The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-03-31
THEY Get BUSY.
Members of State Fair Com !,
mittee at Work.
Hold Meeting at Noon and
Start Out.
OLD SOCIETY MEETS.
President Low Appoints an
Executive Committee.
All Are Enthusiastic Over the
Prospects.
OLD SOCIETY MEETS.

The following members of the state
fair soliciting committee met at noon
dinner together, and while at dinner
they compared notes on their work
and made plans for the rest of the
week:
w. I. Miller, H. A. Heath, E. H.
Crosby, J. w. Robinson, Geo w. Crane.
C. G. Blakely, w. G. Stephenson, w.
w. Webb, w. F. Jensen and A. B.
Poole.
Immediately after dinner these gem
tlemen resumed their work of solicit
ing where it was left off last Satur-
day. They worked the rest of the af-
ternoon and will continue right through
tomorrow.
Old Fair Board Meets.
The old state fair board, or associa-
ton, met in the rooms of the CONNER
cial club yesterday afternoon at four
o'clock for the purpose of making some
definite arrangements for the manage
ment of the greater state fair this year.
The old association is incorporated,
and the question of turning affairs
over to a new committee involved tech
meal difficulties, so it was decided to
appoint an executive committee for
this years work composed of old and
new blood. While the old association
will still have a hand in the fair next
fall yet they will have the assistance
of some of the men who are pushing
the fair this year. The committee APP
pointed at yesterdays meeting is COM
posed of the following members:
w. F. Jensen, vice president and gen.
eral manager of the Continental
Creamery company and president of
the Commercial club; W. T. Miller,
lumber dealer; r. I. Lee, farmer, and
F. w. Harrison, chairman of the board
of county commissioners.
M. A. Low, president of the old Kan
sas state fair board, presided at the
meeting, and made the committee ap-
pointments. President Low, Vice Pres
idents E. H. Crosby and T. P. Babst,
Secretary R. T. Kreipe and Treasurer
C. E. Jewell will all be members of the
executive committee.
At this meeting reports were made
| of the progress of the state fair solicit
| ing committee. They We're such as to
greatly encourage the state fair board.
| Over $4,000 has been raised, and enough
| has been promised to raise this sum to
$4,000 without considering the proceeds
of the Marshall band benefit concert to
be given at the Auditorium Thursday
| night of this week.
| The executive committee appointed
/ at this meeting VIII have the work of
| the fair in charge. The Commercial
| club is represented in this committee
and also the subscribers. to the fair,
| and the county and the business in
the committee insures an honest, earn
/ est and able administration of the af-
! fairs of the state fair this year.
| The county commissioners will make
the levy for the county's $4,000 contri-
| button for the fair at the August meet
| ing. This money is to be used for per-
manent improvements at the fair
/ grounds. probably for stock pavilion.
| While the levy will not be made until
| August, yet the county will likely fol-
| low the example of the state in this
matter and contract for and begin the
construction of the building in time TO
| have it finished and ready for the fair
| by September. The other buildings on
the grounds will be temporarily I'M
proved for this years fair.
| After the formal meeting was over,
those present remained awhile for an
informal discussion Of affairs. There is
no doubt but that yesterdays meeting
| will give a fresh impetus to the work
of raising the $4,000 fund for the fair.
A considerable sum has been promised
| the committee by residents of North
| Topeka, and David Bowie, Fred o.
| Morns, C. E. Jordan and Harry Dibble
| of the committee worked over there
| today. The other members of the COM
| mittee worked on this side of the river.
| The committee feels, and rightly,
| that a large number of tickets should
| be sold for the concert Thursday night.
| With these tickets only 25 cents each
| and standing as they do for the pro-
motion of a great public enterprise for
the good of Topeka not citizen but
| should buy one. Who would not
and cannot give Is cents to boost his or
| her town? The sum may seem insig-
| nifcant but if all the tickets are sold
| it means the reaching of the $4,000
mark for the state fair fund.
| Every little bit
| Added to what they've got
Makes just a little bit more"
| 1t is not the big contributions of a
| few that counts so much as the little
| donations of the many. Buy a concert
ticket and do your required part toward
making the state fair fund a reality