Free trader-journal and Ottawa fair dealer. (Ottawa, Ill.) 1920-1927, 1920-08-11
announce P RIFE
WINNERS OF HOME
BURE AU CONTESTS
MISS VIOLA POTTlNGER, OF
DiMMlCK, AUTHOR OF BEST
ESSAY AWARDS a NJ . ~ u
SCHOOL CHILDREN ENTRIES
ARE MADE.

The liOne bureau ONltrfS tOudN an
nounced that Miss Viola Polt niger, of
Dimmich township. was awarded the
$3.50 prize for writing the best essay
On What Have Gained from the
Home Bureau" Mrs. c. Wollanger.
of otter Creek. won the second prize,
receiving "A S. award, and Mrs Rex
peddicord, Z Miller township, the
third prize OF So.
The contest conducted among the
rural school children Of the county
for the best essay On why | Like the
Hot School Lunch" was won by Al
media Wilson. Of Strealor, Rout" \,
who received the $3.50 priz" The
second prize Of s. was won by l"a-
trice Roth of Earlyillo, ana the third,
carrying an award of So, was won by
Buelhh Noigts, of Streator Route y
II is hoped through the medium Of
the later contest to stimulate 'he i'll
t.res in hot school lunches during
the coming year and to have every
school in the county serve them dur
ng the coming winter, Las year =
schools of the county served lunches,
which made La Sale county rank sec
ord in the state in the number Of
schools serving a warm meal during
the luncheon hour. Il is hoped this
year 10 have the county lead the
state in the movement
The Prize Winner
The first prize essay is repuhlshcd
in fun below:
AFTER he hot school lunch was in
stalled in our school it seemed like
a different place We seemed like
brothers and sisters instead Of a
group of individual people, because
we all ate he same kind of food
cooked at school and We washed and
wiped the dishes at school, and it
made it all seem more like home to
Us.
IL learned how to prepare proper
the dishes in NOR" sanitary way
and wholesome foods in the proper
manner. learned also how 10 wash
and to use table etiquette
at made Us study all the harder
when we had something hot await
ing us instead of Just something cold
and it made US all feel better. espe
cially on cold days
Miss Roth.
The essay written by MISS RoIH
who won second prize. follows:
"One reason why | like ho' lucheS
il because when we have something
warm il seems more like home.
Another raasC1 why like h0'
lunches is because they warm nn
bodies. but when we have only colo
lunch the body does not get enough
heat, but if W. have hot luncf
there will he no such trouble. 9n'
Therefore we will be stronger an'
healthier.
"Iiot lunches save our mothers
great deal of work, because she do"'
NOT have to prepare 50 much lunch
because the hot lunches take me
MACE of part Of the cold lunch is 4
third reason why like hot lunches
another reason why | like MOI
lunches and the next day another IaNN
Of help. because when one farmer
wife sends something for the ho
luncos and the reXt day another LADY
sends something they learn to Wori
together.
"Tho fifth reason why like no
lunches is because they teach peopl'
TO eat a great many kinds OF foof
wich is good for our bodies.
Il like hot lunches because we nave
great deal of fun preparing ah'
eating them therefore, they make u
happier. and happiness is something
everybody needs Is the sixth reason
why they are good.
"Nv parents like the hot lunche
and we are very anxious to nave
them again next year.
Il also hank You for giving uS ~
opportunity to write This compoS
ton about the hot lunches,
Third Money,
Miss Buehlah Noigts' essay Whicl
carried away third prize, is as 'o
lows:
"The standard of health and men
talitv was raised in our school aite
hot lunches were installed, there ma
benn less sickness and more red
school spirit
'It is much more homeliko and or
couraging wi II hot lunches. | nav
learned great deal about domesti
science how to prepare soups. put
dinrs. cecalloped dishes and bevcl
age to "A better advantage, and NOR
ecouomically and nourishing by al
plyiug the method learned from he
lunches also good table g iqnette an
how to use my knife, fork and spoo
properly
Hot lunch nourishes the bod
more than "A cold lunch and build
up the mental strength by proVln
that Il great deal more has pee
learned and accomplished a on
school than ever before.
II am better student, stud
more inteigently, more syS.ema
ically, and feel more like dong m
very best work Therefore, IKE IN
hot school lunch because it has MAD
me better student, taught me De
ter methods Of preparing rood, an
made our school more interesting an
united"