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Show Contestants Swamped Dnsiness Offices; Contest Given Right of Way. and All Hands Count Votes. It's Still Anybody's $1000, and $500. Shades 6f tho immortal country editor groaning nndor the surplus pumpkins, stove wood and live poultry from his "constant Tenders," it isn't, a circumstance circum-stance to tho situation in tho big gold contest today. Pumpkins, Thanksgiving turkeys and a sack of choico apples overwhelmed our ancestors, but when in this day the' simply 6wamp tho business busi-ness offices of two , big metropolitan newspapers with new subscribers, accompanied ac-companied by the cash, it's euough to extract tho wrinkles' from the brow of the worst old cross-patch that over penned n caustic paragraph. Really and truly, without any poking, there never was anything like it in history. Talk about records, well, there simply isn't anything to it. All records rec-ords were smashed so far today that wo never will bo able to reach thorn again. Tho rush has become so great, that vc have been compelled to sidetrack side-track everything and give tho contest right of way in tho business office, clso we would be swamped nnd nobody knows when the count could bo completed com-pleted and tho money awarded to tho contestants. Aud the contestants, what a lot of good-natured, high-class, elenn-cut, hardworking hard-working ladies thoy tire, demonstrating to a degree twentieth century grit and ntick-to-itivcncss. Why those ladies can make or broak tho biggest newspaper newspa-per on earth. Our hat off to them. It's a fact wo "never did sec such a business. "Wo thought wo bad good bp-. lienors ami they were hut all honor to the ladies,- and the way they are going after that $2,250 of Tho Tribune and Telegram 's gold is a wopder. Tho way their friends are rallying to their support, too, spenks volumes for their strength and esteem. Thero have boon so many new subscribers sub-scribers turned in this week that it is taking all hands to got them ,proporly entered on the books, and get tho paper started to them, and has left but littlo time to count votes. Wo will, howover. how-over. get thorn counted or at least n considerable portion by tonight, and tho standing according to the count nt that time will bo printed Thursday. If you aro interested in any ono of tho contestants and she has not been able to see you, send your subscription to hor or to us and wo will seo that she gets credit. Every one is worthy and striving for tho money for a worthy cause. They will appreciate your kindness, kind-ness, we know. The only thing wc rogret about tho contost is that we can 't give everyone u "first prize, for so many desorvo it. . Then what perhaps adds much to tho interest it is running, so close. It is anybody's money so far. Some who havo boon lagging are now dcvoloping unsuspected and almost unheard of atrohgth. Somo of iho smallor communi-ties communi-ties are today sending in the best reports, re-ports, and no ono can say or oven predict pre-dict who will got that gold on Saturday 8-'- - ; - I |
