Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-12-31
Lin,erickers' Jury
Gives TUO Prizes

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paired" without knowing it, and
the final vote was five to five.
There wasn't any getting away from
that. 1t was a hard and tast tie
so the two prizes are awarded. The
winners are:
II. ID. Kessler,
SOs Edgmont avenue, Chester. Pa.
Physician with National Aniline Co.,
Marcus Hook.
Miss Margaret Rugg,
2es Poplar avenue. Wayne. Pa.
With Radnor Township Commissioners.
The limerick, as DR.. Kessler COM
pleted it. follows:
4 oirl dorn at Eighteenth and Snyder
Was blonde, they all say, tH she dyed
her
Fair hair; they declare
She hangs that on chair.
To sleep at the stoitch, ,coe betide
her.
The same limerick, as finished by
Miss Rugg, reads:
A girl dozen at Eighteenth and SNYDER
Was blonde, they oil say, till she dyed
her
Fair hair; they decldre
She hangs that on a chair;
Nom pho lras the insect rrho spider!
Other last lines submitted to the fair
judges were:
Her admirers would fly II they spider
H. G.. Boardman. 500 Fourth avenue,
IIaddon Heights. \. j.
II she died, would her heirs mourn
beside hers. II. Sondheim, 1l9 Soutt
First street, Lehighton, Pa.
She'd no mother to guide. but pa
p,,yed her-William Gaynor, 12o2 Eas'
Chelten avenue. Germantown. =,
Most switches get turned, so don
chide her-Miss Louise Otto, ia.
North Darien street. =,
It all may he down but not elder
r Keesberry. 52l4 Chestnut street.
Her heiriooms Of hair looms beside
bsr--Walter Hall. 80 North l.ansdown'
avenue. Lansdowne. CThis was the on'
which received two votes on the frs
since the good all dye young, VIII!
dariae here-J. 4. Hammond, 81!
North Tenth street.
(Which Is switch?" said the fly wheI
he spider-Mrs. A. p. Silverberg, ZOO
! Mount Vernon street.
The Jury of employees Of the II. X
Milford plant, which made this de
cisiOn. consisted Of:
Miss Martha Robins, 134o Nort
Twenty ninth street export shipping
department. -oo- u...L
ington avenue; in charge OF sten"graphi
department , 80, ~.
Fdeewood street executive departmen'
Miss Ethel Morrison. 502H Chcste
avenue: foreign department.
Miss Helen l.. Redmond. 224l Fed
craI street; purchasing department.
Miss Verna Ogden, 42l CarterC
street, Camden; executive dtpartmen'
Miss Agnes McGurk. 24O2 Sout
Garnet street sales department.
Miss Belle Myers. 1877 North Fifty
fourth street order department.
Miss Elsie Lawrence. 57"" HadtieI
| street; advertising depertmrnt;
Miss Mary ID. Strain, 54lO Hnvertor
avenue; advertising department.
About Today's Winners
Miss Rugg. one of today's winner
is employed as assistant to Frederic
y Wallace, secretary of the Radn
township commissioners. and recciv,
the glad tidings while busy hunting It
slackers. She said:
\ "It's the greatest thrill ! ever ha
hut | must say / couldn't stand su
shock often. Eventually | will cor
back to earth. no doubt, but just no
I'm skimming the h"ight
II was Christmas night when Mi
Rugg first tried her hand as a lime
| iCkiste. and in the midst of jolly far
y ily party wrote her contribution. Ma
i suggestions were offered at the time
a to a suitable way to spend the hundrt
Jokingly, Miss Rugg assured them tll
p she would take trip to Florida wi
$ II and visit her grandparents. Rig
' now il looks mighty much as IL tn
trip would mateTIahsc.
e Miss Rugg was born in Pittsburgh a
e moved to New York city when chi
= She attended the public schools the
t but on her family tnking up their rel
dpnce in Philadelphia matTicuiated
our own Girls High school.
Three years ago Miss Margaret to
Y her present position. The young Ia
=. is a booster as well as Il limerickcr.
I she said: philadelphia Is the best G.
of all, and read theSEvENING PCBI
Ledger each night.
q A chance acquaintance and u char
Q remark, plus the chance he took
$ limerick No. II, netted 800 for ]
Kessler.
d believe me. you can tell the limeri
. fans that / am now a hrin believer,
/. ehanee," said DIR. Kessler yesterd
u when informed that his first attack
| t....o.icLftiv had haan auaeasafiii s'l