The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1912-03-05
SOME SURPRISES IN STORE
FOR TIMES CONTESTANTS
Many Ingenious Schemes Are
Put In Effect as Contest
Nears It's Close

what are the surprises In stoIS-IoI
this week among the contestants In
The Times $4,000 manufacturers
prize voting contest, closing this
week? What organization has The
biggest surprise up its sleeve? And
what individual?
The questions suggest themselves
for the reason that all the CONTEXT
ants and their workers are talking
nothing but surprise" this week.
About all that Is heard from the va.
rious workers after they appear at the
contest office are cautious, or whis-
pered or exultant remarks about tho
votes that are coming Wednesday or
Saturday.
rive struck the only scheme; you
ought TO see how the votes are COM
ing I'm now" said one. Keep your
eye on me from now till Wednesday"
Don't tell anybody what said
about 1t; want to give them all
JOLT" cautioned another.
Save lots OF room in the ballot box
for me" requested an east side ju-
yenile, who all the time has had all
the appearances of Shetland pony
winner. i've got so many labels at
home that | am worrying whether /
Will have time enough 10 get them
TO the Office before Wednesday. They
are coming in avafanche5 every day.
One OF the held.back mysteries
which will come to light before many
more days is the accumulation OF
votes that friends OF Lawrence Cposs
have gathered for him and about
which more or less whispering Is be-
ing done, with a corresponding rise
in the thermometer of fear on the
part of various other workers for the
Regal unabout automobile. Cross
lives at No. l594 Third-ave., and las
been active in the campaign from the
beginning. Recently he and his friends
have attempted several moves which
bear promise of worthwhile rewards,
and IL he obtains the response he
seeks from some quarters, il Is easily
possible that his friends will be glad
70 see him for once able to leave his
sick room for a health-glving spin
about the city in the machine.
To relieve TO some extent the con-
gestion which will obtain at the con
test office, Wednesday, an extension
OF the quantity bonuses on seven OF
the products has been arranged. NO
larger vote is offered, however ana
the extension must not be viewed IN
that light. IL is made, partly. Tor tue
reason already given and partly oc-
cause of the fact that many OF the
contestants are still having some oil
ficuHy in obtaining the products
named. The Olivilo toilet soap sup
ply has just been replenished, so II
was necessary 10 allow the workers
more than one day to obtain their
votes from this source. Aristos hour
likewise.
The. products on which the quantity
bonus vote will be continued, are Us
follows:
Aristos -four,
Olivilo soap,
Runkel's products,
Bour's coffee and tea,
Kingsford corn starch,
Minute Tapioca,
Ia Azora cigars.
The quantity remains the same and
is extended until next Saturday might
at 9 o'clock, at which hour the con-
test comes to close and at wnlcn
time every label and every ballot
must be I'm the Office IL they are to
be counted.
Labels do not need 20 be counted
by the contestants before they are
brought TO the office. Do up your
bundles carefully and If the accun'ula-
ton, both tomorrow and Saturday. IS
100 great to be counted, the bundles
will be carefully tagged and counted
IS soon as possible afterward. In any
event. get your bundles TO the Office
as soon as possible Bring them III
the morning, and don't forget tie
closing date-March g. promptly at .
O'Clock at night. Positively no labels
or ballots will be accepted after that
hour. II you forget you will find the
doors closed and locked.