Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1916-05-28
MERRITTS PROUD OF STORE
Beautiful New L-Shaped Store Said
to Be Finest in Western
- Country.
EVERYTHING OF LATEST TYPE

One of the prettiest stores you've
ever seen is the new Merritt drug
store, occupying the room tarthest
south in the new Rose building, Six
teenth and Farnam streets now open
for business and with its formal open
ing TO come some time in June.
1t is owned by the Merritt brothers,
born in Omaha and sons OF John
Merritt, Omaha pioneer.
Solid mahogany fixtures, made by
the Alfred Bloom company, Omaha,
plate glass, mirrors galore, mosaic
marble floor splendid indirect light
electric fixtures, magnificent soda
fountain, all combine 10 give a pic
ture Of beauty and up-to-dateness.
The store is in an II" shape, the
lower part Of the IL being a coy
nook at the back filled with tables and
chairs for the comfortable imbibing
Of cooling drinks
All around the room runs a bal
cony, also mahogany with a brass
railing. The mahogany showcases
run clear to the ceiling. They are fit
ted with doors that slide easily on
ball bearings. There are plate glass
shelves and everything that is Of the
latest, the most improved type,
Keep cigara Right.
The cigar case rs provided with
beycled edge doors 50 as TO make
them as nearly air-tight as possible.
The cigar humdors have plate glass
fronts and are lined with rubber,
keeping cigars in top-notch condi-
ton
The soda fountain is the largest
onyx soda fountain IN Omaha and the
very latest type. There is not a
splinter Of wood III It OF its equip
mcnt, thus making for greatest SAM
tary perfection. All is marble, Ger
man silver, copper, zinc Two splen-
did ornamental lamps help to make
the front beautiful In an alcoye be-
hind is steam table for preparing
hot drinks for winter comfort.
A feature OF the store is the eorri-
dor in the back leading to the alley.
All goods and supplies will be brought
in through this and nothing through
the front Of the store.
In the basement is a water filter
Every drop Of water used in the store
will be filtered.
An electric toaster and all electric
mixer are two unusual appurtenances
Of the soda fountain.
The tables arc gold" with plate
glass tops, bent wooa, imported from
Austria.
Two big 1916 model cash registers
are finished in mahogany TO match
the furniture Of the store.
The new store will make a spe-
cialty Of prescriptions and for the
preparation Of these a room is located
on the rear balcony where the phar-
macists will do their careful work
away from the excitement OF BUSH
ness
The new store is tie second owned
by the Merritts. Their other one is
at Twentieth and Farnam street. They
opened that two years ago and con
Quoted it with such success that they
have doubled its size since then.
The new store will be under the d.
rect management OF A. 4. Merritt
and Joseph Merritt, while Jess Mer-
rift will run the other store at TWEEN
tieth and Farnam streets.
a. f. Merritt has been in the drug
business in Omaha since 1898. His
first store was that OF the Merritt
Graham Drug company located where
the United States National bank
building now stands. Then he took
the Walnut Hill pharmacy at Fortieth
and Cunning streets and later opened
store at Twentieth and Grace
streets. He operated the Willard Ho-
tel pharmacy for five years and was
interested in the Myers-Dillon Drug
company for six and a half years.