Jasper County Democrat, Volume 14, Number 70, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 December 1911 — TWO WEEKS UNTIL FINISH [ARTICLE]

TWO WEEKS UNTIL FINISH

Of The Democrat’s Great $350 Piano Contest ENTHUSIASM IS STUPENDOUS Contestants and Their Friends Are on Qie Vive as Time Draws Near for Awarding the Beautiful Premiums. . ■ ■ ■ There are but two weeks more before the finish of the greatest piano contest ever held in this section of the country. The Democrat is being congratulated on all sides on ac-i Cfiint of the intense enthusiasm and wide-spread interest shown in the race. The knowledge that all contestants are treated alike, that each has an equal chance and that, even at this late day. the winners of the beautiful premiums are unknown, has made this a contest such as Jasper countv has never before witnessed. The value of the premiums are such that each candidate is putting fdrth her best efforts to win. feeling assured that she will have as much opportunity as any other contestant. The standing of the contestants in order today is as follows:

Ida Harley, Parr Loretta Nagel, Rensselaer Mari bell Kays, Rensselaer Lizzie Wiseman, Virgie Ethel M Fisher. Rensselaer Alice Daniels, Rensselaer Bessie McElfresh, Rensselaer R-1 Victoria Marsh. Rensselaer R-3 Fairy Pollard, Rensselaer R-4 Lucy Mcrgenegg, Rensselaer R-l Stella Platt, Rensselaer Arkana Ritchey, Remington R-3 Mildred Rush, Rensselaer R-3 Wilda Green. Remington Mary Bice, Rensselaer, R-4 Myrtle Leavel, Rensselaer Bull, Rensselaer S Mary Halsema. Rensselaer Lena Trulley, Rensselaer, R-l Elsie Smith, Rensselaer May Shools, Kniman Ruth Wiltshire. Rensselaer Bernice Yeoman, Rensselaer R-2 Hazel Shumaker, Rensselaer R-4 Lucy Fulks, Remington R-4 Lois Spencer, Wolcott Martha Critser, Rensselaer, R-3 Edna Ward, Rensselaer R-4 Anna Marion, Parr Mary Gaunt. Remington R-3 Marie Moore, Rensselaer Star Route

The free voting certificates given with purchases at the stores also- count up quite fast, and candidates should urge their friends to be sure to ask for them with each cash purchase at these stores. The following stores give certificates, -one-vote for a cent, with each cash purchase. Cut the list out, and carry it with you every time you go shopping. And ask everybody you see to do the same, reminding them, bf course, to save their coupons for YOU. The list is : D. M; Worland, Furniture and Rugs Cleve Eger, Hardware -

C. Earl Duvall, Clothing and Gents Furnishings 15. F. Fendig, Drug Store Sam Fendig, Dry Goods ■ Mrs. Mary Meyer-Healy, Millinery Scott Bros., Harness Home Grocery, Groceries Jessen, the Jeweler Depot Grocery, Groceries B. N. Fendig, Exclusive Shoe Dealer C. A. Roberts, Buggies, Wagons and Storm Buggies and Fronts. Spencer’s Jewelry Store, Remington. Peck’s Drug Store, Remington. “ Worden’s Harness Shop, Remington. Surrey Store, General Merchandise. Surrey W, L. Wood, General Merchandise, Parr * Aix Store, General Merchandise, Aix Reed’s General Store, Virgie A fine $350 mahogany piano is something everyone would to possess, while the splendid $35 Free sewing machine or the elegant S2O silver, set —6 each of ..knives, forks, table and teaspoons- —are articles of both ornament and service, and the winners of either may well feel proud of them. The cash prizes for those finishing 4th, sth, 6th and 7th —$8, $4, $2 and $1 — should induce every contestant to make the best possible showing in the wind-tip,-r-Remember there are but 15 more week days of the contest. It closes promptly, at 8 p. m., on Saturday, Dec. 23, and the names of the various candidates with the votes cast for each will appear in the Wednesday issue following. Urge your friends to help you with subscriptions and renewals and to be sure and ask for the trading certificates at the stores handling them and with their holiday purchases at these stores, and to save them for you. A new subscription, remember, counts 3,000 votes for each year. If for five years. 15,000 votes; a renewal counts 1,500 votes for each vear renewed.