The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1909-02-26
WRITER'S CONTEST

WRITER'S CONTEST
This is the last week Of the con
test, and next Monday evening the
votes close when the Mackay mails
are distributed at p. m.
The contestants are running q
race than ever before, and the
honor cannot fail to go to good
able writer. Friends of the parties
are taking lively interest in the
race, and it is quite the fashion to
ask or be asked If you have any votes
or any way of getting votes in the
contest, for somebody is going to win
and probably the most active ones
will come out in the lead. Having
built their regulations for writing,
the closing days become largely a
contest of pluck and sagacity, for 1t
is indeed quite puzzle and very
interesting one for contestants to
study out the ways of discovering
how and when votes can be located.
1t trains them in business matters,
and furnishes no little amusement
for the public.
1t seems to be quite probable that
lady will win, and we have already
engaged extra curling irons for her
equipment, in keeping with the old
\ josh that lady travelling leaves one
pair in each city she visits. If it
falls to a gentleman the extra allow
ance will be put in the estimate for
collars and cuffs, and for derby hats
left in the dining cars at division
towns.
The table OF figures below gives
the standing OF all:
1st, Mrs. M l.. Haines. -. SO, ,155
End, Mrs. Jessie P. Byram. o0,532
3rd, Miss Mae Croskrey .37a493
4th, C. G. Sjostrom ....... 26,812
5th, Mrs. Agnes Just Reid !. .2s977
9Th, Miss Bae Cooper .21,244
7th, Chas. Criddle $500. .11,152
Sth, VIM. Mathews ....... 1894
Edgar D. Hale ............ 4,039
Some of our enterprising business
houses, recognizing the advantage to-
this locality of having good booster
at the exposition with a newspaper at
his Ior her service. have offered spe-
cialN prizes to the winner.
Mrs. Jackman, ladies' furnisher,
was the first, and offers fine pair
Of gloves IL won by lady.
Mrs. Eva B. Smith, milliner, offers
fine travelling hat for the lady.
w. R. Jones, proprietor of The
Hub, will give pair of the best
American Lady" low cut shoes. now
SO popular throughout America
M. E.. Boyd & Co., proprietors of
The Cottage Hotel, will give public
reception to the winner.
The Brown-Hart Company will
give fine leather suit case to the
lady or gentleman who takes the
trip.
The exposition will be equal to a
college course to the observant Wis
itor who knows how to get the most
out of such things, and we want our
writer to see it all, and then see 1t
again and again until he or she grad
yates in that great demonstration
placed at the port that joins the
United States to the Arctic regions
and links the Occident with the
Orient. Admissions will be provided
to everything about the exposition
grounds "The Pay Streak" the Trail,
the Pike, the Midway, the place
where all the shows Of all the world
are assembled for fun, frolic and
science, from day to day and from
week to week until the visitor is
satisfied and has had the time of his
life. There are several delightful
steamer trips that may be taken
about Puget Sound and out to the
ocean, or longer one up the coast,
and when our writer comes home
again, if he no she has not gathered
material to become the champion en-
tertainer and story-teller of our
locality, it will not be our fault.
such trip is an education in itself; y
the basis of sound judgment and
cmparisons Of values; a good prepa-
ration for position requiring a
broad understanding of the great