People's Pilot, Volume 6, Number 44, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 April 1897 — A model Drug Store. [ARTICLE]

A model Drug Store.

C. J. Werthman has been here for the past ten days superintending the installment of the shelving, show cases, counters, etc., which are being put in place for A. F. Long’s new drug store by the Bloomington (Ill.,) Store Fixture Co. He has demonstrated his thorough understanding of mechanics, and is withall a most agreeable gentleman. The work he has done in this store for Uncle Ad Parkison will be of value to the firm in establishing a reputation and winning business for them on its merits. Every detail has been faithfully executed and not a Word of fault has bpen found by either Mr. Parkison or Mr Long, the former seeming quite as well pleased and proud of the appearance of the truly magnificent store as is his tenant. Mr. Long has only words of praise for the enterprising manner in which Mr. Parkison rushed the building to completion and finished it in such a thoroughly modern and expensive style. No expense has been spared to make it the best fitted room for a drug stock to be found outside of the large cities. It is indeed a credit to Rensselaer to have so attractive a pharmacy among its business houses. The bids for the fittings ranged from SIOSO to SI6OO, an intermediate price being paid to the Bloomington Co. All of the wood is of quarter sawed oak; the showcases are the modern double deck, heavy plate glass style; the large drawers are on rollers as are the slide doors which cover the shelves; every one of the 400 drawers fits perfectly. There is room for 2,000 rolls of wall paper in the 200 sections of shelving set aside for it. The basement has already received part of the stock of paints and oils intended for it, and by the time this is published the store above will be in the midst of its installation of fine new goods. It is a delight for a merchant to know that every article in his whole stock is new and fresh, and especially so in the case of drugs, where age is often a serious defect. With what

: pride and satisfaction does such abusinessman select his wares and beautify his store with bright and dazzling displays. His talent and taste can tind its full scope in beginning anew in store, fixtures and stock, and ho cau be pardoned if he feels a self satis tied pride in his accomplishment; he can be forgiven the air of vanity with which he smiles on his friends as he shows them the many details so dear to his hearts gratification. It is a transfor mation accomplished in ninety days from the time the cruel llames licked up the block and store, sparing not the many treasures and mementoes that can never be replaced, but here in his new surroundings he bids you all to call, he is ready to receive you.