ST. LOUIS LOCALS.

How They Spent Their Vacations.-The heads of the various departments of the Meyer Brothers Drug Co. spent their 1908 summer vacation as follows. A. Fohrell-A trip through Yellowstone Park. C. E. Cochrane-Arcadia, Ironton and vicinity. A. J. Mitchell-Lake Mistassini, Ont. (fishing). Geo. Steininger-Big Piney (floating and fished). John Barron-Big Piney (floating and fished). John Mason-Maine.

E. J. Schall-New York City.

J. J. Redmond-Kawville and Mississippi River.

Henry Boardman-Big Piney (floated and fished).

Theodore F. Meyer-The Wilds of Wisconsin, automobile tour. William Graham-Washington, New York and Eastern Watering places.

C. A. Iorns-The back woods of Indiana.

Louis Wiegert-Wedding trip.

E. Habegger-Eastern resorts.

Frank Amlar-Michigan Lakes.

E. Mitchell-Kenwood Springs.

S. B. Simpson-Gasconade.

C. W. Wall and family-Main and Eastern resorts.

George T. Meyer-South Haven, Mich.

G. F. Galbraith-Fishing resorts.

Charles Goessler has returned after a few weeks' trip to Canton and the Ozark Mountains, where he put in his time fishing.

Dr. Porter E. Williams, superintendent of the Fulton Insane Asylum, was in the city attending the Democratic state meeting.

Leonard Reif returned from his home, Ft. Leavenworth, Kan., and is now a junior student at the St. Louis College of Pharmacy.

J. H. Popp spent a week at Kampsville, Ill., fishing and reports fishing good. He brought home enough fish for about fifteen families.

C. V. Coeln, president of the C. V. Coeln Drug Co., is still very active, considering his age and puts in much of his time at this store.

F. W. Klemme reports business all right.

Dr. C. W. Gaertner, a graduate

of 1904, is now interne at the City Hospital.

Harry Seversen and wife, with congenial company, spent three

and

J. P. Methudy has returned from a three days' fishing trip to Hardin, Ill.

F. L. Schneider, with the Maplewood Pharmacy, reports business very good.

C. H. Koenecke, of the Benton Drug Store, says that business is increasing right along.

C. M. Echols, who has been seven years with C. H. Koenecke, is now with Henry Griesbach.

J. W. Peeler is spending a week at his old home at Fayette, Mo., and expects to do a lot of fishing. A. N. Soellner, formerly doing relief work, is now permanently located as druggist at the Female Hospital.

A. N. SOELLNER

B. H. Pluempe, of North Broadway, always brings home lots of fish on his weekly fishing trips.

Mars & Lautz, Kirkwood, Mo., report business in a healthy condition.

A. P. Fedder, with H. Osdieck, Kirkwood, Mo., reports business very good. Soda business has dropped off, but general business is booming. G. W. Eschenbrenner, formerly with E. A. Sennewald & Co., is now with the Pockel's Drug, Glass & Paint Co.

A. J. Jungbluth has resigned his position with the Pockels Drug, Paint & Glass Co., is now doing relief work.

E. A. Hill, formerly doing relief work, is now permanently located with Pfeffer's drug store at Chippewa Street.

only went fishing but caught fish and brought home 136 pounds of bass. Mrs. Severson caught the first fish and also the largest one.

John Heller is back in business after having an operation performed on his eye.

F. W. KLEMME.

The Two Sisters' Union Pharmacy is located at the corner of Franklin Avenue and High Street, St. Louis. The members of the firm are the Misses B. P. and M. B. Coussens.

J. Brellock, with W. D. Temm. North Grand Ave., will open his new store at Osage Street and South Grand Avenue, in the near future.

Charles W. Stockhausen, after trying for the last five years to have Thirteenth Street made, has finally succeeded in having the street paved.

E. F. Liebe, had charge of L. A. Seitz' store while Mr. Seitz attended the meeting of the N. A. R. D., at Atlantic City.

F. J. Kring, Center Pharmacy, has sold out to Dr. A. P. Jacoby, formerly prescription clerk for Albert Nay.

Arnold J. Roemmich, lately with the Enderle Drug Co., is now with E. P. Angermueller.

C. Rohlfing, formerly with the Cosmopolitan Pharmacy, is now manager and prescription clerk at Dr. Rohlfing's store, Hogan Street and Cass Avenue.

E. F. LIEBE.

C. H. Kalbfleisch, manager and prescription clerk at the Jefferson Barracks Drug Store, on account of his health, is spending three or four weeks at the eastern resorts.

Mr. Smarr, of Maplewood, will be in his new store, at Sutton and Manchester Avenues, by the first of November.

J. A. Hougdon, manager of the Empire Pharmacy Co., Webster Groves, Mo., reports that since the store was opened, four months ago, business has increased and improved right along, and the company is well satisfied with the

C. H. KALBFLEISCH.

store.

Ambrose Mueller reports that since he has taken back the store at Old Orchard, his business has improved and he is well satisfied with it.

A. P. Bentz reports business good and expects it to be still better as soon as the car shops resume work which he thinks will be within a week or so.

Geo. Jost, Cherokee Street and California Avenue, is well satisfied with his business the short time he has been there.

O. F. Bausch, the popular salesman of Meyer Brothers Drug Co., in the southern part of the city, has returned from a week's vacation, spent at Cedar, Mo.

J. A. Cordes, prescription clerk for the Smith-Otto Drug Co., South Broadway, spent a few days last month, at Peoria, Ill.

GEO. JOST.

Dr. C. G. C. Ahlbrandt has removed his store from Fourteenth and Carr Streets, where he has been for twenty years, to Fourteenth and Monroe Streets. A. W. Pauley, the popular druggist of North Grand Avenue, spent three weeks' with his family at Yellowstone Park, the past month. He says he has never seen anything like it and he enjoyed the trip very much.

A. W. PAULEY.

L. J. Schroeter, 2201 Cherokee Street, says business is good and that the financial panic did not have any effect upon his trade.

F. E. Reber, prescription clerk for G. W. Sieving, reports business good and is

glad to be back in the retail trade.

J. B. Seiler, formerly with H. A. Temm & Sons, Nineteenth Street and Franklin Avenue, is now permanetly located with E. A. Sennewald & Co., Eighth and Hickory Streets.

Dr. J. Frey, prescription clerk for J. H. Westman, is laid up with a broken ankle resulting from making a home run in one of the games of the Druggists' Base Ball League.

The Drug Store of Dr. Charles Herbert, Park and Jefferson Avenues, was broken into on Sunday, September 19. The burglars gained entrance by breaking through the transom. They made away with about $30.00 out of the cash drawer. The clerk, A. H. Emig, who sleeps in the store, was aroused and as the burglars tried to open the safe fired a shot at them.

A. H. EMIG.

L. Roepky, who was with Dr. Julius Weinsberg for six years, is now managing the store for C. J. and C. E. Krummenacher, at Tenth Street and Lafayette Avenue, and reports business good.

Fred R. Scharlach, Ph. G., is now located at 7 South

Fourth Street, as a representative of Taylor Brothers Co. Mr. Scharlach has been in poor health for a few years past and was obliged to resign his position with the J. S. Merrell Drug Co, in order to secure a greater amount of out-door life. Mr. Scharlach has been with that firm as salesman and manager of the Sales Department for nineteen years, and is exceedingly popular with the trade.

FRED R. SCHARLACH.

MARKET REVIEW.

Whilst politics "waxeth hot" the agitation seems to be confined to politicians and not to the business community of the country, in fact, traveling representatives of St. Louis houses report that there is less politics talked by business men than they have ever known in a presidential campaign.

This is a healthy indication and there are many others, there are fewer idle cars, and bank clearings are comparatively larger than earlier in the year, money is easier, orders are more numerous and the drug trade in particular are buying in larger quantities than was the case six months ago.

It is hardly to be expected that a complete resumption of activity will be noted this year, at the same time there is gradual improvement and that satisfactory conditions will prevail within the coming six months is firmly and generally predicted.

The chief changes in value since our last issue are covered by a material recession in opium, declines on copaiba, strychnine, guarana, sugar milk, quinine and bottles; advances in glycerin, malaga olive oil, mercury and menthol.

We append a list of items affected since our last issue, together with the prices ruling in the local market.

Oil, Bay,

Quinine.

Oil, Castor, Frigeron, Gaultheria, Lemon,

Linseed,

Orange,

Pennyroyal,

Peppermint,

Opium,

Quinine,

Shellac,

Strychnine,

Sugar Milk,

Wax, Carnauba.

Declined lc since our last issue, and there is no news on which to base a prediction of an advance; P. & W. on the basis of 100 oz. cans 16c; M. B., 15c; 25-oz. cans, 18c; 5-oz. cans, 22c; 1-oz. vials, 27c. Opium.-Materially lower values are noted, and weakness even at the lower level is reported; orders are scarce, due undoubtedly to a diminuition in consumption, arrested by legislation that restricts sales of this commodity, and its derivatives quotable at $4.90; Powd. M. B., $5.81; Powd. P. & W., $7.20.

Morphine.-Unchanged; -oz. vials in 24 oz. boxes, $3.20; oz. vials, 20c per oz. less.

Alcohol, Grain, 188°.—Quotably unchanged; bbls., $2.79; -bbls., $2.82; 10-gal. cans, $2.99; 5-gal. cans, $3.03, containers inclusive, with the usual allowance of 10c per gallon for cash in 10 days.

U. S. P., 190°, is offered at an advance of 5c over the above.

Denatured.-Quotably unchanged; bbls.,50c; 4-bbls., 54c; 4-gal. cans, 72c, containers inclusive.

Wood, 95°,-Unchanged; bbls., 50c; 4-bbls., 54c; 10gal. cans, 64c; 5-gal. cans, 69c, containers inclusive. Acetphenetidin.—Quotably lower; $1.00 to $1.25 as

to quantity.

Acid, Oxalic.-Advanced; quotable in casks, 7c; bbls., 8 to 12 to 14c in a small way.

Stearic.-Declined to 20 to 26c, as to quantity. Agaric, White.-Declined to 35c. Arsenic.-Quotably lower; kegs, 5 to 10 to 12c in a small way.

Beans, Tonka Angustura.-Advanced to $2.40 to $2.55.

Beetles, Chinese.-Declined to 55 to 60c; powd., 60 to 65c.

Buds, Cassia.-Advanced to 40 to 45c. Cantharides, Russian.-Declined to 95c to $1.05; powd., 5c higher.

Cocoa Butter.-Declined to 45 to 50c.

Colocynth Apples.-Advanced to 45c.
Copaiba, Para.-Declined to 95c to $1.00.
Gambir.-Advanced to 11 to 15c, as to quantity.
Glucose.-Advanced; bbls., 38 to 7 to 10c in a small

way.

Glycerin.-Advanced; quotable in 50-lb. cans at 16c. Guarana. Declined to $3.25; powd. 10c higher. Iron by Hydrogen, Gray, 80 to 85%.-Advanced to 50c; 90% U. S. P., 55c.

Kamala, Powder.-Advanced to $1.85.

Leaves, Matico.-Declined to 35c; powd., 40c.

Lithium, Carbonate.-Declined to 50 to 80c, as to quantity.

Manna.-Advanced to 85 to 90c.

Matricaria.-Advanced to 46 to 48c; loose in 1-1b. cartons, 49 to 51c.

Menthol.-Advanced to $2.45 to $3.00, as to quan

tity.

Mercury.-Advanced; quotable in flasks at 66 to 76 to 80c as wanted.

Oil, Anise.-Advanced to $1.60 to $1.65.
Bay. Declined to $2.90.

Cajeput.-Advanced to 90c.

Castor. Declined; quotable in bbls. at 90c; bbls., 92c; 5-gal. cases, 96c.

Cinnamon, Cassia.-Advanced to $1.80 to $2.05.
Erigeron.-Declined to $2.25.

Gaultheria.-Declined to $4.00 to $4.25.

Lemon, M. B., Reina.—Declined to $1.25; Sanderson's, $1.65.

Linseed. Declined; raw, quotable in bbls., 41c; boiled, 42c.

Olive, Malaga.-Materially higher; yellow, bbls., $1.12 to $1.32 to $1.40, in a small way; green, bbls., 92c to $1.17 to $1.25.

Orange, Sweet Reina, M. B.-Declined to $2.50; Sanderson's, $3.15.

Pennyroyal.-Declined to $2.50 so $2.75.
Peppermint.-Declined to $1.75 to $2.00.
Wormwood.-Advanced to $5.90 to $6.15.

Root, Ipecac, Carthagena.-Advanced to $2.00 to $2.20; powd., 10c higher; Rio, $2.15 to $2.35; powd., 10c higher.

Jalap.-Advanced to 35 to 38c; powd., 2c higher, Seed, Rape, English.-Advanced; bags, 7 to 10 to to 12c in a small way.

Shellac.-Declined; V.S.O., case lots, 514 to 62 to 64c; Double Triangle G, case 35 to 47c; T. N. Tough, 29 to 40c; T. N. Bright, 30 to 41c; bleached, bbls., 29 to 45c; ground, bbls., 35 to 50c.

Strychnine. Declined 5c; alkaloid crystals quotable at $1.35; is powd., $1.30; sulphate crystal or powd., in is, $1.30.

Sugar Milk.-Declined; bbls., 124 to 18 to 21c. Wax, Carnauba.-Declined; No. 1, 35 to 45c; No. 2, 30 to 40c.

Glassware.-Bottle factories are now in full blast and there has been a recession in quotable figures: Pearl ovals, quotable in case lots, 75 and 5%; 5-case lots, 75 and 10%; 25-case lots, 75, 10 and 5%. Baltitimore ovals, brandy finish, 75, 10 and 5%; 5-case lots, 80%; 25-case lots, 80 and 5%. Comet ovals, 80 and 20%; 25-case lots, 85 and 10%; 50-case lots, 85 and 20%.

ST. LOUIS LOCALS.

St. Louis Druggists Handle Gasolin without paying extra insurance. In Chicago and some other places those who handle gasolin in larger quantity than one gallon pay twenty five cents per hundred extra on insurance. In St. Louis any amount of gasolin may be kept on the premises outside of the regular store building under the usual permit from the city of St. Louis without paying extra insurance on the stock of goods.

E. A. Ridgely will open a new drug store at Thirteenth Street and St. Clair Avenue, East St. Louis, placing J. Self in charge.

Geo. Klinge, former manager of Enderle Drug Co.'s Broadway store, has opened a new store in his home town Hermann, Mo.

Ray Northcutt bought the Glenn Drug Co.'s store at Jefferson and Washington Avenues, and rechristened it the Coliseum Pharmacy.

Ralph Valentine has purchased the store of Ed. Roberts, East St. Louis. Mr. Roberts will devote his entire time to Roberts' Horse Remedies.

Ralph Hopkins is now making pills for M. J. Schoenrich, Eighteenth Street and Chouteau Avenue. After six months road experience in selling pills, he concluded it were easier to make them and accordingly returned to the ranks of the pill rollers.

Arthur Kalkmann, Ph. G., of Enderle's pharmacy, Sixth and Chestnut Streets, is Treasurer of the St. Louis Drug Clerks' Society, 1908-09. He looks carefully after the financial interest of the organization.

NECROLOGY.

Frank A. Davidson, president and treasurer of the Theodore Metcalf Co., died of apoplexy, August 28. He was born in Lawrence, July 12, 1853. He was connected with the Theodore Metcalf Company for twenty years and was president for the past fifteen years. His first experience in the drug business was with S. A. D. Sheppard, treasurer of the A. Ph, A. He was a prominent Mason and popular with all who knew him. He is survived by a widow and two children.

Louis, September, 22. He was born in Hillsboro, Mo., in 1857, but had resided in St. Louis since three years of age. His father was for a generation a prominent pharmacist in North St. Louis. Dr. Treutler graduated at the St. Louis College of Pharmacy in 1876. He then studied medicine and graduated at the St. Louis College of Physicians and Surgeons, where he became a teacher. When the Marion-Simms Medical College was organized, he became professor of chemistry and also lectured on materia medica. He is survived by a widow and a son. At the funeral, the class were represented by a special committee. The following were

tions.

Richard Schweickhardt, Ph. G., died at Dallas, Tex., July 3. He was graduated from the St. Louis College of Pharmacy in 1883, having served as an apprentice at the pharmacy of A. A. Mellier, on Washington Avenue. After clerking in the city for a few years, he went to Dallas and established a drug business with Alb. de Lorenzi. In a few years he sold his interest and came to St. Louis where, with his brother, he purchased a drug store at Twenty-eighth and Olive Streets, and the business has continued under the name of R. & F. Schweickhardt. Mr. Schweickhardt was not only a thorough pharmacist, but a practical business man and also interested in educational matters. He was for a time acting consul for Mexico, at St. Louis.

George William Voss, of Cincinnati, died at Paris, France, August 19, 1908, from an accident which occurred while alighting from a carriage. Mr. Voss only recently sold his retail store at Cleveland, O. where he had been in business for many years. He was a prominent member of the A. Ph. A. and, in company with his family, attended the annual meetings with great regularity. Mr. Voss gave up the drug business to devote his time to conducting tours to Europe. He was very successful in this line. He was born in Cincinnati, October 10, 1852, and started to learn the drug business at Dayton, in 1863. The remains were brought to Cleveland for burial.

GEORGE WILLIAM VOSS.

macy in 1876:
Brandaw, Gust
Brandt, Jr., H.
Guhman, N.
Harnisch, H.

Hunstock, Robert H. B.
Washington, John N.
Westmann, F. H.

Nake, P. M. Riesmeyer, L. Schmidt, Flor. C. Schwarz, Henry Haltwasser, A. Ludeking, Chas.

L. Meyers Connor, Ph. G., of Dallas, Tex., died in a sanatorium at Fort Worth, August 28. He was born at Corinth, Miss., October 7, 1854. He was graduated from the St. Louis College of Pharmacy in 1874. He located in Dallas about 1876 and engaged in the drug business under the firm name of Conner & Walker. Later, he continued in business on his own account. He gave particular attention to chemistry and graduated in law in order to be better prepared as expert witness in poison cases. He was the first chemist for the city of Dallas and drew the ordinance creating the office. He was chemist for several munufacturing firms of the city. He was dean of the Dallas Medical College and professor of pharmacy and chemistry at the time of his death. He is survived by a widow and three children.

The druggists of Dallas adopted the following resolutions:

"As in many groups they were busied in divers occupations, some in games and others in work, the Master opened the door and with a smile beckoned to the leader of the busiest group, who, laying down his tools, went within, and the doors shut behind him. His comrades waited for him, and finding that he came not, realized that that was death.'"

"Centuries ago a pagan philospher used this illustration of what we call death, and it is certainly an apt illustration of our brother pharmacist's, Dr. L. Meyers Conner, active career and sudden departure."

After further tribute to the deceased, sympathy for the family in their great loss was expressed.

The resolutions were signed by W. S. Kirby, J. L. Williams, J. T. Buckingham, W. N. Craig and many others.

To Keep off Mosquitoes, the advice of one who has tried it (according to Health) is to throw a piece of alum, about the size of a marble, into a bowl of water, and wet the face and hands and any exposed part lightly with it. Not a mosquito will, is is asserted, approach you.