The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1910-12-28
NEWS CONTEST HAS CLOSED
PRIZES IN SUBSCRIPTION CAM
PAIGN AWARDED THURSDAY.
Miss Locke Won the Automobile.
and Miss Brown and Miss Bowen
Received District Prizes.

Miss Locke Won the Automobile.
and Miss Brown and Miss Bowen
Received District Prizes.
The earnest and diligent labor Of
nearly four weeks was as naught
compared with the reward therefor
found in the handsome awards made
by The Dawson News to the win
ners in it's automobile contest, which
came to a close Thursday at noon.
The prizes represented an eXpend-
iture of nearly twelve hundred dol
lars in cash, and made most valua
BILE Christmas presents for the sue
cessful ones. In addition to the prizes
that were offered, The News has
made a present to each of the young
ladies who actively canyassed in the
contest.
The statement of the judges who
counted the votes at the conclusion
of the contest Thursday at noon gives
the names of the contestants and the
total number of votes of each. 1t
follows:
Dawson, Ca, Dec. %, 1910
We, the undersigned judges, after
carefully canvassing the votes cast
The Dawson News contest, find
he following to be the result:
Miss Mamie Locke. .....,1 SOC, 500
Miss Kenneth Brown, 80. ,000 $50
Miss Matte Bowen. 49,. 414,250
Miss Ethel Bass. ..... I29,25O
Miss Florence Newman e.. 37& 900
Miss Ellen Bartlett. ..... $4,000
Miss Bessie Cole ...... 100000
Miss A lice Jordan 204 600
The automobile won by Miss Locke
is Halliday car that is sold for ST.
ESQ. 1t was purchased from Lowrey
& Davidson. The first district prize
was 500 in gold or a diamond ring,
and Miss Brown chose the money.
The buggy was won by Miss Matte
Bowen. 1t is of the celebrated High
Point, n c., make, which is sold
in Dawson by E. B. Durham & Co.
Thursday afternoon was a joyous
time for the winners in the contest,
and while fate decreed that all could
not be winners and all could not
hope to win the automobile there
were none but who expressed sat
isfactfon with the result.
The contest was most satisfactory
in every detail. Scores upon scores
of new subscribers were added to the
already large subscription list o.
The News, and the ones responsible
for the big increase have been hand
sOmely rewarded for their time and
energy. The campaign for votes
was not without its hardships, and
many times some of the contestants
would want to give UP in despair,
but hoped-for letter with it's cash
bearing subscription or a fulfilled
promise added renewed vigor, and
as the contest neared its close moth
ing could have deferred them from
continuing to the end.
How determinedly the campaign
was prosecuted is shown by The
News circulation books. There are
but few homes in Terrell county and
several of the neighboring towns
where The Dawson News will not
be weekly Visitor-and once a
reader always reader.
More than 100000 votes were
sast in the contest, which is re-
markable when it is considered that
it continued less than four weeks.
Several of those who entered at the
beginning withdrew, but the aggre-
100000.
The News only regrets that all
could not win an automobile, and
the management wishes to thank the
contestants and the public for the
way in which they responded to the
call for representative and sub
scription givers. 1t is not in the
history Of another weekly newspaper
where such a magnificent array Of
prizes were offered in a town the
size of Dawson.
The contest manager, Mr.. Frank
Williams of Louisiana, came to us
well recommended as man of UNI
questioned integrity, and the closing
of this big contest is only another
testimonial of his honesty and in
defatigable efforts.