Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1900-06-01
CASTORIA
For Infants and Children.
The Kind You Have Always Bought
Signature ssssa the Of &xzZzZs-
$4,000 Cash
PRIZE CONTEST

i ltJUu UUU / uu /
-=--
The Atlanta Constitution s
Great Offer of l9OO-The
Receipts at New Orleans
from September to April
Full Statistics Given for
Yonr Gmdance-An I'm
paralelled Offer for Our
Readers.
The Atlanta Constitution offers a
SO 600 cash prize contest for January
February and March, 1900 as follows:
To the person sending yearly sub
scriptson 10 the Weekly Constitution, to-
gether with the correct estimate on the
cotton receipts at New Orleans during
the first seven m >nths of the present cot
ton year September /, 1899, to Adril /,
19OO)-
81 500 if the estimate is received dur
ing January.
81 900 if the estimate is received dur
ing February.
$500i estimate is received during
March.
The above are for the exact estimates;
there are b. sides these six prizes rang
ing along $780, $40O. $3.50, $50. S195,
and S75. amounting to $500, that will
be paid out sure for the six nearest esti-
mates to the New Orleans receipt at any
time during the three months of the
contest. But you hit it exactly during
January and secure the 81 800 prize
check.
AS guide in making estimates upon
the New Orleans port receipts, the Con-
stitution gives ,he following figures
compiled from statistics of the past four
years:
s.sov 10 So r'ets NO, r'cts. Total US
Mch. i. 'ep. !. Aug. 81. season.
1895 90 1,e2O,97 1912, I67 7,i57.3a6.
o. ~
1S97-9S 2,432 315 2,576, l65 1i,199 994.
1Sys 80 1854, 1853 .13O .296 IL ,274, $40.
The Constitutions market page will
give each week the port receipts for the
cotton season from which you can al
ways see the New Gleans port receipts
from September l, 500 up through Fri
day Immediately preceding publica-
ton. This will KEEP you posted to with
in two or three da S o. the time you
send in your estimae.
1t is believed thaeome of the Texas
crop, that as a ruleis sent sn bulk to |
New Orleans, will divert ed this year |
to other points becuse of the quaran-
tine raised by INDUCTION from the Uni
ted Stated courts Eill not have very
soothing effects Jpn the direction of
cotton shipments New Orleans. This
is mentioned simP as pointer in
making up estimate; how mnch to al
low, if anything, fc this cause must be
left to each msn's pigment.
The Weekly Coititutiop for 1900 wi
be better than everbefore. It's special
news features IRE surpassed. The Boer
British war, the Philippine and Cuban
operations the busSession OF the most
important congressman has ever assem-.
bled. the beginningf the issue of the
presidential campaia of this year and
the debates and eeches during its
progress and the NAL result of the
| November electionthe DEVELOPMENTS
of the south's gre industrial move
ments; diversified I'm and village in
dustries and thousids OF other imDo-
tant things will foul fully and freely
discussed in the Wkly Constitution
| for the year. The Inn and Farmers
page, the Womas Kingdom. the
| Southern Pulpit, t:.Children's Page
nd other irterestin departments will
! be ably conducted aiwill be especially
adapted to those addssed The ring
ing editorials of The Constitution
speaking light out al meeting exactly
what it means in thadvocacy of tho
rue democratic do.trs and in behalf
of The great interests the masses of
our plain people, androtecting them
them from the graspii greed OF those
who would wiring tr earning from
their helpaess handsIse alone worth
the subscription price tho paper over
and again.
With such great geral newspaper
covering the world M and the nation
Ia nestions. you wilf course, need
the best and Invest 10 paper, giving
current local topics aIthe latest and
reshest comment upoHvsnts local
interest, We trust thombination So
cured with The Constun viii be fonnd
best suited to all our rlers. The price