Kansas City journal. [volume] (Kansas City, Mo.) 1897-1928, 1899-12-07
% BREAD WINNERS
LOTTE, BEST OUT OF $500.
GETS FIRST PRIZE OF $50
MRS. GEORGE sTUMPF. 9O3 MINNEsO-
ia AVENUE, SECOND PRIZE, s25.
Mrs. @. II. Goodman, of POI South
Spring Street, Independence, Third,
81. and Twenty-Five Other
Women Win So Each in
Doggett Competition.

Yesterday was the last day of the great
est bread baking contest ever held in Kan
sas City and ii was conducted under the
auspices of the Doggett Dry Goods Com
pany. The competition was sharp and in
all $500 loaves of bread were submitted for
the prizes. The only terms of the contest
We're that the loaves should be for distri
button to the poor after the contest and
that all bread submitted should be made
of particular brand of flour. The prizes
were: First. so; second. SIS; third, SIS. and
twenty-five prizes of s. each.
The work of judging the qualities of the
$500 loaves fell to a committee of women
who are acknc wledged authorities on cook
ing-Mrs. Patti Moore, Mrs. Fred c. Mer-
rill. Mrs Ergene Rust and Mrs. ]. S.
Branham. They were assisted by the head
pastry cooks from the Baltimore, Coates
and Midland hotels. These cooks were so
expert that they could tell the exact kind
and grade of any flour used in bread bak-
ing. and be it said to the everlasting credit
of the women who entered in the contest
that not one of the loaves submitted was
fed
At the close of the contest last night the
judges made the following awards:
First prize of S50-Mrs. r. NJ Henderson
No. 1877 Charlotte street, city.
Second prize. s25-Mrs. George Stu.npf,
NO. sS Minnesota avenue. Kansas City,
kas.
Third prize. s25-Mrs. Q. H. Goodman,
NO. III South Spring street, Independ-
the order of excellence awarded to their
loaves: Mrs. Catherine Easton, sol West
Eighteenth street: Mrs. J. WATSON, 1893
avenue, Kansas City. Kas.: Alice Hoffman,
sos East Fourteenth street: Miss Mary Lin,
coin. Liberty. Mo-; Miss Eva Berkeley. Lib
Bradley. 1921 Cherry street: Mrs. ]. L.
Cochran. 261S Folmes street; Mrs. ii. S.
Millett-a223 East Seventh street: Mrs H w.
Mrs. J. II. Sechrist. 2los Park avenue:
Mrs. j. A Oates. 1112 Bales avenue: Mrs
j. GORDON. 72S West Fortieth street: Mrs.
ees Baldwin, 1919 Independence avenue; Mrs
W. B. Harlan, Heist' building; Mrs
sheedy. Is West Seventeenth street: Mrs.
W. Costello. 1412 Belleview: Mrs. Rachel
w. Nichols. 1871 East Fifteenth street; Mrs.
l. A Mckee. s5S Park avenue: Miss Cora
Marshall Marshall: Is2t Kansas avenue: Mrs. r. W.
Miss Ella Megredy, 2625 East Ninth street
Two thousand loaves were last night dis
t,ributed among the following charitable
Door of Hope. Boys Orphan home. Old
Folks home. Old Ladies' home. Kansas
S sly Day s,s Nursery Florence Crittenton mis-
pital. of Kansas City Kas
The balance of the bread will be dis
triputed upon application this morning The
In the windows of the Doggett Dry Goods
company. The prizes will also be given
70 the lucky contestants who will call at
the store.
Who the Winner Is.
Mrs Henderson. who has just been de-
ciared the best bread maker out of $500
Kansas City women, is a motherly, kindly
laced woman. past middle age She lives
IN comfortable brick house at 1917 Char
Iotte street. with her husband and four
children Her husband is an invilid One
OF OF, her sons, clark I. Henderson, is l6 years
OLD and IS assistant electrical engineer at
Emery, Bird, Thayer & Co.'S. The other
three sons are grown r. w. Henderson
Is clerk in the business office of the
manager OF the Western branch of the
United States Life Insurance Company.
Mrs. Henderson has one daughter, Louisa,
Il young woman.
Mrs. Henderson was greatly srrprised
when she was informed by a reporter Ior
The Journal last night that she had won
the prize, as she had entered the contest
only TO get Tie magazine, for the loaf of
bread she sent in, and knowing that the
poor OF the city wouli get one more loaf
Of bread if she should do so.
Il have not been doing any bread bak-
Ing for the past four years up to about
six weeks ago." She said last night, and
j mad no hopes whatever of winning the
contest. The people at home eat the bread
] have been baking. and that is all have
cared for They seem to like 1t, and II was
through their urging that ] sent my loaf
No; never had any training in any cook
ing school, for do not believe very much
In cooking schools. There is more to be
learned In the school of experience. That's
where 1 learned to make bread and to do
all my cooking. When 1 was married /
could not cook at all.
II do not measure out the ingredients
that go TO make up what l cook or bake
but guess at them all. If ! want bread to
be of a fine grain / simply knead 1t a lit
tie more than usual. With the loaf which
sent to the contest l took more care
than l generally do, and the rule followed
is the same L always follow in all my
baking.
''of course, am very glad to get the
prize. 1t will be quite fine Christmas
present. / am glad the poor will have SO
much good bread, for l believe there is
lots of the bread just as good as mine
among the -loaves sent in. Still, il the
committee is kind enough to give me the
prize l am just as glad to get it."