The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1902-11-08

dren whose Parents OF tuarulauS
Are Subscribers to The Tribune.
Only Few Simple Rules-An-
nouncement Made Only Week
Ago, Yet Several Lists Have AL
ready Been Received.
| Considerable interest is already being
| taken in The Tribunes Junior Educa-
| tional Contest, announced last Satur-
| day. in which twenty cash Christmas
| presents are to be given to the young
| readers of the paper. A similar contest
| was conducted last year and 1t proved
so popular that it has been decided To
repeat it this year, the only difference
being that instead of the presents be-
| ing sleds, skates and the like, they Will
all be in cash, so that the successful
| little ones can select their own gifts.
| These twenty presents are to be given
| to the boys and girls who succeed III
| making the largest number of words
| out of the letters in "'rhe Home Paper.
| 1t is not Il very difficult matter, but 1t
| is surprising how many mistakes are
| made. Last year there were Il whole
| lot of boys and girls who used words
| with wrong letters, or used the same
letter too many times, and then there
| were Il great many lists which did not
begin to have the full number of words
| that could be found.
What the Twenty Presents Are.
The first present which is to be
1, I,
| largest list of correct words. will make
an elegant Christmas gift for any one
1t is to be Il twenty-dollar gold piece
a double eagle. Is not that worth try
! ing for? There are very few boys and
| girls that get twenty dollars for a
Christmas present. but some one in
Scranton on vicinity is to get one this
year, for The Tribune is going to give
it, and The Tribune never fails to do
what it promises.
But suppose you don't succeed in
getting the first prize. There are other
! presents that should make any young
| person happy. There are two more
presents in god-the first Il en-dollar
| gold piece. ana the second a dollar
! gold piece. These will 80 to the boys
or girls sending the next largest num-
! Der of words.
Besides these three gold gifts there
| are seventeen others, all to be given
| in cash There are two presents OF
$3.50 each, five of 81 each. and ten of
| fifty cents each. Twenty presents in
all, making total of $50.
The conest Is Entirely Free.
| one attractive feature of this contest
/.
| nothing to enter and the rules are very
simple. ANY boy or girl, whose parents
or guardian is a subscriber to The
| Tribune, can send in Il list of words
ut amy time before five o'clock on Sat
! urday afternoon, December 20, and the
list will be counted. If the paper is
not coming to your house, then all you
have to do is to get your father OF
mother to order it sent every morning
and YOU will be entitled to enter the
contest just the same as other children
whose parents are already taking the
paper. Perhaps you have neither father
or mother: in that case the relative on
friend with whom you reside should
subscribe.
, Some have asked how long they will
be expected to take The Tribune We
expect all who subscribe to take the
paper for at least one month, and they
must be subscribers when the lists are
! sent in. After YOU have taken The
! Tribune one month we feel sure you
| will like it SO well that you will wish
/ it continued, but you are not Obliged
to continue II YOU don't want to. The
T Tribune aims to be the best paper in
! this part of Pennsylvania, and q
months trial is usually sufficient tc
convince amy one that it accomplishes
| its aim,
Rules of the Contest.
The rules of the contest are publish
| ed every day on the fourth page of The
| Tribune, but we will repeat them here
| so that there will be no misunderstood
| ing:
Presents will be given to the boys or
| girls, whose parents or guardians are
| subscribers To The Tribune, building
| the largest number of words out OF
! the letters contained in "The Home
| Paper"
No letters must be used any more
| times than they appear in these three
words, AS AN example, only one "a
! could be used, but there might be two
| HIS" or three "E's."
| Only words defined i'm the main por-
ton of "Webster's International Die.
| tonary" edition of 1s9s) will be allow.
| ed. Any dictionary can be used, but In
| judging the contest The Tribune will
debar all words not found in Webster's
Proper names, or any other words
| appearing in the Appendix" will moi
be allowed.
! Obsolete words are admitted if de,
| fined in the dictionary.
| Words spelled two or more ways car
| be used but once
Words with two or more definitions
! can be used but once.
No single letters counted as words
except "A" and go"
How to Write Your List.