The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1909-02-08
SELECTION MUST
BE MADE AT Once
Little Interest Thus Far Manifested.
All expenses of Successful Young
Lady Will Be Paid BY the Carnival
Association.

Several weeks ago the News called
on the citizens OF Hattiesburg to elect
a representative to the Beauty Con
gres at Mobile. which convenes on
February 81. But thus far little in.
terest has been manifested. The con.
test must close on February IL, so the
young lady chosen will have time 10
prepare for the trip, hence we want
to ask every reader of the paper to
cut out the coupon printed in this is.
sue, fill out and send to the office at
once.
The Mobile Carnival Association
will pay the railroad fare and all of the
expenses Of the young lady chosen to
represent Hattiesburg and The News
will defray the expenses of a chape.
rome.
The vote now stands as follows:
Miss May Field .............64
Miss Frazier Mathews ........52
Mrs. H. H. Graham .,...........26
Miss Ruth Deughdrill ..........18
Several other ladies' have smaller
number Of votes to their credit. II
costs nothing to vote and every read
or Of the paper is urged to cut out the
coupon and cast 1t today.
&c f,.ck
from the Secretary of the Carnival
Association:
"Hospitable old Mobile proposes
an addition to its Mardi Gras Festival
this year that is proving of more wide
spred interest than any similar event
heretofore proposed by the quaint
old Mother of Mystics.'
THE Congress of Beauty" in which
the leading cities and towns of Ala
bama and Mississippi have been invit-
ed to participate, is most unique in
its conception and word comes from
Mobile to the effect that the affair
will be on a most gorgeous scale. AS
there is nothing that can interest the
| public more than a beautiful woman,
it is not to be wondered at that all
| of the towns which are to select
queens are on the quivive as to the out
come of the contest for selection of
their Beauty queen. In a number of
instances these Queens are being Sc.
lected by popular vote and where this
method has been employed, the vot-
ing is very lively, one Mississippi
town having already cast up wards of
fifty thousand votes in the contests.
THE Mobile Carnival Association
proposes to pay all railroad fare for
the round trip and to entertain the
several queens at the leading hotels
of this city and during the Carnival.
| The Committee having the matter in
charge has planed elaborate enter
tainments for these visiting Queens,
including receptions, automobile pa
rades, dances, a banquet and a final
Coronation Ball, when the real Queen
of Beauty will be chosen from among
the contestants by committee of ar
lists who will be non-residents of the
States competing. This coronation
Bail and GROWING of the Queen of
Beauty will not interfere with the
usual browning of the Carnival Queen
which has always been on of the lead
ing social events of the city Indeed
all of the features of this years Carni-
val are to surpass in brilliancy those
Of prior attempts. The electrical H.
luminationss, the arrival of the Emper-
or, the Civic and Military Parade in
his honor, the public recognition Of
the Queen and the presentation of the
keys of the city to the Emperor, the
gorgeous parades of the Mystic So
cities. the Coronation of the Queen,
the Band concerts and the presence
in Mobile of the U. s. Torpedo boat
fiotilla, will furnish events of I'M
usual interest to the thousands of Wis
tors who will attend from the two
States"
This city will send a participant
and with her court and chaperone
many peonle are. .exnected to attend