Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1916-02-02
PHARMACY COMMISSION TO EN-
FORCE LAW REGULATING SALES
OF PATENT MEDICINES.
LOCAL MERCHANTS BARRED
.sS UNDER IOWA STATUTES
Commission Holds Law Is Plain and
That Enforcement Can Not Be
Evaded - Retail Merchants Base
Claim to Rights Under Decision Rem
dered in 1912.
.iai 10 Tinies-Repuoiican

Special 70 IiTlios-Repuoiican.
Des Moines, Feb. AIT a meeting of
the Iowa state board OF pharmacy held
in the state house today the attitude
of the Iowa Retail Merchants Associa-
ton toward the law regarding the
right of persons other than registered
pharmacists to sell patent and proprie-
tary medicines containing alcohol or
poison was considered. The board
takes the position that the law is plain
as to this question and that it pro-
i1ibits the sale of such medicines eX-
cept by registered pharmacists.
The Iowa State Retail Merchants As
sociarion takes the position that pro-
prietors of general stores. department
stores and other places where general
merchandise is sold have a right under
the law to sell these medicines. IT.
bases its claim on a case which was
fought out In 1912 against the pro-
prietor of a department store in Chart
ton. This case raised the question as
: to the right of a person not regis
tered pharmacist to sell patent or
proprietary medicine containing poison
and also to sell q patent or proprie-
tary medicine containing alcohol. The
proprietor Of the department store won
the case and 1t was not appealed The
association claims. therefore, that the
law does not prohibit the merchant
from selling these patent medicines IN
asrnuch as the Charlton case is the
only one in which the law IN question
has been Interpreted by the courts.
The association Is advising proprie-
tors of general stores and department
stores and other places where patent
and proprietary medicines have been
sold to continue their sale and declare
that IN case prosecutions arise out of
such sole the association will defend
this merchant 80 prosecuted without
expense to the merchant
The pharmacy board has followed
tho practice Of notifying such mer-
chants that it IL against the law for
them to handle such products and has
been able thus to control the matter UP
to this time. -5t'1 -, r.
80 Service Not Resumed. -...'
Railroad service has not been re-
suY,ed as yet on the Chicago; Anamosa
& Northern railroad. Another hear
ing on the reeetvership matter Is to be
held before Federal Judge Rsed early
in February SO tho State commerce
counserssondce has been informed.
En2ineerS VINO nave gone over tiAo
road say It will take 100000 to put
the road in shape SO that trains could
be operated again. The owners say
the road has been operated at a loss
and thus far no one has been able to
find way out of the difficulty.
Governor at Short Course.
Governor Clarke spoke at the Ames
short course today and Dairy Commits
sjoner W. 3. Barney speaks tomor-
row. Commissioner Barney Will dis
cuss opportunities in dairytng in Iowa
An unusually strong program OF
speeches has been arranged for the
general meetings Of the short course
students
State Banks Must Report.
A call was sent out yesterday by the
state banking department for a state
ment as to the condition Of the banks
up to Jan. 81, Quite a number Of new
banks have been chartered since the
first of the year.