The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-08-12
GAY DRUGGISTS ARRIVE
And Are RECALLED With TrucklOads Of
Peaches, Apples and Melons.

And Are RECALLED With TrucklOads OF
Peaches, Apples and Melons.
The special train carrying druggists
to Denver to the forty third annual CON
vention of the American Pharmaceutical
association, which meets Wednesday
afternoon, passed through over the Santa
Fe at noon today. It was met at the de-
pot by about twenty-five Topeka drug
gists, although there are only two men,
bers of the national association in the
city. A. II. Merrill, one of them, was
the only local druggist to join the party.
The train was scheduled to arrive at
12 80, but was Is minutes late, and re-
mained until 1880. Those there to well
come brothers of the profession were:
Fred Snow, George Stansfeld, o. A
Keens, E L Lair, A. B. Woolverton, L.
s. Woolverton, II. A. Weightman, W.
A. Karr, E. T. Sim, Frank Holiday, A.
H Merrill, Frank Hobart. Ed Arnold,
DR.. ShRfer. A. ]. Kane, F. B. Wallace, b.
A Barrett, J. p. Wilson, A. w. Lacey, J.
B. Clay and Lee Jones. Each one wore
a sunfower on the lapel of his coat.
Three truck loads of watermelons, musk
melons, apples and peaches were pre-
sented TO the travellers and placed in the
baggage car "for future reference"
The train consisted of five sleepers,
a chair car and baggage car. As soon
as it stopped the druggists and their
wives and daughters began "piling off,
and soon singled out old friends among
the local men. The officers of the asso-
citation on the train were President Will
liam Simpson, of Raleigh. n. c., Second
Vice President ]. n. Hurry, of Indiana
polls, Ind, and Third Vice President J.
E. Morrison. of Montreal, Canada. Presi-
dent Simpson is u stout man with loug
gray burnsides This is the twenty-third
convention he has attended.
Among the other prominent druggists
and medical professors in the party were
Mrs. III. D. Minor of Hiawatha, secretary
of the Kansas State association; Prof A.
B. Prescott, dean of the school of phar-
macy of the University of Michigan;
Prof. Oscar Oldberg, dean of the phar-
macy school of Northwestern university;
Prof. C. Louis Diem, of the Louisville
College of Pharmacy.
The excursionists took dinner at the
depot dining hall, after which the recep-
ton was resumed.
A truck was drawn up and r J. Brown
of Leavenworth mounted it and intro
duced A. B. WooIverton of this city, who
made an address of welcome.
W. H. Torbet of Dubuque, Iowa, re-
sponded on behalf of the party in an
eloquent and humorous three minute
speech. The train then pulled out amid
the cheers of the crowd.
The party is made up of druggists
from all parts of the United States. The
special left Kansas City at 10 a. m. today.
A stop of thirty minutes was made at
Lawrence. The Haskell Institute Indian
| band met them at the depot. and several
citizens made speeches. Thirty minute
stops were made at Emporia, Newton
| and Hutchinson after leaving To-
peka. The party was especially i'm
| pressed by bright talk given at Law
| renee by a Haskell institute Iudiau.
| The convention will last one week and
| those attending will come back by them
selves. Another special left ST. Louis at
| O'Clock this morning. On board are
the delegates from New York. Philadel-
phia. New Orleans and other cities.
| Among them is Joseph P. Remington,
author of Remington's Pharmacy, the
great druggists text book.