Caddo- My Home Town: Corn Carnival Boosters

Attractions

The Caddo Cafe
Friday Night All-You-Can-Eat Catfish! Call 367-9800 for hours and details.
Rex II
Restored movie theater. Call 580-367-2000 for show times.
Indian Territory Museum and Library
A free look into Caddo's rich heritage. Open Tues.-Sat. from 10am to 3pm
Craighead's
This turn-of-the-century general store is a must see! Open: M-Th 'til 5:30 and F-Sat. 9:00-7:00.

Organizations

Caddo Alumni Association
The alumni association arranges a Caddo High School reunion every four years. Next one is 2012.
Caddo Educational Foundation
This group provides scholarships for community youth.
Caddo Civic and Cemetery Club
This group maintains and improves the cemetery and provides community service as needed.
Town Restoration Association of Caddo
The mission of TRAC is to provide visionary leadership, focus on historical preservation, and promote economic growth to enrich the quality of life in our community.
Caddo Community Association
The CCA holds the annual Heritage Day Celebration and participates in other community projects.

The Caddo Herald

August 1, 1913

75 Boosters from Caddo

With auto horns blowing and pennants flying from fifteen autos, the Caddo boosters, seventy-five strong, arrived in the county seat today noon. The boosters are out on an advertising expedition, advertising the Fifth Annual Caddo Corn Carnival, which will be held in Caddo on August 20-23.

The cars were driven to the Atwood Hotel where the boosters alighted and marched back up the street to the corner of Main and Third. The Caddo band of eighteen pieces led the boosters, rendering music. Several pieces of music were played, after which they were served with dinner at the café.

Directly after dinner the party again formed in line and paraded Third Avenue where the band played for some time, after which Hon. J. T. McIntosh delivered a speech of welcome in which he complimented the party upon their enterprise and the creditable showing made, paying a tribute to the party who had made the Caddo Corn Carnival a success.

Claude Smith, a well known attorney of Caddo, responded in which he thanked the citizens for the courtesy extended and for the whole-souled manner in which they were met by the people of Durant. Both these addresses were short but were appreciated.

W. F. Dodd, J. W. Crutchfield, and H. T. Chiles were in charge of the party and they report having met with a warm welcome at each stop on their journey. The party left Caddo this morning at 9:30.

After dinner the different members of the party passed out advertising literature and at 2 o’clock departed for places in the southern part of the county. They will spend the night in Denison, Texas, returning tomorrow by way of Bennington, Bokchito, and other towns in the eastern section of the county.

County Judge Rappolee, an old-time citizen of Caddo accepted an invitation to go with the party and he accompanied them from here.

While in the city this morning the committee made arrangements with the Durant league team to play Denison three games at the carnival. The two teams will be held together after the season closes on the 18^th, and will play a game each day of the carnival at Caddo. Durant Democrat

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