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VOL. XVI.
ARE YOU?
Are you aware that there are just TEN more work days before the close of
this contest ?
Are you seeing l your friends and neighbors each day for their renewal sub
scriptions ?
Are you aware that more than a thousand have not voted yet—enough to
win a piano for any new contestant ?
ARE YOU loooking for your friends to meet you at Homer on
the last day and help you then ? So much, so good ; but remember
how the rain fell on the day of the closing of contest one year ago,
and the rain poured far into the night, and hundreds could not and
did not get here.
ARE YOU taking chances on the pianos, or on some of the
other valuable prizes as described on the 2nd page of this paper ?
ARE YOU going to get your share of the votes that are to be
cast in the next few days?
ARE YOU hustling for votes? Are your friends out hustling
for you ?
ARE YOU going to let others come right into your locality and
get the votes you could have for the asking ?
ARE YOU busy now making somethimr of “your-best
opportunity *' to get a strictly high-class piano for so little work?
Now is your best opportunity—now or in the future. There is yet
much work to be done~or much that can be done.
ARE YOU going to sit idly by and see the best list —the most
valuable list of prizes, you ever saw, go for so little effort ? Are
you ? What are you going to do about it ?
HAVE YOU THOUGHT?
Have you thought that some who have had the very best op
portunities in this contest, have from week to week let many votes
pass without being collected, and could have been had for the ask
ing? You can do your best from now on, but you have not done
your best from the beginning of this contest.
Have you thought that those toward the bottom of the list
could now make just as great gains as those nearer the top ? And
if all your friends set to work, you could yet win a piano ? You have
the friends, will you use them ?
Once more take a thought of the matchless Melodigrand piano
—a credit to any home in the country—worth in pure gold $375,
guaranteed for a life time never to become “ tin-panny ”. Would
you like to have this beautiful, sweet-toned instrument in your
house ? Now is your chance—-your very best chance. No time to
lose.
Have you thought that what you are going to do must be done
soon, because somebody will have all these prizes and gone with
them before long ? How long ? Only ten days. What can you and
your friends do in ten days ? No time to rest now. Rest comes sure
and soon after August the 19th. Some of the contestants have just
been playing along—doing enough to hold their positions—not often
doing more, but the time is here now for aggressive work—you need.
-WHIRLWIND FINISH NOW ON
Only One More Oount Before the Last Count
Contest Closes Augost 19th, 1913, at 3 O’clock P. M„ Eastern Time.
BANKS COUNTY JOURNAL
Devoted to Giving the News, Encouraging the Progress, and Aiding the Prosperity of BanKs County.
Homer, Banks County, Georgia, Thursday, August 7, 1913.
some of the fighting spirit”. The one that sticks through this
homestretch is one who will be there at the last and will carry away
a piano.
Have you thought seriously that the next ten days tells the
tale —and its all over —
AND THEN WHAT?
Why some lady won the Melodigrand; some other lady cap
tured the Kingsley; Miss So-and-So gets the Grafonola; somebody
gets the diamond ring: and the lady who had her heart set on the
watch all the time captured it; and so on down the list of valuable
prizes. $1,231. Did you get your share ? If not, why not ?
OLD SUBSCRIBERS
And old subscribers, get ready. This contest may yet be full of
surprises. It is worth your time to pay up and vote for somebody if
you wish to see a pretty race. You who owe a dollar or two and
have been watching the race have not seen the lively time yet.
Don’t put off paying up any longer. You will never find a better
time than right now. You can pay to us or to some contestant.
You vote for whom you please—your own choice —and the votes
will cause some lady to smile. Those who have been saying that
they will pay before the contest closes had about as well get busy.
And it will do any subscriber good to say: “I helped her get
that piano, that ring, that watch, etc.”
Every one can not win a piano. That’s certain, but do not
blame us. We think we are mighty liberal offering two pianos, one
trafonola and the merchants a score of other prizes, all valued at
1231. Unfortunate that all can not win pianos.
Don’t everybody hold back voting till the last day. Something
may happen that you can not come. We say this now because
when next week’s paper reaches you it will be almost time for the
final count to take place—sounds rather close, but that is the time.
Week after next we can tell you the news.
No prize nailed down. The contest is anybody’s race from
Melodigrand to Suit Case. This game is so uncertain we all will
have to wait to know who the winners are. We can do no more
than to promise you some interesting news on final count. It’s all
too close to make a sure guess.
Now all make a guess as to where a single prize will go, and
when all is over see how far you have missed it, Do this and be fair
with yourself.
This interesting story will be continued in our next.
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