Mrs. Grundy. (Tracy City, Tenn.) 1903-1930, 1911-05-04
The CO. R. d.

! recent announcements III tuooo
columns that u company was
being formed here similar to the
Rexall drug company of Boston.
This interest was due to the
men who are promoting the en-
terprise, since the organizers
consist of the following capital
lists aud professional men: K.
B. Roberts, vice-president of the
Tennessee Consolidated Coal Co. ;
Samuel Werner, manufacturer
of automobile andl. fine cabinet
lum Der III. j. Bowers, cashier of
the First National Bank; Geo.
M. Thorogood, treasurer of the
Tennessee Consolidated Coal Go. !;
DR.. w. p. Stone, who is both a
physician and a large coal land
owner; DIR. Douglass Hayes,
medical director of the Cumber-
land Mountain Sanitarium; K.
W. Cheek, Of Shelbyville; and
Frank W. Cheek of this city.
The company will be capital
lied at one quarter of a million,
and if the druggists of the South
evince any inclination to enter
cooperative association, ample
funds will be at hand to meet all
the exigencies of the company.
The name of the association
will be the Cooperative Organ
lied Retail Druggists. No char
ter will be applied for until a
thorough investigation is made
as to the interest which may be
manifested by the southern re-
tail druggists. Preparations
have been under way for the past
two months to put man out to
investigate this feature of the
business, and all things will prob
ably be in order for this step at
an early date.
AS to the later location of the
, plant, this has not been yet deter.
mined, but it will have to oper.
, ate out of this place for the first
year, and perhaps for the second
But on account of lack of ship
ping facilities and mountain in.
convenlences it will not likely be
permanently located. All the
promoters either live here Oh
have lived here, and if freights
!, can be adjusted the company
!, may build its plant here; blu,
some place like Birmingham OF
Memphis or St. Louis will in al
probability be the company,
: final home, on account OF railroad
facilities. Should a central buy
. Ing station aud wholesale drus
9 house he instituted in connection
9 with the plant it may remain
S here, however, as in that case
s the manufacturing plant would
r be right at the wholesale drus
Q market anyway.
: The promoters of the enter
: prise first have to make an in
;, vestigation to see just how mucf
o interest the retail druggists fee
q in CO operative work before any
: sum of money will be spent Il
u amount to much. If the retail
. druggists wish to combine fo
the benefits to be derived, the
q money will not be lacking t
s dev elop the combination. Blu
! this desire will first have ato bt
!, shown. This feature of the es
tablishing of the company !,
J. what Mr.. Frank w. Cheek will
u go out to investigate just as soor
as the printed matter and Other
material necessary for prelimi
nary work can be finished.
MIR. Cheek is especially inter
s ested in seeing the @. 0. r. d
!, success because he hopes
d through the friends made in thu
r channel to introduce his game
: "Millet," or rather to introduce
2 much simpler game than emil
n let," called "Twenty-three,' but
t played with those cards. There
q is, however, no connection be
J. tween the @. O. r. d. and the