The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1914-11-17
Rotary Club Members Give Bar.
rel of Flour Each.
County Organizations Are Al
ready Working Hard.
SWAMP STATE HEADQUARTERS
Flood of Inquiries From Folks
Who Want to Give.
Salina Leads With Carload OF
THE RAILROADS ARE HELPIM6
President Ripley Offers Santa
Fe Lines.
individuals and Clubs Planning
Their Gifts.
President Ripley Offers Santa
Fe Lines.
individuals and Clubs Planning
Their Gifts.

What will you give to the Belgian
relief fund?
The Kansas Belgian relief work Is
spreading like a ripple in a still pooE
Organizations arc being formed to-
dav in many counties, and it is expect
ed that the entire state will be thor
oughly organized in the next week.
Counties are setting goals towards
which they will work, and much flour
and other foodstuff has already been
promised.
Relief fund in the Commerce building
phone No. 3795-was fairly swamp
ed today answ erire inquiries from
various sections and attending TO
necessary business. Because OF the
special order from the public utilities
commission permitting telephone COM
panies in Kansas t. give free service
to further work of the relief campaign.
many of the 500 independent concerns
in the state allowed the use of their
lines today, and others will follow suit
Eastern railroad traffic officials
met today in Chicago to make ar
rangements for the transporting OF
Kansas contributions for Belgium TO
the Atlantic coast. The meeting was
primarily for the purpose of arranging
for the distribution of the shipments
so that no one line will be especially
burdened. Ex-Governor Stubbs, chair
man of the executive committee, made
this comment: TT is a WhOpping big
bunch of supplies that those railroad
men are expecting and they want to
be prepared"
Free transportation will be allowed.
Word has been received from e. +.
Ripley, president of the Atchison, To-
peka &. Santa Fe that he has author
lied the free transportation of supplies
for Belgian relief over his lines.
Prominent citizens in every city of
the state are Offering their services as
speakers for the good of the cause.
Special enthusiasm meetings are be-
ing arranged from many points.
A telegraph message was received
from Concordia stating that a carload
of flour would be ready for shipment
was raised by means of a tag day last
Saturday, promoted by the women.
Immediately 145 barrels Of flour were
purchased. The millers and grainmen
gave 1853 barrels, and this made 313
barrels to show for the days wcrk.
county that an effort will be made to
raise between 1,50O and 1000 barrels of
flour in the country. That did not in
clude the Saturday tag day flour.
Nortonville wanted to know what to
do with wheat, corn, and other produce.
Tescott has sent word that an organ
ization has been formed and has start
ed work. A mass meeting for workers
in the northwest Will be held in Salina
Thursday afternoon. Georges Mignolet,
Belgian consul in Kansas City, and
Mrs. Mignolet. will attend this meeting.
John Madden has arranged a series
of meetings for Labette county. Among
the towns that have arranged for spe-
cial meetings Sunday afternoon are
Cherryvale. Coffeyville, Independence
and Caney.
The Topeka Rotary club has taken a
hand in the Belgian relief. Up to this
morning nearly forty Of it's members
had agreed to give a barrel of flour
each. The remainder of the fifty
eight members had not been seen. The
following will contribute a barrel OF
flour each: Robert Stone, w. W. Mills
George Godfrey Moore, C. P Adams
Frank p. MacLennan, Scott Hopkins
John NJ. Brunt. E. W. Rankin, Arthur
Capper. c. A. HARLAN, E. c. Winters
Ray NJ. Lattner. Frank P. Whitmore
w. c. Carswell. Fred Coulson. E. L
Overton. Charles F. Eldridge, Charles
H. Matthews. George w. Hart, George
NJ. Stone, the Rev. Roy B. Guild, Sam.
uel l.. Courtney. H. L. Peppmyer FREQ
A. Koester. Fred Voiland. Thomas E
Donnellan. H. S. Putney. John M
Kinkel, Samuel E. Lux, Marco Morrow
H. D. Driscoll. Cecil Howes, Ro,
Thompson, Gaylord Lawrence, T. A
Borman, c. B. Merriam and Alber
Patten.