The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1903-07-31
South Dakota Pharmaceutical
Association Will Convene
August II-l3.
AN INTERESTING. PROGRAM
business and Pleasure Are So Ar
ranged That All Will Be Pleasure
Preparations Made to Show Pill
Makers a Royal Time.

Canton, S. D., July 3O.-According TO
all obtainable information the eight
eenth annual convention of the South
Dakota Pharmaceutical association,
which will be held in this city on the
18th, 18th and 18th Of next month, will
be the most interesting and most ex-
tensively attended OF any ever held in
the history Of the association. Local
Secretary Helmey, who has been busy
with the local committee on arrange
ments for the last two weeks attending
to the details Of preparing and pub
fishing the program. as we'll as to look
after other important matters concern
ing the convention, said yesterday that
from correspondence received and 9TH
er information obtained the interest
was unusually great and the promised
attendance would exceed the usual
record by far
The program as issued by the secre-
tary of the association is filled up with
a great deal of interesting business.
1t is the most extensive program OF
exercises ever issued and Is animated
with great deal Of lively amusement
as we'll as the more solid and substan-
tial work Of the convention.
, The afternoon Of the first day will be
Opened with game of ball between
two Of the best teams in the state. The
game will be followed by the first busi-
ness session which begins at o'clock,
at which time the president Of the as
sociation will make his annual address,
followed by the annual reports Of the
secretary, the treasurer, and the ap-
pointment of the standing commit
tees.
The evening session Of the first day
will be the introductory features Of the
convention Postmaster James Lewis
will bid the guests welcome to the city
and w. S. Branch of Parker will re-
spond After this Professor Walling
Dean of the pharmaceutical depart
ment Of the Minnesota State univer-
sity, will deliver a lecture, which is tc
be followed by a series of interesting
sports.
The second day there will be the an
nual meeting Of the Druggists Mutual
Insurance company Of the state, two
business sessions of the convention, an
other high class game of ball, a free
boat ride on the Sioux river and a rich
variety of other amusement.
The third day will be occupied by the
convention with two more business ses-
sions to be interspersed with ball
game, a series Of field sports, contests
a varied program of high class mu-
sical talent, prize awards of various
descriptions, and to be closed by a
grand ball for the amusement of the
convention people who enjoy dancing.
Inc cOnVenuOn Will close on tTludS
morning, August IA, with a series OF
highly interesting sports and events In
which many beautiful prizes are to be
awarded. These prizes have beer
largely contributed by the wholesale
drug houses and their travelling repre-.
sentatives, and will be distributed
among all classes and conditions o1
people for various points of merit, OF
Idemerit, as the case may be. Ovel
thirty Of these events have been en-
bodied in the program and some 25'
different prizes will be awarded.