The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-06-13
|ELkS DAY MONDAY
Big Bazaar Will Be Held at
That Time.
Opens Then and Continues All
the Week.
IN NE w QUARTERS
People May Get Glimpse Of
Beautiful New Home.
Rummage Sale to Be Conducted
in Basement.


ers of the members of Topeka lodge No
2O4 and so will the remainder of the
week for that matter. The ladies who
are interested in the welfare of the
order in Topeka have declared that
they will furnish, the new building at
the corner Of Seventh and Jack son
streets which is now nearing compile
ton. The undertaking is not a small
one by any means as 1t has been fgur-
ed that from 10 to Is thousand dollars
will be spent for furnishings alone.
A bazaar will be held at the new
lodge building ali next week and the
affair promises to be the most success
full things Of the kind ever held In this
city. Thousands of articles have been
prepared and will be placed on sale at
the building commencing Monday
morning, and the proceeds will be ap-
piled on the purchase price Of the fur
nishings Of the new quarters.
Though the building is not compile
ted, and will not be for a week or SO
1t has been handsomely decorated for
the occasion and temporary floors have
are not down. Booths by the dozens
have been arranged ranging from The
basement to the top floor and in them
will be found hundreds Of articles of
every description which will be parted
with at so much per part.
The new building is almost compile
ted and the members of the order hope
to dedicate it by the LIST of July. It is
three stories in height with fronts on
Seventh and jackson streets, built OF
brick and trimmed with the purest of
white stone and will cost the order
when completed $4,000. Ten to fifteen
thousand dollars more will be spent for
furnishings which are to be the finest
that money can buy and the ladies de-
clare that they will foot all bills.
The big smooth hard maple floor
which will be used for the lodge room
floor when the building Is completed
will be used for dancing each evening.
Each night a vaudeville performance
will be given and one evening the en-
tire program will be given by the
members of the Elk order, in Topeka.
Just which evening this performance
will be given is a secret and will not
be announced for fear that the build
ing will be packed to suffocation.
Above the two big doors which
open onto the streets will swing a
big welcome" sign, indicative of the
fact that the Elks are keeping open
house and that all who will come,
will be welcome durfng the week.
There will be no admission at the
door and everybody will be thrice
welcome, but once inside thes attrac-
to be sufficient to separate the most
tightfsted from the needed coin Of the
realm, which is needed by the ladies
who are to furnish the building:
1--WE want to raise $25,0OO, said
one Of the ladies, who is on the COM
nlittee, "but it will just be our luck to
fail and not get over fifteen or twen-
ty thousand dollars, but $4,000 is
the mark which we hope to reach
and If we DON'T reach that amount 1t
will not be our fault. We have some
schemes working which are being
kept secret and will not be divulged
even to our own husbands, but they
will recognize them before the week
is over
An orchestra has been engaged for
the week and while the members OF
the Elk order and their friends are
being separated from their money to
pay for the nick knacks which their
own families have made, 1t Will FUR
nish soft and touching music The
ladies feel that they are working IN a
good cause in as much as the E!Rs
have made ample arrangements Tor
their pleasure about the new bulldlns.
Remember the time and the place
and bring plenty Of loose change as
the cashiers will be short OF small
change in many Instances and some
have declared that they Will not
make change where the purchase
price is less than a dollar.
The wives of every member or the
Elk order in Topeka have been re-
uuested to contribute four articles
which are to be disposed Of during
dozens of other money raising
schemes which will be in effect next
week. At the end of the week every
one in Topeka will know who IS the
most popular housewife in the CITY.
The most popular Elk. The most
popular candidate for governor and
the decisions will not be reached
without an interesting time at the
ballot boxes and every ballot Will
represent just so many coppers;, only
coins of this denomination will not
be used.
Mrs. E. G. Packard, relative OF
Mrs George Port Ashton, has sent
beautiful doll from New YORK or
some far eastern city and it will go to
some lucky purchaser of tickets: rms
creation is dressed in the height OF
fashion in silks and bedecked with
diamond glass ear rings. an imitation
pearl necklace and other Jewels IN
profusion. This doll will not cost the
| successful one a great deal but oetore
| it leaves the Elk building will have
netted the order a handsome proht'
| through the management OF the
| bazaar.
The dining room at the Elk lodge
| quarters now in use on jackson street
will be closed all of next week COM
| mencing Monday and meals will be
| served at the new building. Luncheon
will be served daily a la carte and
| dinner from $50 to 1880 at cost or
but fifty cents, and it will be just sucn
| a dinner as mother used to COOK.
| Soda pop, in all the colOrs of the
rainbow, peanuts and candy OF every
| description besides lemonade, ice
| cream and soft drinks of all kinds Will
be served without stint at so much per
serve.
/ The basement has been set apart
| for rummage sale and will be open
every morning from 10 to IL o'clock