Douglas daily dispatch., 1928-01-05
DRUG COMPANY
HAD GOOD YEAR
SAYS MEADOWS

According to Russell Meadows. presi-
dent and general manager of the
Douglas Drug company, the drug bllsi-
ness during the last year has proved
that the business health in Cochise
county and the territory in Mexico
served by his corporation has been
good He says that it does not fol-
low that the physical health of a
community need be poor in order to
make the drug business good, but that
when the people are healthiest it might
easily be that the drug business would
be best. The way he puts it is that
much of the business of the druggist
these days is not selling medicines to
cure the sick, but to prevent sickness
and that in we'll equipped drug store,
there are also many lines carried which
add to the profits that find their way
to the cash drawer.
"Our company operates six retail
stores in Cochise county and in So
nora, said Manager Meadows. "They
are our Douglas store; Central Phar-
macy, Bisbee; Lowell Drug company,
Lowell, Postoffice Music and Gift Shop,
Lowell; Botica, Nacozari, and a branch
of that store at Pilares From every
one of the branches came good re-.
ports last year, but the people of
Douglas are more interested in our re-
ports from the local store.
/, '"The Douglas Drug company'S store
at G. avenue and Tenth street showed
a better business last year than any
year since 1920 I'll make that strong
er. We nave shown a cumulative
growth since 1921 and every year has
been better than the year before, sol
it is literally true that our business
here was substantially better than the
previous year.
cit would not be accurate to say
that our other branches have made
such a splendid record. But they have
been very satisfactory Too, we have
not owned them long enough to make
such a generalization on the others.
Last September we started our
wholesale and jobbing business. We
started trade solicitor in November.
Our effort is confined to Cochise coun-i
ty on this side of the line and we do
a certain amount of trade in Mexico. /
Our business has been surprisingly
good. It has far exceeded our bright
est hopes already and we are only
two months away from the time when
we first put statesmen in the field
1T is our experience that Douglas
just now is on the best basis that it'll
has been since we have had interestsl
here and we started some IL years ago.
1t is our firm belief that the present
year will set still higher records for
everything is favorable to that. THERE
is steady employment which provides
a large purchasing power for the ethyl
population There is a strong demand
for the livestock that the range prof.
duces That brings the money to the
ranchers with which provide, not only
the necessaries, but quite a few of the
luxuries of life. With all those fa .tors
in our favor, the Douglas Drug COM
pany starts this year confident of it's
greatest year of business and psure that
it's faith in Douglas and all this Sec
ton Of Arizona and old Mexico will be |
justified when we get to the work of
casting the totals for 1928"
With the employees in it's six branchesj
included, the payroll of the omna1y |
which has its headquarters in Douglas, |
averages AZ persons and during the
busy seasons that is run up to exceed
so people,