Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1900-07-06
$4,000 Cash
PRIZE CONTEST

The Atlanta Constitution offers
So OOo cash prize contest for January
February and March, 1902 as follows:
To the person sending yearly sub
scriptson ~ the Weekly Constitution.to-
gether with the correct estimate on she
cotton receipts at New Orleans during
the first seven months of the present cot
ton year September 1, 1899, to Adril 1.
l9OO)-
81 500 il the estimate is received dur
ing January.
1000 if the estimate is received dur
ing February.
S50Oif estimate is received during
March.
/ The above are for the exact estimates;
J there are besides these six prizes rang
| ing along $500, $500. $3.50, $3.50. S125,
and $40, 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 $1,000 prize
check.
As guidei 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. rcts NO. rcts. Total us
| SEASON. Sep l. whole year Crop for
Mich. l. Sep. 1. Aug. 81. season.
1895 80 1.62O,974 1,s12,l67 7,i57,S46
1895 81 1,936,5s 2,1O2 .47O s,757 ,984
1s97-9S 2.492 .315 2,578, 1875 II, 199 994.
1898 80 1854 1853 2.1SO.296 l1,274, $40.
The Constitutions market page will
give each week the port receipts for the
ways see the New Orleans port receipts
from September 1, 1899 up through Fri
] day Immediately proceeding publica-
4 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 rule 10 sept sn bulk TO
New Orleans, will be diverted this year
o other points because of the quarap-
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 q 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 Tor 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
4 presidential campaign of this year and
the debates and speeches during its
progress and the final result of the
,of the south's great industrial move
iments; diversified farm and village in
.dustries and thousands of other impo-
tant things will found fully and freely
discussed in the Wesklv Constitution
ior the year. The Farm and Farmers
page, the Woman's Kingdom, the
Southern Pulpit, the.a Children 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 1t means in the advocacy of the
1 do A<Se I'D in. hoh
of the great interests of the masses Of
our plain people, and projecting them
them from the grasping greed of those
who would wiring their earning from
their helpaess hands, are alone worth
the subscription price of tho paper over
a.ud again.
With such n great general newspaper
covering the world news and the nation
positions, you will, of course, need
the best and Invest .locai paper, giving
curr. LII local topics and the latest and
reshes1 comment upon events local
interest. We trust the combination Sc
CT red 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 CO.
tirnation in The Constitution $3,0UU
cash contest. 40 get the benefit OF the
high prize send in your subscriptio
now SO The Lonstition may receive it
dnrirg January end record it TO your
credit. Make your figures very plain,
] nnmistakably plain.