Country Correspondent

To the best rural correspondent it can find each year, Crowell Publishing Co.'s Country Home awards a money prize, a trip to Manhattan. Last year the Country Home award went to Mrs. Mary Elizabeth Mahnkey for her writings in the Forsyth (Mo.) Taney County Republican (TIME, July 29, 1935). Last fortnight Crowell announced that this year's $200 prize had fallen to Mrs. Susan Frawley Eisele, whose farm home is nine miles from Blue Earth, Minn., in recognition of her column, With a Penny Pencil, which runs once a week in the Fairmont (Minn.) Sentinel.

Born in Georgetown, S. C. and brought up in Newport, Tenn., Mrs. Eisele and her husband settled on the Minnesota farm with which his prosperous Iowa father dowered them. For the nearby Blue Earth Post they collaborated on The Post Chaise column, which Mr. Eisele carried on when his wife branched out in the Fairmont paper.

On the sly, Editor Arthur M. Nelson of the Sentinel entered the Penny Pencil department for the Crowell prize. With him Country Home's Editor Wheeler McMillen agreed on the excellence of Mrs. Eisele's accounts of threshing time, preserve making, poultry raising, the minutiae of farm life, observed with a humorous eye, set down with a sensitive pencil.

Last month enthusiastic Editor Nelson went out to the Eisele farm to inform Mrs. Eisele in advance that she had won the Crowell prize. Two hours later happy Mrs. Eisele had a baby. Said she: "I was stunned but the stork wasn't.... He brought us an 8-lb. son."

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