The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-11-09
Big Underwear Manufactures
To Be at C. of C. Saturday.
He Is One of Leaders in Ma
tionaI Y. NJ. C. A. Campaign.
BIG BANQUET SUNDAY NIGHT
Workers Will Get Ready for
Big Drive Monday.
Cash and Monthly Payment
Contributions To Be Taken.


sing Underwear company, and mem
| Der of the var work committee of the
national $35,00O,000 campaign, Will
| talk at the noon luncheon at the
( Chamber of Commerce Saturday
/ Copper has for several years been
interested in Y. NJ. c. A work ana
recently has become one of the lead
| ers of the country: He has been one
of the most active men on the nation
al committee. Copper will talk on the
work that the Y. M. c. A. has been
/ doing in the environments, camps and
| overseas.
German Prisoner Coming.
Lieutenant O'Grady. officer in the
| Canadian army who was for twelve
months a prisoner in German camps
/ will also talk at the noon iuncheoh
Saturday. He will tell of his expert
ences in the German prisoner camp,
where he was fed, cared for ana
| guarded by German soldiers
Lieutenant O'Grady will tell of the
Y. NJ. c. A, its work and its purpose
! in the foreign countries. He has been
! in the very heart of the battlegroundS,
stormed by German armies and taken
i prisoner. His story promises to pc
| one of the war treats that the Cham
| Der of Commerce has been staging Tor
the last month.
| The meeting will be held under the
direction Of the Shawnee county war
work committee headed by A A
/ GODDARD.
/ The army council of the Y. W. C.
/ A (which is staging $4,000 campaign
! in Topeka this week will meet with
the captains and teams of the Y. Al
! c. A campaign at noon lunch at the
Chamber of Commerce Saturday noon.
| In addition to the two lectures, Mr.
and Mrs. Runsen, of Kansas city, VINO
are instructors in the Muller school
| of music, will give a fifteen minutes
recital at the dinner. Mr.. Bunsen is
| recognized as one of the finest violin
| list in this part of the country, while
! his wife has won great favor as a
SoloiSt.
reservations for the noon luncheon
Saturday should be telephoned i'm
mediately to ]. Will Kelley, acting sec
rotary of the Chamber of Commerce.
Banquet Sunday Night.
The $4,000 Y. M c. A. war work
! campaign in Shawnee county will Of
/ ficially open Sunday night with ban
! Guet to the teams and team captains
hundred workers will meet for the
first time and will launch on the
weeks campaign for $4,000 in the
county.
A light supper will be served the
j workers at the first meeting. Names
will be distributed to the teams for
the canvass that officially begins Mon
day morning at o'clock.
! preliminary work Will probably be
! done by the teams early Monday
morning and late Sunday night. Near
| ly $4,000 will probably be reported at
the noon luncheon which will be
served Monday noon at the Chamber
| of Commerce.
Meetings of the teams will be held
at the Chamber of Commerce each
! noon for the one hundred workers un-
| der the supervision of A. A. GODDARD
chairman of the Shawnee county War
| Work committee.
Pledge cards will be circulated in
| Topeka all next week among the bust
ness houses, residence districts, fac
! tories and offices.l A complete canvass
will be made of the city.
The pledge cards made especially
for Shawnee county, differ from those
! OF the national campaign in the mat
| ter of payments. The pledges are to
| be paid in cash, where it is possible
| Otherwise the payment may be divid-
! ed into four equal installments be-
/ thru February, March and April the
final installment being paid April Is.
The machinery for the weeks work
! is all set, GODDARD told the team cap
| tains who lunched at the Chamber of
| Commerce today. The teams have
| been selected by the captains, plans
for the campaign have been approved
! by the local workers and everything
is in readiness foR the drive.
shawnee county's quota of the $685.
! 100000 national campaign is but
| $4,000. Kansas share is only $685.
/ 0OO- Work in the entire state of Kan
sas will start early Monday morning
and will continue turnout the week.