The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-12-20
.. VIII Kelley Points Out Lessons
to TOpekans.
Thirty Commercial Club Mem
bers at Highway Banquet.
COUNTY PLEDGES AID.
Two Commissioners to Help
Build Good Roads.
Berkson Urges Election of Dele
gates to EmpOria.

The good roads movement in Shaw
nee county was given a boost Tuesday
night when the live Commercial club
of Wakarusa entertained nearly 80
mem ers of the Topeka Commercial
club. Good things to eat were piled
high on the banquet table on the first
floor of the building in which the
"eity dads of the town do their bust
ness, and while the appetites of the
Topekans were sharpened by the auto
ride. the guests were wishing that they
possessed double capacity. So it goes
without saying that a jovial spirit ex-
listed throughout the evening
When the repast ended, the men adj
journed to the floor above, which
serves as a place of merrymaking for
the people of the community, aside
from the headquarters for the law
making body of the town, the CONNER
ciaI club and the Wakarusa grange
J. c. Blood explained that the OBJ
ject of the meeting was to get ac-
quainted He then proceeded to turn
the meeting over to the guests from
Topeka.
\ Lesson for TopeIzans.
1T should be an object lesson to
the memb ers of the Topeka CONNER
cial club to attend this meeting at Wa
karusa tonight said Secretary J. VIII
Kelley. There is one thing that you
men are to be congratulated for-if the
there would be no room for the
knocker But the rejuvenation of the
Comm ereial club in Topeka worked
wonders for the city I assure you it
will be a pleasure with the I 200 boost
ers we expect to have within 80 days
to cooperate with you in good roads
building.
~ w. Webb read a short paper on
good roads. and later in the evening he
proposed that an agitation be COM
the state constitution giving the legis-
lature the right to appropriate money
for the building of roads. Sol Berkson
urged that each county elect a delegate
and alternate to the meeting of the
State >IoOd Roads association in En-
poria next month, and that three men
be selected at the state meeting to rep
resent Kansas at Washington urging
the passage OF the proposed measure
which would give an appropriation of
$50. 100000 for road purposes to be di-
vided among the states that viii raise
an equal amount of money rs their ap-
portiOnment for road improvements.
County Commissioner Frank Simms
assured the people of Wakarusa that
he would do everything possible to aid
in the building of roads in the neigh
borhood of the town.
I'VE want good roads in all direc-
lions" said James Simmer, another
county commissioner present. My idea
of good road from Topeka to Waka-
IuSa Woulu De an O1ieu road ana
hope in the near future to see it,
Good Roads Are Cheaper.
W. c. Stephenson spoke of the waste
there is in read building and the upkeep
of roads.
I can remember the time" said he,
when it took $25 600 a year to maintain
the grade of the dirt roads in Topeka.
Now we have miles of paving, and that
expense is done away with
7 have eaten in all the excellent ho-
f-1E Tafr n (--a1ff 7f.1--f eoid
John F. Mitchell, general ticket audi
tor of the Santa Fe, ''and / want to
say that I have never enjoyed a meal
more than this one tonight
Bob Tasker mentioned the excellent
roads in China and said he was of the