The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-08-10
Tomorrow the Big Picnic Will
BE Held.
VinewOOd Park Scene of the
Festivities.
BABY SHOW A FEATURE
East Side kindergarten Girls to
Give a Drill.
Sports OF All Kinds on the
Programme.

Tomorrow is Grocers' day. Stores
will be closed and the 'proprietors and
clerks, together with their wives and
sweethearts. will turn out for the an
nual picnic at Vinewood, which COM
mences at 10 o'clock in the morning
and lasts until o'clock in. the even
ing. The patrons of the grocery stores
of the city are invited to attend the
picnic and help enjoy the fun.
The first thing on the program is
the j. S. Triton Grocery company
and that of the Dibble Grocery COM
pany. There will be sports of all kinds
for boys and girls. lean and fat.
A feature that will be of special
interest to fond parents is a baby
prize contest.
Miss Lulu Mckee will have so of
her Parkdale kindergarten girls on
hand in the afternoon to give a skirt
drill and there will be competitive
drills by the various lodge teams of
the city before the supper hour. After
the picnic supper is over the famous
drill team of the Knights and Ladies
of Security will give an exhibition
drill. Muse viii be furnished through
out the day by the Knights and La
dies of Security band.
The program follows:
1890 o'clock-Baseball game, ]. S.
Triton Grocery Co VS.. Dibble Groc-
cry Co. Prizes: Nine boxes of cigars,
donated by c. Eagle. Geo. Burghart,
Chas. a. Holland. Rex Kreipe, J. r.
Spetter. H. L. Tromp and Arnold
Drug Co.
1900 to 1880 o'clock-Basket lunch.
Music by Knights and Ladies of Sc
curity band.
Baby show, handsomest baby under
Is months. Prizes: First pack
ages Sugar Wafer Dainties. Loose
Wiles Cracker Co.; second, pack
ages Sugar Wafer dainties, Loose Wiles
Cracker Co.; third, packages Sugar
Wafer Dainties, Loose Wiles Cracker
Co.
Ball throwing contest for women
only Prizes: First, pounds Bour
coffee. Bour Coffee Co.; second.
pounds Bour coffee, Bour Coffee Co.;
third. pounds Bour coffee, Bour
Coffee Co.
Running race between young men
and young women; men to run 100
yards, women to run so yards Prizes:
First, "a half boxes Rumford's bak-
ing powder, RumfOrd Co.; second Is
half boxes Rumford baking powder,
Rumford Co.; third, 6 half boxes
Rumford baking powder, Rumford
&C.
Fat mems race: none under 200
pounds. Prizes: First. so bars Fairy
soap, Fairbanks Co.; second, 80 bars
Jap Rose soap, ]. S. Kirk Co.; third.
20 bars Jap Rose soap j. S. Kirk Co.
RATE unUGT 10 years. HrlZGS.
First, 1 dozen packages Nabisco, Ma
tional Biscuit Co.; second, 1 dozen
packages Red Label grahams. Ma
tional Biscuit Co.; third, 1 dozen
packages Uneeda Biscuits, National
Biscuit Co.
Potato race for boys of IL and I'M
der Prizes: First, 1 dozen packages
Zu Zu ginger snaps, National Biscuit
Co.; second. u dozen packages Din
ner biscuits, National Biscuit Co.;
third, n dozen packages lemon snaps,
National Biscuit Co.
Apple eating contest: apples sus-
pended from wires. Prizes: First u
dozen packages Fig Newtons National
Biscuit Co.; second, y dozen pack
ages cheese sandwiches. National Bis
cult Co.; third. u dozen packages
Baronet biscuits, National Biscuit Co.
o'clock-Skirt drill by so Park
dale girls. Miss Mckee, instructor.
Whistling contest for ladies' Prizes:
First, pounds Vassar chocolate.
Loose Wiles Biscuit Co.. second, u
dozen Cameo and Il dozen Social teas,
Loose Wiles Co.
Competitive military drill by the
different lodge teams of the city
Prizes: First, $45; second, $40.
o'clock-Supper.
o'clock-The ladies' teams of the
K & L. of s. lodge will give an exhi-
bitfon in the evening. The K. & L.
of s. band will furnish music through
out the entire program.