The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-06-24
Monster "SendOff'' Planned for
Drafted TOpekans by C. of C.
Soldiers and Families To Be
Taken to Station in Cars.
EACH TO WEAR A CARNA1ION
Big Entertainment at the Audi
torium Friday Evening.
MarshalI's Band Will Lead Pa.
rade to the Train.

The 299 Topeka men who win -
to the army environments this week il
answer to the June call will every one
of them be decorated before he goes
to the wars. according to an announces
ment this noon by R. R. Baer. chair
man Of the soldiers entertainment
committee of the Chamber Of Com
meroe. The decorations will be car
nations furnished by the knights of
Columbus lodge. and every drafted
in Topeka will wear as a part of his
raiment a CLOVER of Topeka
: Forty-nine men will leave about 10
o'clock Wednesday morning for Camp
Cody, Deming. N. NJ Seventeen of
these will go from local board No. L
and thirty-two from local board No.
2. Chairman Baer announced this
morning that'it is planned to take
these boys and their families to the
train in automobiles. In carrying out
this plan. every automobile owner in
the city is expected to do his part by
furnishing his car. Baer said today
that about fifty cars will be needed
for the demonstration in honor of the
Camp Cody men Wednesday morning.
Those who will donate their cars are
asked to call the Chamber of Com
merce at once, SO that the committee
may know just what they will be able
to count on in the way of transporta-
ton.
"Big Bunch" Goes Friday.
Friday evening the big bunch leaves
for Funston. One hundred and fifty
Topeka boys are included in this list
and Cor this bunch Chairman Baer has
made elaborate plans for pre-entrain-
ment entertainment Local board No
1 is furnishing 88 of the men i'm this
oh, ~ q
Friday evening beginning at $50
o'clock a big entertainment Tor the
boys will be staged in the auditorium.
Marshalps band will furnish stirring
music for the occasion. Bling Bang
Bill" Biby will be on hand to deliver
the parting address and to take as
many sobs as possible out of the fare
wells. Biby has a gift of blarney and
1t is expected that he will exert him
self to the utmost to make the part
ing Of the families a little easier.
Need 100 Motor Cars.
More than 100 motor cars will be
needed to transport the families of
this bunch of boys to the train and
Topeka automobile owners are again
called upon for this necessary trans
portation. Chairman Baer said this
noon that so Ear the motor car owners
OF Topeka havo not failed him on these
demands and he does not anticipate a
failure of facilities at this date.
The boys themselves will march to
the train. accompanied by a big dele
CATION of business and professional
men on foot. The home guard will
be out in force. including the band
OF the Ninth battalion. MarshalPs
band will also furnish music in the
parade and will send the boys off to
the battle of nations to the stirring
music of "Over There"
Taken altogether. the demonstra-
lions for the Topeka and shawnee
county drafted men Wednesday and
Friday of tAis week are expected to
be the biggest. yet the saddest cell
ebrations in the immediate history of
Topeka. Every effort is to be made
to make the breaking of the home ties
easy for the boys, and it has been
found that-the big parades and enter
tainments accomplish this purpose
best. q !.