The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-10-25

First Days Trip.
The first day of the trip closed
with a royal reception at Herlngton
! Wednesday night. The Harrington
Business Mems association met the so
I Jolly Topeka jobbers at the station,
and escorted them to the famous
/ Hotel Worthington, operated by F. o.
/ B. Daily. 1t was a fitting climax for
I the first day of the trip.
/ Then came the real treat of the
meeting of the business men of Her
| ington and the Topeka jobbers. The
spirit of cooperation was the key
note of the meeting. Topeka is a
suburb of Herington, according to
| every speaker of the Harrington bust
| ness men. It is a suburb of the city
and deserves support, they all de-
cIared.
/ Following the dinner served at the
LWorthington hotel the Topeka BUSH
Masonic Temple where a general
home coming" session was held.
! A. ]. Carruth, veteran jeweler of
, Harrington, starred with a speech of
fellowship and cheer. Former Repre-
! sentative Lamb, of the Lamb mer-
camille company rose to the occasion
too. Every place in Kansas is a
suburb of Harrington, according TO his
| MISUNDERSTANDING Marion, Lyn-
don, Abilene and Topeka.
Good Spirit at Meeting.
1t was a meeting of sport, fellow
ship and frivolity intermingled with
| enough seriousness to know that Her
| ington is with Topeka in commercial
| projects for the benefit of the state.
! Harry Pugh, of the Beatrice Cream
cry company, spoke on the Beatrice
! Creamery company, and was followed
by DR.. w. H. Mott, breeder of Hol-
stein dairy cattle
the Topeka Chamber of Commerce,
took the floor and for the second time
of the day. launched on a liberty loan
excursion. His first celebration was
staged at Bushong. where he assisted
county committees from Emporia in
boosting the loan on trough terri
tory
George McEntire. first vice presi-
dent Of the Chamber of Commerce
presided at the meeting and responded
to brief welcome address by M. E
| WEIGH, mayor of Harrington, who
started the merry ball of cooperation
to rolling at the evening program. 1t
was Kansas, Harrington and Topeka
for the merchants of the city, he de-
clared.
S. J. Hodgins. former president OF
the Topeka Chamber of Commerce
of the Central Topeka Paper Mills
also helped to make the stop at Her
ington enjoyable. He launched or
a series of light stories near the close
of the program and later fell into {
serious strain of traffic rates FROM
Topeka as compared with rates madt
from Missouri valley points.
Editors Blackburn of the Heringtor
Sun, and Barton, of the HeringtoI
Times, stepped in the social limeligh'
also. Hospitality was the watchwort
of both editors.
Stop ut Council Grove.
r.
welcome the Topeka jobbers anC
manufacturers on their trade booster
trip. No better welcome could b'
wished for than that given the boost
ers at that city. Arrangements haC
been made by the local business meI
to have the Topeka Jobbers' ant
Manufacturers special hauled into thu
main part of the city.
The municipal band, of fifteel
pieces was waiting to welcome tn,
fifty Topekans to the city. United will
! the Knights and Ladies of Securlt.
band, which accompanied the trad
boosters on the trip, it was rare mu
steal treat to the citizens of Counci
Grove as well as to the members o
the booster trip.
The men in the usual formation o.
three abreast marched to the maiI
section of the city and shook hands
with every person within two blocks
of the stop. The mayor, nearly fltt!
business men and members of the
Commercial club turned out to SHOW
the visitors a good time. The Coun
Gil Grove high school football team
was there, too. 1t was, perhaps, tn
most enthusiastic demonstration o
the trip that the lusty football mel
backed up by fifty high school girl
= gave the Topeka business men.
, viii Kelley and his laundering thou
sand" were put to flight as far a
cheering was concerned by the young
sters
. Wilsay, with less than 500 people
, mostly girls, it seemed, welcomed tn
, trippers, especially H. H. Pugh an
Clint Haskell, representatives of tn
Beatrice Creamery company, VIII
= scored with the young girls who turn
. ed out by the hundreds.
Bushong, too. stepped in the lime
r light, as far as hospitality was con
, cerned. The knights and Ladies o
Security had prepared a chicken din
ner in honor CT the visitors, thinkin
= that they would remain in town forty
five minutes. The train was PENN
. | schedule and the Topeka men barrel
=, had time to shake hands, and run TO
. the train. ]. Will Kelley, however
took time to make a liberty bon
5 speech, assisting the canvass tear
Il from Emporia which had met wit
: little success in the town.
other stops of the first days tri
: included Allan, Admire, Rapp an
Miller Comiskey was a stop repre-
: scented by one lone man, an Irish sol
= mate of ]. Will Kelley.
= The second days trip looked eve
e more cheering than the first, accord
q ing to every member of the booste
: crowd. Mcpherson was the large:
4 stop of the day. No arrangements ha
0 been made for dinner but it was pre-
s dicted that every single man on tn
n trip would be fed at the station in re;
: style
e Some of the richest territory of til
l. Topeka jobbers and MANUFACTURER
l. was to be visited and every one We
q anxious to start on the second lap
IS the trip, ending at Emporia Thursda
l. night.