The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1922-08-22
BUYERS WEEK
WILL ATTRACT
MANY VISITORS
Thousands Expected to View
Wholesale Merchants
Exposition.
KAHLo EXPLAINS PLANS
Chairman Of Arrangements
Committee Sees Resultant
Benefits.

SeneTlLSs
Arrangements are being perfected
rapidly for Buyers week. to be held
by Indianapolis wholesalers Aug. 2S
to Sept. 2, when thousands Of retailers
from over the IndiarS polls wholesale
trade territory are expected to come
into the city.
Buyers week is being arranged by
a committee Of the Chamber of Com
merce, composed Of Harry c. Kahlo.
Ravens & Geddes Company; Claude H.
Crowder. Crowder, Cooper
Shoe Company; Ferd L. Hollweg,
Mutual China Company; A. G. Rud-
dell, Central Rubber and Supply Com
pany; a. Kiefer Mayer, Kefer-Stewart
Company, and Earl L. Ferguson, sec
rotary of the wholesale trade division
Of the Indianapolis Chamber of Com
merce. This committee is a sub-com-
mittee Of the wholesale trade commit
tee Of the chamber. It has been work
ing on plans for several weeks
Firms Cooperating
The wholesale firms who are repre-
scented In the Buyers week enterprise
are as follows: American Appliance
Company, Cartinho1r-Bowm Com
pany, Central Rubber and Supply
Company, Central Wall Paper and
Paint Company, Crescent Paper Com
pany Crowder-Cooper Shoe Company.
E. c. Dolmetsch Company. Eastern
Rock Island Plow Company. Efroym-
son & Wolf, Hamilton, Harris & Co,
Ravens & Geddes Company, Hibben,
Hollweg & Co., ". J. Holiday & Co.
Indianapolis Saddlery Company,
Kiefer-Stewart Company. Kipp Broth
ers Company, Observation-Disclosures Com
pany, c. W. Letter Hat Company.
Lewis Meier & Co., Mooney-Musller-
Ward Company, Mutual China Com
pany. Schnull G Co.. Standard Metal
Company, Tanner & Co.. United States
Rubber Company, Van Camp Hard
ware end Iron Company. Varney Elec-
trical Supply Company and Allen A
Wilkinson Lumber Company.
Il has been explained by Mr.. Kahlo
that Buyers week Is a great mer-
chandising exposition, staged for the
purpose OF acquainting retailers with
the quality Of merchandise that has
made Indianapolis goods bought and
respected over half 8 continent. It
is not only TO bring these buyers in
here and to give them some real bar
gains to start of the fall business,
but it is to acQuaint them personally
with the character and reputation Of
the wholesale firms which have made
Indianapolis famous as a center OF
distribution for North America.
Displays Of new and seasonable
merchandise OF every kind by every
one OF the firms cooperating with
Buyers week would be a feature. but
according TO Mr.. Kahlo these displays
Of merchandise will not be all that
VIII attract the buyers.
Buyers week will be a gold mine
Of new money-making merchandising
ideas. The various wholesale houses
are planning many educational stunts
for the dealers.
4 very large invitation showing
scenes about Indianapolis and giving
details Of the Buyers week program
is being sent to the retailers by the
various houses this week. The invi-
tation to the retailers 10 come to the
Buyers week reads as follows:
"AIl Indianapolis, and the Indian
apolis wholesale firms listed in this
circular especially, will welcome you
during Buyers week, Aug. 2S to Sept.
2. Come to Indianapolis and be rs
sured Of a Hoosier welcome and an
intensely interesting and profitable
trip.
Displays Planned
Special displays OF new and sea
sonable merchandise have been ar
ranged by the Indianapolis wholesale
firms listed herein. You VIII find in
these displays some wonderfully at
tractive merchandising and new. live.
money-making merchandising ideas.
Your trip viii be an inspiration and
It VIII pay you IN dollars and cents
to come.
Situated IN the center Of popula-
ton and-the center Of industry OF the
Nation, Indianapolis Is the natural
wholesale distributing point for q veri-
table commercial empire. The growth
Of Indianapolis wholesale business has
kept pace with its opportunities. To-
day Indianapolis wholesale firms and
Indianapolis merchants ara known
wherever good merchandise is sold.
More than the profits ard the dol
lars and cents value of your trip to
indianapolis during Buyers week, you
will have a good time. Indianapolis.
famous as q convention city, will show
YOU a good time. Indianapolis knows
how. Theaters, parks, clubs. golf,
baseball, good hotels, boulevards,
places to dine-everything that goes
with a big, hospitable, metropolitan
city Is here.
Make your plans to come to In
dtanapolis. It WI pay you"