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Medford Mail Tribune Third Section Six Pages Third Section Six Pages Pilly Twenty-fourth Ymw. ttrfkly Klfty-setcnth Yw. MEDFORD. OREGON, FRIDAY, MAY 31, 1929. No. -70. RUG STORE WILL OP O 0 , Old Haskins Store Completely Remodeled :: Lloyd H. Magill Is Owner of New Store Fountain Service Featured MAG o MAGLLS 10 OPEN SATURDAY Store Has Been Completely Remodeled F o u n t a i n Service to Be Feature L H. Magill Is Owner R. D. Morton Is Manager. Magill's, "Medford's oldest and nowcKt rtrup store," will open its doorn Saturday morning', Juno 1, to formally greet Medford customers . and friends. Completely remodeled from floor to ceiling, the store, which was formerly- occupied by McNuir'a, Is jsstr.. .!. r 4 tl lJI " vl Si Uoy II. Magill. no of the mont attractive business liouses in tho city. Silver gray oftk cases extending the full length of tho room on two sides, eight floor Hlmw ensen and a new lestrlplion rase, are among (he fixiurvs I nut a IUd during the past week. The walls are finished, in a deep cream, thuK making the entire place light and inviting. A large, modern ly equipped fgintain a'nd a Columbia Kolster phonograph with a radio loud k pea Iter, are new fea!ures In e Alagill drug store. It is the phtu of the management to give .Medford customers everything that can be supplied in the way uf service and entertainment. Itoth front windows have been extended in-order, lo furnish plenty of room for displays and a Mar quise adds to the appeuraneo of tin- store. With tho opening of Manill's In Medford, I,. H, Magill, of Be mi now owns four drug stores, two in Bend, one In Klamath Falls and the local one. II. D. Morton, formerly manager of the Magill store at Klamath Kails, will manago the Medfid store. Mr. Morton was also con nected with the Bond stores at one time. The N'yal line of drugs are fea tured In all Magill stores, and a largo stock of general drugs and high grado toilet articles will be carried. Magill's Will Sell Societie Chocolates 10 MAGILL'S NEW )E MAX EftCIDR TBtET - REQUISITES TO BE HANDLED BY MAGILL j Another well-known McXair em ployee who will remain with the store under new management Is T. A. Cole, formAly of Ashland and Klamath Falls. For 18 years Mr. Colo was with MeNair's drug storo In Ashland, Soeietie chocolates, sweets for tho swejt, and a wide variety of other emidy in this well , known brand, will be carried at Magill's. The candy cases at Magill's will be filled with attractive boxes of Societle candy as well as other popular chocolates and mixed candy. Magill's Will Sell Columbia Records Magill's will bo tho first drug store in Medford to sell, phono graph records. , A complete line of all the latest selections in jazz and classical hanjoen secured by tho management. ' A beaut If til Columbia ' Kolster ,Mnx Factor's pupulnr toilet requisites are unions the well known products which Muglll's store has Included In Its largo stock. The belief that "A jvoinan'a face 1r her fortune" has madn a fortune for Max Factor, the master or n.,l,n-iiii In rdmtunil For SO VPfl r ho has wielded the powilor puff, tho lipstick and tho mascara brush over Hollywood. EverytninK In tne max racior linn from clinHlnu cream to face powder has proven a big seller. Tasty Lunches Will Be Magill Feature T. A. Colo. and later spent two years In Klam ath Kails managing tho Southorn Oregon Drug Company and clerk ing at "t'unens For Drugs." Mr. Cole Is registered in both California and Oregon and ha.s al ways been popular with Medford shoppers. phonograph has been installed and Columbia records will bo foaturcd. The Columbia Kolster has a radio loud speaker aud an outuldo speak er which will broadcast music for the pswsers by. Sandwiches, light lunches and fountain orders will bo served at tho fountain which la Just one of the many attractive new additions to the drug store. Mrs. Lottie Aller, of rorlland, urrlvc In Medford this week to take charge of the refreshment department. Food for tho noon lunches will be cooked'outslde tho store. Twenty-one stools will ac commodate customers at the foun tain counter. ' ' " Flower Favors Will Be Given Visitors STONE IS MEMBER OF ORGANIZATION NEW MAGILL STORE . K. P. Stone, who has been em ployed by Mealh'H and MeNair's during tho past four and a half years, in the same location, will have charge of the proscription department at Magill's. . Previous to coming to Medford. Sir. Stone was In tho drug business HASKIN TOR OPENED K. E HEREJJ884 Horse Liniment Was Best Seller Was Medford's Best First Exclusive Drug Store Leon Haskins Manager Since 1903. step south with the exception of Ashland, which did not appeal to him. lMni Haskins, his son, re lated, Irv a recent interview. Ten years later he constructed tho Has kins brick building to replace the frame store. Tho place has been occupied by first one drug com pany ami then another ever since that time. . In 1903 Leon Haskins took po sesslon of the drug storo and man aged it until 1!24 when he sold the business to the Heath family. Heath's moved from that place and the storo was sold to .1 nines Mc N'alr who operated I' until recently when I,. H. Magill. of Mend, decid ed to open ono of his stores in thiB city. Another store which numbers among the half dozen pioneer shops in Medford is the Strung Drug Company, first located ut Eighth and Front streets. Charlca Strang, well known local druggist, divided hie Interests between bard ware and drugs, devoting half of the store space to eaWi depart ment. Thus two of Medford's pio neer drug stores were opened dur ing the samo year. Magill's have adopted as their official slogan "Medford'u oldest and newest drug store." The small stores in Japan aro feeling the crushing effects of Oe partmer.t store competition. Visitors at Magill's Saturday will hn rirnnented flowers as favors and children will be given presents, as ono of tho features of tho opening of Medford's "Oldest and Nowost drug store.' All ot tho beautiful flowors which will ho seen at tho' now drug store tho first day It is o'peneil to visitors and customers, will bo furnished.., byr tho Roguo - VaMoy Floral company, of which AntonO Sehoepen Is the proprietor. P. St ono In Dallas. Oregon, for a year and ft half. Sinco graduating from O. H. C. at Corvallis ten years ago, tho genial druggist has missed Iomb than a week of work at his post In one drug storo or another. Mr. Stone's numerous Medford friends aro glad that ho will bo with tho newest drug store In the city. A clock which served the village of Curslaek, Germany, 3(1S year bus been retired. l . ' 1 Shiny noses woro no disgrace and rouge hadn'o been i lnvonted in 1SS4 when George II. Haskins built mi framo drug storo building on tho Main street of Medford In tho place where MnglU's drug storo Is now located. . Patent medicines and horso lln- j iment were the best sellers in , thoso d iys. 'Tls remembered that t t h e re w e re a. few of the ni oro fastidious women among tho 1! 00 Medford residents at that time who ! slyly ordered Swan's Down faco j powder from tho local druggist I that being tho only kind on tho ma rket. If a woman woro too fat sho didn't dream of ordering a patent reducing medicine from tho local drug storo. Pioneers knew their liniments but they didn't havo a pot pill remedy for a. headacho on every day of tho woek. Mr. Haskins come to Mod ford from Spirit F.ako .Nebraska, In 1H84. Tho reason ho located horo wns because It was the lust train Art Tile Work ON THE NEW Magill Drug Store DONE BY PARKER TILE MANTLE CO. For Information Phone 120-R Lamports Hardware Store Roofing Tile Spanish Tile Mission Tile Grenada Tile FLOWERS for the opening of Magill's Drug Store . o Grown by the Rogue Valley Floral Co. Phone 1040 f Acquainted The Marquise on the new Magill Drug Store Represents the master craftsmanshipn of the Modern Plumbing & Sheet Metal Works 404 E. Main Phone 620 6 MAGILL'S ' Medford's Newest and e Oldest Drug Store Wc are holding open hojso and want you to come in and get acquainted and see how modern and well equipped our new drug store is. Wc have gone to g great deal of expense in putting in a new front and installing a com plete new set of fixtures including a large up-to-the-minute soda fountain, and have done our best to makeothiijg store a place where you will like to trade. Come in and see us ; you irejinder no obligation to buy, and, by the way, we have a little present for you. Bring the chil dren ; we have something for them, too. O "GET IT AT MAGILL'S MAGILL New Drug Store HAVE SELECTED FRIGID AIRE Electrical Refrigeration FOR THEIR FOUNTAIN For the high quality service they will render and the cold drinks and perfectly kept foods they will serve, willi tho new COLD CONTROL enables housewives to have all tho icp, cubes they desire . . . to have all the salads and cold desserts they want. ERIGIDAIRES are. simple in operation and surprisingly MODERATE INT lit ICE! Let us tell you more about them. Medford's "Oldest and Newest Drug Store" Must Have Dependable, Quiet Economical Refrigeration Only Frigidajre Offers the Perfection They Require Peoples Electric Store V 212-214 W. Main Phone 12 (5.D