The Yakima herald. [volume] (North Yakima, W.T. [Wash.]) 1889-1914, 1912-05-15
BOOST VALLEY
WITH LETTERS
Commercial Club Institutes Con-
test for Boys and Girls Under
Is in Yakima County
GET LETTERS PRINTED
IN PAPERS BACK HOME
Total Of $50 in Prizes, $50 for
Best Letters Printed, $50 for
Largest Number of Inquiries
Resulting

A plan for utilizing the letter writ
ing ability of children in Yakima for
advertising the resources of the val
ley is announced by the Commercial
club which is offering prizes amount
ing to $50 for the best and most eff
fective letters written by boys or girls
less than Is years old, and published
in eastern newspapers.
Thirty dollars of the prizes are to
be given for the best three letters sent
and published in any paper east of the
Rocky mountains, then submitted to
the Commercial club. First prize is
SIS, second $40 and third So.
Fifty dollars. in first, second and
third prizes of $25, $1o and $40, will
be given for the three letters which
actually result in the greatest. second
and third greatest number of inquiries
to the Commercial club about the
Yakima valley.
"Will Interest Raft of People,
I'VE have had many inquiries come
in to us from school children and, of
course, high school students. for in
formation concerning the Yakima VAL
ley said Mr.. Ware. II spoke about
it to the publicity committee and they
agreed with me that some steps ought
to be taken to get more people in
formed about the Yakima valley. This
led to the letter writing contest which
has been inaugurated. With the
proper interest taken in this, / believe
we will have a whole raft of people
living in the valley, who will know
more about the place they live. This
is the first great purpose we have in
this contest. Every student who gets
into the game and. goes after these
prizes will, during the course of the
year, write perhaps dozen other let
tiers back east 1t is reasonable to
suppose that from now on his letters
will be more informative and, conse-
quently, more interesting to the peo-
pie to whom he writes The second
purpose we have in mind is of course.
that of interesting more people in the
valley. If our own home people are
better informed and hence more COM
petent to write intelligently about the
valley. it is certain to come to oass
that more people will be interested in
the western home of their friends.
Substantial prizes are offered and
there is a good deal of inducement in
the fact that to win will mean that
not alone has the student written a
creditable letter, but that it has been
published in an eastern paper and is
doing its missionary work for the
valley. an object desired by the people
of the entire valley.
The first prize is SIS, the second
one $40 and the third one Of IS for
the three best letters descriptive of the
valleys of the Yakima and their re-
sources. The letters must be of a
commercial character, and will be
judged upon the merit they possess to
interest the outsider in the valley.
They must be based absolutely upon
fact. and must be written with the
thought in mind that they are written
to pc rple for the purpose of interest
ing them in the valley. They must
not be descriptive of a particular CITY
or locallty, put must be descriptive Of
the county as whole.
Must BE East Of Rockies
IN ofder TO present the case of the
valleys OF the Yakima to as many peo-
pie as possible, and in order to prove
the value of the letters that are writ
ten, they must be sent to a newspaper
In the east that is the territory east Of
the Rocky mountains, and a copy of
the letter with the name of the party
or paper in the east to whom the
original letter was sent, must be sent
to the office of the Yakima CONNER
cial club. This copy of the letter must
reach the Commercial club not later
IL II June Is, 1912.
'The letter that is sent east and
published, ii good letter, will lead
people 70 Write out here to find out
ABOUT the valleys OF the Yakima.
rrizes VIII pc awarded to the letter
writer's as loiioWs:
10 the writer OF the letter that is
responsive tor the greatest number
OF INQUIRIES between June 10. 1872.
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