Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1909-12-03
INTEREST GROWS AS The CONTEST PROCEEDS

| Do not hold the subscriptions
| back, but turn them into the office
as soon as you receive them, and
| the votes that they entitle you to
will be sent to you at once. The in
! ducement for the next seven days
is very liberal, and it affords every
candidate in the race an opportunity
to get a goodly reserve laid up for
| the future.
Don't wait for others to get the
votes, but start today and make up
| for any time that you may have lost
waiting for others to vote for you.
! Practically every reader of the
| Capital Journal contest is spreading
more and more and the enthusiasm
| of the contestants is reaching
higher pitch. From the impetus Civ
en- the work of gathering the free
popular vote during the past week
it is an assured fact that this contest
will be the greatest ever conducted
| by any newspaper.
Both in Salem and the surround
| ing territory comprising districts
and 3, there is an element of actiV.
ity that bespeaks favorable for many
great things during the next four
weeks, or even days.
Every day votes are ueceived from
the friends of some candidate which
completely changes the aspect of the
contest in all districts.
No one is losing hope, and the diff
| ference of a few thousand votes is
nothing as it means but a couple OF
yearly subscriptions, and there are
over three weeks remaining in which
to secure subscriptions and close the
chasm which now separates those in
other positions from first place.
Many people are willing to help the
| young ladies and are only waiting
to be asked, and the first candidates
to ask, of course, will be the ones
to receive the votes; so it is impera-
tive that those desire to enlarge their
count get among the people and
make their cause known.
Subscriptions continue to pile in
from all sections of the country and
yesterday was another banner day in
issuing votes.
Coupon Valuable.
Cut the coupons from the paper,
and help the girl win a prize.
Vote as often as you wish. 1t
costs absolutely nothing to vote in
The Capital Journal contest.
at 4 o'clock and the standing of the
candidates announced in the next
afternoons issue of The Capital Jour
nal.
The contestants in the outside dis
tricts can send In their subscriptions
as soon as secured and the votes to
which they are entitled will be mailed
to them, and can be voted at once or
| saved by them for a reserve. By do
ing this the paper can be started, to
the subscriber at once, which will en-
large your campaign,
The contest manager is at The
Capital Journal office and is prepared
to answer all questions of those who
call or write to him. Call on the
contest manager and he will prepare
you for making campaign that will
accomplish wonders.
The following description Of the
Etlers pianos that the Capital Jour
nal is giving away in their up-to- |
date voting contest will be of inter.
est to you.
A rich, massive, perfectly proper
toned art case; combination of the |
Puritan and Colonial models that |
have taken the people of this mod
ern age by storm. The popularity Of |
this piano has been phenomenal; its
splendid surfaces give opportunities
for the display of handsome beauti-
fully figured veneers, there being
no sharp lines or unsightly corners
in any part of the case. 1t has the
patent folding fall-board, with full
duet desk and music rack; pin black
built of of six successive doublings,
quarter sawed maple hardwood
case; double veneered In either ma
hogany, walnut or oak, veneered
back; full acroustic rim; nickel plat
ed action rail, brackets and pressure
bar, patent mouse-proof Horn Pad
ais; double repeating action; z 1-3
octaves, selected ivory keys and ebo-
ny sharps and absolutely guaranteed
for the entire lifetime of the plano
on display at Eilers music house.
Portland. Three OF these instru-
ments are given away absolutely free
in the Capital Journal voting contest.
Future Subscriptions.
Contestants may find in some
cases friends who wish 10 help them
in the contest by subscribing for The
Journal but are already taking a To-
cal paper which is paid In advance,
and not desiring TO receive more than
one local daily in their homes at the
same time the contest department has
arranged to accept and issue votes on
each such subscription. the paper to
start at any future date that the sub
scriber may designate.
Summary of Prizes Offered.
The grand prize automobile will
go TO the young lady who receives
more votes than any other girl in the
no matter which district she .
resides IN.
In each OF the thr-e districts we
will give absolutely free one $4.25
upright Eiler piano, one s10O dia-
mond ring, one beautiful gold watch.
one six months business course IN
the Holmes Business college OF Port.
land