Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1910-09-29
PIANO CONTEST
EXTRAORDINARY
Five Belding Business Men
Start a Big Boom for
Business
THREE PIANOS FREE
Every Purchaser of Goods i'm the
Stores Named Below Has Chance
to Win a Piano

One of the largest business building
movements ever inaugurated in this
portion of Michigan has recently been
launched i'm Belding, and already ex-
element begins To emanate from the
proposition. On the last page of the
Banner will be found the first general
announcement of the stupendous offer
which is being made To stimulate trade
in the five stores whose proprietors have
entered this great trade producing ven
ture.
A representative of large eastern
piano company was i'm the city recently
and induced Messrs. A. Friedman, +.
9. Lloyd, M. +. Peck, Frank III. Hud-
son and I'll. j. Connell TO purchase from
him three fine Sl0o pianos TO be given
away actually free To customers of these
five stores.
Nominations for candidates can be
made at once and any reader of this
paper or any citizen of Belding and the
surrounding country is eligible TO a
place in this contest and someone is
going TO carry off one of these magnifi-
cent pianos. The gentlemen in the
deal informed our reporter that after
talking the matter over, they had de-
cided TO award the pianos AS follows:
70 the person securing the Iargcs NUM-
ber OF certificates for cash trade lhp lirsl
piano viii be given; 10 the person Sc
curing the second largest naml,cr of
c .sh certificates the second piano will
be given; To the church, lodge, school
or society securing the largest number
of cash certificates the third piano will
be given.
In this manner every citizen who
trades atany one of the five stores stands
a chance OF securing one of the pianos,
provided the amount of trade is i'm ex-
cess of anyone else. In like manner,
every school, church, lodge or other So
ciety stands show of securing one
piano, if their members turn their cash
certificates into a pool and vote them
for their chosen order, church, school
| or society. Ballot boxes will be placed
in each of the stores and everyone re-
ceiving certificates can write the name
of the one they desire TO vote for on the
certificates and deposit them at any
time.
The contest opens October sth and
will close on the 18th of July, 1911, at
which time the three pianos will be
awarded TO the successful contestants.
Read the Banner from time TO time
and you will find something of interest
concerning the contest each week. 1t
proposed To have the list of names
published from time TO time showing
how the votes stand, and during the
progress of the contest there will be
special inducements offered by the
various dealers, making il an extra OBJ
ject To trade with them on these occa-
sions, and our readers should watch
| the advertisements of these dealers to
see what may be offered. On the whole
this is one of the greatest trade stimu-
lating movements we have ever heard
Of and should have tendency to bring
people from miles around TO take adj
vantage of the contest.
At "A meeting of the gentlemen inter
esJed i'm the contest, il was decided To
trust the counting of the ballots and
the awarding of the prizes TO the fol-
lowing gentlemen, all cashiers of banks
in our city, and who will act as judges
at the close Of the contest: Ambrose
| Spencer, Herbert Angel and Frank
Hicks.