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About Falls City news. (Falls City, Or.) 190?-19?? | View Entire Issue (Feb. 19, 1916)
Saturday, February 19, 191tt THE FALLS CITY NEWS SEVERAL HUNDRED DOLLARS IN PRIZES To Be Distributed In A- 6 By The Falls City News and Falls City Merchants. Several of the Merchants of Falls City have contributed The Capital Prize Which will be give by VALUABLE PRIZES III The Falls City NEWS will be an elegant $ 400.00 and will give ru Obermeyer & Sons / PIANO F IR S T P R IZE Local Vote Coupons With each $1.00 Cash Purchase Rules and Regulations Governing the Contest are as Follows! Renewals, 500 votes.......................................................... 1.00 Renewals, more than one year, 600 votes .................. 1.00 Back subscriptions, 400 votes............................................ 1.00 5 years New or Renewal Subscriptions, 5000 votes........ 5.00 10 years New or Renewal Subscriptions, 12500 votes...... 10.00 20 years New or Renewal Subscriptions, 30,000 votes 20.00 I N S T R U C T I O N S — Results to standing votes will be issued after 30 days. No votes accepted at less than regular price of paper concerned in this contest. No one connected with this paper, or belonging to the immediate families of the merchants co operating, will be allowed to become a candidate in this contest or work for contestants. Votes, after being voted, cannot be transferred to another. Be sure to know for whom you are going to vote before coming to the ballot box, as the editor or anvone else will not give you any information on the subject. The key to the ballot box will be in possession of the awarding committee during the contest. For the first thirty days the paper will run a 25-vote coupon, which can be voted free for any lady contestant. A N N O U N C E M E N T —This Piano and Popular Voting Contest will be conducted fairly and honestly on business principles, strictly with justice and fairness to all concerned. With the above principles, it will be an assured success. P R I Z E S — The Capital prize will be an Obermeyer & Sons’ Piano. Also other valuable prizes to the amount of many dollars which are announced herewith. C A N D I D A T E S — Young ladies in this and adjoining towns are elig ible to enter this contest, and the party receiving the largest number of votes w'ill receive the beautiful $400 Obermeyer & Sons’ Piano, and other premiums will be distributed in accord ance with the contestants’ standing at the final count. T I E IN V O T E — Should any of the contestants tit in votes for any of the prizes, a similar prize will be awarded. V O T E S C L A S S E R — Votes will be issued in the following denomin ations: New subscribers, 600 votes....................... ............. ......... $ 1.00 Contest to run about 90 days. CONTEST WILL CLOSE APRIL 1st, 1916. The right to i>ostpone date of closing is re served if sufficient cause should occur. Ten days prior to closing contest, the judges will carefully lock or seal ballot l>ox and take same to the bank, where the same will be in a place where voting can be done during busi ness hours and locked in a vault at night until close of contest, when the judges will take charge and count same and announce the young ladies winning in their turn. The last ten days all voting must be done in a sealed box at the bank. If you do not wish anyone to know for whom you are voting, place your cash for subscription together with your coupon in a sealed envelop, which will be furnished you, and put same in ballot box. This will give every one a square deal. T H I S C O N T E S T W I L L C L O S E A P R I L 1 st , 1 9 1 6 . Nominate Your Favorite Lady—Help Her Win the Grand Prize 2 n d P r ize V a lu e $ 1 6 .0 0 3 d P rize V a lu e $ 5 .0 0 V a lu e $ 5 .0 0 5 th P rize V a iu e $ 5 .0 0 ¡ 6 t h P r ize V a lu e $ 5 .0 0 Donated by Donated by Donated by Falls City Mercantile Co. J . C . Talbott M . L. Thompson, W . A . Persey, H a r d w a r e 6 F u rn itu re D ru g g is t J e w e le r . Donated by N . Solis’ s Department Store 4 th P r ize G e n e ra l M e rc h a n d is e 1 * Donated by l give a 25 vote coupon free with I give a 12j vote coupoi^free with I will give a 25 vote coupon free We will give a 25 vote coupon free I give a 12i vote coupon free with each $1.00 cash purchase. each 50c cash purchase. with each $1.00 cash purchase. with each $1.00 cash purchase. each 50c cash purchase. ASK FO R COUPON. Call For ASK FO R COUPON. and Save Your Tickets, Address A ll ASK FO R COUPON. Beginning Today. Communications ASK It May and Subscriptions io FO R COUPON. Help Some ASK FO R C0U O N . L ady Win A Contest. Manager FALLS C ITY N EW S, Falls City, Oregon. Prize.