The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-04-22
Contributions to Junior Red
Cross Auction Coming IN.
Horses, Pigs and Blueblooded
Chickens Received.
FOUR VOLUNTEER AUC1ONEERS
All Who Have Articles to Give
Invited To Do So.
Speakers for Big Saturday AZ
fair Are Booked.

Well broken riding horses, pigs with
long lines of ancestors. and blue blood
ed chickens are some of the articles
already listed for sale at the big
auction sale for the benefit of the
Junior Red Cross which is to be held
on the state house grounds all day
Saturday.
The telephones of all of the men,
bers of the material committee were
busy all Sunday and today receiving
calls most of them having to do with
the offering of some priced article or
animal for sale at the auction. One
of the most interesting and yet the
most hateful and priced things which
will be offered to a greedy public at
the sale will be a brass bugle Which
was sounded by German trooper
greeting the kaiser OF Germany Wne a
the HUNS marched thru Paris in 1917.
This instrument is offered for sale on
the altar of democracy by Mrs June
Chapman, whose grandfather was d
German soldier, and who mas TOUT
nephews now fighting in the Ameri-
can army overseas
-Four Auctionccr Volunteers.
The success of the sale from the
standpoint of criers is practically as
"A
"coloneP, degree have promised their
experienced voices and talents IN
bringing in the greatest posssoLe
monetary return from the muitiIaf-
ions articles offered. R. r. Murphy IS
to he auctioneer in chief of the sale
and his assistants as SO far announced
are c. NJ. Crews, the big voiced auc-
tioneer and announcer, of TopeKa' ).
B. Hastings. wieider OF the care
hammer from Granville. and Pete
ToIa,, ~ Seueca Colonel of the
first water.
W. r. Stubs. Father kuhlman,
State Superintendent of Public In
struct:on W. D. Ross. Rev. J. Herbert
Corwine. Governor Capper and others
are on the program for patrlouc
sneeches. In addition an effort is be-
ing made to secure the Glee club of
the e2nd division for a concert at
some time during the sale.
Donations Announced.
Donors and donations for the sale
as announced this morning are: ii. L.
Peppmeyer, a pure bred Hampshire
pig: r. C. Obrecht, a registered Berk-
shire pig; Updegraff & Sons. Poland
China pig; Searles and Cottle. Duroc
Jersey pig; c. e. Wood, CotsWold
ram; Miss Marion McAfee. a riding
horse: r. r. Miller. a hog; Clyde Cor
bett a hog; ]. r. Burrow, a $50 third
liberty loan bond: Woman's liberty
loan committee, $50 third liberty
loan bond. In addition there is an
organ. a piano. and numberless jars
of fruit and preserves and canned
vegetables listed. 1t is expected that
before the sale starts the ranks of the
chickens, home made pies and cakes
and bread and such things will more
than give the auctioneers busy day.
The proceeds from the auction sale
will he used in buying material for the
members of the Junior Red Cross to
turn into articles useful to the boys
over there" AS things stand at
present the local chapter of the Red
Cross is unable to meet the Junior
ORGANIZATIONS demand for material
and it is thought that the proceeds
from this sale will go for things that
when made up by the loving fingers
of the children will make home seem
a little nearer to the boys in the mud
of tie Flanders trenches.