Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1906-05-23
Barring all Former Prize Winners. Lady
Having Most.Votes in Ballot Box Sat-.
urday Evening June 9th. will be
Given an Elegant $500 Ladies
Gold Watch.
GRAND PRIZES:
$4,000 HAMILTON PIANO.
$4,000 HOWARD PIANO.

What do you think of this? You
didn't believe it possible, did you?
We don't know ourselves how we got
the nerve to do it, but we told you at
the outset that this contest was going
to be the biggest thing that ever hap
pened. Now we are prepared to prove
| it. :
Saturday, April 7th, we gave Miss
Grace Christen OF West Decorah S15. 90
in gold, she being the winner of the
First Special Prize, with IL, 400 votes.
Saturday, April 2lst,..w gave Miss
Lucille Norton of Decorah a handsome
$50. 90 Waltham Ladies' Gold Watch.
she being the winner of the Third
Special Prize, with 62,05O votes.
Saturday, May 18th, we gave Miss
Marie Hove of Washington Prairie IAN
elegant Six Piece Quadruple Plate Sill
yer Gray Dresser Set, she being the
winner of the Third Special Prize,
with Ill, 100 votes.
Saturday, June 9th, we will give the
lady having the most votes fbarring
all former prize winners) another hand
some $500 Waltham Ladies' Gold
Watch. Do you want it?
Back up and take another look. You
can hardly believe it, can you? Well,
we'll tell you how it happened.
Quite a lot of nice young ladies are
working hard for votes in this contest.
Three of them have been given ele-
CANT prizes. Ask them if they are not
better than they expected. We want
girls in the contest. and so have de-
cided to offer another elegant gold
watch, so that there will be an incen-
tive for others to work hard, and for
new girls to enter the contest. 1t is
not too late to begin. Miss Hove won
the last prize with two weeks work.
Don't think the others are too far
ahead. They have seen all their
friends and relatives, and now must
go out and work among strangers.
Get busy if you want to win. If You
don't win you will enjoy the work,
we are sure. There is an equal
opportunity for everyone. and we bar
all former winners in this contest so
as to give those not yet in the contest
an equal chance to win.
Some people may think that this
contest is going to bankrupt us,
but we will take care of that. We
have been in business here eleven
years, started without a cent in the
world, borrowed all the money to begin
and we are getting along pretty
we'll. thanks to the good people of the
county, who appreciate an honest
effort to build upa business here. We
are doing we'll, and we want to show
the people that we appreciate it.
This is one method of showing our
thankfulness.
Keep in mind all the time that
the goal towards which all these
young ladies are working is the
awarding of the two grand prizes,
the first prize being an elegant $400. 90
Hamilton Piano, the great worlds
fair prize winner. The second prize
will be fine $780, 90 Howard Piano,
also high grade instrument. These
will be given to the lady having the
greatest nubmer of votes and the lady
having next in number at the close
of the contest.
Are you helping some young lady
to win? We want a thousand new
paid in advance subscribers during
this contest? Will we get them?