Evening Republican, Volume 14, Number 91, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 April 1910 — MISSING WORDS ELUDE SEARCHERS FOR PRIZES. [ARTICLE]

MISSING WORDS ELUDE SEARCHERS FOR PRIZES.

None Were Successful and Prises Will Be Doubled on Contest Held Next Friday. A lot of interest was created by the Republican “missing” word contest which started in the Friday SemiWeekly and the Friday Evening Republican. Early Friday morning the first answer was brought in by expectant little chap and he had scarcely gone out before a young lady brought in a list of answers. From that time on envelopes containing replies were brought, sent or mailed to the office and it was quite evident that -there was a lot of people _who were reading the ads. Some of the words proved easy to find- and yet some of the answers did not contain a single correct reply, while not a single person found the word that was omitted from the G. E. Murray & Co. advertisement. The'llne in the Murray ad should read “Our Spring Stock of Carpets and Rugs is now on display.” The word spring is left out and not one of the contestants succeeded in replacing it, although _Jt was clearly necessaty to make the advertisement argue properly for busiiness. Several sup'plied many words that were not needed, one woman sending in a list of 15 words. Little words like “a,” “the,” “and,” etc., will not be left out purposely and will not figure in the replies. The ttme nf making answers will be extended the next time to Monday morning at 9 o’clock, for both the Evening and Semi-Weekly papers, thus giving persons an opportunity to figure on it over Sunday and to send answers by mail from butFoFtpwh. Contestants should state in making replies in what paper they read the advertisements, whether in the Semi-Weekly or in the Evening Republican, as there are two prizes each week, one for each paper. The money this time will be carried over as no answer was correct and the prize will be made double Friday, April 22d. correct list from the Semi-Weekly and 82 for the correct list from the Evening Republican will be given. Put on your thinking caps. Advertisers are urged to change their ads frequently, thus preventing the detection of missing words by comparison with 014 papers. Advertising changes should be in not later than Tuesday evening.

The Missing Words. “Ready”* in ad of G. J. Jessen, in “and are (ready) at all times to stand behind,” etc. ' • “This” In Smith, Kellner & Co. ad, in “anything in (this) line.” “Foundation” in W. J. Wright ad, in “Good furniture In the (foundation) upon which we stand.” “Spring” in the G. E. Murray & Co. ad, In "Our (spring) stock of carpets and rugs,” etc. The first guess was received early Friday morning from Marlon F. Clarke, son of Rev. G. H. Clarke, but he failed to locate any of the missing words. L. R. Jessen guessed two of the missing words. In Wright’s and Jessen’s ads, but got “our” in Smith and Kellner’s instead of “this,” a very natural mistake. He only guessed on these three ads, ignoring the Murray ad, as did all the other contestants. Charles and HowardHalleck gave words from five ads, only one word being correct, that in Jessen’s. Mrs Chas. Rlshling had one correct word, Mrs. R. L. Bussell two, Elizabeth M. Kirk one, Mrs. Van Wood one, Miss' lone Zimmerman guessed two of the correct words out of three. Madge Beam guessed three correctly out of four, making the nearest correct guess of any of the contestants. In fact her list could have been correct had these been the words selected by the contest editor. She missed the word In the Murray ad, but selected the word “or” in the Willis Supply ad to take the place of the word “on” as printed, which was a typographical error in the sentence “If you need repairs on your automobile, motor cycle, bicycle, (on) any engine bring it in.” ——- Mrs Wm. Kresel furnished the longest list of missing words, but only had one right out of fifteen ads. We get our yeast foam fresh every week; only 3c a package. U JOHN EGER.