Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1906-10-23
THE NEXT CONTEST.

a souvenir postal card contest for a
few weeks. We will announce the
date Of the closing Of the contest later
on and for the last prize we will give
an album in which to hold the souvenir
postal cards.
You will have to work very hard for
this contest, because so many of the
Juniors will want to try for the prize
souvenirs of Ottumwa, but will be
souvenirs of other places. If the Jun
iors pay attention to the rules Of the
contest they will have beautiful col
lection Of cards when the contest
closes. Now to receive a souvenir
card the Juniors must ask their little
friends to become members Of the
Courier Junior family. To belong
to this big family the little friends
must each write nice letter or else
story on one of the following sub
jects:
Halloween"
Brother Goat or Brother Rabbit"
General Grant"
"The Eagle"
Here is written illustration of what
we mean. Suppose Anna Smith gets
Mary Black, Sallie Jones or Billy
White to send in a letter or
story. Well, she will re-
ceive four souvenir cards. and each of
the Juniors Anna has secured will re-
ceive souvenir card, showing he or
she is member of the Junior family.
OF course Anna must write nice let
ter or story herself on one of the
,bo f,.ot nd
utter that she can just send in the
! names Of the new Juniors. anna" is
Just an imaginary or make believe
girl. but the editor wants to show you
/ what she means, and so gives this IL
Illustration. New Juniors mean Juniors
whose names are not on the honor
roll. The first week will not end until
/ Oct. 20, so that the Juniors living at a
/ distance will have an equal chance.
We will send the cards out just as
soon as we receive "Billie's" letter or
story corresponding with the name
enclosed in Annals" letter or story.
| The editor hopes these instructions
are all plain to the Juniors, because
we want you all to have beautiful
souvenir cards. Any child that wants
| to write is at liberty to do So They do
not have to be a new Junior, that is
one that has never written before. All
children when they write will be rank
ed with the Junior family. There is
another advantage in this contest.
That is that we will award nice book
to the Junior writing the best letter or
story. We hope lots of the Junior
boys will write.
| A Prize Winner.
| The out Of town prize for the best
story on John Greenleaf Whittier, goes
to Warren Mccormick, aged 10 years,
Highland Center. The story was pub.
| lished last week, and none received
this week excels it, so Warren will re-
ceive the prize.
The Declaration of Independence.
We are going to give beautiful
picture to the Junior who writes the
best little story about the declaration
Of independence. We announced this
contest last week, but only few Jun
iors have responded, consequently we
will postpone the contest for one week.
No doubt you want to know what
kind Of a picture 1t Is. Well it is
q large picture, 18x14 inches, beauti-
fully framed and in the center is the
Declaration Of independence, with all
the signatures of the early statesmen
attached to it. On one side is little
picture Of these great men and on the
other side a picture of the building in
which 1t was signed, while flags and
pictures of soldiers of the early day,
complete the decorations 1t is picture
that is worth working for and one the
successful Junior will highly prize
Your essay must not contain more than
| 300 words.
Always write on one side Of the
paper only and see that your writing is
neat and plain. On the bottom of
the page write your name, age and ad-
dress. On the envelope write Courier
Junior, Ottumwa, Iowa.
Next week we will have Halloween
page, which will contain pretty Hal
low'een story and many nice games to
be enjoyed that evening.
| SIR BEVIS AND HIS FRIENDS.
One morning as little Sir Bevis was
{, digging in the garden he saw daisy,