ST. LOUIS LOCALS. The 4 D Base Ball Club (doctors, drummers, druggists and dentists) has just closed a successful season and expects to give a banquet in the near future to all its members and friends. H. E. Garthoeffner, 919 N. Sarah Street, was married the latter part of September and left for an extensive wedding trip, visiting Niagara Falls, New York, Buffalo and Atlantic City. He spent about five weeks in the East. The Class of 1875 of the St. Louis College of Pharmacy organized the Alumni Association and it has always maintained a record exceptional for fidelity to the institution and fraternal class relations. The class meets annually to celebrate the date of graduation. Various other meetings are held as occasions suggest. The evening of October 2, found Elliott Steinhauser, of Watsonville, Cal., Dr. H. T. Bechtold, of O'Fallon, Ill., and Messrs. Francis Hemm, John R. Raboteau, W. C. Bolm, J. A. Watkins and Charles Gietner, of the class with Mr. Steinhauser, and H. M. Whelpley, of St. Louis, as guests around a table at Faust's Cabin. The evening was very pleasantly spent, Mr. Elliott Steinhauser being the leading spirit, as he was a visitor in St. Louis. Reminiscences were interspersed with his accounts of the wonderful country and climate of California and he is enthusiastic over the prospects of the A. Ph. A.'s meeting at Los Angeles in 1909. St. Louis Night Schools Open to Drug Clerks.Each year the St. Louis College of Pharmacy refuses admission to prospective students who fail to meet the requirements for admission agreed upon by the American Conference of Pharmaceutical Faculties. Quite a proportion of these applicants for entrance who are turned away are St. Louis drug clerks. Some of them take advantage of the night schools and prepare to enter the college at a subsequent session. All who desire to continue in the drug business should take advantage of the night schools, even though they may not follow it with a college of pharmacy course. The St. Louis night schools, for the present year, opened October 8. All persons between the ages of six and twenty years can attend the night school, free of charge. All pupils over twenty years of age are required to pay a tuition fee of one dollar for the term of twenty weeks. The pharmacists of St. Louis should inquire into the preliminary education of applicants for apprenticeship and require attendance upon night schools of those who are accepted without the necessary preliminary education. C. J. DeLassus reports business very good. A. Fry is now with F. L. Coombs, as prescription clerk. J. H. A. Temm, 4256 Easton Avenue reports business fair. E. H. Hold is now with C. Lehmann on Manchester Avenue. F. J. Bechtold, with W. J. Meisburger, reports business good. G. Gockenbach, with F. W. Grabenschroer, reports business fair. E. H. Taylor, clerk at the People's Pharmacy, reports business good. Paul Kuehman, of Kansas City, Mo., is now permanent with J. F. Feager. J. Rush, with the Street-Ashby Drug Co., says business is very good. C. E. Miller, manager of the Stegner Drug Co., reports business fair. H. T. Raithel reports business fair, with the prescription department good. H. F. Griesbach reports business fair, with prospects of a good winter trade. B. Boessewetter, Compton and Easton Avenues, reports business very fine. E. L. Roth, with H. E. Garthoeffner for the past five years, reports business very good. L. H. McGinnis, of Alton, Ill., is now with H. O. A. Huegel, Grand and Park Avenues. G. H. Sommers, 4900 Laclede Avenue, reports a very nice business, and is well satisfied. H. H. Reuter has purchased the Seegall Pharmacy, Euclid and McPherson Avenues. A. D. Chenoweth, secretary of the Chenoweth Drug Co., reports business as improving. C. W. Witt, with S. Boehm, reports business fair and increasing right along. C. W. WITT. Vincens Bennisaca is now with the Model Pharmacy, as manager. A.Kulscha, with the National Polish Pharmacy, says business is very quiet. Moritz Gold, formerly with the Crescent Pharmacy, is now with the Globe at Tenth and O'Fallon Streets. Harry Goldman reports business fair. A. Wendler, formerly with M. J. Schoenrich, has bought a drug store in Nashville, Tenn. Chris. Schaefer, 4230 Folsom Avenue says business is rather quiet but it is better than it has been. Amos Alsobrook, formerly with H. H. Temm and Son, Marcus Avenue, is now with J. W. Hendricks. J. F. Ball, of Louisiana, Mo., spent several days in the city, last month, buying his holiday goods. Dr. E. J. Ernest, doing business at 901 Manchester Avenue, for fifteen years, reports business fair. W. E. Reimann is now permanently located with George Jost. He was formerly with L. A. Seitz. J. V. Fischer, Compton and Park Avenues, reports business fair with prospects of a good fall trade. E. R. Marten says business is very quiet but still it is an improvement to what it was six months ago. F. C. Meyer, Lafayette and California Avenues, says business is fair and notices quite an improvement. J. C. Murphy says business is fair and is expecting to have a good trade as soon as the cold weather sets in. J. E. Jacobs, proprietor of the Independent Drug Co., says business is very quiet but expects it to pick up soon. C. H. Scheel, proprietor of the Tyler Place Pharmacy, reports business good and increasing steadily all the time. G. S. Walker, formerly with the Beethoven Phamacy, is now with G. H. Sommers, Boyle Avenue and Sarah Street. P. Fischer, manager of Dr. Claus' Pharmacy, 1937 Park Avenue, reports business quiet but expects a good fall trade. Edward Young, 4601 Easton Avenue, says business is considerably better than it has been for the last eight months. O. L. Wright, proprietor of the Boyle Avenue Pharmacy, says business is fair, with a good winter trade in view. G. W. Sutter has charge of the Riehman Pharmacy, 2301 Franklin Avenue, during the sickness of Mr. Riehman. F. R. Hogan reports business somewhat quiet but it is improving and he expects a very good trade during the winter. J. F. Girardet, proprietor of the Page-Grand Pharmacy, says business has been good and he is well satisfied. It is better than he expected when he opened up for business six months ago. E. W. Hull, owner of the Vandeventer Drug Co., 3874 Easton Avenue,says business is all right for the time that he has been in business. R. N. Gray has charge of the Whittier Drug Co. J. F. GIRARDET. Wm. Rome, with the Clifton Heights Pharmacy, reports business very good all summer and it is still holding out. William Rudolph has charge of the Reuter Drug Co., on Easton Avenue. He formerly worked for E. A. Sennewald & Co. A. B. Maddox, Sullivan, Mo., has just completed the alterations in his store, putting in new fixtures and a new up-to-date soda fountain. D. M. Marlow has purchased the Blaine Avenue Pharmacy from M. M. Standiford, at 4301 Laclede Avenue, and is well satisfied with business. J. H. Hanneke, 5400 Old Manchester Road, says business is good and has been all through the financial panic. He has something new every month as a souvenir which he announces in his monthly bulletin. W. W. Marsh, the souvenir post card man, is now with the Post Card Co., and will call on the drug trade as promptly as ever, A. J. Miller, with the Miller Drug Co., Tenth and Market Streets, reports business good. His trade is principally transient. C. P. Ochsner and M. J. Westfall, proprietors of the St. Louis University Pharmacy have had their store altered and business is very good, Walter E. Riemann is now with George Jost, an old WALTER E. RIEMANN. school-mate, who has succeeded L. C. Swinnen in the drug business at California Avenue and Cherokee Street. H. M. Smasinsky, formerly with Max Knoch, is now with the Enderle Drug Co., Sixth and Chestnut Streets. A. Grosse, with W. D. Temm, of Grand Avenue, is fitting up a nice store at Plymouth and DeHodiamont Avenues. He expects to open up in a few weeks. R. Valentine, formerly with Mr. Schlueter in East St. Louis, bought the store of Edgar Roberts, Collinsville and St. Clair Avenues, East St. Louis. R. Hopkins is now permanent with M. J. Schoenrich as prescription clerk. He was formerly with the Enderle Drug Co., Eighth and Pine Streets. F. V. Perry, the representative of Eli Lilly & Co., in Arkansas, spent a few days in St. Louis, the past month and reports business good throughout the state. Frank Apostel, of Berlin, Germany, now with F. C. Garthoffner, 4069 Shenandoah, says there is a great difference between the drug business here and in Germany. A. G. Kolkman, a graduate of the St. Louis College of Pharmacy, 1905, lately with the Maserang Co., is now permanently located with G. A. Luecking, Compton and Lafayette Avenues. A. W. Chamberlain, a graduate of the St. Louis College of Pharmacy, 1905, is prescription clerk for L. F. Grewe, Grand Avenue and Henrietta Street. Miller Bros., druggists at Nebraska and Lafayette Avenues, report business all right. George Brandt, a graduate of the Barnes College of Pharmacy, 1905, is prescription clerk at Wm. Bittner's new store, Grand and Cleveland Avenues. A. W. CHAMBERLAIN, E. F. Kaiser, for many years with William Rodemich, entered into business on his own account about six months ago and says he is more than satisfied since he started. Mr. Kaiser has taken unto himself a partner. He got married. ST. LOUIS LOCALS. Dorothy Anne Mueller arrived at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Ambrose Mueller, of Webster Groves, Mo. September 2. H. E. Klostermann, the popular druggist of North St. Louis, was married September 14, to Miss Ida Feutel. Immediately after the wedding they left on a four weeks' honey-moon in California. The Pay As You Enter Cars help business for pharmacists on street railway crossings. The passengers cannot leave the car until it stops, and do not make the close connection of former times, thus, they visit the corner drug store to patronize the fountain, the cigar case or buy some needed articles. St. Louis Drug Clerks' Society. Eugene H. Kurtz, president. Wm. J. Easly, first vice-president. Edgar J. Helwig, second vice-president. Theodore H. Ellermann, secretary. D. P. Wright, chief of employment bureau. Entertainment Committee-James G. Gibson, chairman; Chas J. F. Goessler, Chas. Juengel, L. A. Phillibert, W. J. Delaney. Executive Board-D. P. Wright, T. H. Ellermann, A. F. Kolkmann, J. G. Gibson, Wm. J. Easly, E. H. Kurtz. Second Informal. - Friday, November 27, 1908, Westminster Hall. Third Informal.- Wednesday, January 6, 1909, Westminster Hall. F. Zimmerer says business is good. H. A. Gralike, 2400 Cherokee Street, reports business good. F. C. Staudinger has charge of the old Klipstein Drug Store. G. Schmidt, formerly of Chicago, Ill., is now manager of the Coussens Pharmacy, 1225 Franklin Avenue. Charles Saul, formerly with A. Ringwald, is prescription clerk for George Paulus and reports business good. J. P. Schoenthaler has had a very good soda trade this year and thinks business will be all right this winter. M. P. Kovitch has bought out the store of Max Knoch and moved stock and fixtures to Fourteenth and Carr Streets. E. A. Leffler reports business good and is well satisfied since he has opened up business on Ohio and Utah Streets. F. Harris, the chocolate kid, predicts the largest holiday trade ever seen, this year, in Lowney's high grade chocolates. W. C. Meyer, Ninth and O'Fallon Streets, says business is good and expects to do a good business also this winter. J. C. Thumser entertained a party of friends last month, at Bluff Lake, fishing. They brought home a nice string of fish. O. J. Glosemeyer, manager of the Peeler Pharmacy Co., 4107 Easton Avenue, has not much to say about business. Wm. B. Pinkerton has returned from a ten days' trip to Denver and Salt Lake City. Dr. R. M. Marder, Venice, Ill., will open a store in the near future at Vandeventer and Ashland Avenues. O. J. GLOSEMEYER. E. A. Ridgeley, St. Clair Avenue and Thirteenth Streets, East St. Louis, reports business good. L. C. Swinnen sold his store at California Avenue and L. C. Diesel, 2201 Cherokee Street, reports business Cherokee Street, to Geo. Jost, an '08 graduate of the fair and increasing. C. C. Reber, reports business very quiet but it is beginning to improve. C. M. Street reports business quiet, but says it is commencing to pick up. St. Louis College of Pharmacy. R. W. Walther, California and Gravois Avenues, has remodeled his store and now has one of the most inviting drug stores in the south end. George Kling, Ph. G., formerly in the drug business in St. Louis, has disposed of his interest here and is Louis Greengard says business is better now than it opening a new store at Hermann, Mo. was six months ago. F. W. Bennet, now with H. H. Temm and Son, Nineteenth Street and Franklin Avenue, was formerly prescription clerk for W. R. Grant. J. A. Temm reports business slow but he thinks it will improve soon. D. E. Miessler, with H. Kuntz, has returned from a four weeks' trip through Iowa, Colorado and Utah. He enjoyed the trip very much. LOUIS GREENGARD. Otto Kring has returned from a four weeks' trip through Yellowstone Park. H. Constance is now with the Eagle Pharmacy. He was formerly with E. Coulter. Milton Culbertson, north end city salesman for the J. Dr. B. J. Ludwig is now owner of three thriving drug WM. C. POPPITZ. H. G. Thiesen, 2919 South Broadway, receives a great many odd orders for goods from the different foreigners that trade in that neighborhood. He promises to keep some for the readers of the MEYER BROTHERS DRUGGIST. F. J. Erlinger, formerly with Valentine Rice, of Belleville, Ill., is now permanently located with Dr. Wm. Baron, at the McNair Avenue Pharmacy. R. D. Black, head clerk for the Weipert-Duering Drug Co., Ninth and Pine Streets, has decided to embark into business upon his own account and will open a drug store in Cuba, Mo. Heil Chemical Co., has severed his connection to enter quite a different line of work. Mr. Bacon carries with him the best wishes of all who know him. J. P. Schuster, 2800 Shenandoah, has returned from a three months' trip to Italy, Switzerland, Germany and France. He enjoyed the trip so much that he intends to make the same trip again next summer. C. J. Otto, with the Smith-Otto Drug Co., Eighteenth and Pestalozzi Streets, says business is good and that they have no kick coming. C. J. OTTO. Otto Ude, a druggist at Gravois and Grand Avenues, had a better soda season this year than ever before, and says things are opening up already for the fall trade. Dr. C. Q. McGinnis, Cherokee Street and Morganford Road, has moved his store from the corner into the new building and says that he is satisfied with the business. Henry E. Klosterman, the prosperous pharmacist at Elliot and St. Louis Avenues, and Miss Ida M. Frentel, a popular North End young lady, were married September 12, and left upon a three weeks trip through E. P. Harding, a graduate of the St. Louis College of Denver, Yellowstone Park and other western points Pharmacy, 1906, is now with H. A. Kattleman. George Coy, the popular drug clerk of the South End, who has been with Louis C. Swinnen for many years, will open his new store at California and Wyoming Avenues, within a few weeks. George Berg, Ph. G., '83, is representing the MEYER BROTHERS DRUGGIST in St. Louis, as subscription and news agent. Any courtesies extended Mr. Berg will be appreciated by this pharmaceutical journal. of interest. The Douglas Pharmacy, Main and Douglas Streets Belleville, Ill., is the style of a handsome new drug store, recently opened by Geo. V. Greunwald, Ph. G., '06, St. Louis College of Pharmacy. B. H. Reiss, a senior student of the St. Louis College of Pharmacy, is an efficient clerk of the firm. Tony Brueggemann, president of the Druggists' Cocked Hat League, reports that the League has commenced the season with the following clubs: Dr. W. D. Auderheide has returned from WM. LIESER. Pittsburg. The doctor and family en- St. Louis Prosecuting Attorney after violators of the pharmacy law. A man running a drug store without a registered person in charge was arrested a few days ago, plead guilty and fined $25 and costs. We are informed that this is only the beginning of a general crusade against the unregistered pharmacists of St. Louis. A word to the wise should be sufficient. MARKET REVIEW. With the Election Over, we look for a renewal of activity in all lines. It may be a trifle backward for the time being, but there is unquestionably a very optimistic feeling, for next year's business and our advice to all dealers is to look after their stocks closely and watch the markets. Merchandise is doubtless lower today than it will be next year, at least we anticipate an upward trend to values. The drug trade has been much better in this market the past thirty days, exceeding any similar period this year. We set forth below a list of items chiefly affected since our last issue, together with current local quotations thereon. Quinine.-Unchanged since our last issue with no indication of a higher basis; P. & W., quotable in 100oz. cans at 16c; M. B., 15дc; 25-oz. cans, 18c; 5-oz. cans, 22c; 1-oz. vials, 27c. Opium.-Prices have yielded still further since our last issue and the item is still under bearish influence. Quotable at $4.75; powd., M. B., $5.65; powd., P. & W., $6.75. Morphine.-In sympathy with the movement in opium, low prices are quotable; -oz. vials in 24-oz. boxes, $3.10; oz. vials, 20c per oz. less. Alcohol, Grain, 188°.-Quotably unchanged; bbls., $2.79; 1-bbl., $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; bbls., 54c; 41-gal. cans, 72c, containers inclusive. Wood, 95°.-Unchanged; bbls., 50c; 4-bbls., 54c; 10gal. cans, 64c; 5-gal. cans, 69c, containers inclusive. Aloes, Cape. Declined; quotable in case lots at 9 to 14 to 20c in small lots. Balsam, Peru.-Declined to $2.00 to $2.10. Berries, Cubeb.-Advanced; stemless, 28 to 32c; natural, 26 to 30c, as to quantity. Bismuth. Declined; subnitrate, basis $1.80; subsalicylate, $2.25; subgallate, $1.85. Blue Vitriol.-Advanced; bbls., 6 to 8 to 10c, as wanted. Cocoa Butter.—-lb. cake quotable in 12-lb. boxes at $3.00. Codeine. Declined; alkaloid is vials, $4.90; Hydrochloride, Nitrate and Sulphate, $4.65; Phosphate, $4.40. Copaiba. Declined to 67 to 70c. Formaldheyde.-Advanced; 90-1b. kegs, 14c; gallon jugs, 17c; lbs. 32c. Guaiac, Gum.-Quotably lower; 30 to 35c powd., 5c higher. Gum, Benzoin.-Declined to 50c; powd., 55c. lodoform. Declined to $3.50; ozs., 33c. Manna. Declined to 65 to 75c. Mercury.-Advanced; flasks, 76 to 85 to 90c, in a small way. Mercurous Chloride, Mild.-Advanced to 95c to $1.00. Mercuric Chloride, Corrosive.—Advanced to 86 to 90c. Mercury Bisulphate.-Advanced to 70c. Mercuric Oxide, Red.-Advanced to $1.07 to $1.10. Oil, Betula.-Declined to $2.75 to $3.00. Linseed.-Advanced; raw, bbls., 43c; boiled, 44c; usual advance on small lots. Olive, Malaga.-Materially higher; green, bbls., $1.02 to $1.35 in a small way. Yellow, $1.22 to $1.50, as wanted. Orange, Sweet, Reina.-Declined to $2.40 to $2.65. Peach Kernels.-Declined; quotable in 36-lb. tins, at 30 to 38 to 45c, as wanted. Pennyroyal.- Quotably lower; 20-lb. tins inclusive, $2.15, $2.40 to $2.65, in small lots. Peppermint. Declined; Pure M. B., $1.75 to $2.00; Re-distilled M. B., $2.35 to $2.60; Hotchkiss, $2.65 to $2.90. Spearmint.-Quotably lower; $3.25 to 35 to 40c per oz. Phenol.-Quotably lower; 50-lb., cans inclusive, lb., 15c; 25-lb., cans inclusive, lb., 16c; 10-lb., cans in-clusive, lb., 17c; 5-lb., cans inclusive, lb., 19c; 1-lb., cans or bottles inclusive, lb., 22c. |