The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1919-06-04
Every KanSan in War Work In
vited To Be Here.
Invitation VIII Go Out With
Catalog Being Issued.
EASTMAN IN Announcement
Pavilion VIII Be Turned Over
to Hero Visitors.
Local Legion Post, To Act as
Reception Committee.

Every person, man or woman, who
took part in the world war either
here or overseas, will participate in
the great Kansas peace jubilee which
is to be one of the big features of the
Kansas Free Fair in Topeka, Septem-
ber S-13.
Especial invitation to participate in
the celebration is extended to the
members of the American legion, to
the workers in the various war char
tiles, and to the fighting men of the
famous Thirty-fifth and Eighty-ninth
divisions. The fair association has in
corporated its invitation to the war
riors and the war workers in the
premium book which will be off the
presses in few days. And the invi-
tation is in itself a tribute to the valor
of both the workers at home and the
men who faced the shot and shell.
Turn Over Pavilion.
For the whole of fair week the big
peoples pavilion will be turned over
to the soldiers and the war workers
for the purposes of the jubilee. The
/ city auditorium has been reserved for
the jubilee every day and evening of
fair week. Altogether the Kansas
! Free Fair association expects the
Kansas peace jubilee to mark an
epoch in statewide celebrations.
/ The Shawnee county post OF the
assume the direction of the jubilee
headquarters. The invitation to SOL
dlers. sailors, marines and war work.
ers will be officially extended thru the
Shawnee county post. Also an effort
i will be made to bring the first meet
ing of the Kansas district of the
American legion to Topeka fair week.
In letter to Capt. w. P. MacLean.
| commander of the Shawnee county
post of the American legion, Phil
1 "a cszfr teav Of he TNr,fr
association, asks that the matter be
I Brought to the attention of the local
/ post at its next meeting. 1t is thought
that the local post will see the great
advantage of such meeting and jubi-
lee and will readily accept the respon-
sibility of acting as official reception
committee for the Kansas Peace Jubi-
lee.
/ The Invitation.
The official invitation of the Kan
sas Free Fair association as it appears
in the premium book, addressed to
the American legion, the 35th division
and the seth division, follows:
'Welcomei
who went over the top with you by oversub-
scribing every liberty loan and every war
fund; join with those who kept the. ships
loaded with food by long days of labor in
4 the fields; join with the women who knit
ted, sewed, cooked and who went into the
fields and shops and took your place aud
AYE, Join with all Kansas in solemn
requiem to the memory OF the heroes who
made the supreme sacrifice.
THE race has not run out o, Greeks OF
Marathon, room for usi Thru Chateau
Thierry and the Wood of Argonne We have
come up to stand by your side, and dare
call you Brothers. You Six Hundred OF
Balaklava. meet these boys from Kansas
and New York, who also rode blithely into
the valley of death. They are your kind
You men of Bunker Hill, of Gettysburg
and of San Juan, placel PIaceg for there
our neighbors' sons. our friends and play
mates. For them also the laurel and the
royal requiem. For them the Cross oil
Honor and the Divine Halo.
| american Legion, A. f. F., the Red
Cross. Y. NJ. C. A, Y. w. c. A. X. of c.
Salvation Army. all who Joined the colors-
take part with the people of Kansas IN
celebrating the gloFies of peace.
You are welcome. All Topeka will b,
the hosts and the Shawnee county post o
l the American Legion viii be the reception
committee.
THE KANSAS FREE FAIR.
IL. NJ. PENWELL, President.
PHIL EASTMAN, Secretary.