The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-12-22
IT'S BRIGHT AHEAD
Numerical Club Expects to DO
Much in 1912.
Plan to Boost Goods ''Made in
Topeka, U. s. A."
GOOD ROADS CAMPAIGN
Has Just Commenced and viii
Be Continued.
May Furnish Road Drags to the
Farmers.
GOOD ROADS CAMPAIGN

Indications are that the Commercial
club in 1912 win accomplish more Tor
the good of Topeka than ever before
in the history of the organizations
There is not much going on right now
n the way of noon hour meetings OF
Committees. but this IS on account OF
the close proximity to Christmas sec
retary J. VIII Kelley, however, is plal.-
ming q campaign of activity that VIII
be launched the first of the year, ana
which will make things fairly mum
around the Commerce building.
Already much information has been
gathered concerning the industrial en-
terplises in Topeka in preparation Iof
the formation of an organization IN
The club to boast Topeka made goOds
.-Our plan is to get several hundred
men in the commercial club to BOOST
Topeka made goods ard pledge them
selves to buy only goods mace locaA5y
in case the goods wanted are mace
in the city, said Secretary Kelley to-
dav hen we will have a b':tton maze
which we will ask every member OF
tha cH. to wear. It Will be right along
this icea. ,.z,..
realize the variety of goods made right
here I'M our city and the excellence OF
quality. Topeka in recent years mas
bec3rae also a large jobbing center
Topeka i0bbers supply merchants over
the state with nearly everything they
REQUIRE. and the jobbing business shows
large gains each year
covers Lines of Manufacture.
Asa matter of fact almost everything
one an think Of is manufactured in
the csuitaI city. All over the country
IS the city becoming known as the
47Iace where the largest engines in the |
world are made; where doors screens,
windows and saghes are turned out; as /
p Mace from which beds ard mattresses
are distributed; as place Where tue
wholesale grocery business IS Wen oe-
NsIoped: where the paper houses are
d&ag a thriving business; where the
]srgEest creamery in the country IS 10
Gated; where the wholesale hotloh
houses are doing a big business.
one cannot go to any little Kansas
town without noticing the Topeka stamp
on various and sundry articles IL rms
i the case then why shouldn't the To-
nelSa people make a special point OF
buyinss the things produced locally, is
the question asked by the management
Of the Commercial clup.
The State Journal will publish llst
of the manufacturing industries in To-
peka and give further information
concerning the Topeka made goods
that will be of interest to the general
The Commercial Club Bulletin says
when you ate those pancakes this
morning did you stop and figure out
where the flour was made Or did you
realize that the best pancake flour IN
he world Is STOuH4 OuL III ACPCA"
ind that coffee-was it purchased 1
4bm a Topeka, dealer2 When you put /
your hat and started down the |
Greet was it a Topeka-made cigar you /
were holding between your teeth2
1.-The Topeka Commercial club does |
not wish to burden man at the /
breakfast table with commercial wor- |
rjes. but it does want to impress upon /
of this city the good that can /
be derived from getting the Made-In- |
Topeka habit. If the husbands, the |
wives and the children ask for Topeka |
made goods in the stores. the cigar |
stands and the candy shops-they will |
assist materially in the growth of the |
city and the prosperity Of all.
Buy Topeka made cigar, sit down
behind your desk, light a match-and |
think it over
Good Roads Campaign.
IN January permanent good roads |
committee will be appointed by the |
is expected that the mem bership of the |
club will be increased from 700 to |
1900 through a campaign which will /
be held the first of the year there /
should be enough money in the clubs /
treasury to utilize certain portion of /
it for the betterment of the roads
leading into Topeka
when the spring weather comes
along" said Secretary J. Will Kelley
today, land it becomes time to make
good roads we expect to have a good
roads day in which an army of 1000
,ity men working side by side with the
farmers with their teams and road
tools will put in hard days work
With pick and shovel improving the
public highways"
The club hopes to be in a position
q furnish farmers with road draes