The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1927-09-22
HERALD WILL GIVE
PRIZES TO SCHOOLS
Playground Appliances and
Cash for Cooperative
Subscription Soliciting
ENDORSED BY BOERGER
Campaign Starts Saturday,
October First, Ends No
yember Fifteenth

The trek of little children has
again started toward the school
house, and in order that they
may become more interested in
those things surrounding the build
ing, and that their stay amid those
surroundings may become an in
spiration of love for school work,
the Herald has inaugurated plan
which, If enough of the schools
throughout the county become in
terested, will mean within a few
years the regeneration in appear
ance and magnetism of many
school yards over the entire coun-
ty.
The school yard is the play
ground for children, and without
play a child's interest in the real
school problems for which they are
sent to that institution, may be-
come dull and lag for want of
those things which are offered in
the schools throughout the larger
cities.
Believing that this is true, and
falling in line with the opinions of
Women's clubs, Parent-Teachers
associations and other societies that
this branch of school surroundings
is essential to the success of the
entire school structure, the Herald
has launched a plan tc place more
Playground Apparatus around the
schools in this territory through CO.
operation of the pupils and teach
ers with this newspaper, and
without cost to the various school
boards themselves.
Every newspaper nee,,s some
plan whereby its circ iation may
be kept somewhere near the 100
per cent mark, and instead of Civ
ing away automobiles and other
prizes to individuals, we nave de-
cided t., make it compl,nity pro-
position, giving the pupils and
teachers an opport ,nlty to carr
those things which are essential in
a great measure to the success
of the schools, and actually saving
the school boards and residents OF
the various districts taxation for
the purpose of buying them. We
have selected a list of prizes con-
sisting of riding devices and ath-
letic apparatus which are the big
gest and most attractive we could
get in this line, and are offering
them to the schools over the coun-
ty on q competitive basis in OBJ
tanning subscriptions for this news
paper.
No school is too small to enter
this contest and win the big first
prize, as the average is based on q
percentage, and the winners are
determined by the number of paiG
subscriptions sent in as compared
with the number of pupils enrolled
in the school, or in other words ar
average of so many paid years
subscriptions for each pupil en-.
rolled.
The plan is explained in a full
page ai found elsewhere in the
Herald, and the success of each
school depends largely on the sup.
port which is given by the parents
of pupils and residents generally
in the various localities of the
schools. If the school boards ano
other residents encourage the pu.
pills and teachers in this campaign
and it emerges at the end as sue
ces, it will be perpetuated in tht
years to follow AMI become an an
nual affair so that those school.
which fail to win prize this yeal
will be given an opportunity il
ether years, and eventually al
schools should be supplied. TX
those schools not winning one o.
the prizes offered in this grea'
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