The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-04-25
Most Extensive Business and
Industrial Show Ever Held.
Temporary Building Erected to
House One Hundred Booths.
STRUCTURES COST $4,000
..HistOry of Kansas" VIII Be
Big Entertainment Feature.
Home Talent Show VIII Be
Presented Each Afternoon.

Five hundred Topekans ill par
ticipate in the entertainment programs
ar the Topeka Pageant Of Progress
to he held Wednesday, Thursday. Fri
day and Saturday-April %, p. IS
and 20 According TO Milton Tabor.
secretary Of the Topeka Merchants as
ISOLATION, which is staging the enter
prise il is TO be the most extensive
community business and industrial
show ever held in this city To house
the 100 booths. a temporary building
two blocks long and with Z6.OOV
square feet of floor space. has been
erected in the street extending from
the main entrance at Eighth ana
Kansas avenues. east one block, thence
north in 0uincy one block TO Sew
enth- These building operations alone
cost about $4,000
History Of Kansas.
The entertainment features OF the !
program will be a big pageant. The |
History OF Kansas to be given each I
evening in the city auditorium. Sew
enth and Quincy. IN this 275 persons I
viii take part. Each afternoon in the ]
city auditorium a home talent show I
will be staged by the following clubs /
Rotary. Kiwauis, Cooperative and ,
Topeka Women's, each club putting ,
on one show.
An attraction of the show Will be /
the naming OF the festival queen, on i
next Thursday evening. The queen is &
half a dozen candidates in the con- (
test On Friday night the queen will {
preside at a ball. following an elab- 4
crate coronation ceremony. (
In the booths viii be displayed mer- I
chandise and novelties in all lines of I
trade The big majority of the stalls /
have been taken by local firms. To- 1
peka merchants have sent out more /
than 1900 tickets to customers thru
out the Topeka trade territory, with a
view 10 having a large Out-Of-town It.
tendance. Secretary Tabor stated the
advance sale Of tickets already has
exceeded 10000.
Cast and Chorus.
The cast and chorus are given in the
order Of their first appearance:
swallow; Marquette, Prof Albert Haber-
Three early pioneers. LasaIle. Clyde
Lowry; Tonti, Harry Buchanan five
French soldiers. three traders, sis English
officers QuantreL, o. Herb Clarke; two
poleon Bonepart, DIT Willard; Spanish
King. Pansy Flowers; Uncle Sum, c. G.
Powell. Six Long Knives Of Virginia.
Twenty soldiers. American Legion. cap
PuGh; stephen A Douglas. John Kirk;
General Lee. Frank Stevens; three officers
General Grant. Frank Sturgis
Three officers Six early pioneers (men)
six early piooners lwoUnnl. The school
teacher, Don Twetedy; minister Edmund ]
kulp- newly welded couple. Mr. and Mrs.
Harry T. Morrisoni the sheriff, Bob
Miller
spirit OF &C. Coates Christman and End
Florence Wilson. Julia Keller. Meta Nor
rett. Helen Marie Holler. Juanita Brown,
MaTJorie irwin. Edith turner. yuma Nc
Nelly, Helen Swher, Katherine Alexander.
Edith Peterson. Flora Dyer. Frances
Hampt. Blanche Larson, Eva Crow and
Messrs. Il. Il. Baer. VIM Mowres. Homer
Wright. J. W. piamkin. Clarence Gossard, ,
Harold witchey. Oral Fluke, John Hanna,
Louis Street. Willard KILN. Ellis Suney.
Harold Barton. Howard Neager. CaIr swan
son Walter ftnrlsrmnn and Sd Woods
The red ballot includes Miss Custon ;
Washburn Miss Janette Swartz Miss
Geraldine Scott. Miss Trma Fleming Miss
NIa5 bliss. Miss FrieIa Crane Miss Jessie
Newman, Miss Gleda Gordon. Miss Dorothy
Radcliffe. Miss Teddy Rohwitzz Miss Dor
othy Reynolds, Miss Euna Hobbs. Miss .
Elizabeth Sargent and Miss Marjorie John
The Dance Of the Seasons. spring
Thelma Wood. Lucile Martin. Frances Iser-
man. Dorothy Swan Summer-Louise
Dawson. Ruth Schen. Virginia AlspauCh,
away. Marie Blakely. Helen Harper, Edith
knight. Wiuter-Helen Wilson. Ruth
Thompson. Mildred BolinGer and Helen
TIE ballet Of corn and wheat-NIiss Liv-
ers- Miss ElVinore McEvatn. Miss PHYLLIS
New man Miss Honoro strain. Miss Mar
Earet Erkcrt. Miss Dona Armfield. Miss
Rec BELLE HILL Miss Eunice Clark. Miss l
7. ilzaheth Linn MISS I iorenge layton, Miss
Margaret Morrison. Miss Glidda Gordon.
Miss Helen McAdams, Miss Irene Austin,
Miss Dorothy Cohen, Miss Gwendolyn Dun
away. Miss Lois Gilmore. Miss Margaret
Knight. Miss Helen Whittelsey. Miss opal
Bruce Miss Marian Blakely. Miss katheryn
Buck, Miss Louise Dawson. Miss Carolyn
Hughes. Miss Ruth Schen Miss LeOla {
Woodruff. Miss Frances Iserman. Miss Dor :
othy Swan.-Miss Lucille Martin. Miss Helen
Harper. Miss Helen Irlson Miss Ruth 7
Thompson. Miss Mildred Boiinrer. Miss /
Leroy Laussaelle. Miss Charlotte Cornweli. /,
Miss kaheryn Laning, Miss Marjorie Bar
rett and Miss Virginia Mills.
The dane Of the rainbow-Nfiss Blanche '
ohuson. Miss Eernice Ekblad, Miss Irene q
Price Miss Mary BronneN, Miss lime HUI :
Ing. Miss Frances Frank. Miss Margaret ;
tockey. Miss LEILA Swing. Miss Ruth Petit
Miss Gertrude Knox. Miss Thelma Wood '
Miss blanche Gartner. Miss Margaret Hop c
per. c
Shawnee River pance-Alma Tell veneia ;
Zimmerman. Charlotte Bailey and DEUEL.
Huffman
The Quick and the Dead.