Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1916-11-14
ETHEL ELLIS, PUPIL OF WOOD
BURY SCHOOL, TO RECEIVE
MOORE $40 PRIZE.
ANOTHER WOODBURY. GIRL
SECURES SECOND HoNoRs
Leota Barrett Close Second in Kidding
Trees Of Pests, and Wins SIS Prize
Rogers Pupils Take Most Prizes,
Edna Worries Heading This School
With Third Honors.

Woodbury. school pupils again have
: taken the honors in the moth gather
irs. contest-the third TO be promoted
in this city during recent months.
Woodbury. pupils gathered the largest
number in the first contest, when there
was nothing but the honor at stake.
Then the T.-R. offered treat of ice
cream 10 the school whose pupils sue
the city from the greatest amount Of
the TuSsock moth pests. The Wood
bury school won. A A. Moore, a few
weeks ago. offered So in cash prizes
10 the individuals who would go after
niore moths. and u falls to the lot Of a
Woodbury. pupil-and a girl at that
10 carry off first honors, SO in gold.
The successful contestant for the
first honors is Ethel Ellis, 4o7 Brom-
ley street, who gathered forty ounces
Of moth cocoons and egg masses, Run
ring a close second was Leota Barrett,
S North Fifth avenue, also a pupil OF
tire Woodbury. school. who gathered
tLirty-six and one-half ounces, and
secures a IS gold piece as the second
Prize. Edna Worries, 311 North Fifth
street. Of the Rogers school gathered
thirty ounces OF the pests. and wins
TIE third prize c. g.
Over Twenty-one Pounds Destroyed
AS result of the contest for the
Moore prizes 3tI ounces or a little
over tn euty-one and one-naIi pounds
Of the pests We're destroyed. Many
other pupils gathered small amounts
then gave up the task These were
not weighed by the school principals,
and no record is available.
Four prize winners come from
the Rogers school three from the
Woodbury., three from the Franklin.
and one each from the Arm ld. Abbott
and John Childs. The Woodbury. had
The largest number Of contestants. ten
~ all. and the Click school was second.
with six.
Maurice Arnold, 6l2 West Church
street, Arnold school, gathered twenty
seven ounces, and received 81, the
fourth prize. Opal Gray, 4o7 South
Ninth street. a pupil of the Franklin
school, gathered twentysfour and one
half ounces plus, and received the firth
prize. 81.
The other eight prizes are all 80
cents each. They were captured by
Dorothy Andrews, vast of the city,
who is pupil Of the Franklin school,
and gathered twenty-four and one
half ounces; Sarah McKibben, +NS
North Third street, Rogers school,
eighteen ounces: Bertram Draper. 532
North First street, Rogers. sixteen
ounces: Edna East, 2Os North Seventh
i,yenue, Woodbury.. fourteen ounces:
benjamin Phillips, i'll South Fourth
street, Rogers, twelve ounces; D.
Racey. 8. North Thirteenth street,
Franklin, twelve ounces: Austin Fork
ner. SO East Church street, Abbott.
twelve ounces: and Cleo Shockley, 100
North First avenue, John Childs, ten
and one-ha1f ounces.
Thirty Ono Participate.
Thirty-one school children were
sufficiently Interested in the award Of
the prizes to start the contest and
bring It to a finish The records OF all
these children were kept. The other
eighteen, who fell below the lowest
record to get within the prize mem
ton, but who are given "hoporable
mention IN their schools for the work
done, are as follows: Ada Gelv!n
John Childs: Lois Patten, Rosers:
Jeanette Mitchell. Henry Phillips
Gladys Beardsley. Maitland Donald
SON. Laura Sheareri and Harry Woods
Click; Lewis Tumpacfl, James Peter
son and Mary Clifford. Arnold: Ken
nefh Buchwald Hammond Creager
Dr41cie ard Katherine Burr. Alice Nc
Cheney, Ivona Cooper. and Gustav
Barzleaf. Woodbury..