The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-08-08
WARNING TO DRUGGISTS
The Menu They Will Discuss at
the Butte Meeting.
BANQUET IS THE FEATURE
Rare Entertainment Promised tho Visit
ing Apothecaries - The Filter
Paper the Organ of the
Association.

The ninth annual session of the State
| pharmaceutical association will meet
IN this city to-day. 1t is expected that
sood-sized representation of the pill
rolling crew of the state will attend.
Inc local pharmacists propose to give
the visitors all there is to be had in the
line of entertainment. The banquet is
10 be one of the features of the session,
| and If the druggists do not come out of
1t alive it will be so much to their dis
credit. They are required, for a starter.
to stow away the following compost
| lions, arranged in the form of menu:
SOUP.
Paracelsus Pasafoetida.
FISH.
Sardines in cod liver oil. Caviar Russo.
Mountain trout fried in cocoa butter
Crabs. Copaiba mayonaise.
ROASTS.
Duck, stuffed with valerian, and
iodoform gauze.
Tenderloin, cantharidal sauce.
Mutton in Adeps Lanae. Hog posteriori.
Lettuce, castor oil mayonaise.
Olives in croton oil.
DESSERT.
Corn cure. Blue mass pudding.
Vaseline cold cream. Rat cheese.
Percolatum coffeum arab
Cum spir. Vim. Gall.
SIENNA tea. Buchu tea.
Pies-Tamarind, rhubarb, bitter apple.
Cerevesia quaint sufficit
Bromo in the morning Bacon.
The menu is printed on dainty cards.
the artistic work of Carl Colbert's pen.
Another unique sample of Mr.. Colbert's
pen work is the first number of THE
Filter Paper" timely paper de-
voted to the interests Of the Montana
druggists" The leader on the editorial
page reads:
=" In union there is strength is the
motto of the Montana druggists 1t
is a good motto. Where would Mon
tana pharmacy be if it were not for
that well applied motto? In the soup
The druggists stand by each other in a
true phalanx against the cut-rate husi-
ness and its results. If it We're not fer
the union and the uniform stan lard OF
prices we would be in tha soup indeed
and we wouldn't be in the glorious and
prosperous mood we are in To-Day.
Montana pharmacy stands alone in
the United States to-day as 4 ga eisfac-
tory business, where responsibility ard
capacity are paid for and the stores
are not owned by the wholesale houses.
again for the future, and to seal this
our union. Let us all join hands and
drink glass on the future, that IL may
continue to be as it has been in the
past"
The title page of the paper is cir
bellished by reproductions of the NOR
tar and pestel, the condenser and the
filter paper set funnel fashion in the
graduated glass. There are advertise
ments from all the drug stores in the
city and some from other cities in the
state. The editor has provided a very
newsy paper for Vol. l, No. /. Among
the personals are deciphered the fol-
lowing:
"Mr. Martin, the ex-Anaconda drug
gist, has been in town for six months
doing other business
THAT big Dutchman at Fosselman's
is josh, and ought to be run out of
town.
Where is Mr. Webb all the time?"
''Mr. Hoskins is preparing a timely
dcourse on old Time Pharmacy
He'll let it flicker at the meeting on
the Sth.'
Howard Rockefeller, the popular
young druggist, isn't a bit rocky, but,
as usual, a burned good Teller"
Doc Fosselman is prosperous
young man and prospective loving
husband"
MI cutting IS camping out near
Pony"
Mr.. and Mrs. West are spending
their vacation near Hamilton"
Mr.. Price, the social right bower of
the Newbro Drug company, is in good
health, God bless him, and he always
has the price of a smile, too"
Some of the funny paragraphs are
simply killing.
The meeting will be called to order at
p m. in the city hall by President
Newbro of the association. Mayor Nc
Carthy will turn the city over to the
association and let them do as they
please with it. Anything which they
may prescribe goes. The local contin-
gent will tender the visitors banquet
tonight at Columbia gardens under the
direction of the entertainment commit
tee, composed of S. R. Fair, w. B.
Welch and T. A. Fosselman. special
car has been chartered among other
things for the occasion. This car will
leave the corner of Main and Park at
$3.50 O'Clock. At that hour every drug
store in the city will close up tighter
than a clam and night calls don't go.
There will be hot time in the canyon
tonight.