Omaha daily bee., 1909-12-10
VALUABLE PRIZES FOR
HIGH SCHOOL STUDENTS
Clan Gordon, Nebraska Dairymen and
National Municipal League Offer
Rewards for Essays.

Students at the Omaha High school have
been given an opportunity to compete for
prizes amounting to $40 in all, for the
best written essays on different subjects.
The Clan Gordon No. So, Order of Scottish
Clans, offers a prize of S110 for the best
essay on Robert Burns, the Patriot Poet"
The winning essay win be read at the
Burns celebration, to be held at Chambers
hail, Twenty-fifth and Farnam streets, jan
uary Is, 1910.
The Nebraska Dairymen's association Of
fers $50 in prizes; first SIS; second, SIS;
third, $40, for the best three essays on any
of the following subjects; why Is the
slo a Profitable Equipment for a Ne
braska. Stock Farmer?'' What Are the
Essentials Of Profitable Farm Dairying p
How can a Nebraska Farmer Increase
His Profits BY Dairying?' The award Of
prizes will be announced at the annual
meeting Of the association, to be held at
Lincoln, January 19-9O-21.
The National Municipal league. offers two
prizes; first, $50; second. $40, for the two
best essays on the subject. ''The Municipal
Problem In America"
Nathan Bernstein Of the Omaha High
school has been invited TO give his address
on I'll Restless Jew" before the Presby-
terrain Brotherhood Of Rev. Robert. Wheel
er's church at South Omaha. These SER
vices, to which the public is invited, will
be held in Reushing's hall on Twenty-fourth
street. between l and j, on Sunday even
ing at 1880, December II. The lecture can
not be given In the church itself owing to
the fact tina the congregation has recently
at.-...a - Nha h,,fIdFpn .n1 nom ,ra-
pairing to build a new church.
The arrangements for the annual debate
between the Omaha High school and
Council Bluffs High school will be held at
Council Bluffs on February 25. The ques-
ton to be debated is: Resolved, Tha
Postal Savings Bank Should Be Adopted
BY the United States Government as Part
OF Our Banking system" Three men will
constitute a team for each school and
some time after the debate between the
two schools the same question will be de-
bated by the freshmen Of each school.
The Omaha High School Boosters club
held a meeting Wednesday and appointed
a committee to report on some manner
OF raising money to obtain sweaters for the
foot ball squad OF this year. 1t is planned
TO present the sweaters to the boys al
either a mass meeting Of the students OF
at some school event such as a debate.
The class Of 1918 OF the Omaha university
will give a reception to the class Of 1911
OF the Omaha High school on the evening
OF December II. The reception will be helC
at the university. Twenty-fourth and Pratt
streets. A large number Of the high schoo
seniors will attend.
Debating begins in earnest at the omshi
High school Monday. The p~reliminarie
for the TriLcity debats between Omaha
Des Moines and Kansas City High school
will be held then. About twenty boys vii
enter, from which a squad OF fifteen VII
be chosen. The teams will be chosen fror
this squad later. The High School Ole
club, under the charge OF MT. Christensen
a member OF the faculty. viii furnis
music on Monday. This Is the first az
pearance OF the club in public This year.
For Group there Is nothing better tbs