CHRISTMAS NEWS PRIZE WINNERS I The committee having in iu charge the si awarding warding of the prizes offered offe ed for fOl fo the best hest story and poem submitted for The Th Christmas News reports as follows fo lows Fifty dollars cash prize ze for the thc best hest b st story awarded to Edyth Ellerbeck Read for her story entitled Santas Santa s Understudy This is the fourth time that Mrs Read has been awarded a prize Other contributions warmly commended by the tIle committee are ale Abda The Youngest Shepherd erd by byA A B A Christmas Blessing B essing by M Y S D A s by Barbara Mary Alary Hollands Christmas by 11 n nH 1 H W Y V Loves Conquest by Florence and by R E rJ dollars cash prize for the thc best poem to the he the author of The Para Paia Paradise Pa a adise dise disc Quest Que t whose name is at present unknown owing to the failure of identification i cation envelop to reach the thc th c committee The writer will wilt be bc required to submit satisfactory proofs of authorship p Other poems commended by the committee are arc The Babe of Bethlehem by Contest 1909 The Birth of Faith by Julia Jt iu The Thc Light Ligh that Leads by hy Lynde and A Christmas Thought by L M 0 0