drug Company's store at Logan. It has grown gradually and is one of the substantial establishments of the rapidly growing town. Modern methods are employed and the introduction of new side lines has become almost a hobby.

Scott Brothers in Charleston have encountered delays in getting their handsome new store ready for the opening. In the old stand this pioneer firm is doing an enormous business and the trade is a most desirable one. It is popularly called the rendezvous of the elite. The present store is a place of beauty, but the new one will be elaborate in every detail.

Another of the older stores in the state is that in Huntington, owned by Mr. B. T. Davis. It is enjoying the patronage now of persons and families who have dealt at the same place for forty years or more. Some old fashioned ways remain there, but the business has adopted the newer innovations and business prospers.

In Parkersburg, O. J. Stout and Company, have become one of the most successful business firms in the city. The businesss has grown with wonderful rapidity and every possible facility has been added in recent years to make this Market street emporium one that commands respect and trade. Dr. Stout devotes a great deal of his own time to the conduct of the business, but has surrounded himself with a corps of assistants that can't be beaten.

In the upper Panhandle not a few of the most successful stores have been in operation for many years, but they have been modernized to fit the requirements of the public. Not a few of them have begun to fully appreciate the value of advertising and some of the owners have educated themselves along that line to the extent that they set aside a certain amount to be spent each year in further introducing themselves to the public and showing why their establishments should have a big share of patronage.

Myer's pharmacy in McMechen is an up-tothe-minute drug store and a popular place. Everyone in the little city shows appreciation for the efforts of the owner and his assistants to extend every possible accommodation in keeping with modern business methods. "Myers sells more stamps than the post office does," laughingly remarked one of the customers the other day.

There's Dudley's pharmacy in Elm Grove. While Wheeling is but a short distance away,

this store is a big one and does a heavy business, because it handles what the people want and every customer is treated courteously no matter whether a child or a grown-up.

Dinsmore's store on Wheeling Island is another popular establishment and the business done there in a year will show a hearty condition that could not be excelled by many of the stores in the main part of the city. Treating the people right is one of the reasons for the success of this establishment.

A half dozen other stores in that part of the state, present a perpetual evidence of the fact that when you treat your customers as they should be treated, success is yours.

The Rice Pharmacy in North Wheeling and the Pike, at Woodsdale, are getting more business every day.

Over on the mountains there are some fine stores. That at Terra Alta, owned and looked after by S. M. Scott, Jr., is a leading business institution of Preston county, and everyone knows "Doc" Scott. He is as personally popular as he has made his successful enterprise.

In the University City, Morgantown, J. C. McVicker, is adding to his stock and keeping it fresh, so far as is possible. He finds out what the public wants and supplies it. This is only one of a number of modern pharmacies in this pretty city, the seat of learning in West Virginia.

Rapid strides have been taken in recent years by the C. H. Goodykoontz Drug Company, operating the East End Pharmacy and the Bluefield Pharmacy in the last named town. Mercer county is developing rapidly and the Goodykoontz concern is keeping pace with the growth of business generally.

Williamson, the Mingo county metropolis, and county seat, is proud of its drug stores. That of the Strothsnider-Jenkins Drug Company is rapidly expanding and it is plain to be seen even on a casual visit, that real business methods are used in conducting the business.

Opposite the court house, in Fairmont, the Mountain City Drug Company is located in one of the most admirably equipped stores in the state. The business is prosperous and is prided as the store that is different, "not indifferent."

Over at Princeton, the seat of Mercer county, the Virginia Pharmacy is a town pride. While the prescription trade is a big one, the various lines carried are complete. Visitors in Princeton are struck by the splendid arrangement of the store and its up-to-date appearance.

Grafton, the venerable city on the hills, has a number of modern pharmacies, and the Red Cross, on Walnut street, is one of the most prosperous. Special lines are often advertised and the results have been found pleasing. Somerford's store, on Main street, across from the Baltimore and Ohio River railroad station, is known by every traveler who goes east toward the National capitol or stops at the bustling city on any occasion.

"A Real Drug Store" is the way Wriston's establishment, 414 Ninth street, is advertised in Huntington. There is always something new and attractive about this store and it is popular with everyone in the neighborhood.

To enumerate further would occupy too much space in one number of this journal, but other stores will be reported for the Honor Roll as observation permits.

One of the biggest purchases that has been made in recent years by a West Virginia drug concern was that recently in New York by the Huntington Drug Company. W. C. Price, general manager, and W. S. Vinson, one of the other active officials of the big jobbing establishment placed the orders, and they include about everything that could be mentioned in the line of drugs and pharmaceuticals. Promise is given of a great future for this concern, of the organization of which mention has been previously made in the West Virginia letter.

"The Prohibition Law as it Affects the Physician," was the subject handled in an able manner recently by Campbell A. Neptune, of Parkersburg, one of the best known druggists in the state, before a meeting of the Little Kanawha and Ohio Valley Society. Many points of interest were brought out by Mr. Neptune and he was accorded a real ovation at the conclusion of his effort. One of the principal points brought to notice was the fact that physicians must exercise care in writing prescriptions after the new prohibition law goes into effect with reference to making any intoxicating liquor an ingredient. The law does not permit the druggist to handle intoxicants in any form, except alcohol for certain prescribed purposes.

Wade H. Betts, of Calhoun county, has been employed as pharmacist by the Red Cross pharmacy in Huntington. The store was recently moved from 417 Twentieth street, to the corner of Eighth avenue and Twentieth street. The new druggist was recently graduated and he displayed unusual talents while in college. He has already become popular with the trade at the Red Cross.

To engage in the retail drug business The Winona Drug Company was recently chartered by the Secretary of State. The store will be located at Winona, one of the growing towns of Fayette county. The company has an authorized capital of $5,000, of which $3,000 has been paid in. The incorporators are J. C. Brown, Miss J. Y. Walker, Bert Hall, W. F. Hall, and Wade Bell, all of Winona.

Burglars a short time ago gained entrance to the Williams pharmacy in the Glenwood hotel, at Kenova, smashed the cash register and took from it quite a bit of change. Razors and various other articles carried in stock were taken. Burglars have been busy for the past two months at Kenova. Entrance to the drug store was gained by breaking a glass in the door and shoving back the locked bolt.

In Huntington during the same week, the Family drug store at the corner of Fourth avenue and Fourth street, was ransacked by front burglars. The door was evidently opened with a key. The thieves got about five dollars in money, tobacco, cigarettes and various small articles.

Made in Germany.

At a village meeting at which village improvements were being discussed, an old German arose and made the following brilliant remark:

"Ach, mein fellow Germans, why can't we do somedings? Just look at those Irishmen in Doonysville, how they have a sidewalk! Ach, let us put our heads together unt make a block pavement!"

-Woman's Home Companion.

Discouraging.

PROF. (in geology)-"The geologist thinks nothing of a thousand years." SOPH.-"Great guns! And I loaned a geologist ten dollars yesterday!"

-Pennsylvania Punch Bowl.

Ready for Practice.

Professor-If a person in good health, but who imagined himself sick, should send for you, what would you do?

Medical Student-Give him something to make him sick and then administer an antidote. Professor-Don't waste any more time here; hang out your shingle.

-New York Weekly.

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turers have offered Bichloride of Mercury tablets of special design supplied in special containers so that now if legislation of any kind is needed all that should be done is to prohibit the sale of Bichloride of Mercury in tablet form in the shape of the ordinary round or cylindrical medicinal tablet.

There is no way possible to prevent the wouldbe suicide from shuffling off this mortal coil if he has determined upon it and it has been noted not infrequently that blatant newspaper accounts of the latest victim of carbolic acid, of cyanide of potash and of bichloride of mercury are followed by a train of such suicides many of them going down as victims of the mistaken identity of the substance to cover the suicidal intent.

Every druggist should do his utmost to safeguard his customers in the matter of bichloride tablets and this has been possible for a long time. Years ago, nine to be exact, Eli Lilly & Company placed in the market Diamond Antiseptics. Every reasonable precaution was exercised. The tablets were of unique shape, the bottle had rough edges and a diamond shape. Each tablet was marked poison on both sides. There was no rumor of restrictions then. Lilly Diamond Antiseptics made such restrictions unnecessary just as they do to-day. These tablets were the pioneer safeguards against the accidental

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Is a new compound brought to the attention of the medical profession through the New and Nonofficial Remedies. It has the chemical formula NaH,PO,H2O and is said to be very effective in rendering the urine acid, a desirable condition in connection with the use of hexamethylenamine.

It is given in doses from 1 to 12 grams frequently repeated, until the desired effects are produced.

The Mallinckrodt Chemical Works have already placed the article on the market and druggists desiring it should order the "M. C. W." brand through their wholesale druggists.-[Adv.].

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The Royal Purple Pages which the J. Hungerford Smith Grape Juice Co. are giving as part of their 1914 advertising offer on Royal Purple Grape Juice, are certainly attracting unusual attention and many dealers are enjoying largely increased sales of Royal Purple as a result of these signs. A complete window trim and other advertising features are given Free with initial orders for five cases of Royal Purple.

Like all the J. Hungerford Smith Co's. products, Royal Purple is distinctively a beverage of Quality and we understand that the Juice for 1914 is unusually fine in flavor and color.

Evidently no pains or expense have been spared in the equipment of the new Royal Purple factory and this, with the care that is exercised in every step of the manufacture of Royal Purple Grape Juice could not fail to result in a perfect finished drink.

Price list, quantity discounts and full information will be gladly furnished by the J. Hungerford Smith Grape Juice Co., General offices, Rochester, N. Y.-[Adv.].

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