Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1908-06-02
SATURDAY ENDED
PURE FOOD SHOW
GRAND EXHIBITION AT THE AR
MoRY CONCLUDES AFTER A
SUCCESSFUL WEEK.
ATTENDANCE WAS IS 600
Immense Crowds of Satisfied Patrons
Prove the Best Guarantee of the
Success of the ShoW-Ex-
hibitors Leave City.

After a week of unsurpassed eXhi-
billions, which for beauty and variety
could not be excelled, the pure food
show came to close Saturday even
ing. This was an attraction OF when
too much cannot be said in common
aation. The numerous displays of food
stuffs, many of them new to Ottum-
vans, but all of them useful and OF
Immense value to the merchant ana
consumer, both of whom shared equal
ly IN the results obtained; the mer-
chant in a possible increase OF bust
ness or at least a better appreciation
of the lines exhibited, while the public
we're shown the merits of each pro-
duet. and by the efforts of the dem
onstrators were taught the manner OF
getting best results from the articles
shown.
Many housewives have been made
regular customers for the use of many
of the wares exhibited and have been
made acquainted with the most prac-
teal methods of preparation of many
of the foodstuffs the value of which
depend largely on the knowledge of
their preparation The domestic sci
ence lectures and demonstrations
WIN ~
show and are appreciated greatly by
the ladies availing themselves of
them.
The exhibitors from out of the city
have left and are leaving the city,
many of them going to similar eXhl-
billions in other parts of the country.
Others will return to their factories,
while many will continue demonstra-
lions in stores of other cities of the
state Few of the exhibitors were
packing their products Saturday even
ing and taking down their beautiful
displays. The beauty of the several
booths used by the exhibitors at the
show during the week cannot be ade-
quately described. Many of them were
the pinnacle of the draper and dec
orators art and none of them but
what was worthy OF highest praise for
their beauty and excellence, While a
kindly disposition on the part of the
several demonstrators and exhibitors
in their efforts to please the public
made them many friends.
The credit for this successful ven
ture by the retail merchants of the
city rests very largely on the efforts
of chairman of the exhibit committee
Charles Halberg, and Secretary Geo
Henshaw, who with Geo. Haw, Jr.
Jerry Shea, J. J. Trenneman and J. l.
Graham as members of the commit
tee. and Carl McElroy and John Rowe
as an advisory board, gave freely Of
their time and labor to make 1T the
great success it was.
The attendance at the show for the
week will approximate $4,000 people
The crowds varied somewhat during
the exhiS.t and ranged from 1000 tt
1000 persons per day. The exhibitors
are pleased to man with the sue
cess of the exhibit and leave the city
with a very high regard for Ottumws
as a pure food exhibition center al
declaring their wish that the exhibit
be repeated at frequent intervals.
The committee expect to meet at al
early date to conclude the affairs O
the exhibition and at that time com
plete report of the show will be
made.
Among the exhibitors who were a
the show last week and who have
since left are the following
H. W. Eimers, R. Carey and Miss
Elder, of the Shredded Wheat biscuit
company, left for Cedar Rapids where
they will give demonstration for the
next two weeks. j. w. Moore, of The
Minnesota Macaroni company, lef
with his display, accompanied by hi:
demonstrators Mrs. Thomas and Mrs
Wells, for La Crosse, Wis, where the!
exhibit at pure food show that open
ed today at that place.
c. E. Baldwin and Mrs F. G. Bone
steel, of the Genesse Pure Food com
pany, who make Jello, leave for Win
nepeg, Man, where they give an eS
hibition at pure food show. Charles
Viekers Of the Sprague-Warner com
pany who had charge of the Ferndel
booth, left for Chicago while Mis-
Doyle the demonstration for the com
pany, left for Spencer to demonstrate
in the stores of that city. w. f
o'Hara of the Borden Condense'
Milk company will leave the city Wed
nesday.