The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-10-08


The North Topeka Civic club will
hold the regular meeting Tuesday eve
ming at the Community House, corner
of Laurent and jackson streets.
The women of the Indian Creek
grange were handicapped in cooking
and serving meals at the Grange fair
this week. During the summer some
one broke into the grange hall and
stole most of the dishes and kitchen
utensils. The loss was not discovered
until preparations were being made
for the dinners which are given dur
ing the annual fair. The North To-
peka. Baptist church loaned dishes and
with a hasty buying campaign of
kitchen ware, the women were able to
furnish their usual excellent dinners
without inconvenience to their patrons.
Seaman rural high won the football
game from Hoyt, Al to 0, at the Indian
Creek Grange fair yesterday afternoon
Catron, Seaman quarter, played a star
game. Cardwell, former Topeka high
school student, added strength to the
Seaman line.
Indian Creek Grange Fair.
The sixteenth annual Indian Creek
Grange fair, held Thursday and Fri
day at their hall, three miles north of
town, was one of the most successful
in the history of the grange.
The attendance was large on both
days but Friday was the banner day
with $50 paid admissions. The crowd
was augmented by school children
from the various districts, who were
admitted free. Between forty and
fifty Rotarians and their wives were
among Topeka people attending who
enjoyed the chicken pie dinner for
which the women of Indian Creek
grange are famous, and which is a
feature of the grange fairs.
The exhibits were all high grade,
excelling, if possible, those of previous
years The livestock exhibit. with
the awarding of premiums. was the
main feature of Thursday. The ma
jority of the colts and mules were
from the Button farm and received
most of the prizes. The cattle exhibit
consisted of $500 cattle of all classes.
A good representation of registered
cattle was the Holstein herds from the
Belts & Son and the Button & Son
farms. which were awarded a major
ity of the prizes.
The poultry pens we're of unusual
interest to breeders, the exhibits be-
ing larger with a greater variety of
breeds than in previous years.
An excellent display was made in
the department of pantry stores and
an appetizing array of pies, cakes,
bread, etc, was shown. The Junior
department was a credit to the young
er exhibitors, the dressed dolls, COM
p1eteIy outfitted, deserving special
mention.
The demonstration of canning, pre-
serving and cooking given by the girls
Of the home economic department of
the Seaman high school was most
creditable, while the exhibits from the
boys manual training department was
we'll worth seeing.
The school exhibits were of excep-
tionaI interest, and the excellence of
a difficult matter for the judges.
Seven schools made exhibits. those of
more than one room coming under
class "a" and one-room schools under
class "B." The East Indianola school,
Miss Zorah Reed, principal, was
Lyman, David Wallace, principal. sec
ond, and Rochester, Miss celia Guth-
RE, principal, third.
In class b" four schools were rep
resented. Indian Creek. Fairview,
West Indianola and Pleasant Hill. OF
these, Fairview, Miss Myrtle Foltz,
principal, took first prize; West
Indianola, Miss Hazel Smith. principal,
second, and Pleasant Hill, Miss Mil
bred Shaffer, principal, third.
The display of the West Indianola
school missed receiving first place
owing to the fact that some of the
work had not been completed. Miss
Smith had never taken part in con-
test of this nature before and entered
her school with no hope of winning a
prize. but believing the test would be
OF benefit to her pupils. The work of
this school in free hand drawing was
remarkably well done. The studies
were all in black and white, the sub
jects including Indian heads a picture