The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-11-15
M'NAIR OUT OF 1T.
Druggist Decides to Surrender His
Pernit-Scored by Hayden.

The troubles of c. F. McNair, the
druggist, have not vanished even
though he has been able to convince
the state pharmaceutical board that
he has a stock of drugs of the value
required by their laws. The state
board contends that as he is not in
active charge of the store that the
permit must be surrendered. Mr.. Nc
Nair is a practicing physician in Reno
county and the board contends that he
has no right to practice medicine in
that county and hold a druggists per-
nit in the city of Topeka. At first Mr..
EIcNair seemed disposed to fight the
proceedings and refuse to surrender
his permit, but since some new devel-
opments in the case his attorney has
announced that he VIII surrender his
permit rather than to make the fight
which he will be compelled to make TO
hold it.
1t is contended that the stock of
goods really belongs to Topeka man
who has long been in the drug bust
ness in Topeka, but who feared that
he would be unable to secure the
necessary permit. When the conten-
ton was made that the owner of a
permit must be the actual proprietor
of the store and attend to the business
himself, Judge Hayden was informed
that Matt Weightmans who has per
nit and has been running a store for
years on the corner of Ninth and KAN
sas avenue, has not been in the city
excepting occasionally. for eight years
This contention on the part of the at
torney for McNair rather aroused the
usually calm and dignified probate
judge and some of the things he said
would not look well in print Judge
Hayden said relative to this contention:
while I hardly know Mr. Weightman
I 90 know that he has been travelling
wife for a number of years in the
hopes of prolonging her life And 1
know that he is running a drug store
without the symptoms of a joint and
do not intend to permit the fact that
he is compelled to be away from his
home city to stand III the way of my
doing my entire duty on account of the
criticism of some of those who viii be
affected by the ruling of the state board
of pharmacy on this point. I shall pay
no attention to this complaint and
shall continue to see to it that the men
to whom permits are issued are actual
residents of this county and bona nde
druggists.
when he finds that he will be com
PEELED to surrender his permit tries to
cause someone else trouble, more es-
pecially when he knows the conditions
which are causing the enforced alb
sence of Mr.. Weightman. AS long as
Mr.. Weightmans conforms with the
laws regulating a drug store, he need
not fear that he will lose his permit
on the complaint of some disgruntled
member of his profession.
eff / should permit drug stores to
run as this McNair store has been run,
every vacant room on Kansas avenue
would have drug store in it and the
owners would be scattered to the four
winds. I have no doubt but what the
McNair permit will be brought in this
~
I find a drug store conducted as this
one has been I shall demand that their
permit be surrendered, and do not
want to hear the Weightman case re-
ferred to by any of that class of drug
stores and the inference thrown out
that there is partially being shown.
as the cases are in no way similar.
think that a reference to the Weight
man case was entirely uncalled for,
and a man who would ask Mr.. Weight
man to surrender his permit under the
circumstances is unworthy of the
name of man."