The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-02-14

/! TO-DAY
Semi weekly meeting of the local 4 food o.
administration BOARD w III. Davis. chair
tman- Noon
FRIDAY
Members of Chamber of Commerce IN
vited 20 attend chicken dinner and pro,
gram ut Watson as guests of the Farmers
Grange. Noon.
NOON.
Along with he meat of congratul ation
and commentator doled out to the cham,
Der of Commerce. it would perhaps be VIII
TO throw in q little of the salt of criticism.
There is a man in Topeka who is not ii
member of the Chamber of Commerce, but
who came up to the club with proposi-
man could get no definite information from
anyone. and, he was siot back and forth
ali patience with the club, This is the
opinion he expressed of the club Nednes<
day afternoon: The Topeka Chamber OF
Commerce is a wonderful organization or
handshakers and backslappers among
themselves, but when an outsider comes IN
courtesy is the last thing he GETS
II. Il. Eitelman was absent from the
directors meeting Wednesday right
Among the new faces at tn. tables are
Fred C. Frick. the sign man. and Cady
Hodge, the photographer
New members are joining at every meet
ing of the directors.
The story of the remarkable success of
Charles y. Adams, the printer and pub,
with "a handful of type in his mothers
basement. many years ago and then moved
Farmers National bank. Then ne moved
to the second story where the Palace is
located. moving finally to specially built
building at Jackson and seventh And
he has since enlarged the plant to double
its former capacity. His business is rep
resentatiye of many of the Topeka made
firms who have grown up with the town
Fred Cooper, of the Construction News.
is among the diners
one of the directors called attention to
the fact that he haG bought shotgun shells
in Topeka at Sill when the mail order
houses wants $1!16 for them. and another
said that he had purchased wire at w. A.
l.. Thompson's for less Il an it conld be
had at the mail order houses. w. H.
Datis chimed in with the information that
with the exception of few bats" prices
were uniformly lower N Topeka than in
the mail order cities and besides the pur
chaser had the advantage of immediate de-
livery and could see the goods bfore he
bought them.
These notes gave credit for unusual ac-
tivity to David Gregg when it should have
said Mont Gregg.
An unusually active booster has been the
manager of the burroughs Adding Machine
company. Mr.. Smith, who has brought in
the performance. Beside that he has do
mated the use of the machine that adorns
the office.
President McEntire is anxious that Mr..
Hooper of the Orpheum, receive due credit
for the singers and orchestra he has re-
peatedly donated to the club luncheons.
The mbership commit tee will hereafter
have a bulletin board in the lobby on which
will be carried the names of the guests of
the club. and register is to be provided
for those who may be guests of the men,
bers.-(T. G., say we all, I. CD
To do away with the useless expense of
sending out notices to each individual
member every time anything special is to
be on the program, the board of directors
of the Chamber of Commerce appropriated
$500 to be used for advertising purposes
in the newspapers at the meeting. of the
board Wednesday night. Under the old
method every time anything out of the
ordinary was to happen at the Chamber
Of Commerce the members were notified
by II postal card-which only too often
found its way into the waste basket IN
read. Under the new method an adver-
tisement will be inserted in the Topeka
newspapers and the cost of the notffca-
ton will be lessened about SO or $50 for
each special event. The meeting of the
board of directors at the Chamber of Com
merce Wednesday night started with a 6
o'clock dinner, went thru four and one
half hours of routine business and adj
j6urned at 10 30 O'Clock until. Saturday
noon. This column in the State Journal
may be watched for all announcements.