San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1925-12-11
SCHOOLS WORK
FOR CASH
PRIZES
He Was Poor But Honest,
Elephantics Skit
Friday Night.

1t was another of those wild nights
over radio.
And wild day followed for the
Elephant Editor, for what with get
ting ready for the Elephantics and
taking in the money, he had a busy
day of it.
To begin with when he opened his
mail and there was check for 500
from Miss Emma Gutzeit of the
Thomas Nelson Page Junior High
School which she voted in the Elc-
plant Fund drive and put her school
way up past the top.
And then the children out at Travis
school gave an entertainment Thurs
day and raised S1215 for the fund.
FIREWORKS START.
But the fireworks started over
VICAR Thursday night when the
Senior school orchestra and the Main
Avenue Jeffersonians were playing. A
storm of votes began to shower down
ON the North Side school.
When the program was ended no
less than 294 votes had been phoned
in as follows: Main Avenue High
School, 225; Breckenridge, 80; Edgar
Allen Poe, %; Joel Chandler Har-
ris, 10.
Nine more carved ivory elephants
were awarded by the Elephant Edi-
tor Friday to children who turned in
ten dollars worth Of votes.
They went to Sarah Elizabeth Nc
Intosh cher second) at the Travis
school; and the following from the
Page school: Thelma HUH, (2) !;
Lucille Grassel, Anthony Carvajal !;
Alton Walker; Hazel Kirkpatrick,
Wilhelmina Zosheib and Zelma
Kcmpf.
POOR BUT HONEST.
Friday night at the Elephantics the
Three Elephanteers will present a
program TO be featured by bedtime
story of Harold Rollo, entitled. From
Tamale Roller to Tamale King" or
"He Was Poor But He Was Hon
est"
Parents are requested to allow
their children to stay up and listen
to this, for the great moral lessons
it will teach. 1t is a story of a
boy who was bound to rise.
Early Friday morning people
who phoned in their votes Thursday
night began to bring in the money,
a dime for each vote.
All of the schools are working for
5000 in prizes to be given at the end
of the drive.
NAMES OF VOTERS.
Here is the way the votes were
phoncd in: Richard Turner, 2122
South Presa street. votes for Poe ;
Genida johnson, 10 votes for Main /;
Anne Dorbandt. $50 West Bancroft,
10 for Main; W. f. Fitch, 314 West
Summit. ) votes for Main: Jim Clark,
1923 Lewis, % votes for Main: Dick
Yclton, an ex JEFF, 10 votes for Main !;
LETTERS johnson, ~ votes for In
ternational Correspondence School;
Charles Reeves. 300 Delmar, / vote
for Poe: Dorothy Louise LETTERS, 10
for Main; Philip Barnard Longacre,
10 votes for Main: Mrs. c. NJ. Cros-
by, SIS West Woodlawn, 10 for
Main; Charles Tarbutton, 311 West
Grammercy, 20 votes for Main; c..
f. Outerside. ZIG San Pedro, 80 votes
for Main; DR.. Wangemann, 10 votes
for Main; Edic Wright, 325 Cooper, 1
for Poe; Jimmie Chaset and Edgar
Mulhorn. . votes for Main; Joe
Walsh. % votes for Poe for Louise
Brogan: II. z. Payne and Mr.. Dor
dello. 91S North Pine, 10 votes for
Breckenridge Reagan Spillman, 100
East Agarita. 10 for Main; DR.. o. G.
Holt, 1908 Main. so votes for Main;
Dorothy and Virginia Meloney of
Kelly Field. 10 votes for Joel Chandler
Harris: Gilbert Crosby, 211 Henri
eta, 10 votes for Breckenridge; NJ.
d. Upton, 731 Peck. 10 votes for
breckenridge; Mrs. Jake Cans, 113O
West Mulberry, 10 for Main.
HOW THEY STAND.
Tere is the standing of the schools
with the money in at present: