The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1900-04-21
EXHIBITORS COMING.
Street Fair Committee Receives
Many Applications.

Applications are now coming in daily
for space in the Topeka street fair.
These applications are coming both
from Kansas and from other states
Manufacturers in other states who rea-
lie the value of street fair exhibits,
such as are proposed by Topeka, seem
to be anxious for space.
Among the recent applications for
space is that of a varnish company at
Abilene. 1t is probable that not one
man in one hundred, even in central
Kansas, knows that there is a varnish
house at Abilene, but they will know
1T If the company makes a, good exhibit
at the Topeka street fair, and If the
article which the company sells is a
good one, Kansas people will buy it.
Another Abilene man is figuring on
making an extensive exhibit at Topeka.
He manufactures merry-go-I oundS,
mechanical shooting galleries, and other
devices of that character. His factory
is purely a Kansas institution, yet he
ships merry go-rounds to all parts of
the world. One of his latest orders
came from South Africa
The wholesale implement dealers as
sociation has notified the street fair
committee of its final determination to
make an extensive exhibit. This means
that a great variety of farm machinery
will be on exhibition, probably in mo-
ton, and it will be of especial intere st
to farmers from all parts of the state.
Such an exhibit will also be a novelty
to everyone else, and will add much to
the attractiVeneSS of the street fair.
A gentleman from Jewell county was
in Topeka yesterday making inquiries
! concerning space in which to make an
exhibit of the resources of Jewell
county Jewell claims to be the banner
corn county of the state. lis crop
nearly always runs over 10000 0O0 bush
| els a year. There are single townships
in the county whose corn crop runs we'll
up toward the million bushel mark
which the state of Kansas proposes to
send to India. Jewell county alone
could send a million bushels OF corn
to India and the corn cribs of the
county would scarcely show it.
Republic and Smith counties. how
| ever, contest JEWELS claim to being
| the banner corn county of the world.
| The former especially disputes the
| claim. Republic county is not as large
| as Jewell and it sets up the claim
! that in proportion to its corn acreage
! it is a better corn county than Jewell.
/ The Smith county papers allege that
While Jewell county people are truthful
| enough in other matters, the peculiar
atmosphere of the county has developed
| a race of abnormal corn preVaricatorS.
| Jewell county has thus far been meet
| ing these assertions with figures, and
for months a lively debate has been
/ in progress between the newspapers
| of the three counties. JeWeI county
now proposes to back up its claims
with an exhibit at the Topeka street
fair, and let the people of Kansas and
the west be the judges as to whether or
| not she is entitled to the credit of be-
| ing the banner corn county of the
world. The contract for space has not
yet been closed, but it is likely that the
Jewell county men who are pack of
the proposition will carry it out, and
the other two counties may do like
wise.
The street fair executive committee
is also receiving many inquiries regard
ing the proposed bsby shows Kansas
! can show as many pretty babies as
any state in the union, and lots OF
them. The committee has not arranged
any of the details of the baby shows
but a sub committee of ladies will be
appointed in the near future to do so