Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1914-04-21
This Is The Last Day
For The Contestants
Answers In The HOpknSve Business Mems Award Contest
Must Be In The Kentuckan Office By Four
O'clock This Afternoon.
Scores Have Already Been Received And Will Be Caaogued
And Numbered Judges Have Been Selected

This afternoon at four O'Clock the
entries in the Kentuckian's Business
Mems Contest will close. All who
compete for the awards must have
their solutions in by that hour, and
there are going to be great many
contestants.
The answers began coming in be-
fore night on the day the paper was
issued and there was no let-up dur
ing the week. Many were brought
in wrapped in large rolls and others
in small boxes and neat packages.
Some have prepared their answers
on large cardboards, some on sheets
of paper and others have cut out the
corrected advertisements and ar
ranged them in book form.
AS many are holding back their
solutions until today, it is not posi-
bic to estimate the number of con-
testants. The contest has aroused a
lively interest not only in town but
in the country.
The high class of the printing is
complimented on all sides. The cuts
were uniformly good and every
single one made a clear distinct print.
| The contestants from the start took
a pride in the special feature and a
great many Of the business men had
new photos taken for the pictures.
A few used old photographs taken
when they were younger and these
proved to be the greatest stumbling
blocks in picking out the right faces.
One lady in the country knew all but
nine and she came to town Saturday
and took a day off to find out who
the nine were and went back to com.
plete her list.
A good many business men have
expressed disappointment at not be-
ing given an opportunity to enter the
contest. The original plan was to
get "a pictures, but the scheme
proved so popular that two more
pages were added after that number
was secured and even then some
were left out because they could not
get photographs in time.
The object Of course was to make
people study the advertisements and
this result was undoubtedly obtain
ed. Everybody in town has been
porting over the advertisements for
a week. Hundreds of papers have
been sold and when children have
applied who did not have the neces-
sary nickel they have been given a
paper, Many new subscribers have
come in already as a result of the
contest.
The judges selected to make the
awards are Mayor Frank X. Yost.
President Frank H. Bassett, of the
X. |. T. League, and Mr.. Green H.
Champlin. They are all men who
have the entire confidence of the
public and who have no interest in
{ he outcome Of the contest further
than to give a square deal TO every
one.
The answers sent in will all be
catalogued and numbered and the
judges will not know who the con-
testants are until the numbers are
turned over to them after the awards
have been made.
As previously announced $40 divid-
ed into four cash awards will be Civ
en-, five annual subscriptions TO the
hentucklan and two special prizes
offered by w. r. Bowles and Il.
l.. Metcalfe, making IL prizes in all.
The winners of these awards will
be announced in the next issue of
the Kentuckian, Thursday morning.
and in the same issue will be pub
ished the "a advertising cards used
on the 18th with every man in his
own place.
Advertisers wishing 10 avail them
selves OF the advantages offered nv
this intensely interesting issue. NAV
SECURE advertising space up TO noon
" edneSday unless all available space
should be taken before that time.
Remember that the best prepared
answers will win and any one may
compete until four O'Clock this az
Iernoon. "a W.
. Watch the next paper for the list