Pleasantville weekly press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1890-1911, 1910-05-28

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Volunteer Firemen, Mays Landing .....
Carpenters Union, Pleasantville ......
Workers for the respective candidates
in the piano contest are anxious to 10
their best, to place certain nominees in
the lead and they consequently overlook
the contest rules The Press cordially
welcomes as many candidates as those
interested choose to nominate. 1t must be
impressed upon the workers that it is
impressed upon the workers that it is
useless to nominate by coupon any one
Of the organizations at the head OF this
column They have all received regular
nominations and every additional cou-
pom received is destroyed
1t is pretty well known that new sub
seriptions count more votes than renew
ais. but it should be observed that old
subscribers can sometimes be persuaded
to pay a slight arrearage and one year
in advance, which means that they may
cast 400 votes for the fayorite candidate.
If workers desire further information
and the names of those who are in ar
rears lists will be prepared and furnished.
| Pleasantville is receiving a pretty
thorough canvass for new and old sub
| scriptions and it is unlikely that any
person will be missed or overlooked here,
but rich fields await workers who are
energetic enough to 60 beyond the con-
| fines of this town for new names. This
TERRITORY will be pointed out to workers
who may ask for information at The
Press office.
Ballots Are Needed
A few subscription ballots would easily
work wonders in the position of some of
the candidates next week. These sub
scription ballots which are offered for
payment of arrears, renewals and new
subscriptions may be secured by the
| workers of the organizations with but
| little effort and time, and in the end it
vii be the subscription ballots that will
mean success for the various candidates.
| However, the five-yote coupons must
not be neglected. Each copy of this
paper contains one and each one obtain
ed not only means five votes for your
organization. but is the means of in
teresting the subscriber and your organ
zation in the contest.
| Organize your forces; get your com
mittees together and assign the territory
| bv districts, then have all committees
scour their respective districts for votes.
Mention the contest to your friends when
YOU meet them. Ii you don't meet them,
call them by telephone. No doubt they
Twill be pleased to aid you if you will only
| let them know that you are making
the effort to secure The Press piano. Ii
YOU don't do this Immediately. some one
else Will get their support. You are not
conlincd to any designated territory n
which to canvass: you can go anywhere.
to secure votes or subscriptions This
contest is being talked of every day in
every part of Atlantic County and the
contestant making the most thorough
canvas is the one that will receive thu
most support, because every one is will
ing to help the first one who asks for
support
/ Hundreds of Ballots
The contest will now settle down to
genuine flood of ballots. Last week the
votes were coming in by the score. now
they are coming in by the hundreds.
Many more people are joining in the
work of helping their favorite organiza-
tion secure this valuable piano. 1t is
true that many are not assisting Us
much as they should. vet they are be-
coming interested through the energetic
efforts Of some Of their friends and by
next week all of the leaders in the con
test viii lhave their forces in line for
the skirmish at the finish.
Several organizations nominated in the
contest have not made any marked ef-
forts as yet. This gain has been due 70
renewals and clipped coupons voted by
our subscribers in the neighborhood Of
these organizations A little organized
effort by these organizations will increase
this support several fold, but unless an
active canvass is instituted at once, their
support will readily decrease, because
people desire to help only such organiza-
tions that are worthy of their support.
J and their worthiness can only be demon
strated by the energy they put in the
contest
! While the number of subscriptions Sc
cured by the friends and members of the
various organizations has increased dur
| ing the past few days, it must be remem-
bered that the field is large and full Of
possibiIities. more than sufficient for the