The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-10-20
Annual Exhibit of Indianapolis Retail
Grocers' Association Next Week
i'm TOmlinsOn Hall.
LECTURES BY MRS. ARMSTRONG
EXPERT WILL GIVE POINTERS ON
COOKING AND DOMESTIC SCIENCE.
Special Entertainments Will BE Given
Show to BE Annual Ahair-List
of Exhibitors.

The annual food exhibit of the Indianap-
oils Retail Grocers' Association will be held
next week in Tomlinson Hall, beginning
Monday and continuing throughout the
week. The exhibits will be shown every
afternoon and evening and in addition spe-
cial entertainments will be provided for
each exhibition. The list of exhibitors will
be large and will include some of the larg-
est food companies in the middle West
The committee having the exhibit in charge
has been untiring in it's efforts to arrange
a first-class display and have met with
more or less success. Many applications
have been received from different COM
panies over the country but on account
of the space allotted for the exhibit many
of them will not be allowed to show their
goods.
One OF the features OF the exhibit will be
the lectures every afternoon cooking
and domestic science by Mrs. Helen Arm
strong. of Chicago. Mrs. Armstrong is
known in Indianapolis, having lectured
here several years ago. Her lectures were
given in the Propylaeum and were so well
received that she was asked to continue
them two weeks longer than had been
planned. Music by Beisers Orchestra, of
this city, will be one of the evening enter
tainments of the exhibit. Arrangements
are now being made by the committee with
the theaters of the city for a short vaude-
vile entertainment every evening. One aft
ernoon OF the exhibit will be set aside as
childrens day. The general admission to
the exhibit will be 10 cents, but the sam
pies that will be given away by the ex-
hibitors will more than compensate any ad-
mission fee.
WILL BE ANNUAL AFFAIR.
The plan of holding annual food exhibits
is not new in this city, although none have
been held in recent years. The first food
exhibit in Indianapolis was about eight
years ago, and was given by the Retail
Grocers' Association. The exhibits were
continued for several years and then dis
continued. Last year the association made
an attempt to revive the custom but was
unsuccessful on account OF the late start
that was made. Most of the companies had
made engagements for other exhibits and
the association did not feel that it could
arrange a first-class exhibit, consequently
IL turned their efforts for this years show.
Hereafter the exhibit VIII be an annual oc-
currence
booths from which the exhibitors will hand
out their sample products. The booths are
being built by the Indianapolis Tent and
Awning Company, and will be arranged in
attractive and symmetrical order. In all
there will be about thirty exhibitors. The
list is not yet complete, as the committee
Is still negotiating with some ten or twelve
large companies. Among the list of exhib-
itOrs are the following large companies:
The Michigan Condensed Milk Company,
of Lansing, Mich, and Frankfort, KY,
with headquarters i'm Chicago, will make
an elaborate exhibit of their products and
on one or two nights of the exhibit will
serve Ice cream free to patrons. In con-
nection with this booth. the Whitman Gro
Gerry Company Will show samples of gela-
tine and tapioca.
OTHER EXHIBITORS.
The Genesee Food Company of Leroy, N.
Y, will exhibit and will hand out samples
to visitors.
F. NJ. Backman, of Indianapolis, will ex-
hibit different grades of flour.
The Hammond Food Company. of Ham,
mond, Ind, will occupy two booths and will
exhibit coffees and teas.
Schnull G. Co., of this city. will be the
exhibitors of a special line of Waldorf
goods.
The Indianapolis Brewing Company will
also be prominent exhibitor.
Egg-O-See Company, of Quincy, ILL.,. will
arrive in the city to-day to make arrange
ments for its exhibit Of cereals.
Other exhibitors will be: Mocon Cereal
Company, of Central City. Gail Borden
this city. Central Biscuit Company,
large display of breads and cakes. The
Lippincott, Cree Company will exhibit
apple butter, for which they are widely
noted. The Dayton Computing Scale Com
pany will display variety of scales. The
Voigt Cream Flake Company of Grand
Rapids. Armour & Co., of Chicago. ex-
hibitors of canned meats. Shannon & Mott
represented by j. c. Perry d Co., will ex-
hibit many grades of -four Each of the
exhibitors will give samples of their
products to the visitors and if the condi-
tions of the previous exhibits prevail, the
opportunity will be ample for the house
keepers to lay in weeks supply of gro
ceries for the mere carrying of them home