The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-10-31
.SLICING IT OFF.
White Elephant Is Gradually
Losing Identity.
Nearly Ten Thousand Dollars
in the Fund.
OVER 500 PLEDGES.
Business Mems Section Has
Raised Largest Sum.
Farmers Will Es Asked to Help
the Fund.

Nearly two ninths of the White E1e-
plant has been carved off. Two thou
sand, four hundred and thirty-two
dollars in subscriptions was added to
the association fund this noon, the
total figure now standing at $4,000
and representing 554 pledges or an
average of $17.70 for each individual
who subscribed.
The women's team carried off all
the honorS, and when the last team
captain in this division reported, a
mighty shout went up, "Rah, rah, rah
. the girls, the girls, the girls!''
! The business mems section is in
/ the lead for the campaign thus far,
amounting to $4,363, although the
other sections will have to be credited
with doing harder work as the men of
| this division have not called upon as
many people as have the hustlers of
the other sections.
The womens section comes second
with $2.791 in pledges, while the young
mems division brings up at the rear
with a showing of $2,646.
The women have received subscrip-
tons from 277 persons. the young
/ men from 160, and the business men
from 1875. 1t is evident that the latter
have not bothered about the small
| fry
Gov. Stubs Speaks.
Governor w. R. Stubs was the
speaker this noon. He told of the ex-
perience which Chancellor Frank
Y. M. c. A, a number of prominent
citizens had in raising $4,000 for an
association building in Lawrence.
I'VE got right after the business
men, said he, and told them we
wouldn't take five or ten dollars when
they ought to give $500 or $1,000. We
had a regular rabbit hunt to find one
fellow. 1t became amusing after
awhile. One fellow would work at
the telephone, while another would go
to the mill" shouts of "Bowersock,
Bowersock," here Interrupted the
with $500-we asked for $1,000.
I think a person ought to use his
money while on earth and not leave
it for other men to squander
Get right after the business men.
1 believe it will make their souls hap
| pier. and give them a better chance
when they die, if you can persuade
them to support the cause"
| DR.. F. H. Murlin, president of Baker
university, was president at the meet
ing and asked the blessing.
! check for $256 was received from
A. c. Black of Detroit. in the name of
/ his mother, Mrs. S.Black. -
A vigorous campaign will be waged
in the country beginning tomorrow by
the county White Elephant team cap
! tanned by Clarence d. Skinner. W. w.
Mills, Arthur Capper and L. F. Gar
| linghouse have offered the use of their
| machines for this week. and H w.
| McAfee, Charles Elliott, Charles W.
Whitehair, Miss Emma w. Wallace,
and others will make a house to house
| canvass in the country districts d.
rected by Mr.. Skinner, who himself
will do personal work.
| 1t is the plan to make of the new Y.
| w. c. A. building a stopping place for
| the weary farmers wives who come to
| town to do their'"trading."
Appeal to Farmers Wives.
A circular letter has been sent out to
women of Shawnee county by the cam
| paign chairman, Arthur Capper, which
reads in part as follows:
you will feel a personal, stockhold-
| er's privilege to come and go at pleas
ure and to stop and rest for an hour
or two after finishing your trading, or
to secure rooms for your daughters,
should they attend school or have
| business engagements in the city.
! Between now and November 5,
$4,000 will be raised by this COM
munity, which investment will bring
better dividends than Standard Oil
| stock
J Sunday afternoon a meeting of the
| team captains was held in the Central
| Y. w. c. A. building. Plans for the
work this week were mapped out. Sat
| urday evening members of the teams
| gathered at the headquarters in a So
cial way, and light refreshments were