The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-11-28
Management PlansGiving Prizes
to Stimulate Interest.
Feature VIII Be Guessing Con-
test on Total Attendance.
SPACE GOES RAPIDLY.
Prospective ExhibitOrsNOWTa
Advantage of Opportunity.
secretary Witt Says Amuse-
ments Are to Be Good Ones.

The management Of the Midwinter
exposition, which will be held in the
Auditorium January 1928, has an
nounced that one Of the features Of
the show which will be OF general in
terest Will be a guessing contest as to
the total attendance and that substan-
tial prizes in gold will be offered to
the three persons whose guesses come
nearest to the correct number.
The first prize" said John c. Witt,
secretary Of the show, will be fifty
dollars in gold. the second prize thirty
dollars in gold and the third prize
twenty dollar gold piece.
There will be no figures given out
until the close of the exposition. so
that those who hand In their guess or
guesses the first day will have just as
good chance to win a prize as those
who take a chance for a prize later.
"A coupon viii be attached to the
regular ticket of admission, which
viii entitle the bearer to a guess"
The interior decorations a. the Audi
tOrtum viii be executed by W. W. Gil
lespfe and will be colonial in style.
Contractors are drawing up plans for
the exterior electrical effects. which
will be elaborate and different from
anything as yet seen in Topeka.
A meeting Of the Topeka council OF
the United Commercial Travellers.
which is mana giug this years show.
was held Saturday night It was an
enthusiastic affair, and proved that the
coming exposition has strong backing
There are $50 members of the or
EanizatiOn,H said Mr.. Witt '@and each
one of them has appointed himself as
a committee of one to sell a hundred
tickets. the work of boosting the show
TO be done particularly strenu0usly in
the various towns Of the state visited
by the travelling men
The wives and daughters of the
members of the L. T. c. " i'll be an i'm
pOrtant factor in the success of the big
show. They viii have charge of the
arrangement of the booths and will as
Sist in other ways. At recent meet
ing 125 women who enlisted their SER
vices were present The proceeds are
TO be used as a nucleus for a L T. C
home building fund
'TCO-Operation can be made to con-
tribute greatly towards the success of
an exhibition in which the demOnstra-
ton of food products are a feature
Active participation of the wives and
daughters of the business and pro-
fessionaI men of Topeka has had
much to do with the success of the ex-
position on previous occasions.
Their presence has exerted saIu-
Iary influence in attracting the patron
age of the best people. The main
tenance of strict order and decorum is
necessary to the comfort of those par
ticipating in an enterprise Of this ma
1ure. and the presence of the better
element of society is of great assist
ance.
"Biuboards in Topeka and other
cities in Kansas will display a poster
which Albert T. Reid is designing to
attract the attention of the general
public as a means of advertising the
ninth Kansas NTidwfnter exposition"
On Thursday the management viii
close the contracts for the amuse-
ments for the show.
These amusements," said Secretary
Witt, will be of q higher order than
heretofore. It can be safely said that
we win have a show that viii be a