The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1919-03-07
Mercha I'D L4slness Men
Busy on Plans for Booster
Tour; Visit Chickasha
Trade Territory.
GET ACQUAINTED is
OBJECT or JOURNEY
Be Away Three Days; Band,
Boosterettes, Automobiles,
Souvenirs on Tap; Ex-
pect 200 People.

N FPlans are rapidly nearing compile
tion for the Chickasha trade excur
sion which will lbe staged in the
surrounding territory on March 25
4 rs and 27, when Chickasha mer.
a chants, business and professional
men representing every wide-awake
enterprise in the city, will join in
visiting The people in the towns and
districts of Chickashas trade terri
tory.
It won't be anything but get
acquainted" affair, but it will be all
of that and then some. There will
be nothing for sale on the trip. The
proposition, as summed up by. To-
cal merchant today is as follows:
"Chickasha merchants have been
asking the people in the trade ter
litory to come to Chickasha and
see them Now, on this trade excur-
sion, Chickasha is going to go to
them, shake them by the hand, slip
them souvenir, tell them we ap-
preciate their business, meet the
whole family from father to the
hired hand and then tell them that
a be glad 0 $50 tAtla ia
Chickasha, because we have a reg
ular town that is going to be lot
better When we leave town we
want them to feel that Chickasha
Slks are the right. sort"
This is not strictly a tour for the
boosters. The boosterettes will be
there with bells on. In fact they
are booked to be one of the 'main-
est parts of the brigade. They are
going to invite MIt. Verden, Mrs.
Anadarko, Mrs. TIttle, Mrs. Dun
can and all the rest to come over to
Chickasha and swap ideas on the
latest methods Of putting fancy
work on the pillow cases and point
lace on the handkerchiefs, or
whether the incubation plan of rails
ing chickens is equal to the time
honored custom of setting 'em undef
old "Biddy"
And that amt all No ma'am.
What would a booster trip be with
out band? Answer: A fizzle Well
this one is not going to be a fizzle,
if the Chickasha has to blow the
bell off the big tuba, cave in the
bass drum and wiggie all the thing
o'-ma-bobs off the clarinet. The
Chickasha band is goin to be there
and with three-day job staring
them in the face aul with the OPP
portunity of advertising themselves
over a wide territory bobbing up,
the organization is slated to work
oEer-time to get the old lip in shape.
HThey will ship out Of here with
the cargo on the morning of March
25 and they are due to play con-
cert every time the caravan stops 10
pump up a tire or give the fliyver a
drink at the town pump.
According to the plans that are
under way now, there will be less
of the spell-binding orat-ons and
more of the hand-shaking going cp.
Figuring on the basis that The pub
lie is pretty well fed Up on these
Four-Minute men who speak niue
hours at stretch, the chief exocr-
toner will be there with a friendly
club handy to cool the first man
who attempts to say more than a
few "wen chosen words"
The plans call for night in An
adarko and one in Duncan with
stops at every town on the route.
Arrangements will be made in ad-
vance for dinner at the towns Sc
leeted and with breakfast and sup
per at the two towns mentioned.
Two committees started work in
'sbe city today getting UP a list of
.&hose who represent the various
Chickasha business houses. These
committees were appointed from the
Retail Merchants association and