The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-05-02
NORTH SIDE NEWS
Over $50 Proceeds From Bap-
fist Church Fair.
Side Show and Minstrels Great
Success.
AS A BIG FAT WOMAN
"Mike' Schenk Takes Part and
Makes a Hit.
Chester Thomas Works Hard
as Mummy.

| over $50 was redllZeQ from the lar
given by the people of the North Side
Baptist church at Lukens' opera house
last night. The proceeds will go to-
ward buying crysanthemum roots.
The roots will be planted and the flow
ers therefrom will be sold to raise
money for missions.
Aside from finances, the fair was a
success, the side show for instance.
The crowds enjoyed the fat woman,
weighing $4,000 pounds, impersonated
by Mike" Schenk, dressed in a hobble
skirt, whose natural plumpness helped
add to the realistic effect. Then
there was the Egyptian mummy, posed
| by Chester Thomas, who played the
dead one all evening. The wonderful,
willful wild man of Borneo, captured
after a ferocious fight at the North
into atoms and several other places
so that neither Cook nor Peary could
find it was another thriller.
This part was taken by Ed Messen-
ger. The usually mild hammered man
put over this stunt with such zeal that
the girls and boys who saw him were
afraid to go home in the dark. ri
Boyce was the sweet voiced spieler
for these curiosities.
Then w. E. Section, in an artistic
costume of red and several other col
ors made a hit and likewise some
money as the popcorn man.
w. NJ. Van Ness black face min
strels, consisting of five girls and five
boys, who sang plantation songs, was
another feature. Prof. Squishfs or
chestra, led by Don Bobb, also drew
tremendous applause.
The fortune tellers, Mrs Austin,
Miss Helen Wellman and Miss Lucille
Lukens, who prophesied good luck or
speedy marriage to their patrons,
were well patronized; also the Ladies'
| Aid ice cream booth.
| The peep show at a penny peep
drew many of the curious. On the
outside were labels, such as What
! Made Johnny Sick?" or ''Who Swal-
lowed Grandpa's False Teeth ?''-but
the show was simply series of pic
lures of churches with the suggestion
that generous contributions to the new
Baptist church fund were desirable.
you are axed to diddings US fell
Iers is goin' to halve at the Central
| Avenue Christian church, Monday
evening, May 1, 1911.
ROOLES AND REGERLASHUNS-
"F'irst. Every woomin which kums
is gotter ware a poverty dres an, apern,
er sumpthin' joost sew guide, an. lave
her Purdle dorg at hum.
! Second. Know gint mitt a billed
shurt an dood koller kin KUN. onles
he pays a fyne of Five sents, alreddy.
Third. A kompitent kumitty will
interduse strangers an LUX aftur bak-
word gurls.
"FYNES FER WOMANS."
! RATS or Puffs, 1 sent each; no
apern, 1 sent; kid gluvs, 2 sents; hats
one foot wide with trimmins, 2 sents;
skarffs, 1 sent; wrings. plane, 1 sent;
wrings with sets, 2 sents; wrings with
| dimond, sents; trimed apern, sents;
velvut gound, 20 sents; silk dres, 5
sents; wul dres, 8 sents; speks, sents;
gingum dres, sents; kaliko dres. 2
sents; hare ornaments, 1 sent each /;
knew dres, 5 sents; brest pin, 1 sent;
chawin' gum, 5 sents; neck ornaments,
8 sents; bracelets, . sents.
J FINES FER MEN,
! "Blacked butes sents; taned butes,
4 sents; wotches, not waterbury, 8
| sents; chawin' gum, sents; stove pipe
hat, sents; durby hat, 3 sents; knew
straw hat, sents; fumery, 2 sents;
without red shurt, sents; no bokay,
| 2 sents; kreased trouwsers, sents:
man with no gurl, sents; silk tye, 2
| sents; maxim luv er furtin, 2 sents;
| patent lether shoz, 2 sents.
| Above is the literature written by
| Don Wellman and sent out by the
Loyal Sons of the Central Avenue
lChristian church. The rules quoted
were followed and considerable money
and fun were realized by observance of
the conditions.