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12 CLOSING WEEKS OF THE GREAT $10,000.00 CASH PORT RECEIPTS CONTEST. How Many Bales of Cotton Will Be Received At Ali United States Ports from September Ist, 1903, to January 82th, 8904, Both Inclusive? Contest Closes December 31st, 8903. Secretary Hester’s last weekly cotton statement, published elsewhere in this issue, shows that through Friday, December nth, there have been received 4,343,490 bales this season, as against 4,094,494 bales last year, 3,923,752 bales year before last and 3,832,938 bales in iqoo. Knowing that 4,343,490 bales are in so far this season, you have only to determine how many more will be reported bv January 12th, 1904 and your estimate will be ready. How many bales do you say there will be? TEN THOUSAND DOLLAR CASH OFFEI? DIVISION OF PRIZES statistics for the last six crops. , , ~ . .. , r + The total Port Receipts (or the past few years f 10m September Ist through tle For the exact, or nearest to tne exact, estimate O. iI.L tola twelfth day of the following January are given to aid you in making an intelligent esti- number of bales of cotton received at all United States mate in this contest. It is not necessary to itemize-your estimate, give it in one plain Ports from Sept 1 1903, to Jan. 12, 1904, both in- -urn expressed in figures only. Don’t make any mistake in your figures; let them mean elusive $ 3,0C'3 b 9O Cotton This Line Covets the Contsst with figures of former years. Total Port Total Balas In For the next nearest estimate- I^soo., CO Year. Receipts Sepiember ist to f2th of following January, both Inclusive. Crop for saason. For the next nearest estimate 500.00 1897-8898 8 070 773 "’4™ For the next nearest estimate 21’U.Ou i 1899*1900 4,268,365 9,436,414 For the next nearest estimate |25»00 ' 1900-1901 For the 5 next nearest estimates, $50.00 each 250.00 1902-1903 -10,727,559 For the 10 next nearest estimates, 25.00 each 250.00 Secretary Hester, of the New Orleans Exchange, certifies to the above and will furnish For the 20 next nearest estimates, 15.00 each 300.00 | the official figures to decide this contest. For the 50 next nearest estimates, /.oO each ( Conditions of Sending Estimates In this Port Receipts Contest. For the 100 next nearest estimates, 5.00 each SGO S OO 1 I send SI.OO for THE WEEKLY CONSTITUTION one year and with it one estimate in our contest. I 2. Send 50 cents for THE SUNNY SOUTH on? year and with it one estimate in the contest. 5 SSO V 0 ,G'J j Send $1.25 for THE WEEKLY C C>NSTI i’I'TTON and SUNNY SOUTH both one year and send two estimates In the contest—that is. oi < estimate for THE CONST! j'UTION and another for THE SUNNY' SOUTH. A + »l Hf¥os-c fn*" Rpet c?i m1 f c Madf* DlH’ine' ' 4 Send 50 CENTS for one estl;.i .> lone in the contest if you do not want a subscription Such a remittance merely ‘ ~ a pays for the privilege of sending C: :.mate If you wish to make a number of estimates on this basis, you may send Different Periods of the Contest. j three estimates for every SI.OO rorv.-ardea at the same time estimates are sent. If as many as ten estimates are received at I the same time without subscriptions he send l - tnay forward them with only s3.oo—this special -discount being offered for For convenience the time of the contest is divided into estimates re- I fen estimates in one order. No further discount allowed. A postal card receipt will bo sent for all estimates received reived bv The Constitution fluring five Jieriods—the first period without subscriptions V ,<n- -uh-’ ■■ n- -Hi-red the arrival of the paper itself is xn acknowledgment that • ii • estimate has been re vive] and s care, in v rc t -or J. C< vering the months of July and August the other tour being one g anj ! ( lhs ., rl! . ;i . (n , U1(1 . ... tima - e lnust cOme ,t the same envelope. The estimate, the money and 1 h!.'l <*cU*h. tllC 2(1 period ScptcnH)d\ pciiod Octoucr, 4111 subscription go togct vr This rub' I pt .jive. . - rittd November. stli period December. 6. Every agent sending In subscriptions with estimates for subscribers is entitled to send for himself free as many esti- mates as he s-'nds for others. Estimates rent in by agents under rule 4 carry the same privilege to agents, viz., as many We will give to the best estimate received during each period fin ad- tor themselves as they send for c-’ t-m rs. dition to whatever other prize it may take, or if it takes no other Agents’ prizes forSlOO and for SSO are Off -ed for the largest and second largest number of straight estimates sent prize at all) the sum of B ■ ny any agl?nt urin K lllc contest, ■i’ll-.-- are y-t to !.>' won. Only three weeks left now. Get at It. The five prizes thus offered at eac ‘h amount tog... fukih <k genehai, instiii cttons. The condition for sending estimates on the Fort Ri --Opts of Cotton ist of September. 1903. through January' 12, 1904, is . <..zx that each and every entry of estimates must be accomt r.i-'d by a subscription to The Constitution or The Sunny South or IWO CranG (Consolation vutirs. ,} le remittance provided for ■ rtimates without subscriptions. Th y must, be sent in the IDENTICAL ENVELOPE THAT BIUNGS THE MC-NEY THAT PAYS l int THE ESTIMATES OR Till. SUBSCRIPTION You cannot subscribe now First— For distribution among those estimates (not taking any of the ajia send your estimates afc wares. above 195 prizes I coming within 500 bales either way of the In sending vour estimates by ar. agent of The Constitution you make him your agent and not our?, in forwarding fizrnr.L ‘ LOGOeOO your estimates, both as to the c- rr- -tii.-ss -if the bg -res as ’ intended them and th? certainty of the forwarding of them. I ,!gl;i“.' I,VV> a ■ | Should a party send in mon- tlmr. ie prize imate he or she will be entlt-ed to a share of the prize fund for every „ , .. ~ , . , . • c I tlm „ ,hat it tnav renresent a slice--■. fill ■ stitnat-'. E-fsons mav enter the contest as many times as they send subscriptions, Second—For distribution among those estimates (not taking any of Ina under Jh" rule? the sam. -- -..-- .- -of the propositions. 1 ■'.» ahovn 19 a prizcb ami nol shai ing tilt' first < unsolal ion <'fb‘l AAA no • Tn making your answer just .te-inniy; estimate tht Port ReeMpts Ist of September 1903, through January 12. COU’iriL’f Within 1.000 bult'S (‘ilht'l way Ol tin 1 ( XcICl figures I I9O4b.'ilcs Mak< vour i p r d W * -vi I record them as received day, EXACTLY AS THEY LOAK. t AND WILL ALLOW NO CHANCi \\ c '..TEVCR If you want to make estimates later, or If you ■eant to repeat the esti- Grand Total Tim last day upon wbl---h estimate■ can be nrn.t lis D-.-eni’ter 31 1803. and orders must be so postmarked, and must In Case of a Tie on any Prize Estimate the Money will be Equally Divided. JN ATTRACTIVE COnUBINATIOH OER -.erOo»sW»K»« w S«zn, South, or BoVi. wit# C ORDER BLANK For Estimates Only •- WITHOUT Subscriptions OFFERED TO EVERY HOUSEHOLD "" ” “ Ptrnrjanuns THU corfUTTTV> ro v, Atlanta, <ia.; PUBLISHERS THE CONSTITUTION, Atlanta, Ga.: T:n^e t tflnds f orw M. h enter inmate, Th» ta .1 v. r-.. 3 . , . ~ , . . in ynur $10.000.00 Tort Kercints Contest, upnn total rec. iptu of cotton at all V. S. Vorte from September 1, 1903, to Jan- 1 tie !<ledl Homo KeauLtg f)i Enclosed hud $... for which send I , , Every Memberor the Family. I , t , ‘ C’. u«.- w jarM, w/. ..sro/zam.,.- ~ .. I The Weekly Constitution one year. fl.oo, with \otir t oice . <a-:i i-.ji News ana Fiction lor j one Estimate. Plainly. Three for One Dollar or Fen for Three Dodars. I I’he Sunny South one year. 50c, with ONE esti- Slr.ke A4 Ex- CONTESTANT’S ESTIMATES. ?. siCf C C.i AGENT’S ESTIMATES. mate. ccpt te- .———.— —"-*"****9 =3 -5s "C j > . j j Fpß Weekly Lonsthll-ion. The Weekly Constitufon and Sunny South both ° * 1 o I I one year £1.25. with TWO Estimate. You lage. j |-4 v -■ Jg -g " n ——— " 1 • '■ —j .ini C - ' ' 5- « » The world’s Greatest etiqeppinru’i F'tTlM'.TF'? - ' : 'CF' ' ' Weekly Newspaper. OtK tmiHUILd stop Here if you .end on.y «>-<> toreawnate? 6t ° P h6re eßt ‘ mOte ‘ Upon total Port Receipts of Cotton at all U. H. Ports from Septein- without subscription... V“c" Hj' v?,ii * tember 1, 1903. to Jauuury 12. 1901, both inclusive. . t ; U - “* i 1 ‘l 4 , ~ " 1 and The Sunny South. ‘ ——| .. —j —: —* —| —p; The South s Greatest 6 I : ‘ ' , j ! Literary Weekly. 1 [- f ; , 7 j j _____] ' ’ 1 8 I j 1 I ’ rJijSSScSo'S’gji? h BOTH OWE YFAR FOR ONLY C| 25 2 --- - - i - I — l 9 ' ' j ? ZZZ _J_ ■ io 1 nifOHfeOilf 10 i i I J GREAT PRIVILEGES IN PORT I JH.I. OUT ,\LL TEN ROWS WITH ESTIMATES FiLL O, L T AF tS RECEIPTSCONTEST, I Subscribers Annie IF YOU SEND J 3.00 WITH ORDER. * a-*.#«•«.*=.- x - ■ IF YOU SEND >3.00 WITH OKDLK. Address all Orders to „ i Address ... Btnte Adflreee Address THE CCNjTITUTION Kend oue eßti| nate if you fa e only one pi per, fill out both ’ est imate blanks if you take both papers. If you want one estimate state ! state ATLANTA GA without subscription, send 50c and fill oue blank. ~ Address a!! Orders to THE ATLANTA CONSTITUTION, Atlanta, Ca. THE WEEKLY CONSTITUTION: ATLANTA. GA.. MONDAY, DECEMBER 14, 1903.