Show fj Find I f oW rm il eo e W i I 7 Still in Buti LI J One Opened in in By RODNEY WASHINGTON NEA t George Washington bl nt j e commission which which Is Js' JiT VIo applying itself t to the task of Ing In tho tim country up up to jo a v white I of ot patriotic emotion n by anniversary of ot Geor c- c haa has as undertaken n an n l of ot still sUlI existent i It es panics or fIrms which v d a A l back in Washing Apparently there thero are aro ro hu them Banks insurance co cor newspapers and drug store most moat numerous among amonI l th the tho commission has hear heardt since II o it sent out a a. call lor Info lion on such institutions Institution Already there are arc Ii a i. couple coul u firms which claim to hav have b back In fri the u eighties or nineties and Boston thus far tor have hare off tf tho the largest number of ot Inter exhibits Congressman Sol Bloom ot York an associate director Of suggests that ther some come kind of ot a meeting or mUon ot of old establishments dal tta back to tho the eighteenth century 1 that their records bo preserved 4 1 examined for tor their historical va val Someone will doubtless prop appropriate tablets for su such h em as can prove provo that G G Washington ton himself used toof to bo of ot tho the customers Tho The Is 18 esp especially anxious to lo learn places where the father tather of ot his co cot try bou bought ht his razor blades r. r tubes cracked Ice bromo seith kodak rolls roUse ginger ale and ol oil at to day-to-day necessities One such place Is Is' to bo be fo over across the Potomac In tn Al Au andrla andria Va where the Alexand Gazette born in Washington's th tl ti still flourishes I IOne One refers t to te s d dr store whose ancient retards records al Ih shI that Washington and members his family often otten sent slaves sJ ca cai themselves to buy castor oh oTh other remedies The Washing apparently never ate ham hani sd sax J and drank cho chocolate malt mall milks over the counter hown didn't serve them J a athey thc they nt ate at home homer anyway Leadbeater's aters ater's was as opened In 1 by jy Edward Stabler who borrow borro 00 pounds for tor the purpose ant and still in possession o of f his descends n a and ond those of c John married one of ot his daughters daught 1835 Stabler was an nn accomplIsh accompli pill lull roller and mixer of ot liquid e Having no chain tf ate competition he made plenty money at his corner on King Ing Fairfax Fair streets I Included in the tiles files of ot the thi drug store Is b a n. note from tart Mai Washington dated from lom 10 Io Vernon In 1802 as follows j I Mrs Washington desires I 3 Stabler to send by bearer a qi qui bottle bottlo of ot his best castor oil oU and t I bill for tor it t. t General Robert E E. Lee him bUns used to to han hang around this coi dru drug store One day in 1859 lie he i w sitting thero there when an or orderly erlY ca clr with a 11 message from General W WI field Scott ordering him bins to tot t ta command of or federal troops at atIf If ha haper's pers per's Ferry and capture Jc Jo Jot I I Brown t 1 i iOther Other famous men gathered th In n the first t half halt of r the last wt centi to o wet th their lr whistles Tede troops dashing b back k to Washing from rom tho the battle of ot Bull Bun Run stopp hero thero to f e revive themselves s. s W Ti hasn't any orders George Georgo Washington's but its proudest boast Is that Supplied the first president with 1 ii hi medicine during tho the last II lii hl Is life Ufe i d |