Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1914-04-17


contest will come to a close at
O'Clock tomorrow, Saturday, night.
At that hour the votes and ballots
will be turned over to the judges, who
will count them and name the win
ners of the prizes.
The judges will make a recount of
all of the votes that the candidates
are entitled to, according to the
books of the contest, and the ballots
that have been cast for the candi-
dates. The judges are E. w. Olson,
state labor commissioner, Chas. L.
Dufault and Attorney George F. Yam
tbs. These gentlemen are we'll and
favorably known in the county and
their count will assure all of the
contestants that the last count will
be fair to every one in the contest.
Maxwell "25" is here.
The big Maxwell car is here and
ready to be awarded to the contes-
tant that comes in the winner. The
car is on display at the new garage
of Elmer c. Tew, the local Maxwell
agent, at Sixth and Washington
streets. 1t is brand new and spick
and span. 1t makes ones mouth wat
er to look at it. Lucky indeed will
be the girl who will be able to sit in
the drivers seat and drive the car
away tomorrow night.
The piano has been here since early
in the contest, and the key and bill
of sale are ready to be turned over to
the winner. The diamond rings,
watches and lavallieres are also all
ready to give to the winners. They
have been on display for several
weeks at Tallcot Bros. jewelry store.
These prizes are real beauties and
are well worth the effort of the ladies
that win them. Three very practical
prizes are the three scholarships in
Wilson's Modern Business college Of
Seattle, and to be frank about It, we
are not sure that the winners of these
prizes, If they use them, will not have
won better and more valuable prizes
than the ones that win the car or
the piano, for business education is
that will repay the recip-
lent many times over.
All Ready for Final Rally.
Contest headquarters have been
pretty busy the past few days and
we are all ready for the final rally.
Everybody connected with the Stan
dard is anxiously awaiting the out
come, for every one from the "prin-
ter's devil" up to the editor has taken
a lively interest in the contest and
the contestants. They would not be
human If they were not. The only
one that takes matters as they come
is the contest manager, who has been
through 800 contests, more or less.
Several Deserve to Win.
Some of the candidates in the con-
test deserve to win the car as they
have done probably just as much
work in the contest as the winner will
have done. The only regret the edi-
tor has is that the Standard is unable
to give at least ten cars, as there are
that many ladies that he would like
to see get the car. But there is one
that those who have
worked hard have. if they do not win,
is that they have done their level
best and that being beaten is no dis
grace where one has done all that
she could.
There is big source Of gratifica-
ton to the management in the fact
that every active candidate in this
contest will receive a prize. just as
was promised at the start. In fact.
we have four more prizes than active
SO that several candidates
will receive prizes that have shown
very little effort.
The contest will close at o'clock
night, as specified in the
and all subscriptions
and votes must be in this Office or in
the mail before that time. That hour
is definite and will not be changed,
but in order to give the contestants in
the out-of-town and country districts
an opportunity to work in their dis
tricts all of the last day of the con-
test, the management will permit the
of subscriptions and votes up