The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-09-16
GOOD FOR Topeka
Gala Week Made Thousands En-
thusiastic Over City.
Visitors VIII Talk Topeka" to
Their Friends.
LOCATION OF FAIR
Kelley Says Politicians Want
State Show Here.
President of Commercial Club
Thanks Citizens.

Business has been brisk in Topeka
this week. Fifty thousand people have
been in the city from Shawnee county
and all parts of Kansas. Incidentally
a good sized wad of money has been
dropped and business stimulated to a
considerable degree.
The thing that will help the city in
the long run more than anything else
is the excellent advertising that will
result from the visit of the throngs.
The sixty pretty girls were delighted
with the entertainment afforded
through the hospitality of the man
agement of the Kansas Semi Centen-
nial celebration, and they will be talk
ing Topeka for long time to come.
The state fair was up to the most
sanguine expectations as regards to
quality and size and this will mean
that there will be more friends of the
institution who will work for the au-
| thorized state fair at Topeka.
Pleased With Treatment
The livestock men at the fair ex-
pressed themselves as being delighted
with the treatment they received at
the hands of the fair management and
they will be here again next year and
will bring others with them The same
will apply to the race horse men, but
in their case many of them will un-
doubtedly make the fair grounds their
training headquarters for the winter.
The great white way made a good
impression upon the visitors.
eve feel that the Kansas Semi
Centennial celebration and the state
fair were a great success and that the
people of the city and the city seemed
to appreciate the gala week. said J.
VIII Kelley, president of the CONNER
cial Club today.
''It certainly demonstrated one thing
and that hing is that the citizens of
Topeka can do things. The CONNER
cial club wishes to thank the neWSpa-
pers and the commercial clubs of the
towns that were represented by the
delegates of girls for their co-opera-
tion, and we want to assure them that
We did everything we possibly could
in order that none would have reason
for regret for having Joined us in the
celebration. We also appreciate the
cooperation of the citizens of Topeka.
1t seems that everybody was eager to
make the events of the week success
full. It was not difficult to persuade
people to do things when they were
called upon for help.
1.-THE young men who have got be-
hind the Karnfval Knight celebration
have shown that when their interest
is aroused they don't do things by
halves, but do them right The Com
mercial club desires to have their CO.
operation in the coming year in every |
thing that will benefit Topeka and help |
advertise the city in a proper manner. |
State Fair in Topeka.
with another fair next year such |
as we have had this year, I personally
don't believe there will be any doubt |
about the ocation of the state fair in |
Kansas. In the last week 1 have |
talked with many people-men who |
have considerable political power who
assure me they are for Topeka for a
state fair.
t'They say Topeka is the logical |
place for the fair on account of the
fact that it is accessible from all parts {
OF the state and that in the past year
or two Topeka has demonstrated she |
can and will accomplish great things
and for that reason the city should |
have the state fair
The real estate men have been busy
visitors the city but they ex-
pect to reap most of their benefit from
the gala week Indirectly through the
good advertising which the town has
get and will get on account of the
season of festivities.
People have been too busy to think
about the erection of dwellings and /
business houses and consequently the
building permits issued at the office |
Of the fire marshal have been almost
nil. The largest item for the week was
for the erection of the $4,000 two
story brick high school building in
connection with the Assumption
school.
Why Trade in Topeka.
"Old Business in the Merchants
Journal tells why people do business
n Topeka in the following language:
1.-THE other day I was told of a man
prominent in one of the small towns
If Kansas who made the declaration
hat when the members of his family
wanted goods such as they could not ,
get in the local stores, they came to
Topeka to buy rather than to go to
Kansas City.
THE railroad connections make it
more convenient for them to go to /
Kansas City than Topeka and the dis
ance is no greater, but they come to
topeka just the same.
why? Well here were the reasons
,iven. They found that they could
'uy goods of as good quality and at ]
s low prices in Topeka as in Kansas
,ity and here was the other reason:
hey said that they had such complete
on1dence in the integrity of the man
Who is at the head of the Topeka es- .
that when he said his &
'oods were so and so they felt certain !
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