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Eirma. In Evanston, Ill. city employes received their pay in the form of "Eirma" money, named from the initials of the Evanston Independent Retail Merchants' Association. Merchants agreed to accept the paper at face value. Every time a scrip dollar changes hands, the receiver sticks on it a 2? stamp, bought from the Merchants' Association. When the back of an Eirma bill has been covered with 50 stamps, it can be redeemed in U. S. coin. Merchants who have bought stamps will be credited with the amount in tax anticipation warrants. Milwaukee and Chicago pondered following Evanston...
Scrip. Three months ago at Hawarden, Iowa, 300 red-white-&-green certificates were put in circulation by the city. The Hawarden scrip was issued along lines similar to that of Evanston, but it had 36 places on the back to stick 3? stamps, thus assuring the city an 8? profit per dollar on redemption...
...women's track & field championships in Evanston last summer, a lean, rangy, dark-haired girl from Dallas, Tex. won six first places. She amassed for her team-of which she was the only member-a total of 30 points, to 20 points for a team of 22 which finished second. Overnight Mildred ("Babe") Didrikson, a typist for Dallas Employers' Casualty Co., had become a national sports figure. At the Olympic Games two weeks later she won two first prizes (javelin throw, 80-meter hurdles), a second in the high-jump when her best jump was disqualified...
JEFFREY SHEDD Evanston...
...Alfred Kidder, II Andover Stuart Scott, Jr. New Rochelle, New York Stephen Henry Stackpole Milton FOR ORATOR William Benjamin Bacon Jamaica Plain James Marcellus Lichliter Columbus, Ohio George Clair St. John, Jr. Wallingford, Connecticut Donal Mark Sullivan Boston FOR ODIST Sherman Edgar Conrad, Jr. Toledo, Ohio Henry Caraway Hatfield Evanston, Illinois FOR POET Robert McConnell Hatch Cambridge Roland Maycock New York City William Stephen Thomas New York City FOR CHORISTER George Hawkins Acheson Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania Joseph Manton Bradley Milton James Lyons Hutter, Jr. Memphis, Tennessce Hugh King McElheny New York City