The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1923-08-16
Business Mems Association
Announce Plans for
Fall Festival.
PLAN MANY FEATURES.
Style Show with Live Models
from Hollywood, Pavement
Dancing, Entertainments.


A fall festival, more extensive than
any which Kenosha has had in past
years, IS being planned according to
announcements made this morning by
officials of the Downtown Business
Mems Association of Kenosha, re-
Gently organized group of business
men in this city. The mammoth fall
festival is to be staged here in Sep
TENDER, q to %, inclusive, and is to
provide many features to make Ke-
nosha the mecca for the people of
Kenosha and Racine counties in Wis
consin and Lake County in Illinois,
Coincident with the announcement
of the plans for the festival is the
statement regarding the Organization
of the Downtown Business Mems as
ISOLATION, the unit which will sponsor
the festival. This organization was
perfected several weeks ago securing
as it's members more than eighty-five
per cent of the bushes men in the
downtown district. 1t is to work in
cooperation with the Kenosha Retail
ers' association, its members also be-
ing for the greater part members of
the Retailers organization.
Name officers OF Association.
at the Anschel-Ming, announcement
was made of the officers and directors
of the new association as follows:
President, T. J. Dale; Vice President,
William Block; Secretary, J. c. Step
han; Treasurer, John Regner. The
directors are: William Block, 7. j..
Dale, Fred Raiman, John Regner, Ed
ward Dayton, A. L. Paradise, Joseph
Rhode, J. C. Stephan and Samuel Nor
rison.
The committee on membership has
been named as follows: S. R. Gordon,
chairman; William Kamm, Louis Tur-
ner, Charles Pope, D. Korf and Ed
ward Sullivan.
Many Angles so Festival.
There are to be many angles to the
mammoth fall festival which is being
planned by the association. 1t is to
have as one of its features fall
style show with live models from
Hollywood; this is to be staged both
in the various stores of the members
and at the theatres. There will also
be general entertainments provided
for the days of the festival including
plans for pavement dancing at night.
Committees have been named to for
mulate plans for baby show, an au-
tomomile show, live stock and poul-
try show and other features. Band
concerts will mark the evening enter
tainments. Three hundred prizes are
to be offered in the various exhibits
with the eligibility list extending for
entries from Kenosha and Racine coun-
ties in Wisconsin and Lake county in
Illinois.
Made in Kenosha Day.
One of the features of the festival
will be made in Kenosha Day" dur
ing the seven days of the festival.
There will be offered prize for the
automobile making the longest trip to
reach Keffosha for the festival.
A committee is now at work on a
plan to bring "movie starr here for
the opening day of the festival. They
have been successful in securing a
promise that one of the first magni-
tude will be sent to Kenosha for the
occasion if this is at all possible.
i ne 1GSI1NctI Will DS C4ulFdlSllk W
fair and will have many added fea-
lures A farmers institute will be
conducted for the benefit of the farm
ers of the three counties. More detail
ed announcements regarding the fes-
tival are to be made later.
General Meeting Thursday.
A general meeting of the members
of the Downtown Business Mems as
ISOLATION to continue discussion of
plans for the festival il to be held
Thursday evening at six-thirty at the
Anschel- Ming.
The following committees have been
named for the festivals:
Entertainment: Edward Dayton, c..
L. Collins, Joseph G. Rhode, Ben Cohn,
Nick Demos and Joseph Cardinal
Publicity: Peter Rhode, E. l.. Sulli-
ivan, A. T. Hansen, Ben Cohn, D. S.
Wilson, Frank Isermann and j. Nuss-
baum.