Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1900-08-10
$4,000 Cash
Prize CONTEST

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 TO 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 1, 1899, to Adril l,
19O0)-
ing January.
1000 if the estimate is received dur
ing February.
$500if estimate is received during
March.
The above are for the exact estimates;
there are besides these six prizes rang
ing along $500, $500. $3.50, $3.50. S1e5,
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 aud secure the $1,000 prize
check.
AS guide in making estimates upon
the New Orleans port receipts, the Con-
stitution gives the following figures
compiled from statistics of the past four
years:
NO. r'cts NO. rcts. Total Us
SEASON. sep. l. whole year Crop for
Mch. i. Sep. l. Aug. 81. season.
1895 96 1,62O,974 1,s12,16 1857, $40.
1s96.97 1,936,5s7 2,1O2 40 s,757, 964'
1S97-9s 2.432 315 2,576,165 1I,199. 994.
1898 80 l,S54,153 2,130,29 I1,274,s4
The CONSTITUTIONS market page will
give each week the port receipts for the
cotton season from which you can al
ways see the New Orleans port receipts
from September L, 1899 up through Fri
day Immediately proceeding publica-
ton. This will keep you posted to with
in two or three days Of the time you
send in your estimate.
IL is believed that some of the Texas
crop, that as a rule is sent sn bulk to
New Orleans, will be diverted this year
10 other points because of the quaran-
tine raised by injunction from the Uni
ted Stated courts will not have very
soothing effects upon the direction OF
cotton shipments to New Orleans. This
is mentioned simply as a pointer in
making up estimates; how mnch to al
low, if anything, for this cause must be
left to each msn's judgment.
The Weekly Constitution for 1900 wi
be better than ever before. Its special
news features IRE unsurpassed. The Boer
British war, the Philippine and Cuban
operations the busy session OF the most
important congress that has ever assem-
bled, the beginning of the issue of the |
presidential campaign of this year aud I
the debates and speeches during its /
progress and the final result of the I
November election, the devel opment
of the south's great industrial move I
ments; diversified farm and village in
dustries and thousands of other imno- /
tant things will found fully and freely |
discussed in the We xiv Constitution |
for the year. The Farm and Farmers |
page, the Woman's Kingdom, the |
Southern Pulpit, the. sChildren Page
and other Interesting departments will
be ably conducted and will be especially |
adapted TO those addressed. The ring
ing editorials of The Constitution
speaking ight out and meeting exactly
what it means in the advocacy of the
true democratic doctrine and in behalf
of the great interests of the masses of
our plain people, and protecting them
them from the grasping greed of those
who would wiring their earning from
their helpaess hands, are alone worth
the subscription price of the paper over
and again.
With such great general new spaper
covering the world news and the nation
q uestions, you WILL of course, need
the best and Invest local paper, giving
current local topics and the latest and
reshest comment upon even t. olocal
interest, We trust the combination Sc
cured with The Constitution will be fonnd
best suited to all our readers. The price
is merely nominal when the service is
even half considered, including your es-
timation in The Constitution Is So, 600
cash contest. To get the benefit of the
high prize send in your subscriptio
now SO The Constition may receive il
during January and record it to your
credit. Make your figures very plain.
Enthusiastically plain.