Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1921-02-03
A,Umd Is Made by Vote OF
Those Who attend Thir-
ty-thnd annual Dinner
of Association
Miss Anna Weisnrmi, of Nc
Int,re School, Gets Co..
eted ONE HUNDRED
DOLLARS for Best Last
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The limpin' lim'rick award an.
nounced today was made by q vote Of
those who attended the annual banquet
Of the Erankford Grocers' Association
at Moose Hall on Tuesday night. A
photograph OF the committee in charge
appears on the back page.
The award TO be announced tomor
row was made by vote OF those who
the monthly meeting Of Frank
ford Post 211, American Legion, In the
FranIdord branch Of the free librar,
on Tuesday evening.
Talk about a "reul" banquet, given
by "real' people. Well, the one held
Tuesday night by the Franktord
Grocers' Association at Moose HAL
1914 North Broad street, was a real
one, IL ever there was one.
And let us add that one Of the things
that gave considerable gayety TO the
entire affair was the fact that all OF
those present were given an opportunity
to select the winner os the 500 prize
for the limpin' lim'rick contest, who is
announced today.
But what is more. we want TO thank
each and every one Of those who voted
for the winner, because. you see, they
gave us the chance to drop right into
the midst of group of girls-and take
it from us, if any of these grocers had
seen these girls they, too. would have
wanted to be on the committee OF one
that broke the news TO the winner.
Just TO clear things up for you all,
let US tell you that today's winner
picked out by those attending the thir
ty- third annual banquet Of the associa-
tiOn is:
Miss Anna Weisman.
1881 West Harold street.
Teacher at the William ii. Mcintyre
Public School.
These poets may write about being in
beautiful garden of roses. but We
had a much more peasant experience
yesterday when we walked into the Will
liam ii. Mcintyre Public School to find
Miss Weisman. and almost the moment
that we gave her the joyful tidings we
were completely surrounded by attrac-
tive young teachers, all bubbling over
with excitement because one of their
number had shown what she could do
as lin Kicker.
Miss Weisman appeared rather bash
full when VIC tried to extract some facts
from her about her life and her ad-
ventures while Iim'rickin'. The other
teachers, however, simply swamped us
with the most intimate details concern
ing today's winner. SO we will reveal
some of them to you. and Miss Weis-
man will have to settle things up with
her friends. She can't come back at
us and try to take our scalp because
we haven't any scalp left to take.
Accident Made Her Lin rick
According to our informants, Miss
Weisman is exceedingly young, just
how young we could not find out, but
she admitted that she had never voted,
as yet, and after seeing her we are per-
fcctly sure of this fact. She gradu
ated from the William Penn High
School in 1916 and from the philadel-
phia Normal School in 1918, and has
been a teacher of the first grade at the
Mcintyre Public School since that time.
Several months ago she was in u
trolley accident when Lancaster ave
nue. subway surface car jumped off the
tracks near Twenty seventh and Aspen
streets, and number of people, in =
uding Miss Weisman, were injured
One of her friends told US that Miss
Weisman has not been the same since
that occurrence, and that ability tc
write lim'rcks was simply revealed by
the accident.
Morris Weisman, her brother, has
: Hna, lin, rinL in Fpp I,,i
without material success. Last Thurs
day evening Miss Weisman asked hin
why he was not busy working at tn,
daily lim'ri and he told her that h'
was no longer interested. So she de
cidcd that she would try to represep
the family and sent in her first answer
AS result she carried off the S1Ol
prize for today.
The teachers friends said that It wa
matter of luck, but Miss Weismal
jestingly said that it merely rcvcale,
her rickin' genius.
She said that she would send tn
500 TO some friends in Russia, VIII
have been in financial difficulties sine
Lenine and TrOt2ly have been trying t.
show the world just how countr
should not be governed. The othc
teachers at the Mcintyre School sal
yesterday that before she sends an
money out of this country she Will hav
to give them real party" and frOr
all appearances we think that Mis-
Wesman will BE- ready to provid
"Some party" for them all.
We only hope that she will not for
get the ''little angel e''--that's us--wh
brought her the good news of the $40
prize, and maybe she will send us a
Invite" to that party. 1t sure woul
be nice. to be surrounded by that grou
of teachers again.
Winner Gets Big Majority
The members Of the association ha
no difficulty in deciding which line wa
the winner, since they gave 230 vote
to the winning line, which was nearl
; half Of the entire number of votes cas-
1t certainly was some party as ever
one seemed to enjoy being on the jur
to hand SlO0 10 some unsuspectiu
{ person.
= When the time arrived for a commit
. tee of telers to be appointed so thu
they might count the votes everybod
wanted to serve on the committee. W
asked President Gallen and Secretar
Edgar, both officials Of the Frankfor
< Grocers' Association, to pick the men
4 bers of the committee of tellers fro
, the host OF pretty girls who were prel
ent. But both these officials replied
g may, nay. This job will be done
r men and there won't even be MIKE
jury because we need to do the j
e quick
But it did seem that every goot
. looking girl north of Columbia avenu
. as well as east OF Front street, vi
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