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OPPORTUNITY TIME rr\ YT T]> /\ np\| T \ y/^ To-Day of the FIRST BONUS PERIOD marks the start of the first unlimited vote getting period. The first bonus period I rH H I 1 Y* H I I I I y will close the last day of this month. During the period 150,000 extra votes will'be allowed on every club of $15 worth of A x * M^J * ^ 1 11 1 subscriptions Now, if ever, is the opportune time for new candidates to start their campaign in earnest. Now is the time when everything else should be dropped and spare moments devoted to securing subscriptions Fifteen dollars worth of subscriptions sent in before the end of the month will get more extra votes than at any other time during the contest. Start out among your friends to-day and earn one of the 150,000 ballots. THE OFFER IN DETAIL Tt?e ? ii-1 Bonus Period of The Dally Item; The Watchman and Honihi ihi and .Merchants' lerntest starts this morning and dose? X i .11 to. One hundred and fifty tliniisaiul extra votes, over and above the regular stale, will be gHen on every club of st:. In Dally Item or Watchman and Kouthron subscriptions that a?v turned in dur? ing tld* Ihne This It positively the largest offer of ettia votes that will be made during the entire content. This opportunity of eecartng vote* at this rapid rate will positively close with the close of the period, April 3U, at u o'clock In the evening. Probably tin* touring car and the other prizes will be won or lost during this period. Pant experience with similar contests has taught the manage? ment of this one that In nine cases out of ten the race Is won or lost while the Urst lionus Period Is on. This offer of extra votes Is unlimited. It Is not made on Individ? ual subscription* but on the total amount In subscriptions turned In by each candidate. Here Is the way the bonus votes will la* computed: ? Every subscrip? tion (in-mat In by or for a contestant Is entered on a "start slip" either before or after they reach the Contest Department. These start slip* are kept tiled under the name of each contestant who Is making an active ccmpaign. At the close of the First Bonus ivti.ni all the slips rtnsirdlng subscriptions will he taken out, to? taled by candidates and a cerUftcate for t:>u,oon extra votes issued for i ac h n I ?"? in subscriptions turned In by or for each contestant. I he balaiM e ahote e .en multiples of gi;? will Im* credited on the bonus offer of i he following period; To Illustrate: Supisiee the monl shows that "A" bus turned In $20 In subscriptions by 9.00 P. M. April SO; "A" will he given a certificate for I SO.OOO extra votes Immediately and a slip will he Place*i In the Hie sliowlitg that she has a credit of $5 in subscrip? tions to tie applied on the Second Bonus Offer. it the record shows tluxt "B" has turned In $32 In subscriptions she will Im* given a certificate for extra votes and a slip will bo mad. out and tiled showing she has a credit, of $2 on the Mrst $1.% elob of the Second Bonus. It bi not iH'o'ssin to turn In these subscriptions In even amounts of $15. Contestants may turn them in as thoy get them and they will all lie counted at the close of the period. Of course tlu* regular votes wl'.l he loaned as usual. The lift, OOO bonus certtMcatea will be IN ADDITION to the voting credit regularly receives:!. There \ 111 be other offers of extra votes, but they will lie ma. (i le?i? than the present one und will not offer such a remark? able opportunity for Hceuriiig a winning number of votes. The contestant)* who awuke to a realization of the fact that NOW Is the great vote-getting time of the contest and that NOW is the time to make oneself safe on getting an automobile with no ca>.h outlay, will he the ones who carrj away the plums when Uie Judges canvass the tins I count of votes In the contest. The few subscriptions Uiat liave hitherto been turned In will, of course, count on the bonus, no matter whut other votes they ly have been turned in to secure. 150.000 EITRA VOTES THE FORD TOURING CAR THIS IS NOT THE PICTURE OF A FORD CAR, BUT MERELY USED AS AN ILLUSTRATION. The first unlimited Vote-Getting Period of The Dally Item, The Watchman und Southron and Merchants Contest Is nunounood today. It lasts until the 30th, of this month and Is known as the FIRST BOOTS PER? IOD. During this period EVERY CLUB OF $ir? IN SUBSCRIPTIONS to either The Daily Item or The Wutchmun and Southron will count for 150. IMMt EXTRA VOTF.S over and above the regulnr scale. All subscriptions, either old or new whether to The Dally Item Off The Watchman and South? ron will count on the bonus. It is not necessary to turn In clubs in even amounts of $15 euch. At the end of the FIRST BONUS PERIOD, APRIL SOTH, the subscription ? amounts <>f each candidate will be totaled and a certificate for 150,000 ex? tra votes issued for every $15 in subscriptions. This otter applies also to the few subscriptions that liuvc been turned in heretofore. Thenn extra vote certificates eonnt up so rapidly that the main Issue of the contest Will practically fie delided by what the candidates do during this period. Ulla Is positively the largest offer of extra votes that will lie made any time during the contest. Now is the time to create a reserve vote. Un? der no circumstances will the BONUS PERIOD be extended or repeated. NOW IS YOUR CHANCE?GET BUSY! The Prizes FORD TOURING CAR, 5-Pa*senQor $450.00 WINTER & CO. PIANO THREE LADIES' DIAMOND RINGS ( One Ding to Fach District.) THREE LADIES' GOLD WATCHES (One Watch to each District.) VOTE SCHEDULE. THE WATCHMAN & SOUTHRON 0 Months?75c.0,000 1 Year?$1.50 . 20,000 2 Years?$3.00.45.000 :t Years?$1.50.70,000 4 Years?*u.on.100,000 5 Years?$7.50.125,000 THE ITEM? 3 Months?$1.25.10,000 0 Months?$2.50.25,000 1 Year?$5.00 . 55.000 2 Years?$ 10.00.120,000 3 Years?$ 15.00.175,000 4 Venn?$20.00.250,000 5 Years?$25.00.300.000 YOU WILL FIND A LIST OF THE MERCHANTS WHO GIVE VOTES WITH ALL CASH PURCHASES ON ANOTHER PAGE. The First Bonus Period Closes at 9 P. M. Wednesday, April 30th, 1913. ? . . . The Contestants and How They Stand District Number One. This district Includes all territory within, the. Incorporate limits of the City of Sumter. At least two pfhtOg will go to this district with opportunity or winning ona or both of the grand prizes, Mrs Richard Wilder, Magnolia St.. airs Julian D. Wilder, Magnolia St. Miss tleorgla Herthun, S. Salem Ave. Mn? I.lllln Josephine McCollUMI, Broad Mis* Kathrvn Ntuhl.s, |] Washington ?Hi Msbel Myers, W IftfttOttO St. Mn. <i. V. Player, llurvln St. Mm M M. Muggins, t l.evl st. Ml as F.utha Itndgern, Sumte? St.. .. Mrs F. C Lord. s. Sumter St.5,::lo IHM Hou-b? r PoLaisna, Bnrtletto 81. 6.:i&o MI'is Our'iiH Mood, N. Main St.6.0S0 Mil's Helen Hr..un In oft, \V Hampton. 1,000 Miss Barbara Hatch, W. Hampton Ave. 6,000 Mrs John Hat? hell. Magnolia St. 6,yt*:> District Number Two. lustrlrt Number ::. All territory north of the Columbia branch ft] the Coast t.ine it it. on I he weal of sumter ami I he Darling* ton Pram ti of the Coast I.lue K It on the fast of Sumter. At least two pntes will go to this district with opportunity of win iiitig one i,r both of the gtund prison I'vu id . 87,340 ?r.. loo 4.r...:'.oi IM 3? as,')?;?-, .iL', Jia 21,365 .0.110 BISHOP Mrs t'llnton Dlxon. 6, Mis* Nonle Scarborough. I, Mi? Mildred Hunter. 6, Ml H inn.lit MofttfjOfteafs/i ,J ". G. Man Hfttile MeCntcfteeeii it. f. d. ##.5, Bl Mill BT Mlas JftftftNa \b Lead. 81, Miss Alma Itiadley. 5. Mi>4* AUne Rogera.6, Mrs' T 11 fonnrutth, It. 1 . 11. f,, Mlrs Mur\ Marli. . f., Mrs w. J Snoneet. r. ooo ooo ooo ooo 300 a* ii 026 1 .1 i. r. ii ST. CHARLES. Mise Juanita Wilson. 40.400 Mian Jennie McCoy. 6,720 Miss Lillian Wilson. MOO Miss Bertha Tallons. 0 14 5 OSWEGO. MISS Melle Brown. 5,250 WEDGEFIELD. Miss Beanie Ityan. 36,676 Mian Salin* Norris. 6,000 Miss Maurien Hammond. 6,000 Mrs. H. B. King. 6,000 CAMDFN. Miss Lota McLeod, B. F. I?. 6,000 HAGOOD. Mrs. Crawford Sanders. 6,906 HORATIO. Mis Walter M. Lenolr. 46,125 Mrs. J. B. Corhett.5,050 w I8ACK Y. Mm W. W. DesChampl. 22,268 Sl MTI It No. 5 Mrs. Dot la M. Josey. 5,715 DISTRICT NO. THREE. District No. 8, ah territory south of the Columbia branch or the Coast Lino IC. R., on the west bf Sumter and the Darlington branch of the Coaat Line ic. K., on the Kasl of Sumter. 1 At least two prises will ko to llus district with opportunity of winning Ohe or both of the grand prizes, PAXVILLE. MISS Daisy llharne. 6,000 Mian F.va Curtis. 6,300 Miss Nonle Geddings. 6,ana Miss Pearl Pritchard. 6,360 Mre, Ken Pack. 5,41!."? IIOTT BBIDt.F. Mrs W. J. McNeil.5,000 PIN I w ood. Miss Bessie Geddings. silea Lunice Osteen.1 6,000 Mrs Hobble Kldglll. f..ooo Miss Leo Broughton. 6,oso MAYESVILLE. .. Mr-. Hugh Witherspoon. .-. 6,630 Mlsj Carrie Anderson. 6.465 Miss Louise King... ? .. .. 5.500 Mrs. J. H. Wilson. 8.136 Miss Alice Cooper. 6,000 Miss Minnie Chandler. 5,076 St'MMJ IU ON. Mrs. Maty Lanham. .. 32,025 HI MINI. Miss Alma Felder. ?. 5.S90 SUMTER, R. P. D. NO 2. Mr?. a. B. Furman. 25.630 LYNCHBURG. Mlts Annie Grimn. 6,025 Miss Lula Hawkins. 6.000 Miss Docla Keels. 6,ooo Mi?? Flora Bell McLeod. 6,000 DURWOOD. Miss Coro Truluck. 26,480 01. INTA. Minn L Bell Moore, P. D. Mrs. J, D Hinds. Mis. Mollle Moore, K. F. l>. Misti Ullis Du kerson. H F. D. 80,076 5,000 . 6.000 . 6.000 1 LLIOTT. Mrs. J. O. Sullivan Ml b. .l.u. Rodgei 6.060 (5 026 BCMTKR, B I'. D. KO, t. Mis.* Lessle Jones. 10 006 TURBEVILLK. Mi-is Pauline Jones. 4 ,, . , II \B\ IN. Miss Maggie Keels. 6,325 BIDM.IHIN Mi^ Kate Rrogdon 15.160