The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-06-18
ALL WILL JOIN IN
Merchants Asked to Decorate
Next Week.
remnants Furnished Them by
NJ. & j. Association.
FINAL ARRANGEMENTS
Meeting Monday Night to Com
plete Plans.
Visitors Not Allowed to Spend
Money.
ARRANGEMENTS

The Manufacturers and Jobbers asso-
citation of Topeka are going to pay the
expenses of the coming Merchants
Week, June %, "a and 25 and they have
not asked the retail merchants along
Kansas avenue for one cent toward the
defraying Of the immense expense ac-
count. But today Sam E. Lux, presi-
dent of the association, stated that the
merchants would be asked to do some
thing-that is, place in their windows
flags and remnants welcoming the Wis
itors to the city and making them feel
at home.
1t is the plan of the association to
print 5000 little blue and white pen
nants. These pennants will be triang-
ular in shape and will include the
words Topeka Welcomes the Kansas
Merchants" They will be distributed
among the merchants and the associa-
ton is asking the merchants to place
them in their windows on their store
fronts and in other conspicuous places.
The Big Week lasts only three days and
the pennants are such a shape that
they will not spoil the window displays
in the least.
AS Mr. Lux said this morning-there
is nothing SO pleasing to visitor as to
find that he is welcome wherever he
goes in a strange city. The Kansas
merchants are being told every day of
the welcome which is prepared for
them in Topeka and If they come to
the city only to find the streets bare
and without a gala day attire of any
kind except the official decorations
along the trolley poles they will rightly
feel disappointed. 1t is not the Manu-
facturers and Jobbers who are making
times pleasant for these 1000 visitors.
Topeka as whole must join in the
celebration and make the out of town
merchants see the real spirit in a real
town.
Last year the merchants of the city
failed to decorate their windows with
the pennants furnished them. The pro-
ject was new and they did not realize
that there would be more men at
tend than could be handled by the as
ISOLATION. Last year some of the more
penSive figured out that there would
not be 100 merchants here There were
700. This year the association is ex-
pecting 1000 and there should be l.
500. The merchants with their stores
wide open all day long are going to
receive valuable benefits from this
convention of Kansas merchants. Their
stores are going to be taken as models
and many Kansas merchant will
come to Topeka with the intention of
obtaining ideas for his business house
and his window decorations. The mer-
chants of Topeka should make special
efforts to improve the stay of the Wis
itors and make them realize that
part of the high jinks'' was in their
hands.
The badges for the visitors have been
completed. They will contain the sun
flower of Topeka facts and a visitor
introduction. The pin of the badge will
be faced with a card board surrounded
by gilt bordering. This card board will
be used to insert the names of the
merchandising their city. Each man
will be known in this manner and
there will no need of formal introduce
tons The Topeka entertainers will
march about town with their hands
Observation-Disclosures the visiting mer-
| chants because the Topeka hosts do not
allow visitor to insert his hand in
his money pocket. BUY return tic
| ket at home and come to Topeka with
| a pleasant smile is the spirit of the
| information given to the visitors.
| At a meeting in the Commercial club
rooms Monday night all of the COM
mittees on entertainment, etc, will
meet for the purpose of cleaning up
! the final arrangements. Merchants
| Week is next week and the time is fast
| approaching.