The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-09-07
Monster TwO-State Convention
Opens Here Friday.
Every Minute for Entertain
ment and Club Business.
big PARADE FRIDAY EVENING
Floats and Visitors From Other
Cities in Spectacle.
More Than 1,500 Persons Ex-
pected for the Meeting.

Not only Topeka Kiwanians. but the
members of all the other civic and
commercial organizations of the city
are preparing today to welcome the
hundreds of Kiwanians from the state
of Kansas and Missouri, in the district
convention which will be held here,
beginning Friday and continuing until
Saturday night, when it will end with
a monster dinner and dance at the
Chamber of Commerce. There will be
500 to 1000 Kiwanians. and 500 wives,
at the meet.
Committees. of Topeka Kiwanians
are in session this afternoon, coordi-
mating the activities of the entire club,
in the arrangements which have been
| made for the meet. Assurances of
cooperation and assistance have been
received from all the civic bodies. and
arrangements for the opening of the
convention are practically complete, it
was declared.
Convention Opens Friday.
The convention will open with for
NAL session at the city auditorium at
IL o'clock, Friday morning. 1t will
be called to order by District Governor
E. L. Chase. of Kansas City, Mo. XII
wanians and their ladies will be ad-
mitted to the meeting.
Incidentally, the Kiwanians will be
of the city auditorium since that build
ing was redecorated and cleaned up
this summer. Not a meeting of any
sort has been held there since the
redecorating has been done.
There will be a luncheon for the
Kiwanians and their wives at noon
Friday. which will be followed for the
Kiwanians by a business session, and
for their ladies by a party at the To-
peka Country club as guests Of the
Ladies' Auxiliary of the Topeka XII
wants club.
The Kiwanians themselves will be
engaged in a business session of the
delegates and members from the en-
! tire district, until 6 O'Clock in the
evening.
Athletics Play Big Part
Athletics are to have a big part In
the convention. A golf tournament
! among representatives of the various
| clubs in the district, will be played Fri
day morning, imm ediately after regis
| tration. in order to get it out of the
way before the business sessions COM
| mence. A cup will be awarded to club
winning the championship, which will
! be played for in following years. and
permanently retained by the club
which wins it three years in success
sion.
Three preliminary baseball games
will be played Friday morning. also.
I
at the Southwestern League Park at
8 o'clock Friday morning. Kansas
City, Kan. and Sedalia, Mo. will play
at $50 o'clock. Independence and
! Parsons. Kan, will play at some other
! field at the same time.
Baseball Finals Saturday
The baseball finals and semi finals
| will be played, three five-inning games
at time, at the State Boys Industrial
school Saturday afternoon. Three dia-
| monds have been laid off at the
grounds of the school
At the same time and place the
| tennis and volleyball tournaments for
| the district will be played at the in
dustrial school.
Ell Dorado's baseball team will not
arrive until Saturday, when it will
engage in the finals and semi finals
of the tournament.
There will be one volley-ball game
between Kansas City, Kan. and To-
! O'Clock Friday evening. A. r. Null
/ holland is chairman of the committee
| on athletics for the convention.
Friday Evening Parade.
For the Topekans who are not
members of Kiwanis, the big event OF
| the convention will be the spectacular
parade which is to be staged on Kansas
! avenue at 7:3O o'clock Friday eve
| ming. More than a score OF Topeka
clubs and business institutions will
! have floats entered in the parade. as
well as an equal number of Kiwanis
| clubs from other cities in the two
states.
The parade is in charge of r. r,
Baer as marshal. His lieutenants are
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