The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-07-12
Commercial Club to Conduct
"Made in Topeka Exhibit.
Manufacturers Will Show Their
Wares at Commerce Building.
FIRST ONE MONDAY.
Topeka Tent & Awning Company
Opening Attraction.
No Commercial Club Meetings
During Summer Months.

In spite OF the TACT that there are
no regular meetings of the Topeka Com
mercial club during the hot summer
months of July and August this body
is planning an advertising and keep
buzzing" scheme that will make the
rooms in the Chamber of Commerce
one mass of business and life. The
plans are to conduct a made in To-
peka Exhibit" in the reception room
of the Commercial club and the manu-
facturers of the city will be invited
to each take a week for their exhibit
tions. These exhibitions will be dis
tributed among the manufacturing con-
Germs and they will make them attFac-
tive and ornamental as well as practi-
cal.
The scheme has been smouldering
among the members of the Commercial
club for some time and will not break
forth until next week but it is known
that it will be carried out as soon as
the schedules can be made out. The
first exhibit will probably be made by
the Topeka Tent & Awning company
and they will occupy half of the front
room with their different size tents,
COTS awnings, etc. 1t is planned to-
made the whole room into one huge
tent and within hold forth regular
camping trip outfit. Nothing definite
has been carried out but it is the bust
ness of the manufacturers to make
these exhibits worth coming to see.
The idea is first of all to give the
people of Topeka a chance to see what
is made in the city. Actually, people
in this town don't have any idea what
is going on and what is being manu-
featured within the city limits. I am
sure that I am not very well acquaint-
ed with the facts myself and l have
been making a business Of trying to
know what [ can about the city" said |
George Badders, the acting secretary of
the Commercial club this afternoon. /
And this is really the feeling of every |
member of the Commercial club. Peo-
pie in this city would be surprised to |
learn what is going on and it is the |
plans of the club to give them the |
chance to find out.
For instance not long age at the |
city hall, City Clerk Burge was given
authority to purchase some steel
filing cases for use in the Office. He
consulted the catalogue of out OF
town firms at once and was ready to
close up a deal with some Chicago |
firm when the fact that these cases
were made in Topeka was thrust
upon him. He found the factory
looked over the cases. took their
prices and found all three much bet
ter than the company in Chicago.
The prices were lower and the. cases
were made of better material ana
were of more modern construction
many business men IN
the city have the same experience.
There are thousands of articles
in this city and there
are very few citizens who can name
over % This ignorance of the
products of the home city is a thing
that cannot help but reflect upon the
city itself and the Commercial clubs
idea is to make every citizen of To-
peka become acquainted with the
products and the concerns making
them Who in Topeka can tell
visitor that among the things maze
in Topeka there are churns, blankets, {
furniture autom obiles. books, cloth
goods iron and brass l.
beds, porch swings, mattresses, pill s
ows wind mills. steel culverts, gates, t
scales and a thousand other articles {
IF necessity
Visitors to the city will be invited +
o the Commercial club rooms and I
shown the exhibits as well as the q
,eop pie of Topeka and the members of .
he, Commercial club desire that eV- /
Try visitor be brought to the rooms
or lunch and for peek at the ex- t
libitionS IS soon as all is in running | f
rider. At the present time all visit /
RS are welcome to the rooms of the r
Tub but outside of the glad hand, t
to eat, and few maya t
ines and newspapers their interest
3 hunting for something to rest g
Ipon An exhibit of the manufacture S
RS will give them all they caa think
bout.
Each manufacturer will provide
nan or two with each exhibit and Z
hese mer will explain all Of the de-
aiIs to those who are Interested to
,now. Literature of all kinds VIII
,e distributed and the manufacturer
will be given the chance to advertise
lis business as well as he can. It is
N advertisement to Topeka as we'll
S to the manufacturer to have his
business prosper and by the proper
from the people of this city
he manufacturers would receive bet
er support.
The first exhibit will probably COM
hence Monday next in the front room
f the Commercial club. Every citi-
en- of the city is cordially invited by
he Commercial club to come and
-isit the exhibit. 1t will help the
interests of the city.