The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-06-05
IN A BEER FIGHT.
Turner Society Is Discussing
This Question.
New Agent Tried to Force
Change of Brand.
A PAXICO EXCURSION.
Members Find That Beer Agent
Fathered It.
Nearly Abandoned When He
Saved It With $40.

Shall Lenp supplant Anheuser- Busch 2
That is the seething, boiling, au-dis-
turbing question of the hour in the
Topeka Turnverein.
A little furry of the difficulty was dis
cussed at the Turner garden last night
The discussion was informal and laid
on about half a dozen or more tables
To go back into history little bit
it might be mentioned explanatory of
the condition, that the Turner'S, the
Skat club, the Arions, the Mohawk
club, the Amity club and the Sons of
Hermann have used Anheuser- Busch
beer almost exclusively for the past ten
years.
Some time ago. Edward Moeser, the
agent of the Anheuser company in this
city died. He was succeeded by his
head clerk Theodore Schneider. But
Fred Schmidt wanted the job. He is a
son-in-law of the late Philip Moeser
Edward Moeser's father. But the An
heuser- Busch people gave the lob to
Schneider. The next step, according to
the story told in the matter was for
Schmidt to get the Topeka agency for
Lemp's beer. Now he is trying to get
it into common use-trying to give it
the popularity that Mr.. Anheuser has
attained.
So he got up an excursion to Paxico
Sunday Frank Gutsch was manager
of the affair, while Mr.. Schmidt was to
sell the beer which was to be used
Lemp'S OF course. The excursion was
advertised as a Turner affair, and was
set to leave over the Rock Island at
$50 a'clock Two hundred tickets had
to be sold in order to make the thing
pay out. But only 40 handed over a
dollar each to the ticket agent. He re-
fused to allow the train to go unless all
the money was paid. So the excursion
train did not go, and the Would-be ex-
cursionists waited over until the regu-
lar 1920 O'Clock train and went to Pax
leo on it-that is part of them did.
That excursion has started the row
in earnest. Frank Durein, one of the
most prominent Turner's in the city,
was among those who went to Paxico
Il saw in the paper" he said this
/ morning, that Turner excursion was
to be run to Paxico. Well, I thought
would go because I laid out that
town and have 800 lots down there. So
I went to the train and paid dollar
| for my ticket. I stood around a long
/ while and no excursion went. 1 saw
| the ticket agent and asked to get my
/ money back He told me to wait a
/ little So I did to see what was going
on Finally it was announced that the
I excursion would not go. Then Frank
] Czutsch and Fred Schmidt who has
the Lemp agency, stepped up and paid
/ in about $40 which permitted US to go
| on the rate which was advertised l
went along to see what was done. It
was a Lemp's beer affair. They had
| induced our physical director 70 Axe
two classes, one of boys and one of
! girls. along. telling them that they
/ would get IS cents out of each ticket
sold. But they didn't even make ex-
penses and SO got nothing. 1 think
1 that the whole excursion was nothing
but MISREPRESENTATION. All it was
for is to get Lenp beer into the
.sVili Schmidt get it in there?" was
asked.
heuser is the only beer to drink"
So Mr.. Schmidt was asked to give
his version of the affair He said;
| mo misrepresentation was made. /
am irving to get Lemp beer into the
/ Turner society. as am trying to get
into a good many other places and or
carnations here in town The band
! at Paxico wanted US to bring up some
Of the Turner's because they had q
/ picnic uD there. SO we arranged Il
for them and tried to run an ez-
cursion. Not enough people came,