The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-07-24
STREAK OF LIGHT
Lantern Parade Friday Night a
Mammoth Event.
Big Feature of Summer Play
ground Work.
LAWN FETES ARE PLANNED
Each Playground Will Give
Entertainment.
News and Notes of Interest to
the Children.
LAWN FETES ARE PLANNED

The next big playground event will
be the lantern parade which will be
held next Friday evening starting from
the high school building. Hundreds OF
children are expected to be in line.
Any child in the city who has a
homemade lantern is eligible to parti-
cipate. The parade will form at
o'clock.
Line of march: West on West
Eighth avenue to Taylor street; south
on Taylor to Tenth avenue; east on
Tenth TO Kansas avenue; north on
Kansas avenue to Eighth avenue, and
west on Eighth to the city library in
front of which the judging will be
done at approximately S:45 o'clock.
The judges: Mr.. and Mrs. E. S.
Gresser; Kilmaurs and Miss Kate
King, and Mr.. and Mrs. Frank r. Con-
we'll.
Each playground will have dis
tinguishing letter:
Chesney, ca; Polk, OBJ; Westlawn,
Potwin, CD: City Park, GO; East
Side, CID; Quincy, %.
The playground city officers have
held several commission meetings and
Laws have been made and the ma.
chinery of city government is in full
swing.
Athens Will Entertain.
The city officers of the city of Ath-
ems which is located at Chesney park
will have a picnic next Thursday even
ing, to which will be invited all of the
city officers of the city of Topeka. 1t
is hoped that the two sets of city
officers will sit together and exchange
views in city government that will be
mutually helpful
Each playground will hold a lawn
fete and candy sale together with an
exhibition of playground games, folk
dancing and gymnastics during the
first two weeks of August. Admission
will be free but the money raised from
the sale of ice cream, cake and candy
will go to the support of the play
grounds, the funds for Whitehall
raised last spring by the physical
training exhibit and voluntary contri-
butions-are getting rather low. Di-
rectors Hugh MacLean and Miss
lawn fete on Monday, August .. Polk
will hold theirs the same evening.
Dates for others will be announced
soon.
Fairgrounds Open Evenings.
Nearly every ground is keeping open
evenings for the benefit of the older
boys and girls and the parents. Quincy
is open every Friday but next week
will be open Wednesday instead on
account of the lantern parade: Polk
Tuesday and Friday evenings; Potwin
Tuesday and Friday evenings; East
Side Wednesday and Friday; Chesney
Monday evening; City Park keeps open
all through the noon hour so that the
many young boys and girls who work
in that locality may bring their lunches
to the park and use the apparatus,
tennis courts, etc, before returning to
work. One director stays there to help
and direct.
Following the Lantern Parade next
Friday. the big playground events will
be: Horseshoe tournament at Polk,
Tuesday, August 8; big picnic at
Cages, Thursday, August 5; tether-
ball tournament at East Side Park,
August 9; Mr.. and Mrs. Tom Thumb
parade on Capital grounds, Friday,
August 18th; tennis tournament at
Potwin. August II; final exhibition,
citV park Septembebr g.