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Show DRUEHL & FRANKEN NOW DRUEHL DRUG Thriving Pharmacy Here Has Interesting Mercantile' Mercan-tile' History. On December 1 tha Druehl A Franked company changed Its corporate corpo-rate name to the Druehl Drug- company. com-pany. It was In 1890 that the Druehl & 1 Franken company entered the drug" business at Main and Third- South streets, where the Judjre building now stands. The business waa prosperous j from the start and within six years had grown to such proportions thst the company was able to purchase the business of the .smith Drug company, a very largo organization, whose location loca-tion w.is considered the best In tne city, in 1912. when the twenty-story ; Walker bank building was erected on the site of the Smith drug store, the ! company moved to a temporary Iocs-j Iocs-j tion and then moved into the corner of , the new building, at which time the name of the Kmlih Drug company was chanced to the Druehl Kranken company. com-pany. Fr several yeara the business has been nnb-r the management of Waller K. Druehl, he and hts brother, Hiiico, huvlni? taken over a I'irge in- active part iclpalton In the business. Starting with a fore of only four men, the c mpany now haa an organization of forty people. The store la large and beautiful. Its furnishings being of rich mahogany. The company owns the large drug store in Colorado Springs and alao in hoise, Ida.. The company was one of the original forty stockholders In the t'nited Drug company, known as the munsf.irturera of the Kexall remedies, an organization whose original capitnl was flso.uoo and which Is now operating operat-ing with a capital of $;0,oo 000 und doing s yenrb business of approximately approx-imately f .10,000. 000. |