The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-04-30
Many Unusual Articles To Be
Sold by the Red Cross.
One Pill Box Contains Figure
of Puritan and Bride.
CONTRIBUTIONS ARE COMING IN
Eggs Seem To Be Big FavOrite
Among the Donations.
Two Motor Cars and Livestock
To Sell Thursday.

A curio in a pill box is one of the
hundreds of oddities that have come
into the store room of the Junior Red
Cross to be sold at the auction on the
state house grounds, Thursday. This
curio is a funny little thing-appar-
entity constructed with the aid of a
microscope. 1t is the figure of a Pur-
itan father and his bride made in fig
ures SO small that it is nearly incon-
ceivable that it could be made by
human hands.
Unfortunately the authorities in
charge of the store room were so busy
when the little girl brought in the
curio that no history of it was OBJ
tanned. Now the same authorities find
themselves eaten up with curiosity and
have sent out a call asking that the
little girl who gave the curio, present
herself at the store room tomorrow
what the two figures in the pill box
stand for and how they were made.
Weather conditions for the sale are
rather uncertain according to a state
morning. Flora said that he had ad-
vised holding the sale either Monday
or today but that the Red Cross peo-
pie had evidently overridden his ad
vice. Flora said that the weather
map for the state indicated increas
ing cloudiness the latter part of the
week, with probably some showers.
From this it would seem that the Red
Cross people in charge of the auction
should get busy and send up a petit
ton to the gods that rule the elements
for smiling face in the sky day af-
ter tomorrow.
Eggs Are a Favoritc.
Red Cross contributions are COM
ing in steadily according to informa-
ton received at the store rooms today.
Eggs seem to be the favorite donation
just at this time, and it is reported
that nearly 100 dozen are now on
hand 1t was announced that the
eggs and fruit and other perishabie
goods which have a more or less stan
dard price are on sale now ana may
be purchased over the counter at the
store room the same as If the goods
were in an established store. Hun
dreds of quarts of preserved fruits
and glasses of jellies can be bought
right now in this way, and 1t is re-
ported that many Topeka housewives
are taking advantage Of the SITUATION
to purchase these supplies.
At the sale Thursday it is expected
that the curios offered for the sale
will stimulate the liveliest biddlnS, tho
the two automobiles and the live stock
will run close second. The price or
the latter articles will be the only
thing which will hold their bidding
| down. Biby said this morning that the
Red Cross did not intend to offer the
automobiles as premiums to any one.
and that It Is up TO tIIe oluueio ~
! offer fair prices for such things.
An Augmented Program.
| Plans as SO far announced show
| that the sale Thursday will be much
bigger affair than the one that was to
have been held last Saturday. An
augmented program has been ar
ranged, and some of the feverish ex-
| element of the workers has died down
a little so that more elaboration in
making the plans was possible. Billy
maintains that the dropping off of the
| feverish part of the game is good for
| the sale, but that lessening of fever
does not mean any lessening of enthu-
| siaSrn
| The Topeka Junior Red Cross auc-
| ton sale has evidently been the urge
which prompted the holding of like
sales in dozens of other communities
in nearby counties. Auctioneer Crews
announced this morning that he would
go to Seneca tonight to conduct a big
Red Cross sale there tomorrow, but
| that he would be on hand in Topeka
| Thursday to do his full part in put
| ting the auction on the map as the
biggest Red Cross auction in the his
| tory of the state