The Dickinson press., 1905-05-20
NEW DRUG HOME

vi MCDOndl0 ana POmrOy q
Credit to Barnes Street.
Nothing but. the Best Does
for Dickinson Merchants
These Days.
Conditions in Dickinson are rapidlv
changing and improvement is noticeable
on all sides. Perhaps nowhere is the !
growth of the city more manifest than !
in the imperative need Of commodio Gus, |
finely finished modern stores. The
time is past when an old frame shack
will rent for big money, and when the
store keeper will "get along" in cramped
quarters, which are impervious neither
to the wind and dust Of summer or the
cold of winter. The present season
will see nearly all of our merchants
comfortably settled in modern stores.
Anticipating the building boom of
1905, Welton Mcdonald last fall pur-
chased a choice location on Barnes
street and began a two story brick build.
ing. The building faces east and is but
a step from the post Office, U. S. land
office, Crowds department store, Mrs.
Browns dry goods store and The Hub
clothing store; while across the street
are Drenkels, Moir's, Parker's market
and the City Bakery.
The Mcdonald block is just finished
and its owner may we'll feel proud Of it.
1t was designed primarily as a home for
the Mcdonald & Pomroy drug store
and nothing was allowed to detract from
the drug store. To this end, entrance to
second story is had from the south side
of the building, leaving the entire front,
save the center entrance door which is
also OF glass, Tor the large plate glass
display windows. The building is s.
feet long and IS feet wide, two story
and basement, of a cream mottled brick
from the Dickinson brick yard and is
probably the best constructed building
in the city, the owner sparing no effort
to make it complete in every part.
The basement, designed only as a
store and place for the heating
plant, has a cement floor throughout.
The basement walls are laid in cement,
and on the south are numerous area
openings into the alley. Heat is fur
nished by a steam plant, the boiler
being a sectional one. The tank holds
ten barrels.
The first floor for 20 feet back is the
drug store of Mcdonald & Pomroy.
The entire plate front and two windows
on the south give abundance of light,
and the white wall finish, and white
ceiling relieved with light green, give
added light.
The first floor is finished in oak. The
entire north and south walls of the drug
store are lined with new oak cases and
shelves of the latest pattern. A pretty
feature of the furnishings is the new
Io-foot plate glass show cases set in
bases of Tennessee marble. Two are
already in place and a third will be put
in. At the rear of the store is ample
room for the prescription case and office
desks, while at the west end of the
building is a large light ceiled store
room with double doors for the recep-
ton of goods. which will oon accommo-
date the largest line of wall paper ever
seen in the city. The store connects
with this store room and both open into
the hall on the south side. In passing
we note that besides a line of wall
paper this firm will soon put in a large
stock of carefully selected books.
Their drug stock contains the largest
line of surgeons and physicians sup
plies in the western part of the state,
and their line of Photographic goods is
the finest to be found between Fargo
and Helena.
The second story contains nine pleas
ant rooms, all finished in Norway pine
opening from a sufficiently spacious hal
and connecting if desired. OF these DR.
Geo. A. Perkins is to have the two from
rooms for offices and the next, a large
pleasant room, is to be occupied as :
reception room jointly by DR.. Perkins
and DR.. G. A. Clarke. The mex two
south rooms are DR.. Clarke's denta
parlors. The two rooms on the ives
end are rented to the Western Lands 8
Securities Co.
The building is electric lighted ant
the electric sign drugs" outside wa
the first of its kind in the city.
Walton & Davis constructed the Nc
Donald building and Senour & Langle,
installed the heating plant.
Ofthe individual members comprising
| the firm Of Mcdonald & Pomroy it ma,
! be said here that Welton Mcdonald
5 son of the late DR.. ]. B. Mcdonald, ha
grown up in Dickinson. He is a regis
tered pharmacist, has become prominen
! in the business affairs of the city AM
enjoys the confidence of a wide circle Q
friends in both Stark and Billings coun
: ties and throughout the state. A. M
7 Pomroy has been in the drug bushes
< for IS years and for the past five year
he has resided in Dickinson. He is
registered pharmacist by examinatio
in several states, and two years ag
became associated with Mr.. Mcdonald
Edward burst, also a registered phal