The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1907-06-29
an didates for jamestown Trip are
Securing the City for Votes in
Hard Effort to Win.
IT IS RUMORED MANY VOTES ARE WITHHELD
Only Little More Than Day Left and Victory May
Come in the Sprint at the Finish

There are nearly fifty jamestown
contestants left in the race after weeks
of effort on their part and the contest
has developed into the most spectacular
one that has ever been held in the
county.
If you have not been approached by
some young lady with a plea that you
subscribe for THE LAKE COUNTY TINES
and help her make the trip to James
town. you must live in cave thous-
and miles from nowhere, for there is
hardly nook or corner in the city that
has not been searched with a micro
scope for possible votes.
And those who have been liberal will
not have occasion to rue their actions
for in short time, in fact by the end
of next month. the whole party of
twelve young ladies and their friends
will board THE LAKE COUNTY TIMES
special car and start on a journey that
is unequaled in all that are offered this
year.
If the friends of the contestants only
knew how each Of the candidates for
this trip have set their hearts on win
ming. and If they only knew how happy
some will be and how disappointed
others will be when the result is an
nounced, they would get busy today and
Improve the time between now and next
Saturday at 1000 a m. in helping these
young ladies to win the contest.
AS it is the race has become one of
the most interesting that has ever been
held in this section of the country.
Hundreds of the readers of THE LAKE
COUNTY TIMES who have helped one
candidate or another. look for the
standing of the candidates every even
ing before they read the news and
there are always changes In the situa-
tion that are interesting.
This is no national league pennant
race with one young lady a mile in the
lead OF the rest. It Is a regular White
sox race with the pennant anybody's
up until the last game.
There were rumors Of votes being
withheld, of coups In this or that vi
cinity, of this or that young ladys sus-
picious activity and it all adds to the
interest in the contest.
From the inside 1t is as impossible
to pick the winners as 1t IS to those
who have not been counting the votes
daw by day for the past two or three
months.
It is possible TO state but one thing
definitely and positively and that is
that the contest has been a splendid
success both for the contestants and the
paper. The young ladies have gotten
results and with their success has come
the success OF the paper.
Only day and a few hours left and
then the result Will be known.
Sunday will be the crucial day of the
contest. 1t will be on Sunday and the
first few hours of Monday that the
votes will begin to pour in with such
rapidity that it will take several
clerks just to count them.
In some cases the race is SO close
that a thousand votes may decide
whether one or another of those who
are at the top will take the trip. As
in any other race ii is frequently won
by the squirt at the finish and no one
realizes this SO much as the young
ladies themselves
Out over the county there is increased
activity in every district and the votes
are coming in by the ten thousands. In
some cases it appears that there can
be no question Of the result and in
others it Is a toss UP as TO whom the
winner will be.
1t was reported this morning that
there were two young ladies whose
names are on the list but who have
not been figured in the running have
enough votes to give the leaders in the
race a tussle for their positions. This
report cannot be confirmed but it is
possible that such condition could
exist 1t is but an Illustration OF the
possibilities Of the situation.