Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1909-06-29
oTrUMWA MAKING GREAT PREP.
ARArioNs TO ENTERTAIN
STATE ASSOCIATION.
PLEASURE FOR THE LADIES
AS WELL AS PHARMACISTS
Thirteenth Annual Meeting of the State
Pharmaceutical Association to Be
Held July 6, z and s-Business to Be
Combined With Pleasurable and
Varied Features.

Special to Times Republican.
Ottumwa, June 29-Wth every re-
tall and wholesale druggist OF OF
tumwa and numerous OF her oit-
liens devoting their whole time to
the role of hospitable hosts, the Iowa
pharmacists who attend the thirtieth
annual meeting of the Iowa Pharma-
ceutical Association in this city July
s, Z. 8 are assured one OF the most
profitable as well as enjoyable gath
erings ever held in the history OF the
committee has already completed all
plans for the reception OF their Wis
itors and the entertainment committee
has mapped out a series of amuse-
ments that can not fail to provide
fun In abundance for the druggists and
their wives and families who come to
the meeting. With the serious will be
sprinkled the frivolous. and there will
be sufficient OF both. The opening
day will be given over to the recep-
ton and entertainment of the visiting
druggists The address of welcome by
Senator e. G. Moon of Ottumwa, the
response by Hon. H. Torbet of Duhu
que and the annual address of Presi
dent Edwin Franken is the only bust
ness scheduled for July 6. On July
the business of the convention will
be transacted in the morning.
Schedule of Fun.
The entire afternoon and evening
will be devoted to the following pro-
gram OF entertainment:
9 a. m.-Entertainment for ladies at
the nttumwa Boat Club.
p. m.-Automobile ride for ladies'.
2:So p. m.-Auto ride for members.
p. m.--Ball game. Ottumwa Drug
gists VS.. l. S. P. A. (Prizes for best
ball players and prizes for worst ball
players-Ladies to judge)
8 p. m.-Annual ball. Ottumwa
Country Club. A cake walk will feature
this event and four prizes will be
given for the best lady waltzers--four
for the best two-steppers; four for the
best barn-dancers and four for the
poorest gentlemen dancers.
| During the morning Of the third day.
July s, the ladies will be entertained
at card party at the Ottumwa Elks'
Club. and beginning at p. m. the fol-
| lowing sports will be held at Caldwell
park:
Egg and spoon race; horse shoe
pitching contest: football kicking con-
test; fifty yard race and twenty five
yard backward race for ladies. in each
of which five prizes will be given.
For the men. there will be the fol-
lowing contests and each will hay;
five prizes for the winners:
Fat mems race: foot race for sales
men only; barrel race: foot race. Cor
members only; 100 yard dash for lean
men; hop. step and jump contest and
wheelbarrow race. Prizes will also be
given for the loudest man: the silent
man; the man who talks the most and
says the least; the loudest dressed
man: the ~handsomest man and the
homeliest man, Qadies to be the
judges.)
The miscellaneous reports and thu
two addresses by DR.. Chase Of the
University of Iowa and by G. NJ. Carr
editor Of the N. A. r. d. Notes OF
Chicago. will furnish food for though,
among the smallest and the largest
druggists of Iowa, and all should heai
these two talks.