The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-07-14
FLOATS FOR ALL.
They Will Be Furnished by
Semi Centennial Committee.
Counties Only Required to Bring
the Pretty Girls.
WILL BE NO DELAY.
Work to Begin at Once for
Pageant.
Hutchinson Trying to Steal To-
peka Thunder.

Furnish the girls and We will fur
nish the floats
This word will be sent to twelve
Kansas towns by the Kansas Semi
Centennial committee. It means in
stead of the Kansas towns furnishing
both girls and floats for the Semi
Centennial celebration to be held IN
Topeka the state fair week, September
I Ills, the committee will go to work
Immediately to build its own floats,
and request the Commercial clubs OF
the towns to select five Of the most
popular girls, by local newspaper con
tests, to occupy places OF honor IN the
floats in the parade. The latter plan,
adopted at a meeting of the commit
tee at the Comm ercial club rooms this
afternoon, will likely expedite matters
and also secure more of uniformity
of floats.
The towns selected for the honor
are Leavenworth, Ottawa. Coffeyville,
Wellington, Emporia, Lawrence, Con-
cordia, Junction City Manhattan, Sa-
lima, Norton and Garden City. The
idea was to choose representative Kan.
sas towns over as large section CT
the state as possible.
One of the designs of the floats al
ready adopted represents large grass
hopper, signifying the grasshoppers of
the early days. The idea is to repre-
days and the prosperity of the present
time in the state, as well as the i'm
portant historical events in the last
fifty years.
Accordingly, Albert T. Reid has been
given a contract to furnish floats en-
| bodying these ideas. A force of car
penters and decorators will be put 10
Wont 1T once and will work day and
night upon the units of the pageant
until all is completed
| The commercial clubs of the towns in
/ the list will be asked to answer IS soon
| as possible as to whether the girls viii,
| be forthcoming. The towns which d.,
not comply within reasonable time win
be eliminated from the plan and sub
stitutes chosen. Letters to this effect
are being sent out today. The COM
mittee is selecting a suitable place fo~
the making of the floats this afternoon.
Hutchinson Follows suit.
Hutchinson is following Topeka s
lead and will try to steal our thunder
by also having a pageant on exactly
the same plan adopted here.
The following is from Thursday S
Hutchinson News:
Forty Kansas towns mays enter
floats in the big historical pageant to
be held in Hutchinson during the
semi-centennial celebration, Septem-
Der to ~
Invitations were sent today to the
forty towns by the semi-centennial
| committee. Elaborate p1izes will be
given for the best floats. and it is ex-
pected that practically ali of the towns
will accept and be represented in this
pageant.
MANY of the towns have local his
I tory that will be depicted in thesf
floats; others will represent the prog
ress made; still others the peculiar in
dustries of the various towns.
1T viii be a great opportunity fol
the towns and cities of Kansas to get
some excellent advertising.
THE invitations to have floats in the
big historical pageant were sent to-
day to the following Kansas towns:
Wichita, Kansas City, Lawrence
Leavenworth, Atchison, Independence
Coffeyville, Pittsburg, lola, Humboldt
Parsons Winfield, Arkansas City, Wei
lington, Newton, Salina, Junction City
Emporia, Manhattan, Beloit. Ottawa
Concor1ia. Garden City, Dodge City
Great Bend, Larned. Kinsley, Stafford
Sterling Lyons, Pratt, Kingman. Anth-
ony, Harper, Liberal, Bucklin, McPher-
son. Greensburg, Harrington, Chanute.'