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prize winner a certificate. And a number of certificates have been 

 framed and hung on the walls of some of the modest, attractive little 

 homes of our city. 



The following is a copy of one of our certificates: 



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NAMES OF PRIZE WINNERS KEPT SECRET. 



We kept the names of our prize winners secret. No one knew 

 until his home was flashed on the screen or until his name was called 

 that he was included in the list of prize winners. 



In the awarding of the prizes we commenced at the bottom and 

 worked up that is, the last prize to be awarded was the first prize 

 for yards in Class 1 . In this way we maintained the interest. 



THE CASH-PRIZE WINNERS. 



As the awards of cash prizes were made only to those who did all 

 their own work cash prizes went to the working class entirely. 



We cannot describe the surprise, the pleasure, the pride, that showed 

 itself in the face of a young colored woman when she was given a 

 well-deserved prize in 1915. 



A quiet, unassuming Bohemian who transformed an ugly hollow 

 into an attractive garden, won first prize for vegetable gardens this 

 year, and a gnarled, stoop-shouldered old Irishman, eighty-two years 

 old, was a close second. 



