Evening journal., 1911-10-14
Junior O. u. A. M. Retain
Lead in the Big Library
Contest This Week
The FrafernaJ Order of Eagles Move TO Second Place
Eden Lodge of Odd Fellows and, in Fact, All
Made Splendid Gains--The Lines Are
Being Tightly Drawn.
BY A o. johnson,

80 Union Square. New York City.
The positions of the contestants
remain very much as they were last
week. but the Fraternal Order of
Eagles have gotten nearer the leader,
by passing Eden Lodge. Que largely
to two sources where customers are
strong for this worthy contestant. Re
ports from merchants are extremely
erratic, only about two-thirds being
in this week.
We here make a special request of
all business men to give us a full and
complete report, each and every one
of you each wek Remember when
Monday rolls around that this dnty is
due, and give all an opportunity next
Saturday to see exactly what the lay
of the land is. We don't want these
voters cropping in the dark, as the time
is here, when strenuous efforts will be
made to wrest victory out of apparent
! defeat, so let us have full light upon
the situation. by everybody reporting
the coming week.
There is a hot fight on between the
big five, with the F. o. Eagles still
pounding away without cessation
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sistent rooters early and late, and
any moment may see them flirting
with the leader with increased effec-
tiveness. The Jr. o. u. A. NJ. work
is the real sensation of the contest
The time has come now in the big
contest when all sorts of rumors will
be set afoat. due to the intensity of
1.-The rival spirit which is increasing
III
all contests, where the interest is IN
tense and right here we want 10 no.
tify all honest workers that there Is
a man behind the gun who has been
manning just such a gun for eleven
years and the contest is a thing
close TO the heart The whole sys-
tenn is A. b. C.'s TO him and every
one has simply got to walk the chalk
line or disqualification would follow.
A committee Of your own representa-
tives will award the library, and this
committee will put their signatures
TO a verdict commencing the plan as
accurate, clean and honest. Remem-
Der. bring your complaints or write
them If you have any. to the contest
man at 80 Union Square, New York
City, and they will be treated in con
fidence.
There is big rush on every Wed.
nesday for the extraordinary vote
privilege at the stores. Hundreds
are keen and eager to make this op.
portunity for doing sledge hammer
service IN the vote getting business
count for their favorite. It is need
less to say that this is not senti
mental proposition entirely. and W
would be foolish to advance such
theory. for there is the Commercial
side to It. The contest man is cage
70 see new customers enter the con
? test stores, and his efforts are nj
ways exerted TO this end, and thi
move is purely and simply an induce
ment for your trade. The big boo
s. contest has met with hearty respons
! among hundreds Of Wilmington's citl
zens, and for which the promoter feel
, most grateful He knows the con
test is a clean, wholesome and beauti
= full AFFAIR Of its kind and he will figh
! to sustain this end.
The vote for Hope Farm this weel
aptly confirms the predictions Of IN
! Members that they are IN the rae
: to win. and are after the library II
: dead earnest Their friends seem t
& be plugging away unremittingly.
any coterie of workers woui1 make
4 mathematical estimate of What the
i could accomplish. If their expendi-
/ lures for one week were devoted I
Z. the contest stores, in united fashio
<, IL could easily be seen that any o
n these contestants above mentione
ID could master the existing majcritie
a. in a very short time. BY buying you
If furniture from George r. Fritz fft
If OF a hundred thousand votes coul'
e easily roll into this wide awak
g dealers ballot box every day in con
4, sequence thereof Select grocer
store and a meat market for thes
IS are the purchases which are a dali