The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-08-18
IN PARADISE FLATS.
The Big Jubilee at PIainville Attracts
Attention.

P1alnville, Kas., Aug. 1S.-No peo-
pie had a better right to celebrate
their first harvest jubilee with great
street fair and baseball tournament
than those who have built up Plain
vile, Rocks county trade center and
the capital of Paradise Flats in the
center of which is the town, which will
have completed before the close of
the year no less than 100 buildings,
business and residence, since the open
ing of 1905.
The town has been jammed with
people for two days, and while the
weather was hot it didn't look as if any
of the population of Rocks county was
missing. Besides there were visitors
present from Russell, Osborne, Ellis
and Graham counties. All came to
see real live town and witness the
remarkable building activity Plainville
has been undergoing in the last few
years. The organization of the bust
ness mems Commercial club a short
time since, which today has a member
ship of about fifty representative peo-
pie, was the password for enterprise
and push. The election of officers re-
suited in putting the club in young
business mems hands, as follows:
President, F. C. Cochran; secretary, H.
j. Lambert; treasurer, r. ]. McClay.
One of the first moves was to get the
Salina business mems club 10 visit
ElalnVille, which was SO big a success
that they are willing to visit the town
again, they were so pleasantly enter
tanned while here. They are after the
Topeka club to make them a visit, and
4 royal good time the PlainvilIe club
VIII show them.
No sooner was a street fair suggested
than the club took hold of it, and thou
sands of people have enjoyed it the
two days. The amusements were the
best the well known Parker Amuse-
ment company had. Gambling was
shut out entirely, and the thirsty had
all the water they wanted, for there
are more than 100 windmills on the
townsite in operation all the time and
they bring ample water to the surface
for drinking and lawn sprinkling. For
this street fair and harvest jubilee the
Plainville Commercial club will hap
PLY expend between $1,000 and $1,000.
The town is gaily decorated, and it
looks as if all her people were in
hearty accord to see that her visitors
go home satisfied that they took i'm
PlainvilIe's first successful street fair.
The old people were here as well as
all the younger crowd, and one needn't
go to the older settled east to see fairer
or more stylishly dressed young ladies
than could be seen at the Plainville
street fair and harvest jubilee.
Prosperity has been on the side of
the Paradise Flats farmers for a num-
Der of years. Bountiful crops have
been gathered for several years in
succession, until every farmer carries
a bank account to his credit. They
their threshing and farm
work, and came to Plainville to cele-
brate and laugh and grow more good
natured, and even younger. So sue
cessful has been this first one, that the
Commercial club will make it perma-
nent There is nothing so remarkable
about the success of this street fair
when one recalls that Plainville is
situated on Paradise Flats, a perfect
garden of beauty, with straw stacks
and filled granaries on every hand.
and is therefore the proud capital of
Paradise Flats.