The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-09-03
FOR YOUNG FOLKS
Special Department at Free
Fair for Boys and Girls.
Junior Premium Book Is Com
piled by Secretary Eastman.
TOTAL OF $500 IN PRIZES
Three Cash Offers for Best Ad-
Vertising Poster.
Sunday School Department VIII
Contain Many Exhibits.

The Kansas Free Fair to be held in
Topeka September IL to II will be an
important institution for boys and
girls as well as grown people. Pre-
miums totalling more than $500
have been set aside for boys and girls
who take prizes in various depart
ments. So large will this division of
the Free Fair be this year that Secre-
tary Phil Eastman has issued a special
junior premium book in order to COM
bine the information relative to de-
partments and contests for Kansas
boys and girls into compact and con-
venient form.
In the baby beef contest, the first to
be held in Kansas. a total OF $500 has
been split into ten premiums. The
winner of the first prize will get $50.
In addition to this, the American
Hereford Cattle Breeders association.
and the Kansas Shorthorn Breeders
association will duplicate all prizes
won by beeves sired by registered
Shorthorn or Hereford bulls, so there
will be q chance for someone to make
$3.50. The baby beef clubs are be-
coming very popular over the state,
the purpose of the exhibition being to
show the advantages of early market
ing.
Many cash Prizes Offered.
A first prize of SIS, a second prize
OF SIS, and a third prize Of $40 will
be given in the art department for the
best poster advertising the Free Fair.
The prize winning posters last year
are being used in advertising the fair
this year.
In the Sunday school department
there will be prizes offered for ex-
hibitors from adults down to the
cradle. The department will be IN
two divisions, one for rural and one
The boys and girls clubs depart
ment will be one of the largest at
the Free Fair, Special premiums are
offered to canning clubs, garden clubs,
clothing clubs pig clubs and poultry
clubs There will also be a demon
stration contest in bread making,
canning, clothing and cake baking,
and a boys judging contest in which
prizes of $50, SIS, $40 and SO are
offered. A special prize of SIS will be
awarded to each of the clubs making
the best showing in their respective
classes, the money to be used in pay
ing the expenses of one or more rep
resentativeS of the club to the state
agricultural college during farm and
home week.
The state spelling contest. presided
over by Miss Lorraine E. Wooster,
state superintendent, will also be of
great interest to the children. There
will be an oral and written contest
the words to be chosen from the
Kansas Speller'' and Webster's Sec
ondary School Dictionary Eight
prizes, ranging S4U 10 81 Will
be given in each of the contests.
One of the features for the young
folks will be the milking contest for
girls under 81 years old. Prizes of
$40, IS, sc and 81 will be given in this
contest and in deciding the winner
the judges will take into consideration
the behavior of the cow, amount of
milk given, ease of milking and other
th-ngs that might tend to affect the
results.
rrt, ,v,ota,,, rr,,,SiciaD Nc contest will
be another important department. A
piano contest for children under Il
years old, and anoher for children rang
ing from u to I s years will be held.
Only classical music may be played
There will also be a vocal contest for
children under is years old There
will also be a contest for girls glee
clubs limited to twelve singers, and
another for boys glee clubs, limited to
the same number. Members must
be under IS years old. Two violin
contest will also be held. Substantial
prizes are offered in all these contests
a Bird House Contest.
The bird house contest for boys
under Is will be an important depart
ment.
In "Children's Corner" near the
agricultural building in the northwest
corner of the fair grounds, Children s
day will be observed Tuesday, Sep
TENDER 10 Cho Cho, the most humor-
ous of clowns, will explain to the chill
dren I'M his comical way what they
should eat, drink and do to enjoy per-
feet health Here also will be located
the booth of the Topeka Public Health
Nursing association and the Red Cross.
The Public Health Nursing assocla-
ton will hold a clinic daily, at which
well babies under three years old will
be weighed, measured and examined
The Red Cross will perform d similar
service for children three yetars old
and over.
Contests in which more than $50 in
prizes will be given away will be held
in Children's corner Tuesday under
the supervision Of Capt. W. P. Mac
Lean. In the girls aesthetic dancing
contest. for girls under IL years old,
prizes Of SIS, SO and 81 will be given.
There will be penny grab for boys,
in which $40 in pennies will be given
away Prizes of So, 81 and soc will
be given winners in each of the fol-
lowing contests:
Watermelon eating contest for col
ored boys; peanut race for children
under years old; hoop rolling contest
for children under years old; 25-
yard dash for girls under IL years
and another for girls over IL years;
5O-yard dash for boys under IL years
and another for boys over IL years;
football kicking contest Tor boys; tum-
BILE race for boys; guessing contest
for children only.
The Boys Industrial school band
will give a concert, the glee club from
the same school will sing and the in
dustrial school cadets will give exhibit
lions of diving, tumbling, gymnastics
and pyramid building.