E. H. WATKINS, PH.G. WILL BROOKLEY. State senate at the last election. Mr. Brookley is a Democrat, and his reëlection was a source mines lured him back to the Keystone State. Not that he wanted to get back into a mine; near one, probably. He went to Philadelphia and entered Joseph Remington's College of Pharmacy, from which he graduated in 1889. In 1892 Mr. Watkins was engaged as manager of the business he now owns. In 1900 he purchased a half interest, and in 1907 he bought out his partner. The business is now incorporated, and stock and fixtures foot the snug total of $12,000. Mr. Watkins is active in politics and is an enthusiastic Progressive. A SERIES OF ANNOUNCEMENTS TO READERS OF THE BULLETIN OF PHARMACY. BY THE EDITOR. We have lately been perfecting our plans for the 1915 BULLETIN. We have made arrangements to secure a great variety of interesting material, and in addition to what we shall get from private sources we announce the following public contests. We hope there will be a wide response to our prize offers this year: ANNOUNCEMENT No. 1: Prizes Offered for Papers on "Some Crises I Have Faced." We offer $15.00 for the best article, and $10.00 and $5.00 each for the second and third best articles, under the title of "Some Crises I Have Faced." This theme is full of human interest. It has great dramatic possibilities. Every druggist has faced some sort of a crisis in his business life. He has braved financial failure-resisted or accepted a temptation to go into something hazardous-made a great dispensing or commercial blunder-been brought in contact with some great dilemma or danger. Please tell us about it. If you want your name suppressed, we shall observe your wishes. $30.00 in cash for the three best papers! ANNOUNCEMENT No. 2: Prizes Offered for Papers on "How I Have Increased My Sales." We offer $15.00 for the best article, and $10.00 and $5.00 each for the second and third best articles, under the title of "How I Have Increased My Sales." We want some live, energetic druggists to write papers on this subject. Tell us how you have secured new customers, put in new side-lines, developed your drug and prescription business, made special advertising schemes pay, or done anything else to increase the volume of your sales. This is the one subject of overshadowing importance to every retailer, and we shall be keenly disappointed if we don't get some rattling good papers from good men. We want personal narratives-stories of what you have done and just how far you have succeeded. $30.00 in cash for the three best papers! ANNOUNCEMENT No. 3: Prizes Offered for Papers on "What I Have Done to Cut Down Expenses." We offer one prize of $15.00 for the best paper, and $10.00 and $5.00 each for the second and third best papers, on "What I Have Done to Cut Down Expenses." This is almost as important a theme as that mentioned in the preceding announcement. We hear on every hand these days that profits are coming down, that expenses are going up, and that it is a harder and harder fight to make things come out right at the end of the year. This is true in all lines of trade. The best business brains of the country are endeavoring to increase sales on the one hand, and to cut down costs on the other. What have you done to watch your expenses and to trim them down as low as possible? Tell us. $30.00 in cash for the three best papers! ANNOUNCEMENT No. 4: Prizes Offered for Papers on "Hobbies That I Have Made Pay." We offer one prize of $15.00 for the best paper, and $10.00 and $5.00 each for the second and third best papers, on "Hobbies That I Have Made Pay." Nearly every druggist, like almost |