The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1909-07-28
THE RACE FOR PRIZES
IS NOW IN FULL SWING
Voting Contest Now Open-AH Women Have Great Oppor-
tunity to Win Costly Prizes in the Redwood Gazette
$1,000 Election of Most Popular Ladies'.
MERCHANTS JOIN IN THE ENTERPRISE.

sending us this blank, clipped from
this paper. filled out with the name
and address of some lacy who would
be likely to make a good candidate.
A nomination blank will be inserted
in this paper every week for the
same purpose. Or, any lady will
confer favor on The Redwood Ga
zette if she sends in her own name,
and thus signifies her willingness to
become candidate.
Who is the most popu-
lar lady? We leave it to
you (the public) to say.
Come hither with your
votes and back your favor
lite candidate you can
have as many votes as you
want, if you get 'em ac-
cording to contest rules.
The object of The Redwood Ca
zette in starting this contest is to in
crease its circulation. Therefore
we offer 1000 votes to every person
who takes out new subscription to
The Gazette and 500 votes to every
old subscriber to The Gazette who
renews for year. Liberal allowance
Of votes will be given to all who set
tie outstanding accounts for SUBJ
scriptions to this paper. A complete
scale Of votes and all rules will be
found in the big display advertise
ment found elsewhere in this issue.
Many of the leading merchants in
different lines ofi.business in this
city have joined with The Gazette in
this enterprise. AS we expect to
increase our circulation through
issuing votes on subscriptions, so the
merchants expect to increase their
patronage by issuing votes on every
sale of merchandise amounting to a
dollar or more. A list of the stores
that are "in" the contest, is given
in the display ad already referred
to. Trade at these stores. if you
desire to help your favorite candi-
date to win one of the best prizes,
At any contest store you will be en-
titled to free coupon. good for Is
votes, with every dollars worth of
goods you buy providing only thatyou
pay cash for your purchase. These
coupons are absolutely free, the
price of the merchandise is no high
er than it was before, and you will
secure the same amount of votes for
the same sum of money sspent on
merchandise at any other of the
contest stores. In other words.
whatever the nature Of the goods
you are buying, you'll receive the
same advantage in respect to voting
coupons. in one store as in another.
Buy an auger at the hardware store
providing it is contest store, and
pay let US say So for it; and that
transaction entities you to SO votes.
Or go to the grocer's or haberdash-
er's Gf they are in the contest) pay
81 for flour, or for soap or for shirts
and in either case your purchase
gives you the right to demand so
votes. In this way you can add a
large number of votes to your favor
lite candidates standing.
A Big Piece of News!
Look here! $65.OO sewing
machine to the lady who
receives the greatest num-
Der OF merchants coupons
during the entire contest.
Here's hope for the contestant
who feels shy about asking her
friends to subscribe to the paper
or who finds, for any other reason
that she can't get subscribers so
rapidly as some of her competitors.
A SOS sewing machine will be
awarded at the close of the contest
to the lady who has received more
merchants coupon votes than any