The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-10-26
BE HOME AT $50
Trade Boosters Will Be Met at
the Depot.
Many Stops Made ON Last
Run of Big Trip.

On Board Trade Special, oct. 60
The Topeka trade boosters lunched
today at Mcfarland where they re-
manned from 1870 until o'clock, get
ting up steam Tor their final drive
home this afternoon. They had lunch
at the famous Modoc eating house.
At Eskridge a number of business
men and about $50 school children
greeted the party. At Alma the train
was switched back to the Rock Island
Lines and headed homeWard. During
the stay at NAlma the members of the
mission were taken for a short auto
ride to the business district of the
town. Short stops were made at Hal
flax and Bradford and PaXico, Maple
Hill, Willard and Valencia remained
to be visited before the train reaches
Topeka this afternoon at $50.
A message was sent to the Topeka
iobbers and manufacturers who did
not have representatives on the trip
to meet the train at the Rock Island
depot upon it's arrival home The del
egation welcoming the pilgrims back
and the pilgrims themselves Will
march up Kansas avenue to the State
Journal building and will them dis
band.
Stop at EmpOFia.
In spite of the rainy, drfzzly
weather of Thursday afternoon, the
fifty Jazz artists of the special ar
rived IN E1InBOIld DIS pei SNAACNoA0S
happy. wet. and still boosting. The
same spirit OF jolly business jabber
still prevailed.
At the Emporia station the En-
poria business men were there, but
too late. The Topeka boosters, in
their hurry to get to the last and one
of the most promising stops of the
second days trip, pulled up to the
Commercial street crossing, where
they piled off the train cold and damp
but still happy and cheering.
At the Mftway hotel, owned and
baseball magnate of the town, who
was astfamiliar to the visitors as any
of their own number. the thund aring
thousand" nearly shook the hotel
down with their hearty cheers for
Topeka, EmpOria and the hotel and
it's owner.
The third chicken dinner of the trip
was served the men at the hotel-it
was feed or be fed. Hoover and his
mighty corps of assistants would have
had ample cause to put the lid on the
sugar bowl pultry pen and jazz box.
1t was the first real relaxation that
the boosters had had since leaving
Mcpherson early in the afternoon,
where the first drop of rain fell to
dampen the spirits of the trade boost
ers. 1t was nearly home to the men
with White as host and presiding
''parson."
"Unprepared" Program.
H. e. Gansz. former state senator,
and familiar to the Topeka men, was
discovered now with the title of pres
ident of the Chamber of Commerce,
which has only recently been organ
lied from several commercial organi-
cations of the city. Fred Bower, Jr.,
secretary of the new chamber, was
also there with the Emporia greetings.
With a special "unprepared" pro-
gram at the Chamber of Commerce
rooms following the feast at the Nit
way, the Topeka jobbers and manu-
facturers had chance to poke good
natured fun at each other and their
respective cities.
Topeka is the town of Kansas and
Kansas is the state for Emporia mer-
chants" AL Cutler, brother of o. b.
with the Poehler Mercantile company,
said-"'but Emporia is first he
added.
That was the keynote speech of the
whole Emporia program, Topeka after
Emporia, or a boost for Topeka after
Emporia concerns have been boosted
to the limit. Missouri, Illinois, Iowa
and the rest will be forgotten by EN-
poria business houses. the Chamber of
Commerce members decla1 ed and To-
peka will rank with the other manu-
/ featuring and wholesale towns of the
state.
George McEntire, of Topeka. and
H E. Gansz, of Emporia, presided
over the meeting. J. Will Kelley was
again called on for more jazz Dale
Gear, Topeka's former baseball light
responded to the humorous good
natured speech of o. NJ. white. OF
! EmpOria. o. B. Cutler. of Topeka
branch of the PoehIer Mercantile
company. responded to the talk OF
his brother, of the same firm, En-
poria branch. 1t was truly a brother
brother affair at Emporia with no
trills except those of order.
During the afternoon, the fifty To-
peka trade boosters were handicapped
in their program by a slow, cold driz-
zle- starting to fall shortly after noon
while the men were leaving McPher-
son. Canada, Marion, Cedar Point
and Strong City We're other towns OF
the afternoons itinerary