The Topeka state journal., 1919-12-04
GIVE WOOD To CITY
Enough Fuel for Winter in 80
Days, Anderson Promises. y
"Lumberjack" Patriots Leave
City Hall This Morning.
VETERANS IN CITY'S "0UTFT"
SisterhOOd to Help
Supply Crews With Food.
Washburn and High School Stu
dents Enlist to Swing Axes.

I'VE will have enough wood on
hand within thirty days to keep this
town thru the winter" w. o. Ander-
son, chairman of the citizens wood
committee, asserted at the Chamber
of Commerce this noon The state
ment was made before meeting of the
wood committee following the an
nouncement of many offers of wood
to be given and sold to the city.
Mrs. l.. C. Mum has volunteered all
of the timber on the fifteen acres of
land Immediately north of the brick
yards bridge. This wood is given to
the citizens wood committee for sale
to the people of Topeka subject to
the single condition that the commit
tee furnish the labor for cutting, and
that after the timber is felled the
stunps be pulled. All social and civic
clubs in the city are to be asked to
volunteer services for one day each
next week for the purpose of bring
ing in these potential Y4Ile logs" 1t
was estimated that fully 1900 cords
OF wood will be cut on the Mum
timber tract.
Other wood offers received today
were from Mrs. Harry Eddy, of I. dian
Hill farm. and Art Anderson. owner of
farm near Hoyt. Mrs. Eddy's timber
is in the Elmont cyclone district. She
offers the wood on the stump at a
price of 50 per cord, and offers to pay
$3.50 per cord to wood choppers.
Anderson has seventy-five tons of
block cut wood on hand from last
year and is offering 1t for sale at SIS
miles east and one north of Hoyt.
Wilson To Manage Yard.
Following its meeting today the citi-
zens' wood committee announced the
appointment of J. E. Wilson, as mana
ger of the city wood yard. Wilson's
headquarters will be at the old city
crematory, just across the road from
City park, now converted into the city
wood yard.
A special appeal was issued today
to high school students to volunteer
as wood choppers for labor in getting
trucks are also wanted by the commit
tee for the hauling in of the timber.
All applications for wood or for places
as wood cutters should be made to
j. E. Wilson, phone 1014.
The members of the Citizens Wood
committee which is in charge of the
attempt to furnish city of $4,000 per-
sons with fuel are: w. o. Anderson,
chairman; Fred Voiland, secretary:
T. c. Whiteker, Elmer Strain, w. H.
Hancock, Frank B. Simms, Henry Nc
Afee and Charles Arrighi.
To jess willard Farm.
Twenty-six woodsmen armed with
and a few cross-cut saws, boarded
trucks at 1880 o'clock this morning in
front of the city hall and started on
the seven mile drive over frozen, ice
and snow covered roads to Jess Will
lard's forest south of Granville.
The men Steamed" out to the tim
Der district in motor trucks furnished
by the Derby Grain company. This
company will furnish trucks to haul
the loggers all of this week. Next
week other trucks will be donated.
This afternoon another gang was
to leave the city hall for the farm.
Commissioner Hancock announced
had applied since the crews left early
this morning. They were to be put to
work this afternoon.
Need Trucks to Haul Fuel.
whitaker Brothers are acting as
chafrmen to handle donations of
trucks to haul the wood to the city. A
large number of mercantile establish
ments and motor truck dealers have
already offered many trucks. A
young army transportation corps will
be needed to get the wood into the
city municipal yard, 1t was said.
Among those who have donated
trucks: Whitaker RIOS, w. l. Porter
ex-commissioner; Stanley Kennedy
W. o. Anderson and Sam LUX. The
contractor handling the work in the
timber informed Commissioner Han
cock today that he could supply g
limited quantity Of tools. Efforts
are being made to supply all mer
with tools who care to enter the for
ests and do not have the proper imple-
ments.
Hancock said he has some real tim
| bermen in his outfit, men who know
how to swing an axe with the steady
| long accurate swings of the rea
logger" Some of them handled axe:
in the timber districts where they use
real lumberjacks.