Show the piano contest the contest for the piano closed lost saturday evening at 7 the winning contestant misa jessie of ainu clara beating her nearest competitor by 40 votes some till rustling done the list two days of tho contest giai hafen hiving a strong continent from santi clira working for lier and miss brooks a number of her out miss hafen was put forward by santa clara as a candidate to in the piano for the santa clara new school house and alie instrument was taken ocr to tint thrifty little town monday three only remained in the race to the finish and one of them did little toward tho litter part of the contest the race being confined to the to leaders the total number of votes cast was 70 J of chich 82 were for new and for the editor is well with alie result there is a material in treace in alio liet and doubtless many of the new subscribers will become pertinent permin ent citrona of didies newspaper news piper the beautiful sweet toned piano which has been admired by all who have seen it or played it hag gone where it will do good while no second or third prize was offered alic editor felt that some recognition be made of the efforts of ohp unsuccessful candidates di so sent a check for 25 00 to miss brook the second in the contest and i receipt for 5 years subscription to the ang to miss burgee who occupied third place at the close of the contest there was no high bidding in the content although subscriptions up to five ears mas allotted the winner had none for thit length of time most of them being for one year only the figures below show the final count in the contest jessie chifen lauri brooks maggie burgee 82 |