The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1897-11-17
THE MISSING WORD.
THE ATLANTA CONSTITUTIONS
NEW CONTEST
The Sentence Seems Quite Plain, but
Presents an interesting Problem.
Try Your Hand.

The Weekly Constitution, Atlanta, Ga,
he's announced its sixth consecutive miss
Ing word contest, commencing on the Ist
OF November and closing on the Ist of
January, period of about two months.
The bcok containing the missing word
mas been sealed up and placed III tho
hands of w. A. Hemphill. the president
and business manager Of the company.
1t Is u standard publication and has prob.
ably been widely read throughout the
South
The amount offered In prizes is 10 Ter
cent of the subscriptions received from
contestants there are about sixteen thou.
sand subsc ribers expiring with The Con.
stitutlon during November and Deceu ber
and should all of these renew, the sum
will he about ST 600 to be divided In All.
ditiou 10 whatever the 10 per ceut will
make The Constitution offers Sl00 cash 10
60 TO the first Six correct guesses: $50 for the
nrst correct guess received and SO each
for the next five that are correct, provided
these a'e received before December Ist.
II only one person should name this miss.
ipg word he would have good sum.
In itS first missing word contest The
Constitution paid the whole amount to one
successful contestant, Mr.. NJ. l.. Britain,
81 ,O33.5O; it may be that only one person
will name 1t this time tho period &C :.io
i Year compares exactly with Mr.. Britta,n's
contcat. and we understand he will not be
allowed to guess any more, and should
only one man get the word right this
! time, 1t would disbar him from guessing
thereafter.
This is the sentence:
Once given the passion for that
one OF the precious metals will be most III
demand which is cheapest"
The readers of our paper who subscribe
Jointly to it and The Weekly Constitution
have free 'ccesss into the sixth contest,
just opened; and it may be that some OF
them will get the amount to be distributed
on the lst Of January.
Tha only condition Of the contest is that
every guesser must be q subsCriber: and
| taxing advantage of The Constitution'a
offer We present this opportunity to all
who wish to subscribe to both papers
Every person should have his County pa
per and one great general newspaper and
The Weekly Constitution. with a circula-
ton OF 10000. occupies the unique dis
tinction of being the greatest American
weekly newspaper.
by special arrangement with The Week
ly Constitution, that great paper and the
Anderson Intelligencer can be obtained
Tor one year at almost tho price OF one pa.
per- the price Of the two being only 81. .25
Not only that, but under our arrangement
with The Weekly Constitution every per.
son Who takes advantage of this clubbing
proposition. subscribing for both papers,
will be entitled TO q guess at the missing
word. All clubbing subscriptions should
be. aent to this paper with each subscrib.
er's guess at the missing word plainly
written. The guess and the name and
address OF eAch subscriber will ba forwar
ded by us To The Weesly Constitution.
- During a temperance revival at
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, a young man who
was converted confessed that he was
guilty Of robbery for which another
man has been imprisoned since last
fall. The confessor was arrested.
First Passenger Would you
ah-lend me your spectaclcs a moment,
please 2" : Second Passenger-"Cer-
tainly, sir" First Passengcr-"Ah,
thank you; now, as you cannot see to
read your paper, would you mind let
ting me have it p