Rosebud County news. [volume] (Forsyth, Mont.) 1901-1906, 1903-10-22
CONTEST OPEN TO ALL
Bellies Of Each County In Montana viii he
Sent to the Worlds Fair Free Of Char1e
by the Inter Mountain.

Oe"s u s"e WOGs0 Taor free OF Char1e
by the Inter Mountain.
The Montana girl is going to be at
the st. Louis fair.
She is going to be there in force. The
Inter Mountain is going to send her
there and see that she has the time of
her life.
This newspaper is to send 80 girls,
all the counties in the
state, to the international exposition
the greatest the world has ever seen
at st. Louis next year. 1t is going to
do so at its own expense. All it asks
is that the people of the several coun-
ties select their representatives, or
county maids of honor, as they will be
called, by popular vote on a ballot to
be furnished by this newspaper. Once
selected, the Inter Mountain does the
rest.
The maids of honor will have to stand
no expense whatever. They will be
brought to Butte by the Inter Mount
ain, this city having been chosen as
the assembling place for the excursion.
Here, after they have selected their
chaperon, whose expenses also will be
paid from the beginning to the end of
the excursion, they will board their
special cars for St. Louis.
Right here something about those
cars might be said. There will be
enough of the finest Pullman sleepers
on wheels to accommodate the young
ladies. Also there will be dining
car. A feature of this dining car will
be that no member of the party will
have aught to do with that slip of
paper so carefully given to each custom
er by the waiter at the end of the meal.
The Inter Mountains guests are to be
its guests. All expenses are to be paid.
That means all.
Now as to the manner in which the
county maids of honor are to be chosen.
Were the Inter Mountain to offer to
send to the fair one or two or three or
any other number of ''the most popular
girl in the state" to be selected on a
newspaper coupon plan, such as this,
the Butte girls would have it all their
own way for the simple reason that
more Inter Mountains are sold in Butte
than in any other city. 1t would not
make the excursion thoroughly repre-
sentative of the whole state.
For this reason the Inter Mountain is
going to have 20 contests, one in each
county in the state. There will be In
ter Mountain headquarters in each
county seat and there the ballot box
will be kept. Each county will select
it's own maid by voting the Inter
Mountain ballots in it's own ballot box.
This will make the excursion thorough
ly representative.
Because of the unusually large circu-
lation of the Inter Mountain in Silver
Bow, Deer Lodge and Missou;a coun-
ties there will be more than one maid
from each of these three. Silver Bow
will have three and Deer Lodge and
Missoula two each. The other % coun-
ties will select one each. The maids
themselves will select the 31st member
of the party-the chaperon.
Don't you think it will be happy
crowd?
Wouldn't you like to go?
Every girl over II years of age in
Montana has the chance. If she and
her friends simply will work hard
enough she is assured of a trip to the
fair under conditions the most delight
full that can be imagined. She will go
there in company with the flower of
Montana young womanhood-and there
is none finer in the land.
OF course it will be select party
the manner in choosing the maids of
honor insures that.
And they will go in style. They
are going to have the very best railway
equipment and service that money can
buy. They will have their every wish
anticipated. They will not need to
take a cent with them, for the Inter
Mountain will arrange everything
meals, hotel rooms at St. Louis, ad-
mission to the fair, street car fares,
everything necessary.
They will be chaperoned properly
and will have one big, jolly time.
Nothing like it was ever thought of