The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1896-11-23
Commercial Club Will Assem-
bic Tomorrow Afternoon
To Take Up s"TOpeka Pure
Food Exposition.
CALL MADE FOR SPACE
AIready-One Comes From Lin
coin, Nebraska.
Advertising Matter Being Pre-
pared for the Show.

A special meeting Of the Topeka Com
nercial club has been called for 3 p IA.
tomorrow to consider the Topeka Pure
Food Show and appoint delegates to the
Kansas Pure Food association which IS
10 meet for organization in Topeka on
December /.
The Commercial club has been asked
to name five delegates to assist in the
organization and in the management of
the exhibition, and that will be done.
The club is not expected to do more as
a body except to encourage the enter
prise as much as possible.
The Kansas Retail Grocers' associa-
tiOn which was organized in Topeka
during the Fall Festival will be repre-
sented in the organization of the Pure
Food association by the following gen
tlemen; T. N. Hanley and T. r Ian
non, Topeka; Frank Steinberg, Els
worth; Otto +. Lutt, Salina; Charles +.
Kaffer, Atchison; Percy r. Morse, Otta-
wa; John Erbacher, st. Marys.
Secretary Adams is already receiving
letters from manufacturers asking for
space at the show. These letters are
growing more numerous every day, but
appOrtonment Of space will not be
made until the organization of the State
Pure Food association
w. A. Carlisle, representing the Nor
folk Roller Mills of Lincoln Neb call
ed at the Office and asked for space at
the show to make a display of their pro-
duct He was assured that he would be
given space.
A letter has been received from F. H.
ParkhurSt. who is now in Chicago and
who has travelled all over the country
attending food shows and representing
the Topeka Milling company. Mr..
ParkhurSt says.
There will be no doubt of the sue
cess of such an undertaking in Topeka.
I should say that Hamilton building is
large enough to have q monster show"
Nearly all the people who have at
tended food shows have seen them con
Quoted as private enterprises to make
money, and they cannot all realize at
once the scope of the proposed show in
Topeka where there will be no money
making accessories.
The exhibitors are used to paying
high prices for booth space while in To
peka the charge viii be nominal and
where there will be an effort made to
making everything as attractive as pos
sible and a feature for the whole state
The secretary has decided to call the
affair The Topeka Mid-Winter FeSt-
val and Pure Food Exhibition" Adver-
Using matter is already being prepared
for distribution and it viii go to grocers
in every part of the state.
The business with eastern inanufac-
lures will be done through Secretary
Mcguire of the Chicago Pure sTOod assO-
citation and this will tighten the work of
the local officers who will simply pro
vide space and entertainment for the
exhibitors.
The last body to elect delegates will
be the Kansas Wholesale Grocers' assO-
Slet1lolt' anu tHey VIII pfoDaDly pc
named this week The secretary of the
proposed exposition has written Presi-
dent w H. Davis of the wholesalers
association, requesting that dele
gates be named to participate in the or
ganizatiOn of the State Pure Food as
ISOLATION.
President Davis is much in favor of
the project and he assures the secreta-
~ that the delegates Will be named as
soon as possible. They will represent
the largest wholesale houses in Kan
sas.
Herbert Hackney of the Topeka Mill
ing company which has had a represen-
tative at various food shows in the east
is enthusiastic over the project and ne
will do all he can to assure the success
of the Topeka exposition
"A pure food show would be an ex-
cellent thing for Topeka said Mr.
Hackney. I believe it would do the
town almost as much good as the Fan
Festival did