The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-11-23

BIG DAY FOR BOYS
The Farmer Youths Will Be
Here Next Saturday.
Will Show What Fine Corn Can
Be Raised.
TO GIVE MANY PRIZES
All the Aspirants Will BE Re-
membered.
An Interesting Meeting at the
Auditorium.
TO GIVE MANY PRIZES

Next Saturday will be the big day OF
the year for the farmer boys OF shaw
nee county who have entered the an
nuaI Shawnee county corn growing
contest Then the decision or Tie
Judges will be made which will decide
the prize winners and incidentally Wno
are to make the trip to the state
Agricultural college at the expense oi
the Topeka Commercial cIup.
Besides thirty-five regular prizes 20
be awarded and a number OF speclals,
the ten boys receiving the ten pes
grades will be entitled to a trip 70 lh ne
State Farmers institute Wh1cn Will pc
held at the Agricultural coltege at
Manhattan from the 26th OF DecemDer
to the 4th of January. The CONNER,
cia1 club will not only pay the ralsro % u u
fares but all of the expenses Oh the
boys while they are on the trip
There will be one girl in the contest
this year if she can be persuaded 70
enter her exhibit, which is salo 10 con-,
uare favorably with the best SHOWN
by the boys. Hazel Lilies, the 1our-
teen-year-old daughter OF a MenoRen
township farmer, was among the Hrsl
to apply for seed corn last spring aIg
she chose Boone County Whlte, ana
the quart which she received planted
almost one-fourth of an acre. 1t Is
said that this little patch OF corn mas
been one of the best TENDED IN me me
county though there are LII III 1io
contest this year.
BESIDES her household duties and
her school work, Miss Lilies has found
plenty of time to attend to the cuItlva,
ton of her miniature field of grain ana
she is sure of winning one OF the pest
prizes offered. At the contest helo
last year, which was the first, twenty
three boys. competed, ana peSloes tne
cash and special prizes offered each OF
the contestants received knife valued
at a dollar at the wholesale price.
A few days or so ago Major Ander-
son. secretary of the Commercial CLUB,
conceived the idea of arranging for a
special prize for the only girl in Shaw
nee county with the temerity TO enter
the contest with Ill boys. The result
is that an iron bedstead was donated
by Crosby Brothers, springs to fit 1t by
McIntire Brothers, mattress or the
same description by William Schick.
Mills & Company will donate the COM
fort, Mrs. John T. Price the linen,
Mrs T. j. Anderson the spread and
Mrs. Krapft the pillows which appro-
priately are made of corn feathers.
The prize, which is special, will be
well worth the efforts of the young
lady who has come into open competi-
ton with the hundred or more farmer
boys who have entered the contest. Be
sides this prize, the stories told of her
corn indicate that she may be among
the winners of the. first prizes. and get
the trip to Manhattan college.
The cash prizes this year will be $50
In cash and numerous special prizes not
vet arranged In6n edCn COnlSSldHL
will get a knife we'll worth the effort.
The contest will in all proba bilities be
held in the Auditorium this year, as the
court room where 1t was held last year
is by far too small. This, however, de- !
ponds upon the intention of the city |
council. If the committee is to be |
charged for the use of the building, 1t |
will be held somewhere else. but 1t is |
hardly likely that the committee from |
the city council will attempt to per- |
petrate an outrage of this kind, on an |
occasion such az this.
This corn growing contest is one of |
the biggest little things ever attempted |
In this county, said Bradford Miller,
who is in reality the daddie of the |
event. ct am surprised at the enthus-
Iasm that has been worked up among
the farmer boys and the interest that
they have taken in the event. This is
attested by the fact that last year
while we had but twenty-three entries,
we have III this year. almost four
times as many. The committee fur
nished each boy who applied in the
spring quart of corn, allowing him to
select either white or yellow corn, as
lis judgment dictated, the Yellow Dent
and Boone County White being the
varieties from which the choice was
permitted.
Some Of the boys won cash prizes
asst year but to all of the contestants
good substantial pocket knife was
,iven and this knife I find was valued