The Wheeling intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1903-1961, 1917-05-05
A FORTUNE
FOR ONE WORD
Given $4,000 Apiece Four Women Car
Crafty Lifelong Ambitions.
LOVE PLAYS ITS. PART.
Mother of Eight Gets a Fresh Start
Art Career 8egun-Joy Follows
News Of Gift Made in Contest in
Which $4,000 Votes We're Cast.

! -Four women, TWO Sin@lr and two
married. have had Soon dropped into
their laps BY the American Evcrready
| Works of Long Island City. manuih,;'
lurcrs nt portable electric lights. ii
lis doubtful whether $l2.UOu eyer
! brought more JOY into more lives. y
: wedding: Il tour Of the United States ::
Il future in art and Il mortgage paid
by the mother Of eight littlr ones are
some of the results of Tn" prize con
: test started by EvcrCady 10 establish
Il new name for their product.
! H. was intended To give but one
$1,000 pri&" for better name THAN
'"lIashli"h,." but when IN" 80, 300 con
test blanks had been judged and he
word "UHtlO' selected. it WAS found
submitted nm four different ballots. Us
order ~ SNOW lis good faith, the Com
! pany decided To give the full amount
iol the prize 10 each lucky contestant
, In all probability the greatest
amount OF good thus accomplished
! was in behalf of Mrs. T.. E. Grow of
! WHlcrtnwn. :. -. Both Mr.. and Mrs,
Grow arc Now EnGIandcrS. well edu,
called and capable. bul life has bcc:l
Il hard problem for The pair. There
a"c eight Childrcn-Ihc eldest only
8 fourteen.
I y few years AGO Mr.. and Mrs. Grow
bought little house 1t was heavily
mDrtgagcd and The $1,000. Mrs. GroW
says, will pay Oft the mortgage, equip
II" family with new clothing anu NJ
"'sSiticS and change The current ui
! rr4 lives.
Mrs. Grow cried little when the
check for the 5000 was received.
She said. I'VE have tried very hard
and il did seem as if this winter We
were almost at the end Of our re-.
sources. Both my huS band and myself
! now feel that We are beginning life all
over, and | am sure that we are go
! ing to have more happiness from now
! on than We have ever had"
Another lucky contestant lives in
Topeka, Kansas. She is Mrs Rather.
inr w Hand, widow and Il school
teacher. Her daughter Elizabeth has
! had Il life ambition 10 become a deco
rative artist and designer. Her dream
! has been to come 10 New York and
study. Mrs. Hand is now going tr
send Elizabeth to New York, where
she can Ill herself for tho future.
When the mayor Of Topeka handed
Mrs. Hand the check she said. This
is the great adventure Of my life!
have lived only for my daughters
sake, and now that ! can give her
what she most desires. ! feel that
have not spent my long years Of toll
in vain
Miss Bertha 4. Wilson lives in
! Medina. y. Y. Her family are
in comfortable, but limited, circum
stances. and Bertha has had ar
ambition. ever since she was len year:
old. TO see the wonders of the Grand
h., N,1I f'nlnrnI0 q nI
= above all. California. She will now
be- able to max" her dream come
true. II is altogether probable that
Miss Wilson has less need for tho
$4,000 than did any Of iii" four
but if gratifying a young woman
dream possesses any satisfaction, lht
l,vcrcady people can enjoy IN" SrnSa
;1ion tn The full. because Miss Bertha
says she is going TO have the time o.
her life.
OF course. there has 10 he a romano
in anything in which wonankind is
lr0nrerncd and Miss Irene VI. SChul1
of Union Hill. y. J.. supplies tho 70
finance Miss Schulz is the daughter
lof Il mechanic in ordiary cirCum
stances. She is twrnty-lhrrc years
old and is anxious 10 be married. Hey
sweetheart is poor and wedding WAS
in The very remote future. non IN
S.. h0n arrived. however. Miss Schu,r
and her sweetheart held cOnsulta
!lion and agreed 10 marry in June an'
10 buy home with the money. I'll;
combined savings of The couple vii
set the young man up IN business AM
as Miss Schulz says, II do not SCI
how can be- any happier than
am.
Incidentally tho Evcrcady people