Evening Republican, Volume 19, Number 303, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 December 1915 — Joe McColly and Violet Cover Won Prizes at Burchard's. [ARTICLE]

Joe McColly and Violet Cover Won Prizes at Burchard's.

Burchard’s store offered prizes for the best letters from boys and girts about the play kitchen cabinets and the toy engines and there were a number of interesting letters received. Monday evening Rev. Asa McDaniel and Editors Babcock and Healey opened the letters and judged the winners. The letters were very lint re sting and showed much talent. The winner of the girls was Violet Cover, of Union township, who received the cabinet, and of the Jx>ys Joe McColly, who received the engine. The committee found the letters of some of the others so good that they named three in each class for honorable mention. The girls were Mabie Snedeker, Ruth VanArsdel and Gladys Lambert and the boys Raymond McKay, George Kresel and Wilbert Mackey.