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Page 4 THE SLATER NEWS January 23, 1947

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Rexall Business
Largest Of Kind

What is today the largest
drug products manufacturing
and distributing company in
the world started originally as
the idea of one man—the late
Louis K. Liggett.

While still a boy in Detroit,
Mich., Liggett applied the fac-
tory-to-retail principle in the
dry goods business. Later, at
the age of 26 and while work-
ing as a salesman for a large
drug company, he conceived
the basic principles on which
the United-Rexall Drug Co. was
founded and operates today.

Residents of Slater are in a
position to take advantage of
the savings made possible by
by this idea by patronizing the
new Slater Rexall store, located
in the business district of Sla-
ter, which has just been grant-
ed an exclusive franchise in this
company.

In calling upon individual
durggists all over the United
States, Liggett found that each
druggist had his own favorite
remedies and formulas which he
made up for sale under his own
trademark and only for his own
store. Liggett conceived the
idea of uniting these druggists,
picking the best of the indivi-
dual prescriptions, and manu-
facturing and distributing them
cooperatively to all.

Forty Original Investors

Constantly talking and sell-
ing his idea of cooperative drug
manufacture and merchandis-
ing, he finally, in 1902, obtained
the aid and consent of 40 inde-
pendent druggists. These men,
with Liggett, became the orig-
inal founders and stockholders
of what was then the United
Drug Co.

Liggett searched for a trade-
mark and decided upon "Rex-
all" which was coined for him
by Walter Jones Wilson, his
office boy, who is still an active
member of the company. The
name was established by com-
bining the Latin word, "Rex,"
and the English word "All," to
signify "King of All."

Line of Products Grown

The company that started by
manufacturing four different
drug items now has a line of
over 5000 different articles.

The cooperative principle of
manufacture and merchandis-
ing proved so successful that a
constant expansion of the af-
fairs of the company followed
in ensuing years.

J. W. Dart Joins Organization

The number of independent
Rexall franchise holders was
increased steadily and rapidly
until by the mid-1920's there
were more than 10,000 distrib-
utors in the United States, Can-
ada, England and Africa.

In 1941, Justin W. Dart, at
34 years of age was general
manager of the Walgreen Drug
Co., retailing chain with out-
lets in most sections of the
country. Dart came to the
United-Rexall Drug Co. as vice-
president and director and also
became president of the Liggett
Drug Co., which was then the
major retailing subsidiary. The
acquisition of Dart proved to
be a major stroke of good for-
tune, for within a short space
of time operations of the com-
pany expanded successfully.

Dart's ability was clearly rec-
ognized by the directors of the
company and he was elevated

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to the presidency of the parent
company, United Drug, Inc.

In the fall of 1945, it was
decided by Dart and the board
of directors that the organiza-
tion would move its home office
from Boston to Los Angeles.

New Building Started

So in one bold stroke the
company was uprooted. Its ex-
ecutives moved across the coun-
try, and its new temporary of-
fices were opened without a
break in the operating routine.

On January 8, 1946, ground-
breaking ceremonies were held
on a seven-acre plot on the
corner of Beverly and La Cie-
nega Blvds., Los Angeles, to be-
gin the construction of a new
modern world headquarters
building.

Today the United-Rexall
Drug Co. stands on the thresh-
old of another area of expansion.
Over 10,000 Rexall franchise
holders are served by the
United-Rexall Drug Co., in the
United States, by the United-
Rexall Drug Co., Ltd., of Can-
ada in Toronto, Ontario; by the
United-Rexall Drug Co., Ltd.,
at Nottingham, England; and
by the United-Rexall Drug Co.,
of South Africa, in Port Eliza-
beth, S. A.

Louis K. Liggett started from
scratch and built the greatest
cooperative business organiza-
tion in history. Today, young,
energetic Justin W. Dart is de-
veloping the modern prototype
of the Liggett ideas and princi-
ples and the Rexall program is
a continuously developing pro-
gram of progress.

The retail stores are constant-
ly being modernized to give the
public the utmost in up-to-date
and attractive shopping sur-
roundings, and to act as a prac-
tical laboratory for the im-
provement of Rexall products.
New Merchandise is being de-
veloped and presented to fill
definite public needs. Sales
people are continuously being
trained to provide shoppers
with friendly, courteous ser-
vice.

"Rexall" is to the American

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[photo of Mrs. W. Earle Reid (librarian) and children, spans columns 2-4]
A large part of the life of the young people of Slater is centered around the activities of
the Slater Library, which is operated by Slater Community Association. In this picture, Mrs.
W. Earle Reid, Librarian, is shown with a group of youngsters who have met in the Library for
club work.

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Miss Bishop Is
Wed To Mr. Mann

Miss Frances Meekie Bishop
became the bride of Thomas
Lucius Mann at Pendleton
Street Baptist Church, Decem-
ber 22, at 4 o'clock in the af-
ternoon. Dr. J. Dean Crain
officiated.

Baskets of white gladioli,
greenery, and candelabra were
used for decorations at the altar.

Miss Kathleen Farnsworth,
pianist, and Miss Frances Wil-
liams, soloist, furnished nuptial
music. Thebe Tilman of Charles-
ton was the best man and the
candles were lighted by C. P.
Chandler.

Mrs. W. F. Davis, sister of
the bride, was matron of honor.
She wore a suit of thistle wool
crepe with black accesories.

Mrs. Mann wore an aquama-
rine wool crepe suit with gray
satin hat. Her corsage was a
purple orchid and her pearls
were a gift of the bridegroom.
She entered with her father,
Mr. Ernest M. Bishop, who gave
her away.

Following a receiption at the
home of the bride's parents, the
couple left for a short wedding
trip. They are now at home
to their friends at 1 Kim Street,
the home of the parents of the
bride.

Mrs. Mann was graduated
from Furman University and
has taught for the past several
years in the Slater-Marietta
School.

The bridegroom is a student
at Furman University. He has
also attended the University of
Georgia. He served with the
Marine Corps for several years,
two and a half years being
spent overseas.

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OFFICE NEWS

Miss Elizabeth Ammons
spent the past week-end in
Greenville with her brother and
sister-in-law, Mr. and Mrs. Gil-
bert Rogers. While in Green-
ville, Elizabeth visited her lit-
tle new niece, Carol Grace
Chandler, on Mills Avenue.
Carol Grace, the little daughter
of Rev. and Mrs. Leon Chand-
ler, was born New Year's Day.

Messrs. P. J. Acree, Robert
H. Atkinson, and W. Earle Reid
attended a Personnel Confer-
ence at Greensboro recently.
Mr. Acree was also a business
visitor at Stanley Mills.

Mrs. Thelma Bledsoe enjoyed
a high school basketball game
between Tra[covelers Rest and
Piedmont last Friday. Her
daughter, Betty Claire, plays
on the Travelers Rest team.

Miss Mary Lou Tate visited
in the home of Mr. and Mrs.
Troy Hannon last week-end.
Mr. Roy Hannon also visited
them on Sunday.

Mr. Jimmie Balloch, Jr., a
student at The Citadel, visited
his parents, Mr. and Mrs. James
Balloch and Miss Vera Hem-
bree of Renfrew last week-end.

Mr. Gilbert Rogers and Mr.
C. C. Compton were business
visitors at the Greensboro office
January 2 and 3.

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Marriage Unites
Popular Couple

Miss Helen Pauline Merrill,
daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Law-
rence Merrill of Tigerville, be-
came the bride of Harold Don
McKinney, son of Mr. and Mrs.
Elgin McKinney of Travelers
Rest, at a candlelight ceremony
performed December 21 at 7
o'clock at the home of the
bride's parents. Dr. Sam M.
Lawton of Spartanburg officiat-
ed, using the double ring cere-
mony, in the presence of the
immediate family and a few
close friends.

The vows were spoken before
an improvised altar near the
mantel in the living room. The
mantel was banked with burn-
ing tapers, ivy, and southern
pine. Large floor baskets hold-
ing white gladioli and fern
were used against a background
of southern pine.

A program of wedding music
was rendered by Mrs. Sam Law-
ton, pianist, and Miss Mary
Lawton, violinist.

The bride wore a brown wool
suit with brown accessories and
her corsage was white gar-
denias.

Immediately following the
ceremony, the couple left for a
wedding trip to the mountains
of North Carolina and other
places of interest. The bride
wore for traveling a green gab-
ardine suit with brown acces-
sories. They are now making
their home at Travelers Rest.

Mrs. McKinney is a graduate
of Mountain View High School
and North Greenville Junior
College. She is now employed
teaching in the Slater-Marietta
School.

Mr. McKinney is a graduate
of Travelers Rest School and is
employed with a construction
company.
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Mrs. Nawana Gunter
Leaves Slater Office

Mrs. Nawana C. Gunter, for
the past year and a half a clerk-
stenographer in the Employ-
ment Department of the Slater
Manufacturing Co., Inc., recent-
ly resigned her position with
this firm.

During the past summer, Mrs.
Gunter―the then Miss Cooper
―was married to Mr. Melvin
Gunter of Greenville.

While employed here, Mrs.
Gunter made a host of friends
who are sorry to see her leave,
but wish her well as she takes
up her duties as a housewife.

A successor to Mrs. Gunter
has not yet been named.
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A good housekeeper is a wo-
man who can look at her own
bathroom as critically as she
does at a neighbor's.