The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-11-04
FOR CITY MARKET
@Public Produce Market 4dvo-
Gated by Realty Men.
This Proposition viii Be Dis
cussed Wednesday Neon.
SHOULD BUY TOPEKA
CommercialClub Secretary Says:
"Patronize Home Industries.
Other Items Of General Interest
to Topekans.


Wednesday noon. the members of
the Topeka Real Estate Dealers asso-
citation viii consider the question OF
the ACCESSIBILITY of the establishment or
a public market place, in Topeka. Tor
the purpose of making it possible 20
Sring the producer and consumer TO-
= sether for the mutual benefit of both
Markets are maintained successfully
in the East and South and it is con-
sidered that the establishment OF such
an institution here would make it pos
sibIe for the people of Topeka to live
less extensively. All attempts locally
in the past TO promote this market
plan have been futile, it is said, on &C
count of the fight made by the mlddle
men.
w I Richenbacher, Will bring up
the subject in the course OF a paper;
II think the people of Topeka should
be able to buy produce cheaper said
he, today. Recent government Reports
show that only 46 per cent OF the price
paid by the consumer for produce goes
to the producer. while 81 per cent goes
70 the commission broker and the re-
taller.
s.Nfy solution Of thu high cost OF liv-
ing in Topeka is the esteh lishnent OF
public market where the producer ana
the consumer can meet. There are
markets in eastern and southern cities,
and I have figures to show that they
are q success In some instances the
markets are maintained by stock com
panies, the producers and the consun-
ers having purchased the stock.
"A market would have the tendency
to make a better market for home pro
ducts in Topeka, and consequently /
small farming in Shawnee county
would be even more Of an industry
than it is at the present time"
Realty Men Talk.
When asked what he thought of the |
idea of the establishment Of a public 1
market, n. b Burge, the president OF
the association said. I would be IN
qualified to make q statement about It. I
one way or the other, as have never
given it a thought"
TT might be personal advantage !
to the real estate men, said James L 4
Cottrell. a member of the association.
Il. would probably give the realty men !
a chance to sell some acre tracts in the 4
vicinity Of Topeka as It would Sumu- !
late the production OF vegetables ana
fruits It is something that have not
considered, and I am at a loss to know
what to say. The plan IS worked sue
cessfully in Kansas City, but did not
prove a success in Kansas City, kan
Sas I am told
"A man was in our Office the other
day who hailed from Des Moines. Ia,
said a land seller. today. He said
that the market more or less recently
established in his city has been a great
factor in bringing about the prosperity
which the city is enjoying"
Buy Topeka Made Goods.
y The Topeka Commercial club, under
the new regime Will wage a campaign
in the newspapers and otherwise for
the purpose of creating & spirit of CO.
operation in Topeka
I'D like to have emphasized said
Secretary j. VIII Kelley of the club
''the proposition of buying Topeka
made goods. Other towns around
here take a great deal of pride in their
manufacturing institutions and their
stores. They make a great deal of
capital of the fact that they patronize
home Industries
Il dropped into a certain grocery
store in the city the other day. A man
came in and asked for some bacon.
The clerk showed him piece Of bacon
that was the product of the Wolff
Packing Co., but the man didn't want
that; he wanted piece of Armour's
bacon, when as a matter of fact no
finer cured meats are to be had any
where than those cured by the Wolff
Co. That man by buying the bacon.
first offered him would have been help
ing a local firm.
Our people and business men do not
give this question enough serious con-
If the $4,000 people were
patronizing the Topeka institutions
the merchants buying from other mer-
chants those things that they do not
would be carrying ont
the duty which they owe to the city 1
Of Topeka Z
If we want institutions in Topeka
and want them to prosper. We person :
ally will have to stand for them
Two New Additions II
PIats OF two new additions have been
filed this week The first of these was
fled with Register Of Deeds Robert. p.
Tasker on Thursday. The addition
l2ntains SO lots and is located between
FIFTH and Sixth streets opposite the
Topeka Industrial Institute. It is called
Freeman Heights.
Today the plat Of Pinehurst was sub-
mitted to the city authorities for their :,
approval i
This addition lies between SixtF, and I
Eighth avenues and west of wash :
burn avenue. :
The Office structure formerly used
oy the Elmhurst Syndicate has been +,
purchased by the Elmhurst Investment ! Z