The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1915-03-15
JUDGES ANNOUNCE
WINDOW WINNERS
Ayres q Chapman Get First Ribbon
In the First Contest Of This
Sort Held in
keokuk.
RATINGS ARE ALL CLOSE
Only Fraction Of Point separted Sew
eraI Of the Contestants When
Totals Were
Reached.
RATINGS ARE ALL CLOSE

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The blue ribbon. signifying first
tplace in the first window display con
test held in Keokuk, is awarded Ayres
and Chapman by the score cards Of
the three judges. The awards were
announced this morning just before
noon, by the contest committee, after
going over the three score cards and
totaling the points given by the
arbiters.
green satin ovedraped with white silk
marquisette, with Killarney roses as
the decorative flower.
ribbon is given, signifying second
ribbon Of third place, Renaud's takes
nificance and E. C. Weisman is given
Money prizes go with each Of these
four, three and two dollars for the
other four places.
The ribbons together with cards sig
nifying what place the windows oc.
cupied in the contest, were placed in
w
lest committee this noon.
How Points Were Awarded.
The windows were judged on the
following ratings by the three judges.
Cleanliness, $50 per cent; artistic
arrangement, 100 per cent; sales
and impression, 300 per cent; appear
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LOO per cent.
ton the size of the windows, and the
conditions under which the window
was connecting. This gives the small
merchants just as equal a show as
the larger ones, and where man has
only 4 few inches Of display window
compared with his neighbours several
feet, the judges did not fail to take
this into consideration.
Best Average for Cup.
| The merchants who were in on this
/ first contest all have chance for the
cup. The best average will win the
handsome silver cup. A window may
and yet have higher general average
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one contest, and second or third In
the others Only these in oil contests
can have chance at the cup.
! The contest committee announced
after looking over the scores that the
ratings were exceedingly close. In
several instances 1t was shown that
only a fraction of point separated
the windows OF various stores. This
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the cup who stays in the race, as their
general average might be better than
/ the winners in individual contests
Judges Job Hard One.
| The three judges had no easy job
in making the ratings. 1t took COZ
siderable time to inspect the windows
and to make their ratings The judges
acted Independently OF one another,
and the contest committee awarded
the prizes after totalling the ratings
4 on each Of the cards
The three judges who served this
time were Mrs. w. G. Blood, DR.. G. R.
Armeatrout and Harry l.. Culkin.
Credit to Towne.
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the first window display contest can.
not be given to o. B. Towne, manager
OF the Industrial association, and NJ
e. Justice, president OF the Retailers
league Mr. Towne orig fnally made
the suggestion that tho contests be
held and did everything he could to
aid the merchants by securing infor
nation from other cities where SIM
liar contests have been held. Mr.
Justice has pushed the contest at the
meetings of the Retailers league and
his influence has been largely re-
sponsible for the interest that has
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