INDIAN TERRITORY DEPARTMENT. BY E. P. WHITE, FIRST VICE-PRESIDENT INDIAN TERRITORY PHARMACEUTICAL ASSOCIATION, CLAREMORE. The Indian Territory Pharmaceutical Association meets at Claremore, I. T., May 18 and 19. Would it not be Well for our president to appoint a Committee on Legislation so that they will have time to make a report at the meeting in May at Claremore? To the Members of the Indian Territory Pharmaceutical Association: Many members are still delinquent with their dues. All have received due notice, and it is a duty you owe your officers that you make a report of some kind to the notice that you have received. Pay up and help the good work along. The Holiday Trade is over; the stock has been taken; and the proprietor with a broad smile on his face, caused by the good business that he has done the past year; the worried clerk, who has almost been made a fit subject for the insane asylum by the buzz of the holiday trade selecting presents for the "I don't know what I want" customer, again assumes his normal condition and is thankful that Christmas comes but once a year. Let us all get down to business and commence at once to make arrangements for our association meeting. The local committee has made partial arrangements for the best social time that the association has ever enjoyed. A full programme of the entertaining committee will appear in the next issue of this journal. Indian Territory Items. E. G. Horn, the ex-druggist of South Canadian, I. T., will attend a medical school this year. Dan Matherson has been duly installed as knight of the pestle at White's Pharmacy at this place. A. P. Kell retires from the drug firm of A. P. Kell & Co., at Coalgate, I. T., leaving S. W. Lane as the sole proprietor. Will Strother, who has been in the employ of the Forman drug store at Vinita, will open a drug store at Afton for himself. J. D. Fulton, of Atoka, I. T., has bought the E. G. Horn drug stock at South Canadian and will continue the business at the latter place. Frank Mittong and Laurence Beardsley have purchased the S. S. Cobb Drug Company's stock at Wagoner and will continue the business at the old stand. S. W. Shackle & Co., of Tulsa, I. T., have purchased a new stock of drugs and fixtures and will open up in that city one of the best selected stocks to be found anywhere. KANSAS PHARMACEUTICAL ASSOCIATION. The Kansas Association meets next at Atchison, May 24, 25 and 26. The Next Examination by the Kansas Board of Pharmacy will occur at Chanute, March 9. Kansas News. Mr. O. A. Keene, of Topeka, has recently purchased the store of Mr. I. K. Jones. This is Good Enough to Reprint.-Things are getting queer when Kansas farmers buy hand-illumined books; but the other day a man at Emporia, by the name of Meade, sent me one of those things you call a New York draft, and on the back of it was written the following:— Just a haulin' out the stuff Women singin' songs o' glee, Everywhere in Kansas. When the cares o' day is done Farmer wipes his glasses blurred, Then kneels down and thanks the Lord -[Philistine. Chemical Brazing.-In order to render my list of cements a complete one, I must include one that partakes more of the nature of brazing, although it is accomplished without the fire usually considered necessary. It is useful for making small repairs of iron and steel, and will therefore prove useful to most amateurs. In an earthenware, or better still, leaden or guttapercha pot, mix four drams of hydrofluoric acid, two ounces of brass filings and one ounce of steel filings. In about a day the preparation is ready for use. Apply it to the parts to be united by means of a feather or slip of wood and then bring them into contact. Fasten firmly together and in a few hours the work will be found firmly united. A Small Tree.-On the mountain tops of British North America, at an altitude of 2,200 feet, is found a diminutive pine tree only six inches in height, but bearing perfectly developed cones. So says President Brown of Torrey Botanical Club. In the Pharmaceutical Schools 27 per cent of the students, or nearly one-third, are every year dismissed with diplomas. MINNESOTA DEPARTMENT. BY EDWARD SHUMPIK, PH. G., MINNEAPOLIS. Next Examination by Minnesota Board of Pharmacy at State University, April 19. Next Meeting Minnesota Pharmaceutical Association at Lake Minnetonka in 1898. Send all Items of interest to Minnesota pharmacists to Dr. E. Shumpik, 402 Dayton Building, Minneapolis. The Prospect for a large Minnesota contingent to the A. Ph. A. Meeting in Baltimore next August is flattering, as inquiry is already coming in. A Rate-Cutting War is on among the Minneapolis druggists. Many of the principal stores of the city have large decorated signs adorning their store fronts advertising "medicines at cut prices," a la department store style. Verily the profession of pharmacy is tumbling rapidly, and the tumble is being lead by the pillars of pharmacy in the State. Legal Pharmacists.—The following have been granted licenses to practice by the Minnesota Board of Pharmacy at the January meeting: : Alfay M. Pomroy, Ivar Sivertsen, Joseph J. Sarazin, John F. Plehn, Olaf R. Anderson, Christian Jenson, Joseph W. Case, all of Minneapolis; Ella Reierson, Spring Grove; Henry J. Fink, Sanborn; Louis J. Aberwald, St. Paul; Raymond A. Pooler, Austin. The following were granted registration as assistant pharmacists: Axel T. Backdahl, David C. Englund, John O. Larson, William H. Sears, Carl E. Gilbert, Edward M. Bradseth, Olaf E. Hoff, Andrew Hultberg, Frank M. Hickman, John A. Koehler, Bert M. Payne, Karl L. Fieseler. At this meeting the board elected these officers for the ensuing year: President, George H. Goodrich, Anoka; secretary, H. Gordon Webster, Minneapolis. Minnesota Pharmaceutical Association. Officers 1897-8. President, Fred Scott, Stillwater; First Vice-president, H. T. Holverson, Alexandria; Second Vice-president, F. W. Finch, Hastings; Third Vice-president, Miss Josie A. Wanous, Minneapolis; Secretary, Charles T. Heller, St. Paul, Tenth and St. Peter streets; Treasurer, H. W. Rietzke, St. Paul, Selby and Western avenues. Committees : Executive.-John F. Danek, Chairman, Minneapolis; A. T. Hall, St. Paul; A. J. Eokstein, New Ulm. Legislative.-W. A. Frost, Chairman, St. Paul; C. F. Rohde, Spring Valley: L. Trautman, Wabasha; H. G. Webster, Minneapolis; S. W. Melendy, Minneapolis; G. H. Goodrich, Anoka; A. T. Hall, St. Paul; Alex. Richards, Stillwater; E. H. Juergens, Jordan. Arrangements.-Chas. H. Huhn, Chairman, Minneapolis; Ed Shumpik, Minneapolis; Henry Rauch, Minneapolis; J. F. Danek, Minneapolis; Matt Wittich, Minneapolis; F. W. Faber, St. Paul; H. W. Rietzke, St. Paul; Emil Bull, St. Paul; S. H. Reeves, St. Paul; G. A. Schumacher, St. Paul. Membership.-Geo. A. Rose, Chairman, Minneapolis; B. O. Kyseth, Lanesboro; C. A. Robinson, Minneapolis; Martin Molitor, St. Cloud; John Von Rohr, Winona; J. C. Donaldson, Minneapolis; J. G. Kiesel, Shakopee; E. Bull, St. Paul; J. C. Hening, St. Paul. Trade Interest.-Dr. J. W. Harrah, Chairman, Minneapolis; S. H. Reeves, St. Paul; J. F. Danek, Minneapolis; Geo. H. Goodrich, Anoka; J. E. Stiles, Wells; A. O. Slade, Winona. Queries and Papers.-G. A. Schumacher, Chairman, St. Paul; Ray Humiston, Worthington; Matt H. Wittich, Minneapolis; F. W. Halbkat, Northfield; Josie A. Wanous, Minneapolis; E. G. Bassett, Minneapolis. College of Pharmacy.-S. W. Melendy, Chairman, Minneapolis; H. T. King, Stillwater; Henry Rauch, Minneapolis; F. W. Halbkat, Northfield; Sever Westby, St. Paul. Adulterations.-F. J. Wulling, Chairman, Minneapolis; T. W. Blasing, Henderson; Paul Hargesheimer, Rochester; Theodore Stocking, St. Paul. Insurance.-J. R. Swann, Chairman, Madison; John Nielson, Ortonville; H. H. Meyer, Sleepy Eye. National Legislation.-L. Trautman, Chairman, Wabasha; Wm. Gaueswitz, Owatonna; John S. Nelson, Carver. Arbitration.-W. S. Getty, Chairman, St. Paul; A. J. Kline, Minneapolis; George Weber, Rochester. Minnesota News. J. B. Atkinson, Litchfield, has been appointed on the Minnesota Board of Pharmacy, vice L. A. Harding. The Creditors of the Hofflin-Thompson Drug Co. (assigned) have until April 1 in which to file claims. E. H. Arvidson, Minneapolis, has accepted a position with Matt Wittich, Bloom and Twenty-fifth avenues, South. Voegeli Brothers, Minneapolis, have recently made additions to their store and report business on the "boom." Secretary Chas. T. Heller, of the Minnesota Pharmaceutical Association, is still hustling for the good of the profession. The Photograph of Miss Josie Wanous, the only lady pharmacist in Minnesota, recently adorned a page of the Minneapolis Times. H. G. Webster, Minneapolis, Secretary of the Board of Pharmacy, has been confined to the house for several days. Illness the cause. J. C. Vining, of Sauk Rapids, Minn., enjoys the drill of studying pharmaceutical puzzles, as published in the MEYER BROTHERS DRUGGIST. C. H. Cirkler, of the Dayton Building Pharmacy, Minneapolis, has just added an elegant new hot-soda apparatus to his handsome store. Dr. A. A. Ames, who owns two drug stores in Minneapolis, has recently purchased the Joyslin Cigar Store and is renovating same throughout. A New Use for Peanuts.-Peanut butter answers in the place of ordinary butter for table use, and is said to be excellent for shortening purposes, and for gravies, sauces, etc. In point of purity it is superior to the best dairy butter. It is well designed for the use of vegetarians who strenuously object to anything animal. There is already considerable demand for this butter substitute, and it is very probable there will be an enlarged market for the nuts. At present the product of the United States is about 500,000 bags annually and that of the world is 600,000,000 pounds. -[West Coast Trade. Will the Number of women in pharmacy increase when Professor Samuel Schenk's secret of the determination of sex becomes public? LOUISIANA DEPARTMENT. Louisiana Board meets next at New Orleans, February 5. Louisiana Association meets at New Orleans, May 3 and 4, 1898. Stafford Mineral Springs.-Some time ago the Stafford Mineral Springs Company went into the hands of a receiver. It was very much crippled financially and was involved in the American National Bank troubles. Now the concern has discharged the receiver, paid up its debts, and its prospects are bright. The change for the better is due to Mr. Crawford Livingston, a retired millionaire of St. Paul, Minn., whose son went to the Stafford Springs for his health and it benefited him to such an extent that his father became interested, made an investigation, and saw what he considered a fine investment in Stafford Springs. He interested with him Col. Rosine F. Hersey, the lumber king of Minnesota; Theodore Schunie, Dr. Rudolph Schiffman, all wealthy men, and together they bought out, through Mr. Henry Mordecai, the interest held by the bank, and paid all liabilities. The company will be reorganized. Mr. Leon Mordecai and Mr. Henry Mordecai will remain in the company. Louisiana Items. A. E. Baldwin has purchased the store of H. Turpin, corner Washington and Chippewa. L. C. Peres has purchased Doescher's store, corner Bienville and Roman streets, and will run it as a branch, placing his brother in charge. Dr. J. N. Lowery. of Napoleonville, La., has purchased the stock and fixtures of the store corner St. Ann and Royal streets (formerly owned by Castaing and seized for rental by the landlord), and transferred the same to his town, where he will open a new store. Max Samson, after sixteen years of appreciated work in the pharmaceutical department of I. L Lyons & Co.'s drug house, of which department he has been the chief for the past eight years, resigned his position. He regrets severing his pleasant associations with the firm, the members of which, while loth to part with such a faithful and esteemed employe, accepted his resignation, and it is with their best well-wishes and those of all the employes of that establishment that Max Samson starts out on this happy New Year's Day as the proprietor of his own pharmacy. Henceforth, at No. III Camp street, Morris building, he will devote his time, vigor and energy in maintaining the high repute of the house of B. Tuma, the veteran pharmacist, whose business Mr. Samson has purchased. No Man or Woman of the humblest sort can really be strong, gentle and pure and good, without the world being better for it, without somebody being helped and comforted by the very existence of that goodness.-[Phillips Brooks. MEXICAN DEPARTMENT. BY B. F. G. EGELING, PH. G., PH. D., CHIHUAHUA. A New Glass Factory is to be established in Camargo. The Searle & Hereth Co. of Chicago are at present introducing their preparations into the Republic. A Syndicate of Pennsylvania capitalists has obtained a concession from the Government to mine sulphur in Lower California. Cyanide of Potassium is a great favorite with Mexican physicians, it being used very largely in liniments in combination with morphine. Chief Surgeon-General of the Mexican Army, General Escobar, is on a tour of inspection of the military hospitals throughout the Republic. Diarrhoea Cure.-A great favorite as a diarrhoea remedy among the Mexicans is Cocimiento blanco (white decoction). It is a mixture of precipated chalk, phosphate of calcium and gum arabic. It is taken in sweetened water with the addition of a little orange-flower water. Mexican Dexterity.-Mexicans are fond of doing things as awkward as possible. Recently the happy idea struck a prominent druggist of Chihuahua to store his large stock of acids in an attic directly above the store. Last Sunday a carboy of muriatic was accidently broken-and the result may be imagined. Mexican Drug Trade.-Mexico appears to be at present the only country in Central America where the drug business is flourishing. According to reliable advices recently received from Nicaragua and Guatemala, etc., it is there in a very unsatisfactory condition. These constant revolutions are bound to ruin any business in the end. Elegance in Dispensing is something entirely unknown to the average native pharmacist in Mexico. The appearance of bottle and label on a prescription would shock the druggist of most any civilized country. To give an idea it may be mentioned that if syrup of tolu is called for simply a little tincture of the balsam is added to the syrup and the milky mixture dispensed. Mexican Postal Laws.-In a few things the low value of silver cannot be noticed, one, for instance, is the Parcel Post. A pound of merchandise to the limit of eleven pounds will go from any point in Mexico to any point in the United States for 12 cents, Mexican money, the same amount that has to be paid in the opposite direction in American money. A package of eleven pounds to England, France or Germany is cheaper yet, costing only 6 cents, Mexican money, postage. In this case, however, the same rate applies to any weight up to eleven pounds. This latter low rate is a great convenience and saving to Europeans living in this country. The City of Mexico is to have a new sewerage system. The Federal Government has guaranteed a subventure of $40,000,000, Mexican money. It is estimated that it will take twenty years to complete the work. Considering that 200 to 300 deaths from typhus are reported every month in the Capital, it seems a necessity indeed. Ginger Grows Wild abundantly in the southern parts of the Republic and its cultivation should be encouraged. An estimate of the value of the crop may be gleaned from the fact that one acre's yield brings in about $300. A rich soil is necessary, such as black vegetable loams, and it should be well drained, plowed deep and weeded with care, the cultivation being somewhat similar to that of the potato. Vertical Developing Trays.-The Western Druggist brings on page 519 of its November issue the alleged "new invention" of a vertical developing tray. The material (mica) may possibly be new, but I have seen vertical developing trays, made of glass, over six years ago in Monterrey, where they were, and are yet, always kept in stock by Ed Bremer & Co. Whether mica possesses much advantage over glass remains to be seen. Mexican Prescriptions. In the October issue of the Druggists Circular appears an article, "As Directed." The possible evil results of this phrase are largely obviated in Mexico by the custom of most of the physicians to give explicit directions on the back of the prescription, even as to directions, etc. Since the prescriptions are invariably returned to the customers, the same retains a permanent memorandum of the physician's orders. The Tennessee Coal and Iron Company has received a contract to furnish 100,000 tons of coal to Mexican railroads, by way of Vera Cruz. The coal will be hauled from the mines in Alabama to Pensacola, via the L. E. N. R. R.; from there by the Interoceanic Company to Vera Cruz. One important fact in securing the contract was the recent act of Congress in removing the duty imposed on foreign vessels taking on coal at Alabama ports. The contract is regarded as the entering wedge of a mammoth business in a territory heretofore usurped by England. How to Get Even.-It is a fact that by the fall in the value of silver the foreign manufacturers and importers of foreign goods are especially sufferers. But, so far as foreign manufacturers are concerned, this apparent disadvantage could easily be turned into a source of profits by establishing branch factories in Mexico. By following this course they would be in position to produce their wares at a cost much lower than in the States, as they would pay their workmen in silver, whereas in the States they pay them in gold. Besides they would naturally economize the very high duties charged by the Mexican customs house on imported goods, and also save freight expenses, which increase very much the price of goods shipped from distant points in the United States. Curious Damage Suits occur! An American named Catlin was wounded on the head by a falling shutter in the City of Mexico. He tried to go to Geisamon's drug store to have his wound dressed. A policeman noticing the accident took the man to the hospital for treatment. He did not want to remain there, but not speaking Spanish, nobody understood him at the hospital. He was treated there for a couple of days and sent home as soon as his friends were heard from. Now he has sued the city government, the surgeon of the hospital, the chief of police and a few more for not less than $100,000 for unlawful detention! Physicians in Mexico.-Mexico offers a great many chances to competent American physicians. It is remarkable, however, that so many physicians, as well as druggists, seem to think that the Mexicans ought to learn a foreign language just for the purpose to patronize a foreigner. If they find that it is not so, they swear at the Mexicans, say the country is no good and leave! I know of a great many cases of that kind. Any person intending to go to Mexico should before all purchase a book like De Tornos' thoroughly. After that, as a physician, he will be Spanish Grammar, an excellent work, and study this able to converse sufficiently with his patients; as a drug clerk, he can command a good position if properly qualified. The Common Mexican is able to test the patience of the retailer to the utmost limit. He will enter a store and inquire first, whether it is a drug store or not; then, for instance: Hay pildoras? (Do you keep pills for sale)? If you ask him what kind of pills he wants invariably the answer will be: Pildoras para tomar (pills to be taken). It takes three or four more questions to find out what he wants, but then the question of price turns up. If it is a patent pill he will offer you half the price you ask and will barter, offering 2 or 3 cents more at a time until he finally hands the money over. A great many of the better class are not ashamed to offer a dollar for an article that you ask $1.75 for and advance a quarter at a time until they pay at last the price asked. The Mexican Government has entered into a contract with the Western Union Telegraph Company and the Mexican Telegraph (Cable) Company, an American corporation, whereby the communications of this country by wire with the foreign countries are to be concentrated in the federal telegraph system and the systems of the two corporations above mentioned. In other words, the Mexican Government, the Western Union and the Cable Company are to have the exclusive right-the monopoly, in other words of the foreign or international telegraph business of Mexico, to the exclusion of the railway wires and those of any other corporation. This is stated explicitly in Article 26 of the contract. The character of the contract raises an important point which will probably become the subject of protracted litigation until a test case is made of it by a final decision of the Supreme Court. Alcorn, A. B., Missouri City. Holly, D. K., Osceola. Miller, R. T., M. D., Sedalia. Morrison, J. H., M. D., Independence. Orr, Samuel, Lincoln. Hogue, E. M., Sedalia. The Missouri Board of Pharmacy held its regular meeting January 10. Fifty applicants were examined, of which the following passed: A. G. Bauer, W. B. Baker, A. N. Collins, T. F. Currens, P. R. Dickinson, H. E. Sast, Henry Goldman, Ed. E. Gooding, H. A. Huegel, B. Lehmann, F. A. Moeller, C. E. Pierce, C. H. T. Raithel, W. P. Rodemich, J. F. Runde, Hy. Stiegemayer, Wallace H Smith, S. M. Taff, T. M. Vessels, J. M. Ball, G. W. Behrens, F. R. O. Hamel, F. J. Redman. At a special meeting at Springfield, Mo., January II, twelve applicants were examined. The following passed: R. B. Bryan, M. S. Dickson, M. L. Eckert, M. E. Godbey, D. C. Van Matre. The Next Regular Meeting will be held on the second Monday in April at Kansas City, Mo.-[F. W. SENNEWALD, Secretary, 802 Hickory street, St. Louis. Missouri Items. Johnson Brothers are opening up a drug store in Neosho. The Drug Business of W. T. Schooley, deceased, at Harrisonville, will be continued by his widow, Mrs. E. J. Schooley. Mr. W. C. Haman, Ph. G., Cape Girardeau, Mo., learned pharmacy so well while at college of pharmacy that he can read pharmaceutical puzzles at sight. The Question, "Does Soda Water Pay?" is answered in the affirmative by Neosho druggists. As three out of the four stores at that point will put in new and expensive apparatus this season. "Women in Pharmacy" is a subject of great importance to Willie Price, of the firm of Clark & Price, of Neosho. Since the arrival of a fine young lady at his home during the holidays. Present Conditions Indicate that the coming year will be a prosperous one for the druggists of southwest Missouri. Although it is quite likely that many of them can say from recent experience that it does not pay to handle holiday goods. Drug Stores in Joplin do not close on Sunday. When drug clerks have to work sixteen hours a day, including Sunday, and on a very small salary, is it not time that young men were turning their attention to some more inviting field than the study of pharmacy? What to Invent. A handy tool for removing scales from fish. Tool for killing poultry, to take the place of the hatchet. Improved scale for weighing grain, cattle and merchandise. Fastner for shoes, bags, laces, gloves, belts, neckties, corsets, garters, etc. A cheap and substantial two-way hinge for spring doors that open both ways. A slate for school children which can be written on with either slate or lead pencil. A wagon, railway or carriage nut which will not work loose and fall off by accident. An indestructible lamp-wick that will not "crust." Half a billion would be used every year. A register that will indicate to a person upstairs or downstairs the presence of another person on another floor. A clock that will sound an alarm before running down. Of great value to railroads, telegraph offices, observatories, etc. |