The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1917-01-25
PUBLIC WEDDING PLANNED
Handsome Gifts to Be Presented to Bride
and Groom Who Aid in Making Big
Exposition a Success - Executive
Committee In Session Monday Eve.

The first gun was fred yesterday by
the Retail Merchant IS Association
when they offered for sale the booth
space at their Home Exposition and
1917 Style Show which will take place
in the Coliseum during the entire week
of February 18th, and judging from
the eagerness which the local mer-
chants displayed in securing space for
their divers displays, it appears
that before the opening date rolls
around, the Coliseum may prove made
quate to accommodate all the exhibitors
Another get-together meeting of the
executive committee was held last
night when a definite campaign was
lodged to offer the local retailers an
opportunity to engage space in order
that the merchants can choose their
locations first as several national ex-
hlbitors have already applied. All the
local merchants will be called upon be.
fore any outsiders are allotted space
for as the term "Home Exposition
implies, it will be an exhibit of what
can be purchased right here at home
One Of the biggest nights Of the
affair will be Thursday night, Febru-
airy 18th which has been designated as
"Public Wedding Night at which
time some local young couple will be
joined in the bonds of matrimony be
fore the exposition visitors and as
an incentive to any local young couple
contemplating taking the marital step
the committee has voted to present
them with twenty dollar gold piece
and pay all the expenses incumbent
upon the ceremony. Besides this, the
various merchants will present the
newly WEEDS with some token from their
representative stock of merchandise
with which to send them on their<patE
of welded bliss. The couple has not
as, yet been selected, but will be with
in the next week and should this come
to the notice of any couple contemp
lating matrimony, they still have a
chance to be the lucky couple and ear
get full particulars by applying at the
exposition headquarters which are 10
Gated on the second floor of the Cham
Der of Commerce building, and asking
be made public until the night Of the
| wedding and the ceremony will be per
formed by some local minister OF
magistrate which may be chosen BY
the couple themselves.
This is only one of the special events
which will take place each and every
evening during the affair and which
are contemplated will attract large
crowds to the exposition.
The Kenosha retailers have inaugur
ated this big affair with an aim OF
bringing merchant and customer closer
together and convincing the buying
public that they can furnish anything
| that might be desired in their partic.
ular lines and with this in view, the
price Of admission to the hall has been
placed at len cents, which entities each
visitor to take in the whole show with
out having to pay anything additional,
after getting inside. The Style Show
will take place on stage in the rear
center of the hall and the one admis
sion fee at the door "pays the bill
as the advertising aptly states.
The diagram already shows quite 9
number of the spaces taken and al
this rate, the entire floor will be sold
out within the next few DAYS.