Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1914-02-06
MORE THAN $500
IN FREE GIFTS To
LADIES Of COUNTY
Washington Standard Will In
augurate Big Subscription
Campaign Next Week.
PRIZE FOR EVERY WORKER
$3.50 Player Piano, $400 Upright
Piano and % Other Premiums
to Be Given Away.

In this issue of The Washington
Standard we are announcing on page
2 gift enterprise in which we will
give more than $1,6O0.O0 worth of free
gifts to the ladies in our territory.
The first grand prize will be player
piano worth $3.50 and the second will
be a $400 piano that comes from the
John Sharp Piano Company, success
sors to the Kohler & Chase Piano Com
pany, the big Seattle piano store
Both of these pianos are guaranteed
instruments and the best that can be
secured for the money. They will be
on display in Olympia in a short time.
Among the prizes that will be given
to the contestants will be six diamond
rings, which come from Talcott Bros,
the Olympia jewellers, in whose store
they will be displayed. They are
beauties and we'll worth the small
amount of effort that it will take to
win them. Four gold watches from
the same store will also be given-see
them on display. Six handsome Ia
vallieres, set with gems, are other
prizes that 60 to the ladies and they
all come from Talcott Bros. where
they will be displayed. Four prizes
that should prove of especial value to
the winners will be four scholarships
in Wilson's Modern Business College
Of Seattle, the biggest and best bust
ness college in the state OF Washing
ton. The winner Of these prizes will
have won something that may even
tually prove Of more value than the
first prize.
I Twenty-four prizes have BEEN ~
ranged for to be given away to ladies
who reside in Olympia and the sur
rounding territory. II more ladies en-
ter the contest more prizes will be
added, for it is the intention Of the
management to give prize worth not
less than $1,000 to each candidate that
enters the contest and 10 actively try
ing to win. II 30 ladies should enter
the campaign we will give 80 prizes.
We want representative lady In each
section of our territory, one at least
in each town and community and on
each of the rural routes. We want at
least IL in the city Of Olympia and
five or six on the rural routes out Of
Olympia.
Every candidate will positively be
rewarded for her time-under the
plan Of this contest no contestant will
be disappointed.
How 1t II Done.
These prizes will be given away
through the medium Of q voting con-
test. Votes are secured on paid-up
subscriptions to the Standard-see the
schedule in another part of this issue.
Vote coupons for stated number OF
votes will also be printed in each issue
of the Standard. The lady who has
the highest number Of votes will get
the player piano, and the lady tnat
secures the highest number OF votes
in the district that the winner OF the
player piano does not belong to will
get the $4O0 piano. There will be two
district: No. will embrace the City
of Olympia and its rural routes; No. 2
will embrace all territory outside OF
Olympia and its routes. One OF the
pianos will go to each district-tne
candidate that polls the highest num-
ber OF votes in the contest gets the
player and the candidate that polls
the highest number in the other dis
trict will get the other piano. BE-
sides the pianos we will give IL other
prizes in each district and except the
pianos the prizes will be duplicates IN
each district. This will give the can
didates residing at distance chance
to secure the fine prizes. II more can
didates enter the contest from either
of the districts than prizes announced
we will add more SO that every canol-
date will get prize.
Any Lady Eligible.
Any lady, married or single, young
or old, may enter the contest and It
will not cost you a penny to secure
one of the prizes. All that you have
to do is to send in your own or the
name of a friend to the Contest Man
ager. when he will send you full In
CONTINUED on page fve.)