The Washington times., 1922-05-14
PRIZE WILL SAVE
WINNERS
HOME
Miss Winifred KimbaIl Plans to
Use $4,000 GoIdwyn
Scenario Award to Lift
Mortgage on Property.

AVA 900, prize in the Chicago
Daily News-Goldwyn motion pic
t,ire scenario contest. lives in the
little town of Apalachicola, F!a.,
which is still agos with excitement
over the distinction that has come
to one of it's citizens.
The $4,000 check was very
timely in its arrival at tho pic.
turesque Apahchicola home. nnrt.
gagged, badly. In need Of q new coat
Of paint and Of q fence. Miss Kim
ball. q small woman past the carly
forties. lives there with her w.d-
owed sister. Mrs. Minnie Alexan-
der, and the old negro servant. La
vinia Henry. under whose name
Miss Kimball entered her scenario
in the contest.
Miss Hmball's father. formerly
a contractor In Chicago, shot and
killed himself after his fortune had
been wiped out by a sudden turn
In the lumber market. A few
weeks later her sisters husband.
DR.. Alexander, a famous physi-
clan in the South, shot himself.
The taxes on the home shared by
the two sisters were unpaid and a
mortgage was soon to fall due.
Mrs. Alexander has been an invalid
since her husbands death and the
family fortunes had depended upon
Miss Kmballs pen.
'I hadn't dreamed OF winning
more than $500, If won at ALL"
Miss Kimball sobbed on her Sis
ter's shoulder after opening the
envelope containing the check for
$4,000, which was her first init
nation that she had won a prize
at all. Think Of It! Ten thousand
dollars! Now can go on writing.
There are some mortgages we will
have to clear off. Sister has had
to sell some OF her land and mort
gage other pieces to pay off our
taxes and things. she'll have
courage and confidence in my work
henceforth."
The Kimballs have lived IN Apa.
iachicola a great many years-so
many. in fact, that original in
habitants find 1t difficult 70 recall
the time when they didn't live
there. But originally they came
from Chicago. Seth Newell Kim
hall. the father, was the contractor
in charge OF the digging OF the I'LL
nois and Michigan canal. which
afterward came to be known as the
"tadpole ditch" II was while he was
engaged on a dredging operation In
Wisconsin. and the family was liv-
ing in Milwaukee, that Winifred
was born. Then the great Chicago
fire Of 1871 burned out his busi-
ness. and shortly thereafter he
went to Alabama, TO move later to
Florida, where he became . promi-
nent figure in the lumber industry.
Miss Kimball later returned to
Chicago and attended the untver-
sity for two years. A married sis
ter is now teaching in the public
schools there.
In the little gulf coast town Of
$500 inhabitants and known prin-
cipally-if at all-for its oyster
shipping and lumber industries,
Miss Kimball now lives with her
mother and an invalid sister. In
the attic of the picturesque old
house Is a little room that she
uses as a workship. Here. and In
the library. she spends the greater
part Of the day. But botany is her
hobby; and mornings and evenings
find her with her sister in the gar
den. The Kimball's collection OF
ferns is the pride Of the town, and
they work with them untiringly.
Among Miss Kimban's writings
is a sketch Of the life OF the late
Alvan Wentworth Chapman, "a,
nous botanist of Florida.
The day the Chicago News check
for $4,000 was delivered to Miss
Kimball was one of the most ex-
citing Apalachicola had seen in
many a moon. The editor OF the
Apalachicola Times had posted a
bulletin in front Of the Times Of
flee announcing the great victory
for Apalach, as well as for Miss
Kimball.
And, according to latest reports,
they're still coming.