The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-01-10
TABLE TALK
AT THE S&AAT2M


of agriculture of the United States
will talk to the members of the Com
mercial club Wednesday noon, jan
uary IL His subject has not been
announced but will undoubtedly be
on an agricultural topic and favored
with "reminiscences of Topeka.
It's an agreeable thing to return to
the old home town conquering hero
Carl Vrooman used to live in To-
two years. He is son of former
Judge Hiram Vrooman, of Kansas
City. and is remembered by many
Topeka men who went to Washburn in
the e7rly nineties. Since leaving To-
peka Mr.. Vrooman has climbed into
the second biggest agricultural job in
the country and is coming back to his
old home town big man.
The acreage of wheat over Kansas
is the third largest in the history of
the state" said J. C. Mohler, secre-
tary of the state board of agriculture,
at the club today. There are eight
and one-half million acres of wheat
in and the snow is doing it good.
Prospects could hardly be brighter"
Women have been permitted to join
the Kansas insurance federation for
the first time in it's history and the
idea seems to be making a hit. Thirty
i've women nave joined since odluT-
day nights banquet and more are
going to do so. according TO w. w
Webb A new organization has been
perfected for counties, he says, which
is being pushed by the field men, and
5000 new members will be added
within 4 short time. For the first
time clerks may join the federation
and most of them are doing it. The
new ventures are cOmplimented by
Mark F. Mckee, of Detroit, secretary
of the national committee, who was
here Saturday.
S. H. Diller. of Fairbury, Neb.
dined at the club today, the guest OF
George w. Hart of the Remington
Typewriter company. He is visiting
at Mr.. Harris nome, 1888 Kansas ave-
nue..
i've not been sick in "a years."
F. E. Whitney announced today. MY
wife has the grip though and while
it may knock me out 1 doubt it
There's nothing like keeping your feet
when you have a little tinge of sick
ness"
Mark T. McKees address before
the best speech ever made on coop
GRAFTON in the state says George God
frey Moore. He had the whole
thing in a nutshell"
The annual meeting of the Com
mercial club will be held Friday eve
ming at $50 o'clock at an evening
dinner. Members will hear the COM
mittee reports and learn about the
work of the club.
The quietest New Year in years."
is what ]. H. Johnson, of the Denver
Board of Commerce thinks of the re-
cent closing up in the Colorado city
w. o. Rigby today and is visiting at
Liquor did not fall in price and many
of the saloons were closed before mid
night-sold out There.-was not much
noise or drunkenness, and it's a myth
about good whisky selling cheap. The
liquor companies have moved to
Cheyenne and will supply Colorado
from there in the future. Nothing
to this wild report about a big blow
out-Denver was quiet, is quiet, and
everybody who drinks has a private
cellar full. 1 don't know what will
happen when the novelty wears off
and the cellars go dry
while the snow and wet weather
helps the wheat, it freezes the cat
tle," says Fred S. Jackson, who halls
from the Flint hills, where cattle are
fattened. THE steers keep their backs
to the wind and stand the cold but
have to be fed when there is snow
on the ground. A buffalo will take
care of itself and dig through the
snow for something to eat but a steer
doesn't know enough to do So"