Pharmacist’s retirement ends Fair Play legacy

The retirement last month of a community pharmacist brought to an end the Mays legacy of medical care in Fair Play. Effective in November there was no longer a Mays employed there as a druggist or, for that matter, as a general physician. An arrangement through An Med of Anderson provides physician services in the communit today.  For more than 40 years, Harry Mays Jr. ran a mom-and-pop drug store, of which there are fewer and fewer today. In fact, Mays predicts that the time is not far off when there will be only two drug store chains in the U-S. But with his “one man shop” you could count on dialing the number and getting the man in charge. Perhaps, for more than any other reason, the Mays of Fair Play have been known for dispensing medical care and prescription drugs. Harry’s grandfather, W-C Mays, was a horse-and-buggy doctor who made house calls beginning in 1912. Harry’s father, Harry Mays Sr. and uncle Lane Mays, were doctors in Fair Play and Seneca. And Dr. Harry Mays Sr. also made house calls.