RELEASE DATE: JANUARY 31, 2021
KINSEARCHING
by
Marleta Childs
P. O. Box 6825
LUBBOCK, TX 79493-6825
[email protected]
Dwight Lynn Alford, 294 Rock Road, Morrison, Tennessee 37357-3450 seeks information on Jim Davis DINISMORE, born 10 November 1942 in Fort Worth, Texas, the son of Walton Francis DINISMORE and wife, Anna Elizabeth OLIPHANT. Jim married Eula A. HICKS on 23 July 1973 in Tarrant County, Texas.
Here are more selected items found in the “Drug Store Happenings” section of the December 1928 (Volume 50, Number 1) issue of The Texas Druggist, the official periodical of the Texas Pharmaceutical Association, published in Forney, Texas. (Some punctuation may be added or deleted in the narrative for clarity. Surnames are capitalized for emphasis.)
Page 49 – “The Alexander Drug Company, which has maintained stores at Levelland, Brownfield, and Littlefield for the past several years, have recently purchased a drug store at Plainview. E. G. ALEXANDER, who has resided at Brownfield, has moved to Plainview and will operate the new store.”
Page 50 – “Mr. and Mrs. W. E. LOWE have entered business at the new town of Hart, which is located on the new Fort Worth and Denver Railroad between Plainview and Dimmitt.
The Young Drug Company of McAllen was recently purchased by a company headed by H. S. FAULKNER, formerly of Ballinger. His associate in business is D. A. FAULKNER, who has recently come to McAllen to participate in operatiang the local company.
H. B. CAMP and C. YANCEY are the proprietors of the new Graham Hotel Drug Co. [and] have opened for business in the southwest corner of the ground floor of Hotel Graham. Camp and Yancey are both from Big Spring. Camp ran a drug store there for a year and a half.
John V. MINTON, druggist at Kosse, died at the home of his brother, W. C. MINTON, at 6:30 a. m., Saturday, Dec. 3. He was 69 years old and had been in the drug business for more than 40 years, a resident of Kosse 36 years. Funeral services were held at the First Baptist Church, Sunday, 2:30, Rev. R. R. CROCKETT officiating. Burial followed the service at 4 p. m. in the cemetery at Bremond.
Mr. J. G. BEARD, of Chapel Hill, N. C., represented the School of Pharmacy at the state university at the meeting of the N. A. C. P. He presided over the Section on Commercial Pharmacy and was re-elected chairman of the Section for another year. He served on the Resolutions Committee of both the Colleges and of the House of Delegates at the H. Ph. A. At the meeting of the State Secretaries, Mr. Beard presented a paper dealing with state drug journals. He was elected to the Executive Committee of the Secretaries.
Lawrence DAVIS opened his second store at Sweetwater early in September...Special features of the store are its refrigerated cigar and candy counters and a refrigerated biological case, features not found in any other drug store in West Texas.
The Palace Drug Store at Brownwood had a formal opening of their new store the latter part of September...Tully EMBREY, proprietor and manager of Palace Drug Store, is well-known both to the citizens of Brownwood and Brown County as a whole and to the druggist trade.”
Page 51 – “Joe F. RENFRO, a Brownwood prominent druggist, was chosen by members of the Charter Commission as president.
Ray REED of Davis, Oklahoma, has accepted a position with the City Drug Store at Wellington in the capacity as pharmacist.”
(To be continued)