The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1917-02-22
BRIDE QUITS HER Job
Merchants All Greatly Pleased With
Results and Publicity Derived Much
Merchandise Disposed of From the
Hall and Many Orders Taken.

The Ken0sha Retailers Association s
Home Exposition and 1917 Style Show,
came to most successful close on Sat
urday night and the many exhibitors
and constituents are all singing the
same song and that is of the
profitable publicity which the Exposi-
tion afforded them
During the week there were close to
ten thousand people paid admission to
the hall and those who were admitted
on passes were limited to the ex-
hibitors, winners of the Limerick con
test and the press.
The work of razing the booths, etc.,
was begun late Saturday night, mas
much as the rink had to be turned
over to Manager Donahue for skating
Sunday noon and the exhibitors began
to remove their goods about ten-thirty
Saturday night. At daylight Sunday
morning one would never have known
that the Exposition had been held in
the Coliseum for every trace and
semblance of the gaily decorated
aisles and colorful booths had been
eliminated and the aspect of the hall
returned to normal.
Only one person in Kenosha suffered
any i'll results directly from the Home
exposition and that was Proprietor
McOwen of the Kenosha Hotel who
lost perfectly good chamber maid
through the public wedding. Just as
soon as the bride recovered from the
fright and toimidity displayed the night
of the wedding, she became the re-
verse and stoutly declared she was
through with work and that hereafter
she would confne her labors to making
home comfortable for hubby, but that
hubby must Bring home the bacon, -
so to speak. Hence, McOwen is seek
ing more help for his hotel now and
the only specifications he demands
is that they. serve him with a
weeks notice when they contemplate
matrimony.
1t might be interesting to note that
the Bruner Dairy display gave out
over six thousand sample bottles of
their milk and buttermilk during the
week and that he disposed of over two
tons of cottage cheese through the
Exposition to say nothing of the but
ter he disposed of. He estimates
the advertising value Of his booth at
five hundred dollars to him.
Numerous pianos and graphaphones
were sold outright from the booths of
the music exhibitors and the records
and music rolls disposed of were lost
count of in the shuttle. H. E. Halvor-
sen, who was sent here by the Jelke
butterine people to take charge of their
booth, said that he had not attended
more successful show in his career
and that he was authorized by his com
pany, on the strength of the amount of
orders taken at the Exposition to
sign contracts at once for next year
if possible, but the Retailers AS
ISOLATION have formulated no plans
as yet for 1918.
1t is source of much satisfaction
to the committee in charge of the
event, to be able to point to their sue
cessful efforts in making this Keno
sha's biggest commercial show and
the whole reflects much credit for I'M
firing efforts and downright hard work
by the entire committee.
One phase of the Exposition which
enabled the association to make the
affair big, was the hearty cooperation
extended by the members on every
hand and this alone speaks volumns
towards establishing the Home Exposi-
ton and Style Show in Kenosha as
an annual institution
President johnson of the association
will meet with the committee and re-
ceive the financial report formally
from Secretary Maddox in the course
of few days.