The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-01-12
JOKE ON CO-OPS
Kansas City Club Has Fun
With Topeka Visitors.
Get Out Extra Edition of
"TimeS" for Them.

Prohibition in Kansas came in for
some good-natured advertising in KAN
sas City yesterday when thirty-five
members CT the Topeka Cooperative
club We're the guests of the Kansas
City organization. President Charles
A. Moore was put under fake arrest
while attending a luncheon at the Ho-
tel Baltimore after an honest-to-good-
ness policeman reached in his pocket
and pulled out a bottle of whisky and
a package of cigarets.
Not more than two minutes after the
cop took President Moore by the coat
collar a dozen neWsboys broke through
the doors shouting, 'EXtrai Extra"
And true enough they were selling
extras with the first page of a Kansas
City paper covered with such head
lines as:
Thirsty Kansans Raid City.
All Bars Are Taken.
Bartenders Call for Aid.
The Cops Are Helpless.
Although Warned of the Invasion by
Wireless, the Police Were Beaten
Back.
Another headline read:
Topekan in Lottery Fraud While
Posing as a Guest OF the Coop.
Club.
Kansan Was Arrested.
Fought a Giant Cop.
Jack Darnell. the Largest Man On the
Quelling Prisoner.
This latter headline concerned the
adventures of President Moore. After
the banquet was over various members
were obliged to draw lots for prizes
offered. 1t was arranged that the To-
peka president should draw a card
calling for a case of beer and a pack
age of cigarets.
A Kansas City salesman on whom
the order was drawn arose to his feet
and accused the Kansan of fixing the
cards so he would obtain an order for
prohibited articles. The policeman
rushed in and while searching one of
Moore's pockets put bottle of whisky
in the other. which was later discov-
cred and held up to the view of three
hundred guests.
Cliff Jones, president of the Kansas
City club, arose to the defense of the
kansan, explaining the embarrassment
his arrest would cause. And after all,
he said, in submitting to the tempta-
lions of the world, flesh and devil the
Kansas president had done no more
than thousands of other KanSans on
their annual or semi-annual steam eX-
hausting trips to Kansas City. So the
charges We're withdrawn. The extras
We're fakes pasted on the front page
of a Kansas City paper.
The Topeka club left this city at
TAO o'clock in the morning on the
Santa Fe. They We're met at the Union
station by members of the Kansas City
club from where they were taken To
the Hotel Baltimore, it being impos-
sible to enjoy a boulevard drive
planned.
Plenty of entertainment was fur
nished at the hotel until noon when
luncheon was served ard speeches
made by Kanses City men. President
Moore responded on behalf of Topeka.
In the afternoon the guests were taken
to the Commercial club rooms where
they were shown the big Knock-No-
More hammer on its way to the Pa
cific ocean for burial. They left early
in the evening after a day which all
pronounced enjoyable.
Members Of the club who made the
trip in a special car are: Charles A.
Moore, president; w. o. Anderson.
first vice president; E. V. King, third
vice president: W. o. Synnaman, Sec
! retary-treasurer; G. l.. Gordon, L. c.
Rain, w. r. Faulkner, w. R. Carrie,
J. r. Cowdry. H. F. Schwarz, DIR. c.
3. Reed, H. A. Spielman, r. D. Per-
kins A. L. Wiseman, DIR. E. Claude
Smith, Claud z. Neil, ]. II. Gayhart,
J. H. Ulsh. w J. Lewis, ebert Pierce,
A. p .McKcwn. NJ. E. Palmer, A. D.
! Birch, w. E. Brelsford, w. F. Roehr,
L. C. Smith. c. D. Skinner, r F. Hods-