The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-07-18
A BIG LAWN FETE.
Women VIII Give One on State
House Grounds.
Use the Proceeds to Erect Band
Stand.
WILL TALK TT OVER.
Meeting to Complete Plans to
Be Held.
Fund for Stand In City Park
Reaches 1925.

"A BlS OlQ-IaSnlOn6Q lawn IeI6 on
the state house grounds.
Preliminary details are being
arranged for the inception of a move
ment on the part of the women of the
city to do their share in raising the
funds needed for the erection of a
! stand so that Marshal1's band can give
free open air concerts. And these
plans call for a monster public ice
cream and cake social to be held on
some evening in the near future on
the state house grounds It will be
q novel affair for the city, where moth
ing of the kind on such a large scale
has been held. and that it will prove
a grand success there can be no doubt,
for women Will have charge of it, and
it is a matter of history that when the
women of Topeka=or any other city.
for that matter-put their shoulders
to the wheel in the interests Of some
public benefit. nothing but success at
tends their efforts
This public festival was thought out
by two or three of the prominent
women of the city, who are difHdent,
as yet about getting any credit for
the affair, because they believe 1t
should be one in which all the women
of the city should participate and that
the credit for its inception and sue
cess should be given to all partfcipat-
ing and not 10 any particulaE set of in
dividuals
Officers and members of the Com
mercial club who have got busy In
the last few days towards getting the
money needed for the band stand and
/ the necessary permission to have it
erected on the state house grounds, are
enthusiastic over the plans of the
women for this popular ice cream So
cial and viii lend their aid in every
/ possible way.
Its a grand idea" said c. K. Hol-
/ liday. president of the club. land you
can bet that it viii be a success. for
the women never fail when they take
UP a thing of this kind"
Assurances have heen given already
/ by a majority Of the mem bers of the
executive council that the state house
grounds viii be available for the p1Ir-
/ poses of this ice cream fete on any
evening which may be decided upots
and it is proposed to have a general
meeting of ali the women in The city
who care to participate in the affair
at the Copeland hotel parlors tomor-
/ row (ThuTsday) night. Mr. Chappelle
! has donated the use of the parlors for
I the occasion and if they are not large
enough the large committee room
! at the hotel Will be available Invita-
tions to attend this meeting are ex-
! tended to the women Of the entire city
/ from North Topeka. Parkdale, Quinton
/ Heights, LoWman Hill, POtWin, in fact
| from all over the city, for It Is the de-
| sire of those who have thought out the
I plan to make the affair as representa-
/ tive as possible of the women of the
city.
At this meeting an organization Will
| be perfected and committees appointed
to prosecute the work incident to the
holding Of this festival. and although
! the task Will be no small one, 1t Is ike
] xr7i11
| interest in it that not too much work
will be put on any one individual
! Tentative plans for the affair include
| esta bIishment on the walks IN the
/ south end of the state house grounds
| of a half dozen or so booths at which
ice cream and cake will be sold at o
! cents q portion. Marshalls band Will
| be there in a central location and give
a couple of hours concert The worn
| Ell of the city will be asked to Donate
/ the cake for the occasion and IT Is SAFE
to say that there is not q woman IN
! town who will not take pleasure IN
making one of those wonderful cakes
which she alone excelS in and con-
! tributine It gladly. Donations of ice
cream will be asked for. but the
| chances are that considerable or TINS
viii have to be purchased and the
woman think that the ice cream deal
! ers in town ought to sell it to them at
the cost of material and the labor In
1 its manufacture
Subscriptions to the band stand
! fund. now in the hands of the state
Journal amounting to about 800 have
started and the proba bilities are that
/ thew will begin to raur in soon. John
Sargent headed the additional sub
I scription list today V-th 81, the amount
suggested by the Commercial cluo as
individual contributi, MS.
Although 1t Is the consensus of optn-
/ ion among the members Of the Com
mercial club and the others who have
become interested in getting this stan
1 for-tiae band and locating 1t in cen
/ tral place in the city, preferably The
state house grounds If the necessary
/ permission can be obtained, The eUsi-
/ ness men in the northern section of
! the city proper have got busy during
! the last couple Of Jays and raised
/ fund which amounts now, according
/ to a statement mad5 by Mr. A. H.
! Marshall. who with WT1 MOeSer and
| VIM Oval secured the SUBSCRIPTIONS,
/ to 1926 and it is exoa sted TO be in
creased to $500 within the next couple
of days, for the erection Of a band
stand provided It is built in the city
park. which faces Kansas avenue and
runs along the KaW I 0 the west. This
section of the city has been cleaned I'D
wonderfully since the hood and the
! park is really one Of the picture spots
| in town, and would be a fine place for
! a band stand but it is not centrally
iOcdteu iOI tHe cibS i'kOpSA- mere II
no reason why a band stand should not
be built there. however as we'll as the
one which it Is proposed to build on
the state house grounds and probably
arrangements could be made with the
band to give a concert in each of the
stands on alternate weeks.
c. K Holiday, president If the
| Commercial club. has addressed a LETT
/ ter to the editors Of The daily papers
suggesting that the popular subscrip-
/ tions for the band stand be collected
through the medium Of the papers.