The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1917-02-20
GREATEST CAMPAIGN
8 EVER WAGED IN STATE
Tote viii Be So Much Divided That There Is Possibility of
Comparatively Small Total Winning Prize-Specal Prize
Offer This Week Means Great Gain For Successful Worker

81 ~ the greatest campaigns the Viz
9inian has ever conducted. and one
sof The larves; that was ever attempt
"a by any newspaper in the state.
subscriptions are coming in from al
most every ,art OF the state and the
readers of the paper are indeed loyal
Rrd arc scn6,1g in votes and paying
gsthetr back due subscriptions, which
ccnnt fos az many votes as an ad-
I vance payment.
There were never before 80 many
active contestants IN newspaper cir
3 cuiaticE campaign IA virginia. and
-sEor tesfaats are meeting with a hearty
vespopse from the people throughout
tho state IN securing subscriptions and
= votes for he paper There has heeD
Y no one contestant who has accumu-
s lated such a volume OF business but
] that some other contestant could over
come i, by getting subscribers. for
tho vote and the subscriptions arc
very much divided in all sections.
There is not district that has not
q very large number Of active CON
testants and there are many OF the
ladies who have inst started TO be
come actively interested ana arc ask
ing their friends 10 assist them In Sc
curing a good award
Prizes of Real Merit.
Eight big valuable automobiles that
Z are real HAipE1l 8AAitFf tlif NEFF"7 NAi't
every one would Ike to own. ar* Of
Tered as awards fr this campaign.
The King Eight" car offered as one
of the grand capital prizes, Is mp IN
the hish-priced and high class auto
mobiles and worth young fortune,
that some ono - going 70 secure in
this campaign for the getting Of Cub
scriptions and votes for the paper
The sfudebaker Six also offered as
~as~ffaf ia
smother big value and worth lot Of
q money that some one is going to
make very easily. Then there are
six more automobiles. The Saxon
@Stxes." up i'm the big class hutomo-
bile line. and are worth the time and
effort of any one The other prizes,
the Victor Nictroias, six of them, are
the large, beautiful and the class mat
would grace any home. All or the
: JrrfeY prizes aTg ut good vattfes 4rft:
the cash awards will run way up into
& considerable money. Every one Sc
cures something and from the pres
ent outlook the awards Will he far
larger than was ever before given 10
contestants IN a campaign of this
character. No one goes without a
prize or cash award who remains &C
tive to the end of the campaign and
from the present outlook there Will
( he a very large number to he awarded
This Weeks OFFER.
Those who expect to be among the
large prize winners viii take. advan-
tage of this weeks offer and secure
one of the ffve prize ballots offered.
Five ladies in each Of the six districts
Will be awarded five prize ballots
which will be as follows;
First prize ballot 500, 600 votes: sec
ond prize ballot 400 900 votes; third
~ n
prize ballot, 1000 votes; nth prize
ballot 1000 votes,
How Prize Ballots VIII he Awarded.
The contestants who sends In the
largest number OF subscriptions total
ing the largest amount in dollars and
cents from their respective districts
will be awarded the first district prize
ballot and 70 on down the line for al
of the Ave ballots The subscriptions
do not have to be secured from any
certain district but the awards will
he made according to the credits to
the contestants mt the end of the offer
for subscriptions sent in this and next
week. The amounts in subscriptions
that have been sent in previously
have nothing to do with the two
weeks offer. II the contestants So
curing the prize ballots in their dis
fricts have more to their credit Sat
urday night February "a. than any
other contestants 100, 900 extra votes
VIII be added 10 each OF the five prize
ballots.
Contestants who have done very
little in the campaign so far now
have the greatest opportunity offered
them will ever have again during the
entire campaign and a chance to get
ahead of all other contestants and re-
main in the lead until the end of the
campaign and be among those to re-
ceiye the greater awards. Go right
in and get every subscription possi~
BILE this week. Subscriptions secured
up to and including Saturday night,
midnight, that have been placed in
campaign office or in the mails Will
count on this offer for the week.
s Regular Excess Vote Offer.
Every contestant secures 10000
extra votes on a club OF s25 on all
classes Of subscriptions and the regu-
lar votes A one-year. s6, subscrfp-
lion is worth $4,000 regular votes and
46,0 special votes this week, max
ing a total OF &C, 900 votes. and the
subscription will count on the secur-
ing one OF the five prize ballots. 4
small amount may secure the prize
q ballots No one contestant can Sc
cure a very large amount of sub
scriptions In this cam paign, for there
are 30 many OF the ladies taking part
that contestants run in" TO friends
OF other contestants on every si1e and
the vote is SO divided that some one
is going to secure the prize ballots
for a much smaller amount than one
would think it would require. Do
not stand back and let some one win
the automobiles and the other valu-
able prizes for the want OF a little
effort and courage to see friends and
secure subscriptions tSis week
Vote Standing in All Districts.
The vote standing Of contestants in
ail districts are published this morn
ing and viii be published every Tues
day until the close of the campaign.
District six Will be published Wednes-
day morning, number five. Thursday
morning, number four. Friday morn
4 Ing, number three. Saturday morning
and one and two Sunday morning.
NOMINATIONS DISTRICT NO. i.
District No, ! embraces all terri
tory in the city of Richmond north
OF James river east OF Seventh street
\ and all territory within the corporate
4 limits south OF James river. includ-
Ing Woodland Heights, Forest HIN
and Oak Grove
Miss Lula Anderson, 2405 JEFF
3 fcrson ave ..,..-..-. 25l 500
I Miss Minnie Anderson. 2745
sg#a East Broad street, ....2 PAT 500