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ONLY A FEW MORE DAYS!
Your Letter May Win
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First Grand Prize
67 other cash awards — $350.00 in all!
From all over Georgia, letters are
pouring in, in our contest for the best
statements on: “How the New Low
Electric Rates Benefit My Home.” They
are coming from farms, towns and
cities; from homes with big incomes and
homes with small incomes. All have an
equal chance for the prizes. Send YOUR
letter in now.
You’ll probably realize you have an
interesting story to tell, if you’ll just
think back a moment to the old days
before you had electric service. What
benefits have electric service and the
new low rates brought into your home?
Were you still using kerosene lamps
when 1934’s low rates made it possible
for you to have electric lights? Were
you still carrying water from the well?
Chopping wood for a balky stove? Swel
tering in an old-fashioned kitchen? Try
ing to keep the food from spoiling in a
spring house? And have electric service
and the new low rates enabled you to
escape these or other discomforts and
enter into a happier, more contented
life?
Get Your Letter in Now!
Send your letter in immediately, for
you have as good a chance as any to win
one of these cash awards:
First Grand Prize SIOO.OO
Second Grand Prize 50.00
Third Grand Prize 25.00
Fifteen additional grand prizes
of $5.00 each 75.00
And, in addition, a prize of $2.00 will
Here Are the Rules
1. Any member of the family of a residential electric
customer of the Georgia Power Company is eligible to
compete—excepting employes of the Georgia Power Com
pany and the members of their families.
2. The Company reserves the right to publish in its
advertising any letter submitted in the contest, entrant of
the letter so published to be rewarded in accordance with
the announced terms of the contest, regardless of the date
on which the letter is published.
8. Letters entered in the contest, whether they win
prizes or not, become the property of the Georgia Power
Company. No manuscripts will be returned.
4. All letters submitted in the contest must be written
on one side of the paper only and must be accompanied
by a CONTEST CERTIFICATE. Get one at any Georgia
Power Company store or clip the one at the right. Both
the contest certificate and letter submitted must be signed
in the entrant’s own handwriting.
5. A competent board of judges will make the awards.
Their judgment will be final. Your entry of a letter in
the contest is your acceptance of those conditions.
6. Letters shall not exceed 200 words In length.
7. Entries postmarked later than 12, midnight. August
81, 1934, will not be considered eligible for awards.
8. Your letter, accompanied by a contest certificate,
should be addressed to Contest Editor, 463 Electric Build
ing, Georgia Po^er Company, Atlanta.
be awarded for each letter selected for
publication, in full or in part. If your
letter wins one of these $2.00 prizes, it
is also eligible for consideration in
awarding the grand prizes.
Many Prize Winners
Already Announced
Among those to whom awards of two dollars have
already been made are the following: Mrs. J. B.
Newman, McDonough; Rowland Stenhouse. At
lanta ; Miss S. Gaillard, Dahlonega; W. O. Bolton,
Athens; Mrs. J. P. Turner, Atlanta; Mrs. R. L.
Chapman, Hapeville; John R. Spence, Clem; Mrs.
Joe Vason, Athens; Mrs. C. R. Hett, Augusta;
Mrs. Emory Page, Jr., Hapeville; Mrs. Bob Bar
geron, Waynesboro; Mrs. V. L. Yates, Pelham;
Dr. Mather M. McCord, Rome ; Mrs. M. N. Baker,
Avondale Estates; J. D. Mangham, Macon; Mrs.
Bessie Lester, Dublin; Mrs. H. C. Herrington,
Macon; Mrs. W. C. Whittle, Augusta; Mrs. S. J.
Taylor, Davisboro; Mrs. R. V. Guyton, Atlanta;
Mrs. A. Lynne Brannen, Athens; Mrs. Thomas O.
Christian, Macon ; Mrs. R. L. Hudson, Cedartown;
Mrs. R. H. Fletcher, Carrollton ; Mrs. Estelle Rob
inson, Columbus; Truman Robinson, Columbus;
Mrs. J. E. Howell, Ocilla; Mrs. Mary McGarity,
Arlington; Mrs. Marshall Jacobs, Manchester;
A. R. Lord, Atlanta; Mrs. Elise de Cuyas, Au
gusta.
Contest Ends August 31st
Time is the essence of your effort
now! Letters received bearing post
marks later than midnight, Friday, Au
gust 31, will not be eligible for consid
eration in the contest. Prize winners will
be announced during the week of Sep
tember 16. Will your name be among
them?
GEORGIA
POWER
COMPANY
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CONTEST CERTIFICATE
The letter which accompanies this certificate
is hereby entered in the contest of the Georgia
' Power Company to determine the best letters
< submitted to the Company before midnight,
; August 31, 1934, on the subject, “How the New
Low Electric Rates Benefit My Home.” I here
by agree to all the rules of the contest as set
; forth in the advertising of the Georgia Power
Company.
Signed .. -
Street —•
City —» Ga.
