Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1915-01-23
MANY VAIUABlEPRRES
GIVEN AWAY FREE
By Your Home Merchants In
a Popular Voting Con-
A Beautiful $4,000 Piano
Guaranteed to be True to Estimated
Value, In the First Prize Many
Other Prizes Given

Popular Voting Contest in order
to demonstrate to the people of this
section the advantages TO be derived
from buying at home. for cash, rath-
er than trading away from home or
sending their money to the mail Or
der houses. They are giving away
absolutely free number of valuable
prizes, the capital prize being a
S4OO. 90 piano. This piano, as we'll as
all other prizes, is guaranteed to be
absolutely true to the estimated
value.
Prizes Will Be Distributed BY Vote
There will be no favoritism shown
in this grand distribution of prizes.
Just who will receive the various
prizes will be determined by votes.
The lady who receives the largest
number of votes will receive the first
prize, and others will receive prizes
according TO their final vote standing
until all the prizes have been awarded.
Open, Fair and Above Board
The distribution of these prizes
shall be open, fair and above board.
The ballot box will be sealed at all
times and in charge of committee
chosen by the merchants. Neither
these merchants nor the men who
have charge of the ballot box can
afford TO have this contest conducted
other than upon the highest plane of
fairness to all those seeking the prizes.
Such safeguards will be thrown a.
round this contest that all will
know beyond doubt that whoever
receives the various prizes will have
| won them in a fair open competition.
How to Secure Votes
There are three ways, only three
ways, TO secure votes Clip the free
vote coupon from the World pay sub
4 scriptions at this office, and trade for
cash with the merchants represented
in this campaign. These vote coupons
| will be given; out to all persons upon
1 the same conditions The lady IS skill
and industry in getting hold of the
/ votes, going out TO her friends and
getting them into the ballot box, will
determine her standing at the tina
count.
Can these merchants afford to give
these prizes2 They can undoubtedly
afford TO do so. There are hundreds
of dollars going from this community
to merchants in neighboring cities
and to the mail order houses, eacl
week, TO the detriment of the pur
chaser, the home merchants who
ought to receive the trade, and th'
community in general. Our HON,
merchants can and do sell goods 70
cash at a smaller average selling cos
and net profit than can or do TIN
merchants in the larger cities ant
towns They have inaugurated thi
tsPopular voting contest" believing
. that they can and do sell goods at
smaller average selling cost and ne
! profit than do or can the merchant
in the larger cities and towns. The
ask this fully believing that it
S best for all concerned.
: Send us your name
Ii you know of lady who woul
:, like to receive one of the prizes thes
n merchants are giving away, send U
a her name for registration. If 70
would like one of them for yourself
send US your name and address, Oh
better yet, come into this office an
let the booster manager" tell 20
all about it,
Buy of these tirms-
Wa-Keeney Hardware Co
Trego Mercantile Co.
# E. A. Courtney
v Mrs. II. e.. Moore
g Farmers Cooperative. Association
). A. S. Treger-
s 25-Vote Coupon
Send this vote TO The World offic
within Is days from date and it Wi
r count for 25 votes No money re
= quired with this coupon.