Nearly as Many Manual Training Pupils of New Ulm High School Have Already Entered Contest, as Participated Last Year. More Are Expected to Enroll for Competition in Near Future. Freshmen Boys Will Take Part in Endeavor This Year.

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With nearly 75 boys of the manual training department of the New Ulm high school already entered, and several more to join their ranks within the next few days, the annual bird house building contest, for which the four local banks have offered cash prizes aggregating $25 this year, promises to equal, if not exceed, the banner competition which closed in April,1925.

T. V. Cunningham, manual training instructor, reports that the boys are taking an unusual interest in this contest, evidently due to the liberal prizes which the makers of the best bird homes received in 1924 and 1925. This year, as in the first contest, held two years ago, a number of Freshmen boys have entered, so that the prize money has been apportioned into three parts, as follows: Seventh grade. $10;eighth grade, $8, and ninth grade, $7.

All of the boys participating in the contest, will be required to write an essay on the subject,”Why Save the Birds,” as part of the competition.

The contest will be decided upon a basis of points, as in former years,according to the following schedule: Design and workmanship, 50 points;color and finish, 20 points; suitability to the bird for which the house is in-tended, 20 points, and essay, 10 points. The prizes have been divided as follows:

Seventh Grade–First, $3; second,$2; third, $1; fourth and fifth, each 75 cents; sixth to tenth, inclusive, 50 cents each.

Eighth Grade–First,$3; second, $2; third,$1; fourth and fifth, each 75 cents; sixth, 50 cents.

Ninth Grade–First,$4; second, $2; third, $1.

Brown County Journal,

Jan. 29, 1926

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