The Punta Gorda herald. [volume] (Punta Gorda, Fla.) 1893-1958, 1920-03-11
Benny krausc and l.. StallO Will Dis
play Punta Gorda Banners and
Distribute Literature I'm
Many States, Free.
ADVERTISING COMMITTEE
is PLANNING CAMPAIGN
Contemplate Publication of Hand
soonest Punta Gorda Booklet
Ever Issued as Well as Other
Publicity.

During the coming summer and
fall and winter hundreds of thous-
possibly millions-of people
are going to hear of Punta Gorda
through the efforts of the CONNER
cial Club and some of it's members
and friends.
TWO large banners, one three by
twenty feet, the other about six by
eight feet, setting forth in necessar-
lily terse wording the beauties and
advantages of Punta Gorda-"The
| Golden Gate of the South"-will be
carried and exhibited by Benny
krause, proprietor of the Krause
Exposition Shows, and L. Stallo, ex-
hibitor with another large carnival
organization. In addition to these
banners, Messrs. Krause and Stallo
will be supplied with large amount
of descriptive advertising matter
which they have agreed to distribute
in the towns where they show; Thos.
Clark, of the Gribble Poster Adver-
tising Co, of Louisville, Ky, who.
will in a few days start a tour of tba
southern states, will also carry and
distribute literature, and the adver-
using committee Of the Commercial
club is planning to issue the hand
soonest booklet Punta Gorda ever
published, as a supplementary med
lum TO newspaper and magazine ad-
fortunately Messrs. Krause and
Stallo are residents and propertv
owners of Punta Gorda, members of
the Commercial Club and two of the
towns best boosters, or it would he
impossible for the Commercial Club
TO pay them enough to display the
banners referred to and distribute
me literature. AS it is, they have
volunteered to do this for nothing.
refusing any compensation, the onlv
expense to the club in this connection
being the cost of having the banners
painted and the literature printed.
;. w. Hewitt had volunteered to paw
or the banners but the Commercial
Jlub has assumed this expense.
The banner to be carried by Mr..
Hrause will be exhibited in connec-
ion with one of the free attractions
'f his shows. either the high-dive or
wire act, and the one to be carried by
Nr. Stailo will be shown in front of
lis attraction. The Krause shows
exhibit at fairs exclusively and have
season of several months, during
U n N FfNnp cd
ically all the south Atlantic states.
The advertising committee of the
Club met Monday night
or the purpose of discussing and
nd preparing the literature to be
upplied to these men and it was de-
ided to get up a neat folder of con-
enient size and to supply these in
yhatever quantity they could use.
he matter of issuing a booklet and
Magazine advertising, using the book
Its as a supplementary medium and
ending them out upon request, thus
the usual heavy waste,
as discussed.
In contemplation of the issuance
this booklet, which will be sent to
)me printer in Florida, and for this
sason the material must be gather
as soon as possible, the advertis-
g committee is asking that per-
ms who have photographs of hunt
g scenes, large catches of fish,
'etty water and woods scenes, farm
grove scenes, or anything unusual
Id interesting, lend them to the
as this is the only manner
which much of this kind of mater
can be secured.