Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1915-04-02
on SALE OF POISON
| BILL PASSED BY THE LAST LEG'S-
LATURE PROVIDES FOR CON-
MON POISON SALE.
OTHER ITEMS OF INTEREST
From the Capital City, the Various
State Institutions and from
Many Different Parts OF
the Sunshine State.

Western Newspaper Union News Service.
Pierre.-The following is the full
! text of Senate Bill No. 50, regulating
the sale of common poisons In COM
munities where there is neither drug
stores nor registered pharmacist. IL
was passed by the last legislature and
reads as follows:
Section 1.
In any town in this state where
there is no registered pharmacist, and
there is a merchant handling eXclu-
sively goods other than goods used Tor
food, or a merchant who handles
goods used for food and also handles
goods other than those used for 1000
in a separate department from that
in which goods are handled and NJ
for food purposes, it shall be COM
petent for any such merchant TO sell
the poisonous drugs known as Paris
Green, Peroxide OF Hydrogen, Formal
dehyde, Wood Alcohol, Rat Poison,
Gopher Poison and Insect Powder,
providing however, that this section
shall not apply to the sale of Strych-
nine, Arsnic. Corrosive sublinate. n
Carbolic acid.
Section 2.
Such drugs above enumerated, il
sold by any such merchant as above
provided, shall be sold only in original
packages, and shall be kept separate
and apart from places in which food
products are kept for sale within such
| store, and each package excepting per-
oxide of hydrogen, shall be labeled
and marked in plain and distinct let
tiers, Poison and with the figures
of the skull and cross bones stamp
ed thereon.
Section g.. =
Any such merchant selling any such
poisonous drugs shall keep a register,
and when he sells any Of the same,
he shall record in his register the
name of the purchaser, date of sale,
kind of drug sold, amount OF same and
for what purpose bought, which res
lister shall be open at all times for in
spection. ~ a.
-- Section
No merchant shall have authority
to sell any such poisonous drugs as
in the preceding sections provided, UNI
til he or they shall have first pro-
cured a certificate of authority SO. to
| do from the state board of pharmacy.
Any such merchant may make writ
ten application to such board and up
on receipt Of such application accom-
panied by one dollar, it shall be the
duty of such state board of pharm-
acy to issue a certificate of author
ity which certificate shall be valid for
a period Of n year from the date of
it's issuance, and may be renewed up
on the application of any such mer-
chant and the payment of the fee pre-
scribed herein.
Any person who knowingly violates
any of the provisions of this act shall
be guilty of a m"isdemeanor and upon
conviction shall be punished by a fine
If not less than ten dollars or more
|, than fifty dollars.
For Application Blanks.
For application blanks apply to the
secretary of the state board of phar.
macy, E. c. Bent, Dell Rapids, S. D..
To Aid Dakota Drys.
Mitchell.-The a%ntisalocn ~flea~ue
has sent out to all the churches and
temperance committees of, South Da.
kota a letter announcing the corps of
| speakers for the no license campaign
this spring. A number of promine ut
men are to be used in an effort to
make dry as many towns as possil lie
and at the same time to prepare tie
way for the big campaign for state
wide prohibition which is to be begun