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Show I : HAS SMOOT RETIRED FROM DRUG BUSINESS? From Appearances, Prohibition Ordinance Struck Apostle-Senator Apostle-Senator Rather Hard. Special lo Tlio Tribune PROVO, Jiin. 15. Articles of incorporation incorpo-ration of tho Hodqulst Drug company ' were filed with ilio county clerk lioro toil to-il ay. Tho company Is formed to do a general wholesale- mid retail pharmncou-tlcul pharmncou-tlcul business hi Provo and tako over the s-torrs of the Smoot Drug company, the Moore Drug company and tlio Palace Drug company. The capital stock is SSO.OOO, divided Into 3000 shares of the value of 510 each, of which Alex Hedonist Hed-onist has CT0 shares. C. A. Hedonist 3bS nharcs: F. J. IIcdqulBt. 135 shares: .10-oph .10-oph Klrkwood. SO Fhares; Fre.d J. Moore, Ito shares: Alex, Ifcdnulsl. as trustee. ' 728 shares; and there arc 029 shares reserved re-served as trensury stock. Alex, Hedonist Is president; C. A. Hedonist, vice president; presi-dent; Francis J. Hodqulst, secretary and 1 treasurer, and these, with Fred .1. .Moore f and Joseph Klrkwood, form tho directorate. director-ate. The prcsldont, Alex, llcdqulst, has boon manager of the Smoot Drug company s ' buslncFS for twenty years, and In this' t new corporation, with his personal slock nnd the stock ho holds ns trustee, will control tho threo Institutions. Apostle-Senator Apostle-Senator Smoot was 0110 of tlio stockholders stockhold-ers and was president of tho old Smoot .Drue: company's business, and whether lie lias retired from the drug business, or The slock, or some of the slock, held by Alex. llcdquisl na trustee, belongs to Sntoot, only those who are Interested know. Betoro tho prohibition ordinance , 1 wont Into effect January 1, last, tho i?moot Drug company was engaged In the : wholesale liquor business, as well as tho compounding of prescriptions and tho 1 Bale of druss. 1 1 . |