Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1909-09-09

the most frequently asked questions
of the moment. The Great Prize
Voting Contest of the Wood County
Reporter has excited an endless a.
mount of speculation over the ulti-
mate winners and there are as many
different opinions advanced as there
are different people to advance them.
Even local prophets who claim or
dinarily to be wise to all the ways
and winds of contest weather admit
they can make nothing as yet of SO
dark a problem. 1t is a manifest
impossibility to name the winners at
this time. The contest is still in it's
infancy and it is entirely within the
possibilities that the winners are not
yet among those entered in the lists.
Changes in leadership as we'll as
other changes in the lists may be
looked for at any moment. Those
contestants at present lower down
in the lists have numerous friends
interested in their cause and these
friends will not be content until they
see the contestants of their choice
heading their respective lists.
The awards offered are so unusual
ly attractive, and the people are so
earnestly interested in their favor
ties winning the prize, that no mat
ter how the contest may be viewed
a hot campaign with every sort of
surprise and sensation is the prospect
AS an evidence of the wonderful
interest already manifest in the con-
test it is only necessary to state
that every night the ballot box is
pretty we'll filled with ballots for
the different contestants. These
ballots come from all over the coun-
ty and many from beyond and it is
plain that thepeople in the outlying
regions are as much interested in
the contestants in their district
as the people of Grand Rapids are
in the city contestants.
Contestants and friends of the con-
testants from the city and often the
outside districts may be seen at any
time of the day calling at the Re
porter office and depositing their bal
lots in the ballot box which has now
become one of the greatest centers
Of interest in the city.
Today the single ballot is published
and will be continued until the close
of the contest. Although the nomin-
alton ballot is not published any
more interested people are to
understand that nominations can be
made any time during the contest
and any person desiring to enter may
do so at anytime. From now on all
single ballots will count but one
vote each and will be good for one
week from the date on which they
were printed.
Those who have not yet helped a
favorite should do so Immediately
that the contestant may receive the
encouragement and increased chances
of winning that goes with a good
showing during the earlier days of
the friendly struggle. Support eX-
tended a contestant at any time
would be appreciated but would be
doubly appreciated at the present
time when such support will really
do the contestants the most good.
The time of the contest has been
divided into periods, and more votes
are given during the first period
than during the second, and more
during the second than during the
third. From this it may be seen
that it is the early subscriptions
that have the greatest value. Con
testants who have not yet entered
into the contest actively should lose
no time but should commence their
campaign now when everything is
most favorable for success at the
finish. No contestant should feel
discouraged if you do not occupy
the initial position in your district
The votes given with a few subscrip-
tions would be sufficient to put any
contestant to the top of their re
spective districts with number OF
votes to spare.