Willmar tribune., 1909-10-06
PRIZE WINNERS
| ARE ANNOUNCED
Public improvements Committee
Award Prizes for Most Neat
" Kept Premises.

tee of the Commercial club have
filed the following report to be pre-
sented to the club at its next meet
ing. The undertaking of attempt
ing to inspect and score all the we'll
kept premises in the city of Will
mar four times during the season
was an extensive one which entailed
more work on the committee than
many suppose. There can be no
doubt that the object of the club in
offering these prizes to provide an
influence towards improved appear
ance of our city has been accom-
plished. The mere fact that the
premises have been inspected every
month have had stimulating
effect among householders to keep
their premises in good trim even if
there was no prize in view. The
report follows:
REPORT OF WELL KEPT PRE-
MISSES.
Willmar, Mimi. Oct. 4, 1909.
To the Commercial club of Willmar:
Gentlemen:
On May II. 1909, the Willmar
Commercial club offered series of
cash prizes to be awarded by the
Public Improvement committee at
its discretion for the best kept pre-
misses among the householders of
the city, the total amount of such
prizes to not exceed fifty ($50) dol
lars. The prizes were apportioned
as follows: $40 for the best kept
premises, whether by hired garden
er or otherwise; $40 to be divided
among those who did not hire any
work done on their premises. d.
vided into five prizes of SIS, $40,
81, SIS and $500.
Your committee has made four
tours of inspection this season and
have carefully scored on the five
features of general appearance,
flowers and shrubs. lawn, boulevard
and backyard.
These inspections were made once
each month during June, July,
August and September. After a
most careful inspection and ccnsid-
GRAFTON your committee has awarded
the prizes for the best kept pre-
misses in the city to Nils Jorgenson
on the corner cf Eleventh street
and Becker avenue. The committee
felt that the spirit of this contest
was not to determine which pre-
misses were the greatest in extent
or which was worth the more
wealth or which has the costliest
residence, but which gave evidence
of having received the most scrupu-
lous care and where the best result
had been attained with the means
at hand.
In participation of the other
prizes, the committee has excluded
all whom the committee had any
reason to believe had actually en-
ployed or are able to employ gar
deners to do the work. These prizes
were awarded as follows:
First prize, SIS, o. L. Lien, cor.
9TH and Litchtield.
Second prize. $40, Olof Brogren,
cor. 7th and Monongalia.
Third prize, 81, John Gilbertson,
cor. Becker and Mason.
Fourth prize, SIS, C. Freeberg,
cor. Second and Minnesota.
Fifth prize, So, Chris. Peterson,
cor. Campbell and 18th.
There were some over one hun
dred places that were actually
scored on every one of the features
named in the conditions of the con-
test, and the committee desires to
state that there were a number of
other places that were handsomely
kept but which could not be scored
because they lacked one or more of
the features required. Of those
scored the committee desires to
name the following as worthy of
honorable mention:
Russell Spicer
D. N. Tallman
G. E. Qvale
Ole Barnstad
Fred Wold -..
Geo. Bitterness
F. F. Nelson
S. S. Glarum
S. B. Qvale
C. B. Carlson
A. G. Hedin
John Skoolheim
J.'B. Boyd
Fred Paulson
Andrew Larson
| w. H. Nethaway
Judge Muller
! w. F. Gratz
]. F. Branton
| w. J. Pinney
Samuel Carver
! A. N. Lewis
c. H. Sherwood
i J. F. Millard
C.. w. LOnn