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A Handsome Drug Store: the Paull Building, 1911 By JIM From early spring through the closing days of 1911, the west corner of the Square was a happening place, with the April 5th edition of the News reporting a number of changes coming to that part of the Square. One very nearly needs a sharp pencil and a scorecard to keep up with all that's packed into these few lines: *The Paull Drug Company will remove their stock of goods into the building, now occupied by Mr. W.H. Wilson, the 15th of this month. Mr. Wilson will remove his groceries into the ell of the same building. The building in which the Paull Drug Co., is now doing business, will be razed, and a brick structure, running back to the alley, will be erected which will be occupied, when completed, by the drug company. Messrs. Frank Sinclair and G.W. Dillon will build on their lot at the same time. It is our understanding that Mr. W.H. Wilson has the [right of first] refusal of this building when ready for occupancy. The two will be handsome buildings and will add greatly to appearance of the square.* By the middle of June, 1911, master brick masons were hard at work on the Paull Drug Co. structure, and the June 28 News stated, "The business house of Messrs. Sinclair & Dillon will also be put up by the same masons, the Messrs. Sims, and the two buildings will go up together." The brickwork continued somewhat sporadically until the middle of August, when "Mr. Lonny Sims...returned to Columbia, Monday [August 14th] to finish up the Paull and Sinclair buildings, there being about one week's work on them." No more news about the buildings appeared for some months but apparently, work continued apace on each and they were completed--at least enough for occupancy--before year's end. The December 13, 1911 edition carried a brief ad from Mr. W.H. Wilson which stated, "I am now in my new place of business with a clean stock. Call and see me," while an even shorter blurb encouraged readers to "See the many toys at W.H. Wilson's." The Sinclair-Dillon building's real claim to fame, however, was the upstairs occupant, the Parlor Circle, Columbia's first permanently located photoplay (movie) theatre. The following week came the announcement the Paull Drug Company had also moved: Handsome Drug Store The Paull Drug Company is now is its new place of business, west corner of public square. The interior of the building is handsomely fitted in modern style, glass counters, beautiful show cases, the shelving enclosed with glass sliding doors, the framing hardwood finish. The prescription department is divided from the main room by a handsome, ornamental partition, giving the entire inside a most attractive finish. Everything is so conveniently located that a person can see what he is looking for upon entering the door. The large stock of gold and silver ware now on display, is dazzling to the eye. A month later, in mid-January 1912, the News informed readers Mr. J.F. Triplett had "removed his undertaker's business from the room over Geo. E. Wilson's store to upstairs apartments in the new Paull Drug Co.'s building." Dr. Woodruff (W.J.) Flowers soon followed suit; he vacated the front room of the News building in the south corner of the square and opened his office in upstairs quarters of the Paull edifice in the west corner. (Dr. Flowers practice was still quite new in early 1912. The July 6, 1910 edition of the paper stated he had been graduated from the University of Louisville [medical school] the previous week and that he had secured an internship "at Memorial Hospital, Cincinnati, where he will remain for the next year." A later edition clarified the location of the hospital where he was interning, stating it was "on the Kentucky side opposite Cincinnati." Dr. Flowers returned to Columbia in late July, 1911, and the paper dated August 2nd remarked that he was "occupying the front room of the News office.") Parts of this article were taken or adapted from Early Cinema in Columbia, Kentucky. All material used with permission.) This story was posted on 2013-12-03 10:15:54
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