The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1921-01-11
Buy.a.Plank Drive TO be Launched
at 10 o'clock When First Plank
VIII be Sold at Auction to
High Bidder
ELKS BAND WILL PLAY,
WHISTLES WILL BLOW"
Parade TO Form at City Hall: Ban.
ners by Firms and Organizations
to be Allowed In Column;
Meeting Tonight
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= The time: 10 o'clock tomor. 1
I row morning.
= The place: chickasha avenue 4
+ and Fourth street. 4
: The association: The launch 4
+ ing OF the "Buy-a-Plank" drive I
+ of the Hot Stove League, with =
j. the auctioning OF OF the first Z
4. plank upon which is TO be Z
I. carved the name OF the pur- I
!. chaser. The plank is then to be 4
! posted above the entrance TO Z
: the park that the thousands Z
I who come and 90 may see, the Z
i name of the King Bee OF Chick, =
= ASIA sportdom. I
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It is indicated this morning that
everything Is in readiness for the
drive. A committee of ladies' has
been named and after the first plank
Is knocked down to the highest bid.
der, this committee will work the
down-towp district and given every
one an opportunity to buy as many
planks at dollar apiece. as they
choose. Tags, bearing the words,
1--WE Bought My Plank" will be fur
nished and win be given the fans as
they make their purchases.
Mrs. Harry Hammerly Is chairman
of this committee and serving with
her on it are: Mrs. Will Melton. Mr7.
Roy Lewis. Mrs. James Brooks. Mrs.
c. c. Steinberger Mrs. Geo. Evans,
Mrs. A. B. Leeds, Mrs. Fred Frev.
Mrs. IT. A, Ludlow, Mrs. Roy G..
Smith, Mrs Bertram Harris, Mrs.
Ben +. Johnson. Mrs. James Mont.
gomery and Mrs. Dolly lsler.
Shock Troops on Job.
In addition to this committee, a
company of "Shock Troops" will be
used in command Of Brgadier Gen
eral jim Montgomery. He has not
announced the members Of this COM
pany but they will be on the job
tomorrow morning at 10 o'clock and
the minute t'e first plank Is sold
those "Shock Troops will charge
the assembled crowd and sell a lum-
Der yard or two in the form of so
many planks per person.
Work in the Rock Island shops
will be done by a committee selected
by S. A. Shaw, himself shopman
and a member of the executive COM
mittee of the Hot Stove league. Ha
had not announced the personnel o.
his soliciting committees this morn
ing.
There is to be plenty of noise. The
affair is to open with blasts from
the fire sireen and other whistles in
Chickasha at promptly 10 o'clock.
Chief George Gattis is to furnish a
fire truck, there are to be repre-
sentatives of the Chickasha high
school, the Rock Island shops and
the stores and business firms OF the
city in an impromptu parade that is
planned to proceed the auctioning
off of the first plank by Col E. j.
Hubbard.
A committee. named by the exeeu-
tive committee of the Hot Stove
League was to call upon the mer
chants and business firms Of the
city this morning and ascertain
whether or not they desired to gel
their firm name in the parade as
having purchased number o.
planks. Several organizations, sucl
as the American Legion, the Rotary
club and labor unions, will have
banners in the parade and severa
firms had, last night, expressed thei
intention of getting in with We've
Bought Planks'' banners.
The Skys The Limit.
The planks sell at 81 apiece, bu
there is no limit on the number o
planks any individual can purchase
it is pointed out.
Il understand that the planks ar
a dollar per, but the way | figure
is, the sky's the limit" said Howar