The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-04-25
TO SING AT SALE
Glee Club From Funston at
Big Auction.
List of Speakers for Junior r.
C. Function Announced.
GET ALL KINDS OF ARTICLES
Collectors Receiving Very Use
full Donations, They Say.
Bidding for German Army
Bugle Will Be Feature.


that the glee club of the Ninety-second
division which is to be in Topeka Sat
urday night and Sunday will sing at
the big Junior Red Cross auction sale
on the state house grounds Saturday.
The glee club of this division is said
to be the finest organization of it's
kind at Camp Funston or Fort Riley.
For one thing the members of the
club are of the color that makes for
singing. Plantation songs and melo-
dies of the south, marching airs and
patriotic songs make up their pro-
gram.
other numbers on the program will
be short patriotic speeches by w r.
Stubs, Arthur Capper, w. D. Ross,
H B. Wilson and others prominent
in the patriotic work of the city.
The auction sale is to be run off
under the direction of five experienced
men of the famous "coloneP' fra
ternity 1t is thought that the goods
offered at the sale will bring record
prices.
Open Down Town Room.
To facilitate the collection of dona-
ton of articles to be sold Saturday
for the benefit of the Junior Red
Cross the committee in charge of ar
rangements has opened a store room
at TIA Kansas avenue. Any goods
be left with the committee in charge
at this location and the articles will
be put in proper order for sale Satur-
day.
Already the committee in charge of
the sale have received contributions
of fine live stock to be sold and in
dications are that many farmers and
stockraisers of the county will bring
in live stock not yet listed when they
come to town for the Saturday affair.
Arrangements have been made for
serving lunch on the grounds. Many
persons have already planned to bring
in their lunches for the occasion. but
this is unnecessary and besides a fair
percentage of the receipts from the
sale of food is to go to the Junior Red
Cross just the same as if it was goods
offered for sale thru the auctioneers.
All Kinds of Articles.
For the information Of persons who
expect to attend the sale-and it is
expected that every able bodied man,
woman and child in the county will
find occasion to be there at some time
during the day-the committee in
charge of the auction has announced
that the articles on sale will run the
entire gamut of usefulness and orna-
mentation. Live stock, of course, is
the most useful variety of all. and
some kinds are ornamental well.
There will be canned goods in album
dance-jellies, preserves and vegeta-
-hcomforterS, quilts. home made
pies, cakes and bread, and the thou
sand and one articles that can be
found around the homes which have
certain specific or sentimental value
at a patriotic sale.
The bidding for the German army
bugle, relic of the Franco-Prussian
war, is expected to be lively. Several
persons have been heard to express
their intentions of possessing this relic
as a memento of hate. The commit
tee which is charged with the furnish
ing of articles for the sale is certain
that there will be many more relics
of this character brought in which
will serve to boost the receipts of the
sale to the highest.
Sell 1898 War Relics.
One of the donations received this
morning at TIA Kansas avenue to be
sold at the auction was brought in by
a Prussian born American citizen,
Henry Otto. Otto is employed at the
Santa Fe shops, is a member of the
Red Cross and has bought liberty loan
bonds, and resents every imputation
that he has the faintest 1eanings
toward Prussianism. Otto's contri-
button to the auction sale is a bronze
paper weight in the form of a tablet.
The paper weight is made from the
brass in the guns of the Spanish
cruisers Viscaya and the A1marente
Oquendo, which were sent to the bot
tom py admiral dewey IN the famous
battle of Manila bay
Another contribution which should
receive staunch support from all loyal
Americans, and should be the cause
of spirited bidding among the Demo-
Gratis, especially, is a bronze bust of
President Wilson cast by Tiffany in
New York.
Negro Children Sing.
The negro children of the city
schools who sang the praises of the
Junior Red Cross on the streets of
Topeka this noon, gave Topeka a new
and original "coon shout as a pa
triotic air. The words of the song are:
oh, France don't you weep, don't you mourn
kaisers army got pounded.
Oh, France, don't you weep
Some of these mornings bright and fair
Make our biplanes cleave the air.
When We get to Paris going to sing and
shout
No Hun there for to turn US out
When we get to Berlin going to put on our
shoes.
Run about the streets and tell all the news.
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