Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1901-07-13
CAN YOU wINp-TRY.

CAN YOU WINP-TRY.
Kansas City is again to the front
with big enterprise, an enterprise
stupendous in conception and
which is being carried OH with char
acteristic Western energy and en-.
thusiasni. A short time ago the di-
rectors of Convention Hall, a build
ing which is Justly called "the pride
of the West" announced that they
proposed to raise enough money
to complete the great public struc-
ture. In order to SECURE part of the
money needed for this purpose it
was decided to give series of en-
tertainments in the hall in October.
Convention Hall being building
out of the ordinary in all respects
it was of course requisite that the
entertainments should have some
unusual features, and when the peo-
pie of Kansas City heard that the
director of the Hall proposed to Of
fer valuable prizes to purchasers of
concert tickets they knew that it
was weliito be prepared for an in
interesting announcement.
The fret news that the directors
of the hall gave to the public was
to the effect that K. b. Armour, who
gave the fine Hereford heifer, Ar
mour Rose, to Convention hall
when the original building was in
process of construction, had given
another Hereford heifer, Armour
Sunflower, as the fret prize in the
guessing contest. Mr.. Armour fur
Their agreed with the directors that
if the person who secured Armour
Sunflower did not wish to keep her
he would pay $l,oOOOO in cash for
the animal. The Metropolitan street
Railway Company followed Mr.. Ar
mour's lead and offered to give
100000 in cash to be divided into
prizes of 100000, $4,000 aud $4,000.
The Kansas City Electric Light
Company was next in line, and it's
contribution came in the form of a
donation of 100000 in cash, to be
divided into one prize of $4,000, one
of $4,000 and a number of smaller
ones.
Then the merchants began, and
there came shower of pianos, or.
gans, buggies, traps, runabouts,
furniture, china, pictures and
hundred other gifts of value. On
each of these articles the price for
which it would be sold to a cash
customer, was placed, for the direc-
tors felt that they must stand by
and see that the public was not de-
ceived in any way. From the beau
tiful Flemish oak dining room set
donated by Emery, Bird, Thayer &
Co., collection of handsome furni-
ture which was seen by the thous-
ands of people who attended the re-
cent Home Products Show in Con-
vention Hall, and which is worth
$499.50 in gold down to the dainty
little toilet articles for men and wo-
men, no article has a value of less
than $500.
The tickets for the entertainments
and guessing contest had no more
than been placed on sale when
there came a startling announce
ment. The Kansas City Dat Meal
and Cereal Co., better known as the
manufacturer of Atlas oats, notified
the directors that it would give a
capital prize of $4,000 in cash.
The Atlas Oats Co. went farther
and announced that it would pre-
sent one concert ticket, with guess
ing coupon attached, for every
twenty-five coupons taken from
packages of it's product. The chance
of securing 5000 in cash for Is
cents, the price of the concert ticket
with guessing coupon attached,
was too good to be overlooked, and |
guesses began to pour into Conven-
ton Hall.
The total cash prizes now amount
to about 100000, while the mer-