The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-10-22
BUSINESS is GOOD
Estimated That Teachers Drop
ped $4,000 in Topeka.
Facts DiSSeminatOrS Do Their
Winter Shopping.
COMPLIES FIGURES.
Charles Harris Tells of Work Of
Employment Bureau.
State Institution Brings En-
plOyer and Employee Together.

Topeka merchants have enjoyed a
brisk trade this week, due especially to
the influx of about 1900 teachers. Many
of the school maamS who live in the
small towns and country districts took
advantage of the trip to the capital
city to do their Christmas and winter
shopping.
It has been estimated that about
$50, 600 was dropped in the city by the
visitors. Merchants state that in some
cases shoppers spent as much as forty
or fifty dollars in individual stores for
glad rags"
Realty men were pleased with the
convention as an advertisement for the
city. There is no question but what
the teachers meeting is a big adver-
tisement for Topeka - said n. B. Burge.
Many people have located here in the
past on account of this good adVertis-
ing. The educational advantages of
Topeka appeal to the teachers and they
go out over the state and tell others
about conditions in Topeka"
1.-THE meeting this week was a fine
thing for the city" was the statement
of w. A. Neiswanger of the firm of
Wilson & Neiswanger. While the real
Lte men will not reap any direct
benefits, sales are bound later to be
made indirectly
Employment Bureau Report.
According to the information being
compiled by Charles Harris, director of
the state free employment bureau, this
institution, aside from the harvest
hand business for which the bureau
was especially established, has done
much valuable work towards bringing
thousands of employers and employees
together in every line of labor.
Topeka has been benefited by the Of
forts of this bureau, as has the state
in general. The condition of labor in
terests in Topeka in the past year, ac-
corGing to Mr.. Harris, has been for the
most part encouraging. Hundreds Of
men have been employed by the Santa
Fe in the erection of new buildings,
and other hundreds have had steady
work as a result of the unprecedented
building activity in the city.
In the past year the bureau furnish
ed the farmers of Kansas 5,311 hands
directly through it's central office and
its agencies, and indirectly supplied not
less than $4,000 more through the IN
formation furnished to the press
throughout the United States and Can
ada The newspapers responded readily
to the request to publish the number
of harvest hands needed to gather the
enormous crops of Kansas
Not only did this great benefit ac-
crue to the farmers of Kansas" stated
Mr. Harris, but the farmers of Okla
homa, Nebraska the DakOtas and Min
nesota are also under obligation to the
Kansas state free employment bureau
for harvest hands. The overflow from
the southern tier of Kansas counties
helped in Oklahoma, and as the harvest
extended north into Nebraska, the Da-
l1otas and Minnesota, the Kansas har-
vesters followed it north into these
states.
THE employment bureau was estab-
lished in 1901 for the primary purpose
of furnishing hands to make it posi-
BILE to harvest the great crops of the
state.
Not until the present year, has the
supply Of hands been equal to meet
the demand, and this was due largely
to the fact that on account of the bu
reau it was possible to distribute the
men where and when they were most
wanted.
Though the experience gained in the
last year, and the reports and records
of the late T. B. Gerow, it was posi-
bic to accomplish the end to which
we are working. The statistics in the
office show that the great problem is
not so much to get great army of
men as to distribute them properly"
One of the largest sales of recent
date was that of the Harrison farm,
west of the city, comprising $40
acres, to w. A. Smith of Oberhn for
the consideration Of 100000.
Rodgers, Davis and Company report
the sale of the eight room dwelling
belonging to Mrs. E. I. Hotchkiss to
Mrs. E. L. Thompson for the consid-
GRAFTON Of $500; also the Padgett
avenue, to DR.. NJ. C. Porter for $4,000.
Rodgers, Davis and Company state
that the demand for farm property is
more brisk than was the case in July
and August.
Wilson & Neiswanger have sold the
home of L. L. Adams, corner College
avenue and Huntoon streets, to Will
lam Godsey, with the Santa Fe, for
$4,000. This is an eight room dwell
ing with sleeping porches and other
modern conveniences. L. L.. Adams
through this firm, has purchased the
new dwelling at 1876 College avenue
for $500.
Mrs. Anna NJ. Greenwood has
bought seven lots in Elmhurst on
Jewell street and two lots on Null