The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1917-04-09
THE final week
STARTS WITH
LEADERS CLOSE
Saturday the 18th is Final
Day. Subscriptions May
Be Turned in Until 8.
MUST WORK VERY HARD
Winners Will be Ones Who
Aim High and Finish
Strong.
MUST WORK VERY HARD

One week. Empires have been won !
and lost In less time
One weekl And then some one will
have one thousand golden dollars all
in one sack = some one else will have
five hundred, two others will have |
two hundred, two others hundred
each, two others fifty each. two TWEEN.
ty.fiye, to soy nothing of scores of 9TH
ers who will receive extra money vary.
Ing In value according to the Efforts OF
the individuals.
Ono week and q day, and then the |
Great Golden Festival of The West
Virgtntan comes to close. The clos
ing day Is Saturday, the fourteenth.
and the ,losing hour eight In the even
ing.
There is nothing much to be added
70 what the contest manager has al
ready said hundreds and hundreds OF
times. Tho campaign is very even. In
stead OF drawing apart this last week
as everyone expected, the leaders have
been drawing nearer and nearer to-
gethcr, 10 that the final week will
necessarily have to make the winners.
else the final count will snow several
in tie for the important prizes.
This final week will be Yhirlwind.
OF that there can not be the Nslightest
doubt. The rewards will go TO the
people who finish strong, to the PEG
pie who keep their nerve right up to
the last, to those people who make
the fifty.ninth second count. 1t will
be necessary to work right up to the
last minute
Above all things, get as much of (,
your final business in as early in the
week as you possibly can. Do not
y walt until the latter part of the week
10 turn it in. Turn 1t in as fast as You
securt 1t. That will allow the contest
department little finish. If YOU only
have three or four subscriptions at q
( time, turn them in and get them out
of the way.
Above all things, plan big for this
final week. Aim high. Do MT get
beat at the last after working all this
time, simply because you lack the am
Lition to finish strong. Finish strong
and win. Go after subscriptions hard.
kGo, back after All extension wherever
YOU can, for you are going to need ev-
cry subscription you can possibly Sc
cure. The campaign is so even that
you are going 10 win or lose by very
small majority, 50 make your majority
large enough to carry you through on
the safe side.
Many of the candidates and their
friends in The West Virginian Great
Golden Festival have asked the con-
test manager IL there would be any
different rules for the closing night
of the campaign. To answer all these
questions at one time. the manager
has decided to publish the closing
rules a little sooner than usual. These
rules are usually published about
three days before the finish. These
closing rules do not embrace anything
very different from everyday rules in
the big campaign, still it is necessary
to have few stated rules for the clos
ing in order that everything may be
regular at every hour Of each day be-
tween now and the close. So there
you have what few rules will be en-
forced at the close:
Rules for Closing
1. The Golden Festival will close
promptly at eight o'clock In the even
ing, Saturday, April IA. The closing
hour will not be extended for anyone
!, after eight o'clock under any circum-
stances.
q. No money will be accepted for
votes under any circumstances unless
accompanied by bona fide subscrip-
tons to The West Virginian, Of such
length as comply with the rules.
8. No personal checks will be &C.
cepted by the Golden Festival Man.
ager in payment for subscriptions on
Thursday Friday or Saturday, the
three final days of the Golden Fes.
tival. If you get checks these three
final days, have them made out to-
yourself and cash them.
4. Be sure that you have all of
your reserve votes in the ballot box
not later than eight o'clock in the
evening, April IA. If you forget to de-
post them before the judges make
their final count, nothing can be done
to save you.
5. The last count OF votes to be
made by the Golden Festival Man
ager will be made Wednesday night of
the final week, and the result publish.
ed in The West Virginian on Thursday
afternoon, preceding the closing day.
The ballot box will Immediately be
sealed and locked after this count by
the Campaign Manager on Wednesday
night and the keys delivered to the
chairman of the judicial committee.
6. The final count will be made
and the awards made by committee
Of three reliable and disintsrested
business and professional men OF Fair.
mont. The names OF the Judges will
be announced on Thursday OF the final
week. The Judges will break the
seal of the Ballot Box and start the
final count as soon after eight o'clock
on the evening OF the 14th a. 10 poaEi.
BILE to do so. The Judges Will proceed
to count all reserve votes IN tho ballot
box, and will then add their totals 10
the totals Of the Campaign Managers
final count as appearing IN Tho West
virginian on the final Thursday. Tho
result Of this count will be tho basis
on which they viii mako tho awards,
according to the rulaa Of the oarnnaiGn