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OHIO PH. A.

The thirtieth annual convention of the Ohio State Pharmaceutical Association was held at Cedar Point on Lake Erie, July 7 to 10. Some two hundred and twenty-five druggists and their ladies were in attendance and enjoyed both the business program and the entertainment.

Considerable time was taken up at the business session in the reading and discussion of eleven original papers. Prof. Feil had this program in hand and it proved very interesting. Some three years ago when Prof. Feil took charge of the committee on papers and queries, only two or three papers were submitted by members and this increase is indeed gratifying to the members and particularly the officers who see in this a return to the time when pharmacy was pure science and emerging from the slough in which the pricequestion and ready-made nostrums had cast her. The titles of the papers were as follows:

"Violation of the Pharmacy Law From a Drug Clerk's Point of View," by William F. Kaemmerer, Columbus.

"Some Experiments in Making Tincture of Opium U. S. P. VIII," by William T. Hankey, Cleveland.

"The Real and the Imitation," by L. W. Witte, Cleveland. "An Ingenious Adulteration of Red Aniline," by George D. Beal, "Some Points in the Assay of Laudanum for Beginners," by George D. Beal.

"Quality of Drugs Dispensed by Physicians," by Prof. J. H. Beal. "Remarks on the Pharmacy Law," by C. S. Ashbrook, Mansfield, O.

"Coloring with Cudbear," by George M. Towle, Sardis, O. "Compound Solution of Sodium Phosphate," by George M. Towle."

"Powdered Gum Tragacanth" by Prof. Joseph Feil. "Tincture of Iodine," by Theo. D. Wetterstroem.

The Food and Dairy Commissioner, Hon. R. W. Dunlap, addressed the convention and explained the working of the new food and drug law which went into effect on the first of July. He intended to go slow in prosecuting under the misbranding clause affecting such patent medicines now on the druggists' shelves and would lend every assistance in getting the necessary information of the alcoholic content or other ingredient required to be stated of such proprietary medicines the firm or manufacturer of which has gone out of business; but with preparations that the druggists make themselves under private formulas he will expect at once these druggists label all new goods going into the market from now on. He welcomed the druggists to call upon him or write him and he would do his best to assist them in complying with the law.

The association approved the sentiments expressed in the president's address concerning the better organization of the drug clerks; the early and Sunday closing movement; the U. S. P. and N. F. propaganda; improvement in legislation which will more perfectly exclude the imperfectly educated from the practice of pharmacy, and the revocation of the certificates of registration of druggists who violate the pharmacy and liquor laws; such modifications of the Valentine Anti-Trust law as will permit reasonable contracts for

the regulation of the retail trade; such changes in the pharmacy law as will enable that measure to be more perfectly and more effectively enforced; and to issue a bulletin to the druggists of Ohio at intervals showing what is being done for the welfare in both the legislature and in trade conditions.

The election of officers resulted as follows:
President, T. B. Houston, Toledo, Ohio; First Vice-presi-

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dent, J. O. Connor, Urbana, Ohio;
Second Vice-President, Charles L.
Perry, Peebles, Ohio; Treasurer,
John H. VonStein, Upper San-
dusky, Ohio; Secretary, Theo. D.
Wetterstroem, Cincinnati, Ohio.
Members to Council-H. V. Arny,
Cleveland, Ohio; Lewis A. Biehl,
Sandusky, Ohio; George B. Kauff-
man, Columbus, Ohio; John C.
Firmin, Findlay, Ohio; Edward
Voss, Cincinnati, Ohio.

The following delegates were elected to attend the convention of the A. Ph. A. at Hot Springs, September 7 to 10:

J. Winchell Forbes, Cincinnati; W. O. Lemasters, Akron; C. W. Benfield, Cleveland; L. A. Biehl, Sandusky; F. H. Frost, Lebanon. List of names suggested by our association for appointment on board of pharmacy, the governor to select one:

Edward Voss Jr., Cincinnati; F. L. Fickardt, Circleville; Julius Greyer, Cincinnati; Robert Groenland, Cincinnati; J. A. Kutchbauch, Cincinnati.

Fifty-six new members were added to the O. S. P. A. roll.

The entertainment this year was under the guidance of the Traveling Men's Auxiliary and it was given on such a grand scale that the newly elected officers of the Traveling Men will have to do some pretty active stunts to come up to their initial entertainment. A reception and euchre on Tuesday evening was followed the next day with contests in bowling, boating, athletic and acrobatic bouts and prizes galore. Fishing contests at break of day found the pill rollers with their oil of rhodium scented bait enticing the finny tribe from their piscatorial haunts. Theater parties, a Kommers, a grand ball and a sail on old Lake Erie touching the shores of the vine covered islands, a dip in the lake, a run on the finest beach in the world, made one forget the cares of druggery and all combined to make the 1908 meet pass down into history as the best ever.

The newly elected officers of the Traveling Men's Auxiliary are as follows:

President, George M. Schambs, Cleveland, Ohio; First Vicepresident, Charles Diehl, Cincinnati, Ohio; Second Vice-president, J. C. Wolfinger, Canton, Ohio; Third Vice-president, C. Anschutz, Cleveland, Ohio; Fourth Vice-president, A. J.

Schwartz, Cincinnati, Ohio; Secretary, F. W. C. Diebel, Toledo, Ohio; Treasurer, A. J. Pettit, Elkhart, Ind. New members of

Council-Frank Bauer, Columbus, Ohio; A. J. Burdsal, Cincinnati, Ohio; R. H. Loomis, Racine, Wis.

Twenty-five new members were taken in by the Travelers.

Next meeting will be held in Cedar Point, Ohio, July 13-16, 1909.

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NECROLOGY.

W. A. Saylor, died at his home in Greenfield, Ill., June 30. He was engaged in the drug business at that place for more than thirty years.

Ed. Conner, died at his home in Springfield, July 3, after six months' illness. He had been a representative of Fuller & Fuller Co., for twenty-five years.

Henry N. Jansen, Ph. G., '03, died suddenly of heart failure at his home in St. Louis, June 25. He was 23 years of age. Mr. Jansen was an unmarried young man, who had opened a drug store on his own account, October, 1907. He leaves a mother, two sisters and one brother.

John S. Bogy, of San Antonio, Tex., died of apoplexy, July 9. He was thirty-eight years of age and a graduate of the St. Louis College of Pharmacy, a native of St. Genevieve, Mo., and a son of the late Judge John Louis Bogy, of St. Genevieve. He was also a relative of Senator V. Bogy, of Missouri.

Introduced Chloral Hydrate as a Therapeutic Agent.-Prof. Oskar Liebreich died in a private hospital near Berlin, July 1, in his seventieth year. He was born in East Prussia and prepared for the navy but changed his intention and studied chemistry under Fresenius. He then graduated in medicine at Berlin and became director of the Pharmacological Institute of Berlin in 1872, which position he held until within a few months of his death. It was he who introduced in 1872 chloral hydrate as a therapeutic agent. C. J. Hennemann, Ph. G., '06, died at his home in St. Louis, June, 21. Mr. Hennemann was taken ill with tuberculosis about one year ago, and went West for his health. Disappointed by a failure to improve, he returned to St. Louis and lived but a few weeks. Mr. Hennemann was married about two years ago. His wife survives him.

C. J. HENNEMANN.

J. W. Dornseif, of Worden, Ill., died, June 14.

Thomas Lord, of Chicago, died June 26, at the home of his daughter, Mrs. Abrams, in Louisville. Mr. Lord reached the advanced age of eighty-four years and during his life became known as a pioneer in matters of organization among wholesale druggists of the United States. He was vice-president of the Western W. D. A. in 1876. He was first vice-president the following year and president in 1878. He was for a number of years chairman of the Committee on Proprietary Goods. At the time of his death, he was an honorary member of the N. W. D. A. which was an outgrowth or rather a development of the Western N. W. D. A. He was also an honorary member of the Chicago Veteran Druggists' Association. Mr. Lord was

born at Newark, N. J., February 9, 1824. He came from sturdy New England stock, dating back early in the seventeenth century. His mother traced her ancestors back to William, the Conquerer. He began the drug business at Bridgeport, Conn., when fifteen years of age. He went to Chicago in 1857 and soon became a prominent business man of that place. Mr. Lord was also active in the Presbyterian church.

Adam Marion Fulkerson died at his home in Kansas City, June 25. He was born in Ohio County, Ky., July 17, 1843, and came to Missouri in 1855. He enlisted in the Confederate Army in 1861, and after the war entered the drug business at Clinton, Mo., where he continued from 1867 to 1892. His successor at this point was Pechstein & Hubble. Mr. Fulkerson took part in the organization of the Missouri Pharmaceutical Association at Sedalia in 1879, and was one of the four surviving organizers who have continued as members. He is survived by a wife and two sons, one of the sons, Henry Fulkerson, is proprietor of the pharmacy at 219 Indiana Avenue, Kansas City, Mo.

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A. M. FULKERSON.

Dr. Augustus T. Edmonds, died at his home in

DR. A. T. EDMONDS.

Miami, Mo., July 7, after a year's illness with Bright's Disease. He was born in Lancaster County, Va., September 10, 1844, and was of Welsh decent. His father was a physician and the young man early studied medicine. He was a member of the ninth Virginia C. S. A. He located in Miami in 1869 as a drug clerk for Dr. M. A. Brown. He became a partner of the doctor's successor, Dr. J. N. Dunlap. He then purchased his partner's interest and was associated for twenty-five years in the practice of medicine with Dr. H. D. Grady. He is survived by a widow and two of five children. Dr. Edmonds helped organize the Missouri Pharmaceutical Association in 1879. He was a member of the board of pharmacy during the administrations of Governors Francis, Stone and Stephens. He was a member of the committee which drafted the original Missouri Pharmacy Law. He was successful as a physician, interested in politics and active in educational matters. The doctor was a Mason and a member of the M. E. Church South.

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MISSOURI PHARMACEUTICAL ASSOCIATION AFTERMATH.

Interest in The Pertle Springs Meeting of 1908 Continues.

The Committee on Time and Place of 1909 Meeting Hearing From all Sections of the State. Chairman Francis Hemm Says That the Addition of New Members is the Main Consideration.

Expressions From Some of Those Who Were at Pertle Springs Last June. The Missouri Pharmaceutical Travelers' Association Will go Wherever the Retailers Meet.

Proceedings of the 1908 Meeting Published Early in July and Distributed to all Who Have Paid Their Dues For the Current Year. Appointment on the Missouri Board of Pharmacy Not as Yet Announced. Charles Gietner is the Only Candidate Mentioned. The Mo. Ph. A. to be Well Represented at the September Meetings of the A. Ph. A. and the N. A. R. D.

Pertle Springs Items.

hotel at Lake Park Springs. Then, we shall invite the Missouri Pharmaceutical Association and be pre

To Register in Missouri costs $1.00 provided your di- pared to take care of them. ploma is recognized.

Perry Cargill, formerly of Big Rapids, Mich., is now located at Kalamazoo, Mich.

J. W. Clifton, a member of the Mo. Ph. A., formerly of St. Louis, is now located at Versailles, Mo.

Will Report Next Year at Pertle Springs for the Mo. Ph. A. meeting, so says Albert H. Koch, Ph. D., of St. Louis, Mo.

A. J. Hoenny, Ph. G., of St. Louis, has decided to become a life member of the Missouri Pharmaceutical Association.

August Heinrich Peter Bohning, of Corning, Mo., was a new factor at the 1908 meeting. He promises to be equally active in 1909.

Henry J. Stolle in Wagner's School couldn't speak his piece on account of his hair lip and wouldn't come farther than the schoolhouse.

Henry C. Wesner, proprietor of the Missouri Pharmacy at Windsor, Mo., is among those who were missed at the Pertle Springs meeting.

R. L. Hope, of Centralia, an ex-president of the Missouri Pharmaceutical Association, has decided to become a life member of that organization.

The Only Reason Billie Poinsett (Mgr. Wm. R. Warner & Co. K. C.) did not fall in the "lake" was that he couldn't get to Pertle Springs this year

If You Want a Copy of the Missouri Pharmacy Law send to Charles Gietner, secretary of the Board of Pharmacy, 203 South Broadway, St. Louis.

Edward Mallinckrodt, president of the Mallinckrodt Chemical Works, St. Louis, is one of the recently made life members of the Missouri Pharmaceutical Association.

Between Jollying and Visiting with the "bunch" and playing nurse to the "papoose," Coon had hard time to get shaved and his beard was longer than usual this year.

W. T. Ballagh, Nevada.-We are going to build a

We Understand that "Georgia Parsons" being "shut off" at Dan's Place cried real salty tears until even Billy Lamont's lump came up in his throat, and Liddy and Hunter were stung to pity and removed the Lid.

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Mr. and Mrs. C. M. Coon, and Family were very popular. This is a good picture of "the family."

Dr. J. L. Ormsbee, of Springfield, missed the Pertle Springs meeting on account of being actively engaged in medical organization work. We hope the doctor will not entirely forget his pharmaceutical obligations.

Did You Notice what a smile would lighten up the faces of the "real old time members" when a friend in greeting them would say, "I never saw you looking so well, why you are looking younger than you did ten years ago."

F. C. Whitman of this city won the McCourt Label Cabinet containing 30,000 labels, presented by J. Frank Groman, southwestern manager of Atoha, Oklahoma. It was given for guessing the nearest number of labels on a roll containing 300 labels. Mr. Whitman's guess was 327. The award was made by three lady judges, wives of traveling men.

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Missouri Pharmaceutical Travelers' Association, Pertle Springs, June 11, 1908.

WHERE IN 1909?

Clarence M. Stair, St. Joseph, Mo.-I was very favorably impressed with the Pertle Springs meeting and pronounce it a great success. As to location for 1909 I think

The Missouri Pharmaceutical Association Looking it a good plan to change place of meeting to a different for an Invitation.

H. J. Nie, Kansas City, Mo.-Regarding the 1909 meeting will say that personally it is immaterial to me where it is held, as I hope to be present wherever it may go. But for the benefit of the association I think the location should be changed every year. Why not try Trenton in 1909? They are anxious for us and believe they will treat every one right.

C. M. Coon, Kansas City, Mo.-Our meeting this year seemed to me exceptionally enjoyable, and while attendance was perhaps not as large as should be, yet, everybody I have talked with speaks of having a good time at our "family gathering." As to the meeting place for next year, "I care not where the stars do shine" as long as the "good old bunch" are there.

J. F. Llewellyn, Mexico, Mo.-I was pleased to see the salesmen enjoy themselves so well at the Pertle Springs meeting. They are all jolly good fellows, quiet, orderly and perfect gentlemen. They fully deserved the best we had at the meeting. I noticed that some of the members who are acquainted with my two sons referred to me as "old man Llewellyn." This was the only foolish thing I noticed during the meeting.

J. F. Llewellyn, Mexico.-The last meeting of the Mo. Ph. A., was one of the pleasantest. In place of rain we had a down pour of eloquence and fun. May he live long to "cheer us on the way."

For the 1909 meeting tell the committee of the snake that wired in and wired out, leaving the mind in doubt if he was going north (south) or coming back. We all know they will be as "wise as serpents and as harmless as doves."

J. H. Baer, Boonville, Mo.-I had a very pleasant time at the Pertle Springs meeting. I think Pertle an ideal place to hold our meetings and for selfish reasons I would be glad to continue going to that place; however, I feel that to make the meetings more successful, it will be necessary to make a change in our meeting place. What we want is a larger attendance and if by changing our place of meeting will enable us to get a larger membership and work up a little more enthusiasm, then by all means let us have the change.

D. R. Dunavan, Kansas City, Mo.-In reply to your letter of the 26th, regarding my impression of the recent meeting of Mo. Ph. Travelers' Association held at Pertle Springs, Mo., during the meeting of the Mo. Ph. Association, would state that I believe it was the best ever, and I for one, had the best time I ever had at any meeting I ever attended. I sincerely trust that in selecting a meeting place for 1909, that the committee will bear in mind that a location where the "Pertle Springs happy family" can be together, will be appreciated.

part of the state each year thus giving members an opportunity to visit their own state in the different locations and also give them a weeks outing and general holiday in new surroundings, I think it would be appreciated more than to go back to the same place they have been for years. If there is a suitable park or grounds I would suggest Jefferson City as a good place as it is centrally located and will also give those who have never been there an opportunity of visiting the State Capitol.

Fred R. Dimmitt, Kansas City.-The following are the only original members (organizers) now alive: A. W. Rogers, Urich, Henry Co., Mo. P. H. Franklin, Marshall, Mo.

Dr. A. R. Edmonds, Miami. (Died since this letter was written, Editor.)

Fred R. Dimmitt, Kansas City.

B. F. Dimmitt, Rochport, was not present, but his name and a number of others were presented and they were elected Charter members.

S. N. Mahan, Malta Bend, was one of original members; he died April, 1906.

A. M. Fulkerson, was an original member, but dropped out a number of years since. He died here the twenty-fourth after an operation for appendicitis. Dr. A. R. Edmonds was president in 1881-82, and vice-president 1882-83.

P. H. Franklin was treasurer 1879-82.

Fred R. Dimmitt was secretary 1879-80, and second vice-president 1885-86.

A. S. Ludwig, St. Louis, Mo.-I dare say that a change of place will do us and the association good. I would suggest we go to Excelsior Springs or some other quiet place off to itself, with no outside attractions, in order to keep the boys together. Of course, hotel accommodations must always be taken into consideration. I would suggest we give the Mo. Ph. T. A. a voice in selecting a place. They furnish most of the amusements and refreshments, and without same I venture to say the convention would not be a success socially, financially or scientifically. The amusement and social features, no doubt, draw nine-tenths of us to the convention; success lies in attendance; the larger the attendance the larger the success. The scientific part is very essential and indispensable, but, after all is said, we go to a convention to have a good time. I know I would not go unless there was a good time in sight-no doubt there are a good many in this same boat with me. I am always a good and willing listener when the scientific points are discussed. I am yours for success of the Mo. Ph. A.

M. E. Beymer, Kansas City, Mo.-The great train roared and grumbled as it reluctantly stopped, in its hasty flight across the state, at Warrensburg; and we all, druggists and traveling men, piled out in eager

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