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attend  the  meeting  should  correspond  with  the  member  of  the 
Transportation  Committee  nearest  them.  Full  information  will  be 
published  shortly.  It  is  likely  that  arrangements  will  be  perfected 
for  an  A.  Ph.  A.  train,  with  special  cars  from  Chicago,  St.  Louis^ 
Cincinnati,  and  some  other  points.  Reduced  railroad  rates  will  be 
secured  and  announced  by  the  Committee  on  Transportation. 
PENNSYLVANIA  PHARMACEUTICAL  ASSOCIATION.1 
The  twenty- fifth  annual  meeting  was  held  at  Buena  Vista  Springs, 
Franklin  County,  Pa.,  June  24th-27th.  The  address  of  welcome  by 
the  Local  Secretary,  H.  J.  Mentzer,  was  replied  to  by  Dr.  C.  B.  Lowe. 
The  President,  W.  L.  Cliffe,  made  the  annual  address.  In  this  he 
advised  the  repeal  of  the  initiation  fee  for  new  members  with  the 
hope  of  increasing  the  membership  in  the  Association.  He  also  sug- 
gested that  the  Association  pass  resolutions  favoring  the  Jov  Bill 
(House  Representatives,  No.  178),  which  provides  for  a  tax  of  70 
cents  a  proof  gallon  as  against  the  present  tax  of  $1.10.  In  regard 
to  the  work  of  the  County  Associations  and  their  relationship  to  the 
State  Association,  Mr.  Cliffe  said : 
"  To  the  State  Association  logically  belongs  the  settlement  of  all 
those  questions  that  affect  the  pharmacists  all  over  the  State  in  a 
nearly  equal  manner,  such  as  legislative  matters,  looking  alter  proper 
appointments  to  the  State  Board  and  educational  matters.  To  the 
local  or  county  organization  should  be  delegated  the  work  of  cor- 
recting  trade  evils  and  abuses,  the  adjustment  of  price  difficulties 
and  the  bringing  together  of  its  members  for  a  better  understanding 
of  their  commercial  relations  generally.  Properly  managed  there  is 
no  connection  of  interests  and  complete  harmony  and  co-operation 
should  result. 
In  regard  to  the  "  Bottle  Act "  of  April'28,  1899  (which  has  been 
referred  to  in  the  Report  of  the  Committee  on  Legislation  for  1899)^ 
and  copies  of  which  had  been  distributed  during  the  past  year 
among  the  druggists  of  the  State,  the  President  said:  "This  dis- 
tribution was  evidently  the  work  of  the  people  who  engineered  this 
bill  through  the  legislature  for  their  own  personal  ends,  under  the 
1  Credit  is  due  to  Dr.  J.  A.  Miller,  Wm.  L.  Cliffe  and  Prof.  C.  B.  Lowe  for 
courtesies  in  the  preparation  of  this  report. 
