The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-05-05
BIC DAY FOR BOYS
Rotary Party Saturday a Thrill
for Two. Thousand.
Parade Athletic Events and
Campfire Features.

Campfire Features
Hey. you kids! You'uns that are
| going to the Rotary club party for
| boys, Saturday, and that's all of you!
| One of the big attra ctions of the
party will be the stunts the boys them
selves pull off around the campfire,
out at the State Free Fair grounds
after supper.
And. by the way. that said supper
is going to be considerable event in
itself Here is the grocery list which
the Rotary club is providing:
| 1000 buns.
1000 frosted drop cakes.
$500 Eskimo pies
| 5000 big, fat wienies-
1000 hard boiled eggs.
1000 lemons.
| $50 pounds sugar.
| The Rotarians figure that after the
parade at 1 O'Clock Saturday after
noon, and the track and athletic meet
at 2:3e out at the fair grounds, there
/ is going to be a boys size appetite to
l be looked after.
| They believe that the whole menu
will have been consumed by O'Clock
in the evening. and that is when the
| stunts themselves will commence.
| There will be bands, orcheStras. glee
/ clubs, and quartets galore. The Boys
/ Industrial School Colored Glee club
will sing some old fashioned camp
meeting melodies in a way they have
| never been sung before. There will be
| stunts taken from the circuSeS and
various entertainments that the grade
| schools have been giving this spring
| Several Boy Scout troops will have
/ some stunts and there is a rumor that
/ a few fast boxing matches will be on
the card. A forty-pound bucket of
Lux's best mixed candy will be given
to the group of boys who put on the
best stunt.
Il ~ irc q afTarnnnn ia
| classified according to the ages of the
| contestants.
The list of events and the age CLASH
fications are this way:
Under 10 Years.
| Hammer and nail race.
Horse and rider race
| Wheelbarrow race.
| Standing broad smile
has most warts).
10 to IL Years.
| Three legged race.
| Standing broad jump
| Ear weighing contest
I2 to IL Years.
Silt race-Feet must be 213 feet from
one hundred 900 yard dash.
| Hop, step and jump
| Mixed obstacle race.
Crawl 20 yards, hop % yards. run back
/ ward % yards and run forward % yards
| IL to 16 Years.
/ 100 yard dash.
| 220-y yard dash.
| 44O-yar dash.
| SS0-yard dash.
| Baseball throw
The Parade Formation.
The parade formation follows:
| 1-PIatoon of Policemen-Form in center
| of block Kansas avenue between
| Fourth and Fifth streets.
| aaron Stout, carrying American flag,
| thanked either side by Ralph Nc
Entire and Mayor Corwine-Form i'm
mediately behind and thirtyfive feet
back of the platoon of policemen.
&MarshalTs band-Form Immediately
behind and thirty-five feet back of
Aaron Stout. Robert Cook will be in
charge of these first three divisions.
4Boys' first division--Ages II to IS
Form on east one-half of Fourth street
OF block between Kansas avenue anu
Jackson street. Tom w Williamson,
Roy Bone, Don Grindell and Ray Latt-
5-Security Benefit association band
Form in middle of block between Kan
avenue and Jackson street on West
Fourth street. This band will be in
charge of Lieut.. Oscar Engle-
Form on west one-haif of West Fourth
street Of block between N Kansas 1 avenue venue
MSDane RaiPS seaTe and G Soge
Hoyes in charge Of this division
'-Flatoon OF CITY Ilrenen- orm on Jack-
Fourth street between Third and
Fourth streets. This platoon will be in
s-Boyf Industrial SchooI-Division
headed by Industrial School band.
Form on jackson street facing south
between Third and Fourth streets,
twenty-five feet in rear of city firemen.
Major VIM. Z. MacLean and his assist
ant in charge.
9-Boys' Third Division-Ages 10 to p
Form on east one-half of West Fourth
street between Jackson and Van Buren,
streets. This division will be in charge
Of Gen. Chas. Martin. Fred Epps, Ray
Murray and Churchill Sargent
10-American Legion drum corps-Form on
West Fourth street in middle of block
between Jackson and Van Buren, streets.
Lieut. Gaylor Lawrence in charge.
11-BOys' Fourth Division-Ages 10 years
and younger-Form West one-haif
of West Fourth street between Jackson
and Van Buren, streets. Frank c Beck,
Fred Noilaud. Dr. John O'Conneli, John
| Morrsey aud Frank Ripley in charge
| 12-WaShburn band-Form on east one
| half OF East Fourth street, facing west
| on Kansas avenue between Quincy
| street and Kansas avenue Dean n. Y.
/ Stearns in charge.
| 13-Henry Dotterwich. carrying Rotary
! flag, thanked on either side by Cecil
| HOwes and w w. Webb
| 14-Rotariaus-Form on East Fourth street
| between Quincy street and Kansas ave-
nue. Cady Hodge. Bob Austin. Chss.
Mathews and Ferdinand Funk in
| charge
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