The Topeka state journal., 1909-03-23
WILL co IT ALONE
Kansas Laundrymen Give Ok
IahOma a Divorce.
ReOrganize at Once as a State
Association.
OFFICERS ELECTED.
C. e. Newton of lola Is Chosen
President.
Visitors Take an Auto Ride
Visitors Take an Auto Ride
This Afternoon.

W1th-l1fe friend as they stood in the
lobby of the Throop hotel this after
noon.
"Yes, and say-they tell me that
coats and trousers will soon be made
of the wish-wash material-oh happy
day that fixed my choice" answered
the friend.
A Iaundrymen's association has been
meeting at the Throop but it is impossi-
BILE to refer to it with a name while it
was carrying on the meeting because 1t
met under one name and parted under
another.
At any rate the, Kansas-Oklahoma
Laundrymen'S association met in SeS-
sion in Topeka at the Throop hotel;
carried on business under the old
methods, adjourned under one flag and
organized under another. The KAN
sas-Oklahoma Laundrymen's associa-
tion is now the Kansas LaundryTnen's
association, Oklahoma having been
cast out through request of their rep
resentatives who attended the meeting.
The Oklahoma attachment was added
a number of years ago when the asso-
citation was first organized and Okla
homa was not as independent as she is
at the present time. However the new
state has grown and as they wear col
lars shirts and linen down there the
laundries grew right up with the state.
Now they have succeeded, through
their meeting with the Kansas men at
the Throop, to tear away from the par
entail organization and they Will form
a state party of their own.
The Kansas association was reorgan-
lied this morning under the head of G.
E. Newton of lola as president, G. w.
Oswald of Hutchinson as first vice
president, L. E. Abbot of Concordia as
second vice president, c.. H. Mathews
of Topeka as -secretary-treasurer, and
Frank Simms Of Topeka as sergeant
alarms. In a speech to the aSSocia-
ton and the officers this morning Pres
Via EOS he no ara
ton of the members and officers and
predicted a prosperous future for the
association.
The executive committee elected this
morning composed of President New
ton, Secretary-Treasure Matthews, ].
E. Martin of Emporia, F. B. Simms of
Topeka and E. Rathrock of yelling
ton.
Will Meet at Wichita.
The next annual meeting of the
be held at Wichita.d The next semi
annual meeting win be held at some
city in the eastern part of the state
through the decision of the executive
committee This VIII be decided some
time in the near future. The meet
ing at Topeka this morning after the
organization of the Kansas association
considered Topeka the birthplace of
the K. L. A. and this was called the
first annual meeting. In other words
it was the seventh semi-annual con-
vention of the Kansas-Oklahoma as
sociation.
This morning number of speeches
were given before the convention by
prominent Iaundrymen over the state
.aIsa from Robert G. Wall financial
secretary OF the Nationay Laundry
mems association of Chicago. He gave
the local club considerable excellent
sociation. other speakers were G. E.
Newton of lola, z. " Johnson of
Wichita. E. NJ CockrelI of Topeka, |
and j. H. Fisher of Kansas City.
Take an Auto Ride.
This afternoon the delegates were
visiting the many places of interest.
They went to the asylum, Washburn
college, Santa Fe, North Topeka, |
Bethany, cemetery, Country club and
were furnished free of
charge by citizens of the city under
the auspices of the Topeka Launder- |
er's association.
This evening big banquet will be
given on the roof garden of the Ma |
tional hotel for the delegates and their |
Sweethearts. This ban |
uuet will take the place of the even |
ing dinner and it is expected that ev-
cry delegate will be present. None of !
the delegates have signified their in |
tention of going home until the show |
is all over. They are spending all of |
their extra time visiting the many big |
laundries of this city-thereby gain |
ing ideas upon which to base their |
Topeka is we'll equipped with laun- |
dries'' said one of the delegates to a |
state Journal reporter this afternoon. |
''I don't believe I have ever seen |
city where the 1aundries were so |
Clean we'll kept and up to date. |
find in most of your laundries that |
the machinery is of the very latest |
type and I am sure that their work |
must be excellent
And this man was from Wichita.
This is the first time in the history |
the laundrymen have been. persuaded |
to attend There are about rs men |
delegates and fifteen of them brought |
their wives Some of them brought |
their families. One of them said to a |
reporter this morning:
"Of course I am supposed to be in |
tensely interested in the laundry busi- |
ness while here in Topeka but-now /
don't you tell this-I have spent all of |
my time-and most of my husbands |
your fine dry goods stores. |
I have done nothing but shop, shop. |
shop since have been in Topeka and !
at night 1 hide all of the stuff under
the bed / can imagine what my hus-
band will say when he sees my layout.
But don't care This is the first time
I have ever been in Topeka-but it
isn't going to be my 1asti"-and she
peeked through the corridors of the
Throop to see if her husband was look
then made a dive for the la
dies entrance on the south.