The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1902-08-02
HOME OF Watermelon.

is positively no limit and there are
physicians there to look after those
who eat too much. The melon growers
donate the greater part of the melons
used.
Clyde is substantial little town of
brick sidewalks and other up-to-date
ideas. The coming of the carnival each
year is the signal for the town to clean
up. The residents believe in civic i'm
provements. Yards are mown and
raked, stores are freshly painted and
during the carnival everything is fresh
and bright.
The people open their homes to the
visitors. Those who stay both days are
trains are run from the surrounding
towns and last year the crowd for the
first day was estimated to number $1,000
people. There are vaudeville features,
band concerts, baseball games and all
sorts of arnuSementS.
People who go to Clyde do not have
to be church members but they must be
of the right sort. Last year pick
pocket grabbed pocketbook from some
one in the crowd. Immediately there was
hubbub and before the thief had gone
ten feet he thought from the noise that
the entire $4,000 people were after him.
He ran through the streets to merry
go-round and jumped aboard. 1t was
to him like playing roulette wheel
AS he went around he hooked for a
place to escape. The crowd stopped the
merry-go-round. The thief lost and was
locked up in the little jail. Less than
half an hour afterward his pal Snatched
another pocketbook and was run into
a livery barn and in few minutes was
with his companion in the jail They
were taken to Concordia and tried and
sent to the penitentiary. They will not
be at the carnival this year.
One of the features for the coming
carnival will be the fireworks display of
1.-THE Eruption of Mt. Pelee." Sid H.
Knapp, who has charge of the baseball
feature, is watching the records of the
teams IN Kansas and will hang up .
purse for two games between the two
strongest mines in the state.
Another feature of the carnival will
be the appearance of w. J. Bailey, the
Republican nominee for governor, and
w. H. Craddock, the fusion nominee.
Congressman A. M. Jackson, w. A. Cal
derhead, Charles Curtis and Chester I.
Long, Senators w. A. Harris and ]. r.
Burton will also speak and there will
be few Of the smaller fry to talk also.
The people of Clyde have formed the
Clyde Carnival association for the pur-
pose of giving the feasts. D. Lake is
president, DR.. w. B. Beach is vice
president, E. J. Weise is secretary and
D. H. Atwood is treasurer. Mrs. Fife
Peck and Miss Frances E. Hardesty
have charge of the flower parade.
Besides the watermelons eaten at
Clyde during the carnival there will be
about 800 car loads shipped away this
summer to western and northern points.
Those who grow melons around Clyde
have formed an association to keep
growers from other places from calling
their products Clyde grown melons"
The members Of the association are as
follows:
D. Lake, G. H. Hudson, VIM Turner.
Alex. Turner, Geo. H. Hudson, James
Moorehouse, w. H. Denton, Peter
Pitsch, P. L. Brooks, J. NJ. Dawson,
Daniel Shorer, Frank Sweeney, U. J.
Smith, Norman Brooks, A. G. Mont
gomery. A. M. Garwood. Herbert Hakes
The people of Clyde invite outsiders
to come to their town to live. They
have issued the following invitation:
We invite every one who wants to
come west, to come to Clyde. We think
we have the most genial, social and
cultivated community in the state.
Bring with you a certificate of good
moral character. that you are honest.
temperate and respectable citizens and
you will find in us friends. from whom
you will not wish to depart.
The city of Clyde has about 1000 peo-
pie. 1t has three trunk railroads now
actually in operation. The Missouri Pa
cif1c from st. Louis, Kansas City and
Atchison; the Union Pacific from Kan
sas City. and the Chicago Rock Island
and Pacific from Chicago and Kansas
City. The Missouri Pacific will I'M
doubtedly be extended next year through
Colorado and on to the Pacific slope
With these three roads now here, af-