The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-07-16
HONK HONK NEWS
Topeka Auto Owners Will Place
remnants OH Their Cars.
Blue and White Banners With
the Word Topeka"
FOR USE ON $50 CARS.
More Than LOO Streamers to
Advertise City.
Other Items of General Interest
in Auto Circles.
FOR USE ON $50 CARS.

one hundred pennantS bearing the word
Topeka" will be floating in the
breezes throughout the state of Kan
sas. These pennants will f1utter from
the dashboards of five hundred and
fifty different cars-occupied and owned
by the people of Topeka.
1t has been planned to equip every
car In Topeka with the official pennant
Of the automobile club. The banners
will be blue with the word Topeka" in
white letters. They will be about %
inches long with twelve inch base.
Hereafter in Topeka when a new
buyer wishes to equip his car he has
something else to purchase besides the
top, a gabriel horn, electric light fix
tures,- wind shield, trunk racks, etc. He
must buy Topeka pennant.
There are many reasons why these
streamers should be purchased ard
used by the owners of automobiles in
Topeka. In the first place, the flutter-
ing remnants will advertise the city.
Unfortunately the city officials have
not adopted the letter ''T'' or the word
Topeka" on the numbers they give to
an owner when he purchases a num-
Der. For this reason the remnants will
take the place of the name-number.
Then, of course, there is the novelty
of the thing. To have a pennant flut-
tering near you while driving a ma
chine gives forth a feeling that you are
going somewhere, that you are doing
something and that you are going!
That is the main argument-you feel
as though you are going!
There are many other reasons why
the automobile owners feels as though
this pennant idea is a good one for the
automobile fever-and they are all go
ing to prove it by placing the pennants
OF their machines.
A Topeka automobile owner who has
two cars says that his tire bill in the
last two years has averaged so cents a
day for each car. This in all probable
ity is more than any one else in To-
peka has paid as these cars are driven
about &c. miles every month.
Phil Billiard has the record between
Kansas City and Topeka He made the
trip in two hours and forty minutes,
driving his speedwel so.
Billings & Lyon have the agency for
the Stafford. The deal was closed in
Kansas City the first of the week and
Mr.. Billings drove 1911 model demon
strator through to Topeka. The Stat
ford car is well known in Topeka. this
being at one time the location of the
factory.
DR.. c. B. Lyon has had his automo-
biles filed with Day Reliance COM
pound, a substitute for air.
DR.. Hickok returned from an extend
ed trip in the west the first of the
week He Investigated the automobile
situation in some of the larger cities
lie reports the sales a trifle dull this
season of the year.
T. C. Daley of Lake View has pur-
chased a REQ runabout-
c. A. Reynolds has a new model IS
Overland.
Edward Have1ka of WILDER. Neb., re-
Gently purchased an Oakland.
Chester Woodward made trip tc
Kansas City in his car the first of the
week.
DR.. Porter, 900 Buchanan street, has
the first 1911 car purchased in Topeka
a Stafford 80.
w W. Mills has had his car painted
J by Bradford & Greenwood.