The Meridional. (Abbeville, La.) 1856-1906, 1900-02-03

The Atlanta Constitution offers a $1,000
cash prize contest for January, February
and March, 1900, as follows:
To the person sending a yearly sub
scription to The Weekly Constitution, to-
gether with the correct estimate on the
cotton receipts at New Orleans during
the first seven months of the present
cotton year September ]. 1889, to April
l. 1900
$1,000 If estimate is received during
| January.
February.
$500 If estimate is received during March.
The above are for the exact estimates;
there are besides these six prizes. rang
ing along, $500, s400. $3.50. $3.50. SIPS and SIS,
amounting to $1,000. that will be paid out
sure for the six nearest estimates to
the New Orleans cotton receipts at any
time during the three months Of the con-
test. But you hit it exactly during jan
uary and secure the full 1880 prize
| check.
The Constitution believes somebody will
hit the figures exactly and expects to
! pay out the full amount of the prizes
| offered-$3,G coo in all. In a Constitution
contest upon the same subject in 1895
Mr.. r. T. Poole, OF Capels Mills, N. c.,
(, III IL CAd1l 4 0Ala 4CSClfCo q
check for $1,000 as his prize. Mr.. Poole
| did not try to swell himself up at once,
| but very generously paid off a mort
| gage on his fathers home place and with
the balance he very wisely educated him.
| self at Trinity college, Durham, N. G. He
is now doing well in business in North
| Carolina and lives still near his old home.
1t is needless to say he Is a warm friend
| IF The Constitution.
AS a guide in making estimates upon
| the New Orleans -ort receipts, The Con-
stitution gives the following figures, COM
piled from statistics of the past four
years:
N. c. reefs. NC reefs. Total T.. s.
sAAsoN' Mcb. l. sep.IAus. 81. e
1856. ....1.62o,9H 1,812.1s7 7,157.sfs
1s9s-s7.... :. .asss-sS7 2l9s,Sao Sci sG4
! 1850. -. ..1,s54,153 2.13o.2ss 11,274,Sio
The Constitutions market page win
give each week the port receipts for the
| cotton season from which vol can always
see the New Orleans port receipts from
September 1, 1899, up through the Friday
Immediately preceding the publication.
This will keep you posted to within two
or three days Of the time you send in
your estimate
If is believed that some OF the Texas
crop. that as q rule Is sent in bulk to
New Orleans, will be diverted this year
to other points because of the quaran-
fine regulations against New Orleans.
THE effort of Louisiana to have uuaran-
fine raised by Injunction from United
states courts will not ave very soothing
| effect upon the direction of cotton shiuS
merits to New Orleans. This Is mentioned
| simply as a pointer In making up esti-
J mates: how much to allow, ii anything.
for this cause must be left to each mans
i judgment.
The So, 900 contest is an express contract
: RI which The Constitution will stand IN
every particular. Yet 1t Is in its nature
simpiv an advertisement by which This
ssonstitution. combined with this paper
NAV be made better known in this conn
mn1nity, Send US the subscription to The
Constitution and our paper at the adj
vertised price of the two and with it
your estimate on the New Orleans port
receipts. and we will forward all together
for YOU. On April 1st we trust a $1,000
check will reach some of our subscribers
to help make times even more easy
round about us.
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