Omaha daily bee., 1916-07-13
AUDUBON'S PICTURE
CONTEST CLOSES
Many Children Competed in the
Campaign to Create Interest
In Bird Study.
PRIZES TO BE AWARDED

More than 800 children competed
in the>bird picture contest conducted
by the Audubon society, with the aid
Of the Jay Burns Baking company, in
a campaign to create interest in the
study and preservation of birds. The
contest closed Tuesday evening, after
$4,000 colored bird pictures had
been distributed. wrapped in as many
loaves of bread. Twenty-eight prizes.
furnished by the audubon society,
will be awarded the children who
collected the most bird pictures at
the public library Friday morning at
10 o'clock.
A 6-year-old, Katherine Terrell, who
lives one mile south of Bellevue, col
lected 1888 bird pictures. One day
when there was no bird in the bread
wrapper little Katherine cried so Bit
terly that her father had to walk one
half mile to the next neighbor to beg
a bird picture for little Katherine,
Two other little fellows collabo-
rated with James Gienger to win the
first prize so that they might all
three possess the field glasses. to
study the birds.
Missouri Boy Enters Contest.
One little boy in Missouri wrote
Miss Joy Higgins, secretary of the
Audubons, asking plaintively, DO
you suppose those prizes will reach
the town live in?"
! II see | won't win prize" re-
marked little girl who came over to
the public library, where Miss Anna
Crary was receiving the bird pictures,
but may | have my pictures backl
| want to keep the bird pictures"
| This sentiment was general among
the children, most Of them sending
postage for the return of their pic
lures. One child said a neighbor
woman had helped him collect the
pictures on his promise to return her
one set of the fifty bird pictures.
Elsie Mason proved herself re-
markably capable business woman.
Each set of bird pictures was care
fully catalogued and written out In
a neat manner, which pleased DR.. S.
R. Towne, president of the Audu-
bons.
List of Prize Winners.
First prizes, pairs of field glasses,
were won by James Giengcr, 405
North Thirtieth street, who sent in
2,08l bird pictures; Elsie Mason, 230S
Cunning street: CLAYTON Midlam, 1872
South Twenty-eighth street; Ethel
M. Etler, 1914 Canton street; Lucille
Bliss, 262l E street, South Side; Will
lam Darnell, 1902 Tenth avenue,
Council Bluffs, and Gladys Johnson,
Lindsay, Neb.
Second prizes, tennis rackets or
catcher's mitts, were awarded Edwin
Myers, 1882 Franklin; Florence Sew
terman, 1884 South Twenty-eighth;
Francis Norris, 1906 South Tenth;
John Pavlas, $40 South Twenty.
fourth, South Side; Frank McQuinn,
1858 West Broadway, Council Bluffs;
Russell Anderson, Genoa, Neb.
Third prizes, pairs of ball bearing
roller skates, were won by Sermara
Frieden, 24ll Spencer; Evelyn
Moore, 1929 North Twenty-second;
Thorwald Jacobsen, 8l6 South Fifty
first; Nellie Calvin, 22l0 South Thir-
tenth; Charles To Anna Hrbek, 1920
o street, South Side; Charles Town
send, 3sl Benton street, Council
Bluffs; Vincent Whelan, O'Neill,
Neb.
Fourth prizes. bird books, were
won by Carl Peterson, 1922 Ohio;
Wilmer Beerkle, 1881 Emmett; Fran
els Cahill, 280l South Thirty-first;
Barbara Nittler, 22l6 Deer Park
boulevard; Ralph Boya, 1927 South
Twenty-fourth, South Side; Walter
Kreger, 1924 Eighth avenue, Council
Bluffs; Katherine Terrill, Bellevue,
Neh