Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1915-08-30
HAPPENINGS In
The MAGlC CITY
crank Herman Wins Sweepstakes
Prize for Having Best Garden
in South Side.
OTHER WINNERS IN CONTEST

Assistant Superintendent OF Omaha
Schools N. NJ. Graham yesterday gave
out statement OF the progress OF the
garden contest that has been carried on
among the students of the public schools
during the past years The list of win
ners in the recent seasons contest was
also given.
During the last two years the contests
among the students have been interest ng.
more so since the Board of Education.
city council and the stock yards have
taken an active interest in the outcome
Donations for the contest Just closed
from the former South Omaha city coun-
ell and the Union Stock Yards company,
amounting to s75. were distributed among
the prize winners. Trlant officer Paul
Macauley assisted as manager OF the
contest.
The plan OF awarding prizes is the same
as in previous years. The city Is divided
into districts corresponding TO the eleven
ward school districts. In each district
three prizes are awarded for the three
best gardens, 50 being allowed for the
first prize, 50 for the second and 81 for
the third
There is also a prize of S awarded for
stakes prize.
This year Frank Herman. 25O5 wash
ington street, in the Highland district, Is
awarded the sweepstakes prize. He had
fine large garden, absolutely clean and
frlcd with q variety OF vegetables and
flowers that would be the pride OF any
gardener young or old. The awards by
districts are as follows:
Brown Park-Sylvia Thornburg, 81
South Eighteenth, street; fret prize
Margaret Cherry: go south Iw TWEEN pses
, s77 south Fifteenth street, thi d prize.
ccntral--John Thornton, go w MStth
Henni $50 North Twenty-fourth street.
second; Luella Chambers, 266 l. street.
tUorripan-Prosper Plvou, 4Oie w street,
first; John Pl1ke, 401O w street. second /:
Anna Thompson. 1873 North TIL rty-ninth
Gar ieidEOliva Barker $40 North Twelfth
street first; Harold Hunter, 9O5 North
Eighteenth street. second; Marion Corr.
% aWthorne-Eerry Ne son. SIS North
Seventeenth street first; zoe Shainholtz,
so North Nineteenth street. second; Gin
ton Mullane. 62S North Thirteenth street.
Highland Moline 'Zensti, S5Os Adams
street first; Mile ZSnsk' J SS9o N Aedams
jungmann-Rov Green. 1873 Archer ave
Seventeenth Sew; street. second second George Lait-
ner I22 North Twentieth street, third.
IAnColT-D. RS DUNCAN can. 1892 P Berth
son. g17 North Twentv-elghtN street sec
ond. Florence Bronder. 1886 North Twen-
tyt ar strre sSbt ehlrd soaorka io7 North
fortieth street, first; Marion Lehmer.
S47 North Forty-fourth street. second -;
Willam Srencer' 600 North Forty-second
MadisonNElmer Fsulk. 1902 Jackson
street; first; Anna Nie,ssn. lo9t Wsshi ,c;s
Washington street. third;
West Side-Rov Fredlund.. $50 South
t w Isl sovth Th'rty-first street second
Mary zukowski. 34SO " street. third.
Ats IA Teachers Soon.
Annual assignment OF the South Side
public school teachers will be made to-
morrow. This statement was whispered
unofficially yesterday According to
well-founded rumor. Superintendent r.
u. Graft has decided upon system of
benevolent assimilation in affairs Of the
merged school systems. With this end
in view practically half of the South
Side teachers will be assigned to schools
on the North Side and former North
Side teachers will be assigned to tho
South Side. While It was not admitted,
it is understood that exchange OF equal
!
bring about q coordination and unifica-
ton of the merged school systems In a
very short time.
Among the teachers yesterday there
was considerable furry over the pro-
posed assignments. Just who will go
to the North Side schools and who will
be sent to the South Side remains a
schoolma'a am puzzle with a thrill Of ex-
pectancy.
students to Run Press.
AS soon as Assistant Superintendent of
Schools N. NJ. Graham vacates his
present offices in the high school build
ing at Twenty-third and streetB the
new printing press bought by two fac
ulty members for printing the next
years issue of the Tooter, the high
school bi-weekly paper. will be brought
to the high school building. An all
modern press room with splendid day
light lighting facilities will then be ar
ranged In the outer main office OF the
former superintendent and the inner pri-
vate office made over for a composition
and ad-setting room.
Prof. r. II. Johnson, head OF the com
mercial department.. who has had con-
siderable experience as a printer, will
have charge of the new printing plant
and will teach several picked students
Of the school the operation and manage.
ment of setting up and printing the pa
per-
Students are intensely enthusiastic over
the new proposition of owning the press
on which they print their own school
paper.
Back Pay 10 Park workers.
True to his word, Commissioner of
Parks Hummel authorized warrants ap-
proximating something more than 81 900
back pay for employees Of the defunct
South Omaha Park board who had
worked several weeks during the summer
on the gamble that In event of consolida-
ton they would get their pay from the
Omaha park fund. The checks were re-
mitted a little more than a week ago
and the word went around so quietly
that only a few OF the insiders knew
that the pay had been granted.
Because he sold his back pay interest,
amounting to 500 last Fourth of July for
$50. ]. II. Davis. supervisor of the Man
; dan park is now out his share above the
love $50 he accepted from former Su-
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