KANSAS CITY DEPARTMENT.

Kansas City, Mo., Items.

Charles E. Zinn has sold his store at Indiana and Anderson Streets.

There is a new store at Forty-eighth and Harrison Streets called the Berger Pharmacy.

F. L. Florence has purchased the Briggs' Live and Let Live Pharmacy, 816 East Twelfth Street.

The Hultz Pharmacy, Eighth and Holmes Streets, has been sold to Dr. Krueger, formerly at Fifth Street and Broadway.

The Bales Avenue Pharmacy, Independence and Bales Avenues, owned by A. S. Houck, has been sold to J. W. Talbot.

Striegel & Co. have opened a new store at Linwood Boulevard and Holmes Street, which is known as the Boulevard Pharmacy.

J. George Wirthman, of Sixteenth Street and Grand Avenue, has recently purchased the drug store at 3436 Broadway, owned by Dr. E. D. Toler.

J. W. Hunter, formerly at Fourteenth and Summit Streets, has purchased half interest in the store at 1303 Grand Avenue, owned by Ed. Dudley.

The Acme Pharmacy No. 5, owned by Dr. L. R. Robinson, corner Twenty-seventh and Jackson Streets, has been moved to Hardesty and Smart Streets.

A. P. Thompson has opened a new store at Mt. Washington. Mr. Thompson is also the owner of the Elmwood Pharmacy, Indiana and Elmwood Streets.

O. E. Wherrett will move his store, now at Eleventh and Wulnut Streets, one block east to Eleventh Street and Grand Avenue, in the Bryant building. The building he now occupies will be torn down and replaced by a modern office building. This has been one of the best drug store corners in Kansas City's down town district, as it is in the traffic center of three of the largest dry goods houses, besides being on one of the main business streets. That it is the traffic center will be better understood when it is called to mind that Eleventh Street, from Walnut Street west to Main Street, is called Petticoat Lane, on account of the large number of lady shoppers constantly hurrying back and forth.

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A Pointer for Prohibition Towns.-An amusing story is told on one of Kansas City, Mo., druggists, which illustrates the saying that "truth is better than fiction." A well-known druggist was approached one Sunday by two men, who were employed by the city as spotters, one of whom made known his desire to purchase a pint of whiskey, as he was "sick", so he said. The druggist looked them both over very carefully, then startled them by replying: "I don't sell whiskey on Sunday only to those I know personally."

George J. Eysell, druggist at 1036 Union Avenue,

opposite the Union depot, died of neuralgia of the heart at 5 o'clock Monday morning, February 17, at his home, 1744 Washington Avenue, Kansas City, Mo. He leaves a widow, a son, George, and a daughter. He was in business on Union Avenue for about thirty years and has three brothers in the retail drug business in various parts of the city. Mr. Eysell was born in Runteln, Germany, in 1856; he stayed for some time in New York City, after coming to America, then came to Kansas City and opened up his drug store before the Union station had been completed, and has stayed in the immediate vicinity since.

Dr. C. W. Adamson has purchased the Lilly Pharmacy No. 2, at Twelfth and Osage Streets.

H. J. McGee has purchased the drug store, corner Third and Walker Streets, from Wm. H. Stone. Mr. Stone will spend a week or so at his home in Laredo, Mo., and will probably go to Idaho this summer, with the intention of going into business again.

H. C. Arnold, the veteran druggist at Fifth and Main Streets, fell on the sleet covered pavement in front of his home, February 4, and an X Ray examination made later revealed the fact that his shoulder joint was fractured. The injury, although not so very serious, will keep him from his work for some time.

George Hardesty, druggist at Twelfth and Cherry Streets, experienced a disastrous fire January 25, which entirely destroyed his fine eighteen room house on Twenty-second and Hardesty Streets. As the fire occurred at night and was raging furiously before it was discovered, the family barely escaped and very little of value was saved.

Joe Wirthman, owner of several drug stores in this city, received rather painful injuries from an explosion in his gas furnace, February 2, at his home Thirth-first Street and Troost Avenue. He had gone down into the cellar to see how his furnace was burning, the gas pressure having been low, and when he started to open the door to look into the furnace an explosion occurred, blowing the door off its hinges, striking him in the face and hurling him back against the wall. Outside of a badly battered face and a stiff neck and shoulder Mr. Wirthman is going about as though nothing had happened to him.

Doing Our Best at All Times.-"The man who has a pessimist's doubt of all things; who demands a certified guarantee of his future; who ever fears his work will not be recognized or appreciated; or that after all, it is really not worth while, will never live his best. He is dulling his capacity for real progress by his hypnotic course of excuses for inactivity, instead of a strong tonic of reasons for action."-[WILLIAM GEORGE JORDON.

High Spices Sulphur of Soda was recognized as hyposulphite of sodium by the jobbing house receiving an order for the above substance, put up in ten cent boxes.