The Hope pioneer. [volume] (Hope, N.D.) 1882-1964, 1914-10-01
The Popular Baby Voting
Contest Closes.

The great baby motion picture show
and popular voting contest, which had
held the Bijou boards for ten nights
or more, came to a close last Satur-
day night. The films shown during
that period were Of an unusually ex-
cellent and entertaining class, and
crowded houses every night was the
rule. Mr.. Doubleday, the promoter
OF the enterprise, undoubtedly made a
good thing" but as his work was Of
the very best character and required
much hustling and vas furnished with
out undue imitation of price, the pub
lie continued its liberal patronage to
the end, and so far as the ''show" and
its manager are concerned we have
heard only words of praise.
About every baby in town old
enough to have its eyes, open, vas
took" and fond mamas and papas
and %uncles, cousins, aunts and "sym-
pathetic friends n neighbors
turned out to admire the darlings, as
they blinked, winked, beloved, tod.
died, tumbled or performed some other
feat, which general was "wonderful'
principally because it was projected
in a magnifed form or the screen. But
the writer, who once was a sweet,
chubby, cunning little tootsy-wootsy
himself, and is even 10Y an admirer
of clean, kissable babies up to eigh-
teen years of age, opines as a fact
that Hope babies are OF a superior
class, owing, doubtless, to the further
fact that Hope mamas also are in a
class by themselves.
At the close of Saturday nights
show, the votes were counted and the
prizes delivered according to the
standing of the contestants. TO say
that there vas no disappointment in
the result, would not be true, for who
of the forty odd mamas who had hope
fuls in the exhibit did not absolutely
and incontrovertibly know that hers
was the prettiest, sweetest, cunningest
and altogether brightest baby in the
bunch? It's mama nature. But as
votes only counted in the decision,
those who had acquired them, by what
soever means, received consideration,
and SO was the verdict rendered.
With 5074 votes, Lois, the sweet lit
tie daughter of Mr.. and Mrs. Charles
Warner, captured the biggest and rip
est persimmon in the bunch of prizes,
a check for $50. Violet Bjerklund,
with 1856 votes, took second prize of
800 cash, while John K%noblauch, a
possible future President of the United
States, modestly bowed his satisfac-
ton on receiving a ive-dollar gold
piece. The sever next highest con-
testants, whose vote ranged from 1473
to l66, were each given a solid gold
ring.
In addition to the baby pictures, MI.
Doubleday put out panoramic views
of the city and Of the high school and
students, and the sale of the last men,
toned, in addition to the votes given
with admission tickets to the enter
tainments, were the chief sources of
vote getting. and for their sale house
to house canvass of the city and sur
rounding country was made by friends
of many of the contesting kidlets.
This article would be very incom-
plete without mention of a series of
scenes in the Mexican war zone, taken
by Mr.. Doubleday, who at the time
was special photographer for the Col
Tier magazine. They were given with
an accompanying lecture, and these,
together with a motion picture repro
duction of the civil war battle of Bull
Run, gave our citizens a near and
very realistic impression of the hell Of
war.