The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-09-15

Mrs. Edwin Hase, Mrs. Glen Sprague,
Mrs. j oe Thomas, Misses lila Price and
Joie Singleton.
Mrs. William P. Erhardt's road wagon,
decorated in blue china asters, occupied
by Blossom Balderson and Clayton and
Eugene Carter.
Nurse, Pearl Richey; baby, Inez Stan
ley.
English trap-BeIonging to J. NJ. and
Roy TTimble, decorated by the Bell
Telephone company. Decorations: Pale
green and white chrysanthemums.
Misses Pearl Hudson, Nellie and Myrtle
Jones, and Minnie Joray.
Mrs. E. G. Harwi's phaeton-Decorat-
ed in white and pink poppies, Edwin
Harwi and Flora Brownson.
Mrs. Oscar Polk's feature-"Crown-
ing the King Water lily and morning
glory vine float. Gladys Polk placing
crown on King Corn. Attendants:
Helen Polk, Margaret and Josephine
Altman, Nina and Hester Leslie.
Midland college feature-A barouche,
decorated in orange and black poppies.
Misses Grace Brown, Irene TroxeH,
Hazel Carlisle.
Feature of the Auxiliary of the Loco
motive Engineers-"The Old Oaken
Bucket" on a float of blue and white
poppies. Rose Noble, Olive Coleman,
Kenneth Thomas.
Baby carriag in white
and lavender chrysanthemums. Nurse,
oSuldH GuIZ11ans DdDy, O6OTSle M0S1Sus
Runabout-Decorated in yellow chrys-
anthernums, occupied by Misses Annie
Footit and Muriel Nesbitt.
Mrs. A. M. Moore's feature-A high
trap decorated in blue and white pop
pies, and occupied by four tow headed
little girls: Frances and Katherine,
Cole, of Kansas City, and Helen
Moore and Helen Herring, of Atchison.
Bicycle-Decorated in white chrysan-
themums. Junior Plumb.
T. II 4@1 t. Oh lac ~
lavender and occupied by the young
girls of the Sycamore club: Misses
Gladys Parker, Annie Selby, June
Uhrich. Ruth Cain, Ruby Chisham,
Sara North, Sarah voolfolk, Ethel
Bowen and Florence Cain.
Old fashioned bicycle, decorated in
the national colors. Rider, ''Uncle
Sam
The United Commercial Travellers
feature: Floral ship, decorated in
bearing the emblem of the order: The
crew. Misses Bessie Van Doom, Hazel
Duncan, Mildred McCaskell, 1nez Mes
bit and Helen Kaffer.
Feature of the Eagle lodge: Float
decorated in American beauty roses,
bearing an eagle and the eagles nest,
which is filled with four little girls:
Marion Casey, Hazel Smith, Mildred
Drawn by the Sawin & Douglas white
Arabian horses.
The Farmers Show.
The farmers prosperity parade at IL
o'clock was an interesting feature ana
was greeted with applause all along
the streets. The first feature of the
parade was Bob Christian and his fifty
cowboys all in regulation cowboy
SUITS The Doniphan feature was per-
haps the prettiest and represented an
enormous automobile filled with pretty
girls. The Waltz brothers had log
cabin made of cornstalks, and Holmes
& LINDSEY a feature representing a
modern farm house. On the inside
could be seen table set with lots of
good things to eat. William Kuhnerts S
a field of corn, and man at work
cutting a field of corn and shocking it.
W. W. Guthrie's cattle was one of the
most popular features In the parade,
and many compliments were passed on
them. This PoIled Hereford breed is
the product. of Atchison county. John
Lane had feature which represented
an enoromus monocycle in which one
was whole haymaking outfit with
Maud Muller raking the hay. w. H.
Sanders of Iatan, had a wagon loaded
with corn and drawn by two goats
Jim Crum pulled a large log with two
small calves.
The carnival closed with a fireworks
display.
While the rain interfered with car
rying out the programme the arrange
ments for the carnival were made.
Mr.. E. w. Howe. who had charge of
the management fairly distanced all
his former efforts. Vaudeville artists
had been employed to add to the
nights merriment on the streets and
the flood of rain that came just after
the big parade and continued into the
night compelled the abandonment of
what would have been the greatest
Ii. e @1,.N
state.
People spent the night wherever
they could-many in barns. At one
livery stable rs farmers, their wives
and children slept in the haymow.
great portion of the city was in
darkness owing to burned out wires
and this added to the confusion. Coal
oil lamps were used where they could
be found. 1t was a night that every
one who was in Atchison will remem-
Der.