The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-04-08
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Customers in Topeka Trade
Territory To Be Entertained.
Everything From Banquets to
Moving Picture Shows.
MERCHANTS WEEK JUNE SO
Capital City VIII Hold Open
House for Her Friends.
Active Committees Named at
Meeting Last Night.

Banquets, auto and street car sight
seeing tours, moving picture shows,
musical shows, free band concerts,
cigars, lemonade and everything else
necessary to give retail customers in
Topeka trade territory the time of
their lives will be features of Mer-
chants Week in Topeka on Tuesday,
Wednesday. Thursday and Friday of
June 6, Z, and 8. Tentative arrange
ments for the first Merchants Week
in four years were made and commit
tees appointed at a meeting of jobbers
and manufacturers held at the Com
mercial club last evening. Fully forty
manufacturers and jobbers were pres
emit
Topeka travelling men will be in the
city that week and will aid their en-
ployers in acting as hosts for their
customers. A bandstand will be erect
ed in front of the Commercial club
building and the city will be asked to
present it's visitors with an evening
shalps band will be pressed into SER
vice as well as every other entertain
ing resource of the capital city. In
short, all Topeka is urged to aid in
extending a welcoming hand to the
merchants who trade with Topeka
The Committees.
H. H. Pugh is president of the or
ganization for Merchants Week; Les
ter Davis is secretary, and t. c. White
ker, treasurer. Following are the
committees appointed to make ar
rangements for Merchants Week:
Reception committee: w. o. An
derson, chairman; Ralph Baer, vice
chairman; E. L. Rehkopf, E. r. Grote,
J. Will Kelley, F. E. Goodrich, r. L.
Bone, James Nelson, w. w. Webb, E.
L. Overton, John Miller, John A.
Worley. r. r. Rollman, Albert T.
Reid, William Schick, G. A. Morse, S.
LUX, jr., George Godfrey Moore, P. A.
LovewelI. c. S. Elliott, A. E. Wilson.
George B. Whiteker.
Executive committee: H. H. Pugh,
chairman; c. P. Adams, vice chair
man; S. ]. Hodgins, T. c. Whiteker,
w. H. Davis, George P. McEntire.
Finance committee: George c. Bow
man, chairman; t. C. Whiteker, vice
chairman; Frank Haskell, George P.
McEntire, ]. r. Burrow, E. r. Jones.
Advertising committee: C. P. Adams,
chairman; Ed F. Grote, vice chairman;
s. E. Cobb, Marco Morrow, Frank P.
MacLennan, H. NJ. Harris, Frank S.
Crane, r. K. E1inkson.
Decoration and badge committee:
H. s. Putney. chairman; o. A. Ham
ing, vice chairman; j. C. Fulton, Jo-
seph W. Schaefer, Charles H Trap,
R. T. Kreipe.
Moving Picture committee: Earl
Akers. chairman; ]. F. Haskell, vice
chairman; F. S. Crane, Conrad
Schwartz, Edwin Kistler, Geo. Krauss,
Monte Kistler
Music committee: Roy S. Thompson,
chairman; David Bowie, vice chair
man; L. r Mau1ey. William Macferran,
Frank Southwick, H. D. Yoder and
F. A. Anton.
Banquet committee: Ralph Mem
tire. chairman; H. M. Harris, vice
chairman: Robert Pierce, John Mich
olson. Charles S. Eagle. r. r. Baer,
V. B. Kistler. S. ]. Bear.
Seeing Topeka Car committee:
Samuel E. Lux, chairman; Fred Ross.
vice chairman: Albert Patten, O. E.
Wright, c. P. Buck, A. L. Stone and
Henry Bromieh.
Committee Notes.
All travelling men, members of the
organization, will be expected to aid
the reception committee. 1t must look
after checking baggage, decorate Wis
itors with badges, Chew the rag
with any and all persons and look af-
ter hundred and one other things.
which has perfect right to butt i'm
on the work done by other commit
tees.
Nor is the work mapped out for the
advertising committee easy by any
means. It is up to that committee to
drum up enthusiasm that will bring
the crowd here, get out invitations
and programs.
Pennants must be obtained and
badges prepared by the decoration
committee.
The moving picture committee is
going to try to get the movie houses
TO open in the mornings. Also educa-
tional films from some of the big
wholesale houses will be sent here.
Films can be secured from the Shred
ded Wheat company, the Quaker Oats
company, Kellogg's Toasted Corn
Flakes and other companies of nation
al reputation. Correspondence with
these firms will begin Immediately
Securing bands, soloists and other
musical features will be the lot of the
music committee.
The banquet committee and music
committee will work together to a
great extent. Vaudeville stunts will
be a part of the banquets as well as
flash light photographs.
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