The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1900-05-22
DRUGGISTS MEET TO-DAY.
STATE PHARMACEUTICAL AssoCIA-
TIoN BEGINS ITS ANNUAL SESSION.

First Session VIII BE Called TO Or
at 10 O'Clock This Morning-Dr. st.
j. ID. Graham VIII Deliver the Adj
dress of WeIcome-Afternoon and
Evening to De Spent ON the sands
of Tybee IsIand-Statc Board OF
Pharmacy Passed Seven AppIi-
cants.
The annual meeting of the Georgia
Pharmaceutical Association viii be held
in the parlors Of the De 500 to-day and
tomorrow. The sessions will begin this
morning at 10 o'clock. when President
Ralph O. Howard of Columbus win cali
the association to order.
The Invocation will be delivered by Rev.
John D. Jordan, after which the address
of welcome on behalf of the city and the
city government will be made by Dr. st.
]. B. Graham of the board of aldermen.
The response for the association Will he
made by Third Vice President Charles D.
Jordan of Monticello. After these prelm-
inaries the business of the association will
be begun.
The members of the association and
their families will lunch at the hotel and
at O'Clock viii board cars that will be in
waiting on the Liberty street side of the
hotel to convey them to Tybee depot. The
train upon which they will leave for Ty-
bee will start from the depot promptly at
$50 clock. City time will govern the de-
parture of trains, as well as the business
meetings and festivities of the convention.
In the afternoon there will be dancing
on the broad verandas of the Hotel Ty-
bee and at night fish supper. After
supper there will be more dancing until
the party returns to the city.
The members of the association began
to reach the city yesterday and last night
the Hobbies of the De Soto were well fill
ed. They were jovial and merry COM
pany and in renewing old friendships
and making new ones the druggists of the
state made time speed smoothly and easily
away. At night the mystic "Forty-ninth
Degree" was conferred upon number
of new candidates This is a secret or
der that prevails among the druggists.
and the initiates seemed to have enjoyed
the performance almost as much as did
| the older members.
A number of ladies are also OF the
party. These will be complimented with
a drive about the city and to nearby
| points of interest, while the opening ses-
sion of the meeting is in progress today.
| The visitors are requested to assemble
at the hotel at $3.50 O'Clock. At this time
| they will take carriages and will be
| driven first to Bonaventure, then - the
| Hermitage, thence to the terminals OF
| the Ocean Steamship Company and the
wharves along the river front. After this
part of the sightseeing has been con-
| cluded, the visitors win be shown the at
t1act;ve buildings and monuments and
other places of interest in the city,
The Reception Committee of ladies, hav-
ing this part Of the entertainment in
charge consists of Mrs. W. c. Offutt,
chairman; Mrs. w. F. Reid Mrs. ]. d.
Persse, Mrs Jacob Lipman, Mrs. w. T.
Knight Mrs. 1. A. Solomons, Miss Meta
Kemp, Miss Eula Shuptrine, Miss Mamie
Smith, Miss LILA Keiffer and Miss Lille
| Powers.
| On tomorrow this committee w COM
| pliment the ladies among the Wis., by a
| luncheon at the Yacht Club and for this
/ occasion also the visitors are requested TO
meet at the De Soto at $50 o'clock. Lunch
con will be served at 1880 this early hour
! having been selected so that there VIII be
! ample time for the return to the city 30
take the Clifton for the trip to the ocean.