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Bird - Lore 



St. Petersburg's Bird-House Contest 



The Audubon Society of St. Petersburg, 

 Fla., collected the prizes and arranged for 

 a bird-house contest to be staged in the 

 Harrison Hardware Company's show win- 

 dow. The bird-houses were made by the 

 boys of the Manual Training Department 

 of the St. Petersburg public schools. There 

 were 129 in all, and the space in front of 

 the windows was so crowded during the 

 three days of the exhibition that many 

 complained the time was too short, as they 

 had not been able to get near enough to 

 view the exhibit. The next year's contest 

 is already arranged and will be of longer 

 duration. 



The judges awarded the prizes as follows : 

 For the most practical bird-house, a gold 

 watch, to Henry Lindelie. The money for 

 the watch was given by H. C. Albrecht, 

 Mrs. H. E. Rowe, Winston Branning, 

 Edward McPherson, A. J. Johnson, 

 Advance Art Printery, F. F. Smith, and 

 Mrs. Katherine B. Tippetts. Honorable 

 mention was given Wallace Fishken and 

 Harold Reece. The house showing the 

 best workmanship, prize $10 in gold, given 

 by T. H. Kards, Manual Training Instruc- 

 tor, went to George Fogarty; honorable 

 mention to Glen Harrod and Charles 

 Knoener. The house most closely imitat- 

 ing nature, prize set of auger bits, given 

 by the Harrison Hardware Company, went 

 to Burnham Hawley; honorable mention 

 to Floyd Sterns and Victor Crook. Most 

 ornamental bird-house, prize Yankee 

 screw-driver, given by Walden Hardware 

 Company, went to Arthur Armstrong; 

 honorable mention to Harold Hjort and 

 Thomas Squires. The birds will act as 

 judges for the $5 prize in gold offered by 

 the Audubon Society for bird-house first 

 occupied by a bird family. 



Several of the bird-houses were sold, the 

 highest price being $10, which was paid 

 for a thirty-room Martin-house, sold to 

 Mrs. H. E. Rowe, and which she will put 

 up on her lawn in Youngstown, Ohio. 

 Miss Lillian Rusling, Chairman of the 



Equal Suffrage Association of Pinellas 

 County, purchased one which was labeled 

 as an 'Equal Suffrage Bird-House' and 

 bore a jingle advocating the same. Dr. 

 Grace Whitford, of the Child-Welfare 

 Department of the State Board of Health, 

 also invested in one to advocate hygiene, 

 even in houses for birds. Many others 

 thus set forth their ideas, and the window 

 became the point of interest to the many 

 tourists in town. The President and Secre- 

 tary have been busy ever since answering 

 letters and sending suggestions to the four 

 points of the compass, as these tourists 

 return home and tell of the contest. When 

 the tourists return next season, they will 

 see the remaining houses set in the city 

 parks, on the streets, and in the cemeteries, 

 and it will impress them still further that 

 in this way the youth of the land are being 

 educated to the idea of bird-protection as 

 a fundamental point in conservation 

 measures. 



Katherine B. Tippetts, President of the 

 St. Petersburg Audubon Society, has for- 

 warded the above report and speaks with 

 enthusiasm of the widespread interest 

 which the contest has aroused. 



Convention of Indiana Audubon 

 Society 



The Indiana Audubon Society held its 

 twenty-first annual convention in Kokomo, 

 Thursday and Friday, May 8 and 9. The 

 general subject discussed was the im- 

 portance of bird-study and the protection 

 of birds, in their relation to the life of 

 man. 



Speakers on the program were Dr. 

 Stanley Coulter, of Purdue University, 

 president of the Society; William Watson 

 Woolen and Amos W. Butler, both of 

 IndianapoUs; J. J. Mitchell, of Logansport; 

 Oscar Tharp, of Kokomo; Alden H.Hadley, 

 of Monrovia, and Miss Margaret Hanna, 

 of Fort Wayne. 



On Friday morning a breakfast tramp 

 and drive was held at the Kokomo 

 Country Club. 



