Mr. Bowlin has been assistant manager for the Crown Drug Company at Columbia for a number of years and prior to that was with the same company at Jefferson City. His wife and daughter will accompany him to Flat River and they will live in an apartment in the drug store building.

This drug store was established nearly fifty years [ago] by Ed L. Higgins in a small frame building on the present site. He later married Miss Anna Perry who assisted him in the business. After his death fifteen years ago she assumed active charge until her death six years ago. Two of the nine Higgins children, Mrs. Avolyn Brandon and Glennon Higgins, both graduates of the St. Louis College of Pharmacy, managed the drug store for the estate until September 1936, when Mrs. Brandon bought the equity of the other heirs. Mr. Brandon, an accountant with St. Joseph Lead Company, resigned his postion and entered a school of pharmacy for training so as to be able to assist Mrs. Brandon. He holds a druggist license for Missouri and Tennessee.

Mr. and Mrs. Brandon and sons, Felix II and George Glennon, expect to leave May 12 for a vacation trip before they decide on future plans.

Mr. Bowlin, before coming to Flat River, was associated with Crown Drug Co., in Jefferson City and Columbia, moving from Columbia here where he and Mrs. Bowlin and their daughter, Sue Ann, will live in the Brandon Apartment.

He graduated from Mountain Grove, Mo., high school in 1918 and later attended the Southwest Teachers College at Springfield, Mo., graduating from Denver College of Pharmacy in 1938.

For fifteen years he was associated with his father in the drug business in Mountain Grove. Since coming to Flat River he has greatly increased the stock of the store and made many interior improvements.

In an interview with a News reporter, Mr. Bowlin stated that he was more than pleased with the business he is receiving. He said that he hesitated for a time about locating here, because he had been told that Thursday and Saturday were the only two days of the week which provided business. He stated that he was agreeably surprised to find that every day is a good business day and unlike most towns, Sunday, especially in the morning, is a busy day.

Flat River welcomes this fine family to town and wishes for them every success.