The Celina Democrat. (Celina, O. [Ohio]) 1895-1921, 1914-04-24
BOOSTERS
COMING
Excursion of Cincinnati BuSi-
ness Men to Visit CeIina
Parade of Visitors Up Town aud
Concert by Famous Weber
Band Features.

OpeClal.-InlSe excursion, WHICH VIII
be the sixth conducted out of Cincin.
natl within the past three years, will
cover four hundred and fifteen miles
of territory in Western Ohio and East
ern Indiana. In all, twenty towns will
be visited. The special train will
leave Cincinnati at 8 a. m. Tuesday
morning, May 12, and the itinerary will
be as follows:
FIRST DAY, TUESDAY, MAY ~.
Ly. Cincinnati at 500 a. m. Ar. Day
Lv, Dayton 12 noon Quncheon). Ar.
Lv. Troy $3.50 p. m. Ar. Plqua 1855
Lv. Piqua 4:25 p. m. Ar Sidney 4:45
Lv. Sidney 5:45 p. m. Ar wapakoneta
Lv. wapakoneta TOO p m. Ar. Lima
1880 p. m.
SECOND DAY. WEDNESDAY. MAY 1s
Lv. Lima 1896 a. m. Ar. st. Marya
Ly. St Marys 1910 a. m Ar celina
Ly. Celina at 1880 a m. Ar Portland
at 1875 noon.
Ly. Portland at 1906 p. m. duncheon).
Ar, WINCHESTER 2;O5 p m. MI.
Lv. Richmond sos p. m. Ar. Conuers-
vile $3.50 p. m.
THIRD DAY, THURSDAY, MAY IA.
Lv. Connersville $500 a. m. Ar, Rush
Lv. Rushviiie $3.50 a. M Ar. Shelby
Lv. shelbyvilie 11:1O a. m. Ar. Green's
burg 11:45 a. m.
LY. Greensburg 100 p. m. Ouncheon)
AT; North N-l,N Vernon yrnelo, 2;O9 3: m .,
Osgood at 3:16 y. m.
Lv. osgood 400 p. m. Ar. Aurora 4.45
Lv. Aurora $50 D. M Ar Lawrence
.Lv. Lawrenceburg $3.50 p. m. Ar. Gin
cinnati 1880 p. m.
The party will travel on a special
train composed of four standard Pull.
man sleepers, one tourist sleeper for
the use of Weber's band, two dining
cars, commissary car, and baggage
car, a total Of nine cars. The train
will be the home of the hundred Gin.
cinnati business men for the three
days trip, making it possible for them
to give the maximum of time to meet.
ing the business men in the towns to
be visited and see the points of inter.
est in the different cities.
Few realize the amount of work and
preparation that is involved in the
running of one of these excursions
Before the train starts on its way the
Trade Expansion Committee of the
Chamber of Commerce in charge and
the office force of the Trade Expan.
sion Department will have spent sew,
eral weeks in working out the details
to insure that there will be no hitch
or confusion.
First the route has to be selected
the itinerary adopted and the arrange.
ments made for the railway equip
ment and for the facilities afforded
the Boosters of the trip. The commits.
sary car must be stocked the white
umbrellas carried by the Boosters or.
dered, the badges that they wear got.
ten ready, a handsome souvenir book.
let prepared including the names and
photographs of the members of the
party together with large amount of
information about Cincinnati, all beau.
tifully illustrated, which is distributed
in the various towns in advance of the
trip. In the meantime the Trade Ex-
pansion Committee must work out
with the commercial organizations and
others in the towns to be visited de-
tails of the stop in each town, the pro-
gram that will be carried out, and all
of these things are done in advance
as far as possible There is also the
work of making up the party, assign
ing Pullman accommodations, which
illustrate the care which is taken by
the Cincinnati Chamber of Commerce
to make the trip successful.
The trip will be in charge of the
Trade Expansion Committee of the
Chamber of Commerce, of which VIM.
T. Johnston, of the VIM. T. Johnston
Co., dealers in machinery and supplies,
is the very able chairman Colonel
Johnston, as he is known in the Cham
ber of Commerce, has been in charge
of all the five trips made in the last
two years, and much of the success of
these trips has been due to his ability
and never-failing good humor. Colonel
Johnston can be depended upon to tell
one or more new stories in each town
that he visits and he never fails to
enable the crowd to get a roaring lot
of fun out of the meetings which are
held, not forgetting at any time the
serious side of the excursion either.
. The other members of the commit
tee are VIM. A. Hopple, of the John
Shillito Co., one of the oldest depart
ment stores west of New York, having
been established eighty-one years ago;
s. R. Meyer, of the Meyer, Wise &
Kaichen Co., wholesale notions; VIM.
A. Evans, of the Evans Oil Works, and
G. Lee Downey, of the Circular Adver-
tising Co., printers and publishers.
This committee is an exceedingly live
one and can be depended upon to
make the coming trip as successful as
all OF the previous ones have been.
Last year the Trade Expansion Com
mittee turned its attention to Ohio and
conducted an excursion through the
southern part Of tho state, from Gin
cinnati to GAINESVILLE, thence to Par
kersburg, w. Va, returning to Cincin-
natl, visiting eighteen towns and GOV.
ering four hundred and seventy-six
milaa