Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1921-12-29
Contest Was Great Success
From All Standpoints,
Winners Scattered From
Florida to Illinois

FIFTEEN checks, ranging from w
to 5000, and totaling $537, were
mailed Tuesday to fifteen winners
in The Tri-Weekly Journals recent,
highly successful A. B. C. puzzle
competition.
The winners were scattered from
Florida to Illinois and while the
checks will reach them in the
shape of fine New Year presents, it
must be said that they earned them
in one of the hardest-fo battles
on record.
Thousands of readers, young and
DID, worked and figured and studied
with extreme diligence in submitting
the lists of words representing OBJ
jects in the A. B. c. puzzle picture.
Those who were successful in most
closely approaching the correct list
Established by the greatest author
ity on earth, Webster's dictionary,
and canfimerd by eminent judges
and confirmed by eminent judges
displayed an amount of intelligence,
patience and care that made them
fully deserving of their prizes.
Here is the roster of the fortunate
fifteen:
1. G. w. White, Corinth, Miss, R.
F. D. S, box 18; amount sent, So:
prize, 5000.
2. w. c. Sovereign, Chicago, ILL.,,
II West Washington street; amount
sent, 81; prize, $65.
8. Arthur William Newell, Orlan-
do, Fla, 400 East Pine street.;
a.-.ount sent, So; prize, SIS.
d. Mrs. j. r. Smith, Triton, Ga,
r. F. D. No 4; amount sent, 8; prize
$50.
5. Sarah Julia Burns, Enterprise,
Fla; amount sent, So; prize. $40.
6. w. r. Powell, Campbellton,
Fla; amount sent, -$1.35; prize, $40.
Z. Donald F. Adair, Thomasville,
Ca; amount sent, 81; prize, SIS.
8. Charles H. Hunt, Estoro, Fla;
amount sent, SO prize, $40.
8. Howard E. Fuller LoXley, Ala;
amount sent, 81; prize, $40.
10. Mrs. j. o. McFather, Cuthbert,
Ga; amount sent $4.05; prize, $40.
II. Mrs. l.. Ophelia Hubert, Savan-
nah, Ga, 22O1 Ogeechee road;
amount sent. So; prize $40.
~. Mrs. w. S. Giddens, Empire,
Ga, r. F. D. No. 1; amount sent, 81:
prize, SIS.
Is. Mrs. J. o. Coleman, Forsyth,
Ga, r. F. D. No. 5; amount sent,
none; prize, 81.
A.. Mrs. Sarah Wells, Beachton,
Ga: amount sent, SO; prize $40.
Is. Marion Wingfield, Eustis, Fla,
Box 514; amount sent, 81; prize, S..
Following is the certification of
the puzzle awards, signed by the
three judges-Joel Hunter. of Joel
Hunter & Co, certified public &C
countants; M. L. Britain, state
superintendent of schools in Geor-
gia, and E. G.. Ottley, of the Cliff
c. Hatcher Insurance agency:
eve, the three judges appointed
by The Atlanta TriWeekly Journal
to count the words in the A. B. G.
Picture Puzzle Contest, have made
our examination and find the above
to be the winners and in the order
named.
(Signed)
"JOEL c.. HUNTER. g.
IN. l.. BRITAIN.
"E. G.. OTTLEY."
1t will be noted that G. w. White,
of Corinth, Miss, r. F. D. S, realiz-
ed the maximum prize offered be-
cause he qualified his list with three
subscriptions. w. E. Severigh, of
Chic ago, ILL.,, who pulled down the
second prize of $65 would have in
creased his reward to 500 by quail
flying his subscription in the same
way. AS it was, he sent only one
subscription. The Tri-Weellly Jour-
nal is sorry that Mr.. Severigh miss
ed a bigger check by so close a
margin.
The third, fourth and fifth prizes,
for SIS, $50 and $40 were won by
contestants who fully qualified their
lists with subscriptions. The sixth
and seventh prize-winners would
have won $50 and $25, respectively,
had their lists been fully qualified.
AS an illustration of how this works,
the winner of eighth prize, won So
more than the seventh winner be-
cause the list was qualified.
Probably the most common fault
that the judges and auditors found
in checking the list was the error
of contestants in submitting words
that did not appear in the A. B. G..
picture. And it must be remember
ed that listing word NOT in the
picture was as harmful as emitting
a word that WAS in the picture.
Inc OBJECT OIL the puZZIS Was "
make up list that most closely COW
cred the actual objects seen in the
picture. The actual objects were
placed in the picture by the artist,
the exact words for the object were
determined with Webster's diction-
airy and the judges confirmed the
correct list.
Incorrect words, all of which hurt
a contestants chances, found their
way into lists in many ways that
violated the rules. For instance,
somebody would submit artery" or
"air" or atom" or similar words
which were not seen in the picture
at all.
Many contestants listed adjectives
and pfonouns and adverbs and
hyphenated words and various types
of indefinite words that did not in
the least represent anything shown
in the picture and which, of course,
were not in the correct list. In many
cases, contestants submitted lists
with far more words than were con-
tanned in the correct list. And in
many cases, when the incorrect
words were marked off by the judges,
the number of really correct words
left the contestant completely out of
the running.
The A B. c.. puzzle attracted
tremendous lot of interest and prov
ed a world of fun to thousands of
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