The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1918-09-21
WILL DRAW LUCKY
 NUMBER TONIGHT FROM BIG BARREL
Mayor Wilson to Pick Win ner of $1,0OO for $1 To-
 night at City Hall Green.
STAMP SALES UP
 TO LAST MINUTE
Plans Made for Entertain ing the Biggest Party in
 City's History.

In the opinion of the War Savings comittee the 1000 for l" campaign is drawing to a glorious close. The committee announces that 1t IS going to give the biggest party tonight at City Hall green that has ever been given in Bridgeport. It is the only party ever given in the city where everybody has ticket of admission. Everybody has one, and some have two, three, five, ten or a thousand. But the man with 8 thousand cannot have any better place than the man with one, nor can he have any more fun. He may stand more show of drawing the prize, but the committee hopes not, because the man who is able to buy thousand chances does not need the prize nearly as much as some who are able to buy less. Any way, nobody is out. Everybody who has bought $1 worth of stamps has lent his money to the government and it is a great and glorious feeling. Everybody Is good natured and Bridgeport is once again proving that all of her people are just like one great big family together.
 The City Hall green has been filled with strings of lights; the big flower bed in the center has been eliminated by the park department, because 1t was certain the crowd would eliminate it if the park department did not; 50,000 people will be on hand; sales will be conducted until the very mo- ment of the drawing; tables for the sale of stamps will be operated at the foot of the stand on three sides and will be run by the City Savings Bank, the City National Bank, Rockwell & Co.,, American Hardware Stores, the Metropolitan Insurance Co.,, the Pru- dential Insurance Co.,, and Hincks Bros. & Co.
 The D. M. Read Go. will conduct sales from a truck on Broad street. The firemen will conduct operations from a. truck on Broad street, the po- licemen from the doorway of the Ma sonic Temple.
 Judge Foster will make 8, speech; Dad Barber of the Sunday Herald will make cartoons which will be thrown on a screen by g. stereopticon; the George B. Clark Go. has donated $50 worth of furniture to be given as prize to the person buying the larg- st number of stamps at an auction to be held just before the drawing; the Lake Torpedo Boat Co. band will be stationed on the stand and are under contract to play practically without ;,,Aa 46rAy,oha11t ha JT7c the post office will have full supplies of stamps not only at the post office but at neighb bring stores, so that the sellers may get new ones whenever they run out.
 Altogether 1t is going to be fine party, and every citizen of Bridgeport who liked a good time and who would be wiling tc draw that $1,0O0 prize should be or hand.
 InstanceE without number show the keenest of interest all over the ely, The latest evidence of this comes from two girls who work in the office force Of the American Tube & Stamp ing Go. They are away on vacation and realizing that today is the last day of the contest, they telegraphed l | buy more tickets for them and charge 1t up to the account of their future earnings after they come home iron vacation. The tickets were bough and the girls ought to win the prize.
 The campaign has been the greates stimulus in having people fulflll then pledges. It has also developed a mum Der of wonderful salesmen and wo men.
 The D. M. Read Co. has had prac ttcally it's entire selling force on Mail street evenings. It has been able tt borrow palms from Horan & Son fo three weeks, to borrow orchestras iron Cliff Walker and c. Johnson, piano from the Fox Piano O., trucks iron 1 the T. J. Pardy Co. and the Locomo bile Go. The American Hardware Co force, Meigs 6 Co.,, Kreste, Wool worth, Hartigan. Caesar Misch, tn United Department Stores and tn City Hall girls, also many other Mai street stores conducted sale5 wit great success. The Metropolitan In
 surance Go. had a table for thre
 weeks and sold enormous amounts O : stamps.
 The mayor will make the drawin
 of the lucky number tonight from tn . great barrel after the hundreds o
 thousands of stubs in 1t have bee
 thoroughly mixed. The committee ha adopted definite rules for the award ing and drawing of the prize. Messr!
 J. A. H. Robinson and w. P. Kirk wi
 be a jury of award. If the lucky win ner appears tonight, the prize will b
 given then and there in the form of
 book on the City Savings Bank. Tn
 committee consider 1t would be de
 cidedly unwtse and unsafe to awar
 the prize in cash tonight.
 = All told. it looks like a fine tim ? The weather has cleared, and th , moon will shine. and you had bette be there.