The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1912-01-18
BOULEVARD METHODISTS
IN LEAD FOR BIG PRIZE
Times Label Contest Develops
Keen Competition-Arnold Nj.
f. League Close To Top

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determination by the long siege OF
zero weather. which hampered the et-
forts of not few OF the contestants
in The Times $4,000 label and sales
: slim prize contest, workers for the
West Grand Boulevard NJ. Z. church
maintained, during the last week, the
same aggressiveness in their activities
| for yote-counting labels, and as re-
suit ere again in the lead for the nrst
grand prize OF $1,000. Their vote has
gone up TO 5S6,6S2.
Next in the standing today, and
leading for the second grand prize OF
$500 is the Arnold Nj. +. league. with
q vote OF 5S5,7S0. Both these organi-
cations took generous advantage OF
1.-The combination bonus vote offer last
week and have promised 10 do so
again on the combination for this
week.
! The Young Ladies' Sodality OF Our
| LADY of the Rosary church leads for
the division prize in division number
one. with Wayne Assembly No. /. Or
der of the Amaranth, aggressive every
day and hustling for every label, in
the effort TO lead in that division.
The Epworth League OF the Mary
w Palmer NJ. r. church leads IN
division number two and the workers
! for this organization assert that the
league will again take first place
when their votes are brought in for
this week.
Honk-Honk. onkHonk,
George f. Schmidt says he is hear
ling a noise like that all his own.
Schmidt, in fact, is allowing all his
| friends 10 register their names for
first rides in that Regal runabout,
which some one is 10 drive away from
] The Times Office on March 3.
Again. Schmidt has clambered up TO
the top in the race for the machine,
and, despite all the crowding and
showing up there, he says he Is there
NOW 10 stay. His vote, 1O4,6l5, is near
ling the million mark. His nearest zoe,
Lewis Kruger, has a vote or ot0,ZIo'
while FIVE or six other contestants are
above the half-million mark In the
score.
| The race for the two Shetland
ponies continues with close to ten OF
1.-THE Juvenile hustlers all in a bunch
tin the sCUre=standtng, 1fhe pony coH'
testants, likely, will remain in close
race during the remaining seven
weeks of the campaign, as all their
efforts seem TO bring like results Tor
each vote gatherer. Lillian Kemp,
No. 1859 Hudson-ave.. is in the lead
| in the vote standing today. with Ralph
Becker. No. 364 Dix-ave., close sec
ond. The standing of all contestants
to date:
! DIVISION NO. l.
1 ORGANIZATIONS.
Young Ladies' Sodality. Church
OF Our Lady OF the Rosary 5s2,32o
Wayne Assembly. No !. Q. o.
Central wvcmen's Christian Fesss
peranee Union ..... -. $50, 1916
Chapter. No. <-I.............2 4s.4s4
TO, T.Mo. T. w. .1O2.51s
hi proved Order Red Men. -. 4l.7s,
Detroit Assembly. No. 9. o. o.
Federal Athletic League. ........ 1896
Loyal order OF Moose. No. l60.. 16.5Ot
knights of Equity l4SoS
| DIVISION No. =.
Mary Palmer NJ f. church. .512,464
Iefferson-aye Baptist Mission. 1855, 0Si
Bethel Evangelical Lutheran
Church $685. y
st John the Evangelist Church. 3l9. 81
Zion German Reformed Church. e41, 20!
Amity Lodge. No. 33s. l. o. o. F.1SS.47j
Gratiot- Baptist Church. 10l, 90
Church OF the Messiah. ......... :O.44i
Church of Epiphany. .......... 1915
Protestant Orphan Asylum JEFF
ferson-ave- lo'le
DIVISION NO. 3.
Arnold NJ. +. League. ........ $751;
our Lady OF Lourdes Church.
River Rouge ................4 1915
Emmanuel Presbyterian Church441 is
St Anne's Church. ,............ Az 80
Enterprise Camp. No. sS94. Mod
ern Woodmen OF America. lS4.94
Young Ladies'. Cecilia Society OF
St Casimir Church .......... 67,47
Mt. Hope congregational Church 1850
DIVISION NO. T.
West Grand blvd. VI. E. Church. $50, 6S
Warren-ave. Baptist Church SOC, 80
High land Park Presbyterian
| Church ............ 5UV, IL
Western Lodge No. $40. l. o.
o. +. ..,...-...... 49,. 2Ss.SO
Grand River Ave. NJ. T. Church 1850
Brewster Congregational Church 1850
POPULAR MEN AND WOMEN.
| Geo r Schmidt, 462 Jos. eCampau. 704, 81
Lewis Kruger. 4Sl Elmwood .675, 81
Geo. +. Schulkins. a. Winde-
mere-ave. .......-........... 900, 20
A. Il. Hicks. $50 Mcclellan ave 635, II
Peter s. Watson. 1889 Sixteenth
St ..................s. .oZ2,2z