The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-04-26
You Can Satisfy Almost Any
Desire at Auction Tomorrow.
Big Red Cross Benefit Will Be-
gin at 10 O'clock.
SHETLAND PONY TO Be SOLD
Aged Lady Gives HandiwOrk to
the Good Cause.
Democrats To Make Wilson
Bust Feature Article.

Boys and girls howdy. l have
here a fine old saber, veteran of the
| Civil war and guaranteed if used on
the kaiser to be in a fine state of
preservation. OF course, the edge of
| this instrument of warfare is bit
ragged and its handle is somewhat
wormeaten, but the old veteran who
has donated it to the Junior Red
Cross for the purposes of this sale
! says that for anyone desiring to kill
the kaiser this weapon is as good as
gold. How much am 1 bid ?"
1t is in this wise that the auction
GERS will go to the hammer tomorrow
! on the state house grounds when they
put on sale the thousand and one arti-
Giles the faithful of Shawnee county
| have donated to be sold for the bene-
| fit of the Junior Red Cross. Horses,
| cows, pigs, ponies, chickens, and
every conceivable kind of household
article are already listed for the sale
| and before the articles go to the block
! it is expected that the articles stored
away for their turn will suit the needs
of nearly every class of people in the
city and the county
An Aged Lady's Gift.
| Nor have the contributions come in
without heart throbs a plenty. One
old lady, resident of Ingleside home,
came in this morning with a beautiful
| piece of crochet work, a specimen of
| her own handiwork She did not know
be acceptable but she made the trip
| to town just on the chance that it
would. 1t was. When she had ten
dered her gift the old lady said that
she was unable TO buy liberty bonds,
but that whenever she had a quarter
she put it in a thrift stamp. When
the paper in which the purse was
wrapped was opened a card was visible
| that bore this legend: "A bagatelle
made and presented by an aged wo-
man who was a teacher in times when
the rural matron, having made her
sort soap and done her share of
,bqerding teacher crowed over her
less fortunate sisters"
4 One of the new donations listed this
morning should have a peculiar fas-
clnat1on for the children Miss Lima
| bresette reported that Mrs. R. j. Fos-
ter of Rural Route %, had donated a
ohetiand pony. AS every one knows
Snetland pony is supposed to repre-
sent the highest type of beauty in
morse flesh, and al the same time the
sturd1est and most to be desired. IT
Is tlme for the small son or daughter
of some well to do Shawnee coI,ntv
man to begin his pleading todav-for
maybe II the pressure brought to bear
IS sufficient the Shetland pony will he
mat small boys pride and joy tomor-
row night.
Many Want Wilson Bust.
one OF the smallest articles listed so
a
ord price. A bid of $40 has already
been made for the bust of President
WAisoh, ana rumorS among prominent
democrats in the county have it that
the Sl4O bid will be only starter One
local Democrat has been heard TO saw
tnat ne is going to the sale fully pre-
pared to carry off that bust regard
less of price.
Due bills on various classes of mer-
! chants and professional men who
n eyix
carried away, will also have a. prom
inent place on the lists of the auction
GERS. So far the due bills already turn
ed in for sale call for attorneys fees
mar cuts and shaves, shoe Shines
meals at restaurants, cleaning of
clothes, repairs for automobile or mo-
torcycle tires, road service for motor
lists. horse clipping, tickets for the
4 movies and pictures at photograp phi
galleries.
Among Articles Listed
Other articles which will be deIiv-
cred to the purchaser on the grounds
irclude all of the livestock listed for
sale, fine white silk ball gown a
set of furs, refrigerator, an oil
stove, vacuum cleaners. preserves.
je ms, jellies, mems and women's hats
brooms, sacks of cement, shoes, serv-
ice flags, American flags, cans of cof-
fee, smoking stands, an So kodak,
garden tools, decorative lamps, sew
Jig machines, cigar lighters, ice
cream freezers, pipes, cigars, candy,
fruit, lawn mowers, automobile Access
series, musical instruments wall pa
per, and tons of coal, and hundreds
of other miscellaneous articles.
Final plans for the handling of the
big sale which starts at 10 O'Clock to-
morrow morning will be laid at a
dinner at the Chamber of Com
nerce tonight at 6:15 O'Clock H. B..
Wilson, chairman of the general COM
niittee Of the sale, has asked that
everyone who is connected with the
handling of the sale be present at this