The commercial. (Union City, Tenn.) 190?-193?, 1913-09-12
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bare brick wall disfgured with plui
tobacco painted sign and one or TIVE
Others of similar character. Yet Their,
is considerable traffic on this cross street
Over thirty persons passed this side o
the store in five minutes during quie
part OF the day.
This old store has been sold to drug
gist Of the modern type. He is going
to cash in on that location. The store
is being remodeled inside and out. In
stead OF that brick wall, there will be /
row OF fine plate glass windows almost
the length OF the building
| The most valuable space in any loca.
| ton is the part Of your store where peo-
pie pass. Every foot OF it that can be
so used should be made to tempt the
passing throng to come in and buy.
And those who come in should see,
first Of all, the goods you want them to
buy-the seasonable things for this sort
OF weather, this time OF year, things
for men. things for women attractively
grouped, prominently displayed in and
on show cases, and made to talk with
telling cards.
The drug business is a poor bust
ness prices all shot to pieces = nc
chance to make anything in that line
any more" You have heard people
talk that way, but no one ever heard
DR.. M. G. Gibbs, proprietor OF the PEG
pies Drug Stores, Washington, D. c.,
say it.
DIR. Gibbs was born on farm neal
Union City, Tenn, 80 years ago. From
this you can figure out his age easily.
About 1898 the price OF butter and eggs
did not permit the agricultural bone
and sinew of our country to ride around
in six-cylinder touring cars to the ex'
tent that they do now, neither were
there any such kyars to ride in. In
short, Washington looked better to DIR.
Gibbs than did Union City, and he went
thither-yes, thither.
At once he got a job as stock clerk.
The salary was not especially enticing.
II we must let out the brutal fact, there
was no salary at all for the first six
weeks, after which time his name went
on the payroll for SO week. Let us
pass on--for that is just what DR.. Gibbs
did. He stuck to the firm but passed
on from one job to another SO that in
three years he became the manager.
Seven years did Jacob labor for Rachel,
only to be the victim Of substitution.
Seven years also did DR.. Gibbs labor for
this firm. but he was not the victim Of
anything
And then, in August, 1905, be bought
$500 in store, seventeen feet wide
in the middle OF the block. That is,
the store was that wide; the interest
was not so wide. Business was pulled
along pretty fast. We almost said ID
came ''--but business does not come,
it is brought.
The first years sales were $40, 900;
the second years, $4,000; the third,
$60, 900. Then DR.. Gibbs bought out
his partner and moved to the present
location Of the principal store at Sew
enth and X streets, N. w.
And this is some store. Twenty-odd
clerks are employed, and the sales in
1912 we're $150,0OO
Within the past few months he has
bought, for $4,000 cash, the original
store, located at Seventh and E streets,
in which he first worked on coming to
Washington An addition to the FAM
lily OF the Peoples Drug Store is conf
IDENTIFY expected within few months.
Store No. 3 will be located in--but that
would lie telling, and DR.. Gibbs is not
much given to talking about his plans.
Does anybody think be was lucky or
that he had his own way right from the
startY DIR. Gibbs does not think he had
his own way for minute except when
he fought for ~ Washington is city
OF sharp competition, cut rates, and bad
actors generally But in spite Of it all
our friend Gibbs smiled and worked, SO
that to-day he has one Of the largest
retail drug businesses in the city where
President Wilson viii get his mail for
the next four years. Penslar -PusA.
Gard Of Thanks.
We desire to express our deepest graf