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MAY 31st IS THE DAY I. : t i i m ? MAY 31st IS THE DAY ... , f ?4 I THE CONTEST mm clone Saturday night at 9 o'clock. At that hour it will be all over but the shouting. At the pre? sent time it is impossible to tell who will do the shouting and the work of notifying the shouters that they will be qualified to about will be left to the judges to decide through the medium of The Daily Item Monday afternoon. Work without rest from now on until the closing hour is the portion that the candidates have selected for themselves and we feel there will be many surprises sprung by these enthusiasms ones who are striving with might and main and marshalling their forces for the final close of the battle Saturday night. The eleventh-hour hustlers are surely working like beavers and it will t,take many a vote to outstrip them at the finish. Rumors of how Mil many votes such and such a candidate has will be a-float the bal ance of the week but they should be considered as all other rumors?just rumors* A candidate will, of course, know what she has but no one else will. For all that the contest editor knows some of the can? didates, who were tpparantly not in the running when the last count of votes was made, have gathered enough votes in the en? suing time to place them in a prominent position. And too they may be in the "also ran" class. A vaffue uncertainty in regard to where each contestant stands has beclouded the situation and many a contestant will not know what a close shave she had to lose out until the final count is make and she discovers that the last little subscription she secured was the one that saved her from defeat. Every indication points to a very close race, and with the contestants enthused to an extreme degree they are go? ing to land, as they are doing now, every possible subscription before the finish. I ?b AS Contestant after contestant has expressed herself, she cannot now let defeat overtake her because of her personal pride in achievement. Many have made their campaigns matters of personality and their families and friends have taken up the work. As a Vaijmhj ladies father struck the keynote when he said, "I have never mat out yet in any battle I hnve entered, and 1 have brought Up my daughter with that thought uppermost in her mind?neverto {ose out in anything that she undertakes. She is now doing her best to win one of the prizes, and I have promised to give her my support provided that she conducts a vigerous campaign and shows a dispositior. to win unaided. As I told her she would not be a daughter of mine if she were de? feated." It $9 this same spirit that is being instilled into the con? testants alt over the territory by their parents and friends that is nerving the young ladies to do the battre to the end. During the remaining few days of the contest it is essential that every-contestant that expects to be a winner?and every candidate wants to be a member of this class?get out and put forth her best efforts in securing subscriptions. Rake over your field to see that nothiug in the line of subscriptions has been overlooked. Route out a list of people and places to be visited each day .before the contest comes to a close. Get every possi? ble subscription?large or small?for they all count in making up the $25 clubs on each one of which 100,000 Bonus Votes will be issued. Yours is the chance?the opportunity is great and of a too far reaching value to be allowed to slip away without some effort to stop it on your part- and it is up to you to make the most of it. Closing Rules conteat will ?l?**e 1 promptly at o'clo k Saturday evening Ma> 11, 1*13. All subscriptions ami aaerchanta voucher* must ue turned In by the olotdng hoar of the cor? ir?t or they absolutely wll earn no vote*. No allow am? will he made to the out-of-Siunter candidate* for the eiu*4nc night hi mailing; hi *ubMcrl|> tlow*. Hnbarrlptlon* ami vote* may he mailed in but tttey will have to Ik* mailed early enough to reach thin of lice lM?f?M-r the dosing hour of the content. All vote* now In poaaeeslon of the candidate* must be In tlie bal? lot hoi by 0 o'clock Saturday even? ing or they positively will not be coanted. All candidates who are in the content editor'* office b> 9 o'clock Saturday night will Im? waited u|m?ii and checked up. The office will Im* locked aa the clock strikes nine ami thoae canting late a 111 not be allowed to enter, no matter how many sub etfiptiotiM or vote* they muy hate. The judge* aelected to make the final can ?e*? of vote* will he present et the cpialng hour ami will start tin- llual count Immediately after the last can? didate ha? been waited upon and the reeult* of their count *IU la* publish? ed In Monday'* Issue of The Dally Item aial Tuesday** Immim* of The Watch? men and Southron. May 31st is the The Contestants and How They Stand District Number One. Mise Kathryn Stubbs, 11 Washington.. 106,5:'.O Mrs. Richard Wilder, Magnolia St. 110,386 Miss Georgia Beetham, S. Salem Ave. 64.095 Mr*. Julian p. Wilder, Magnolia St. .. ,. 68,x&o Miss Mabel Myers, W. Bartlette St.. ,.. 45,025 Mies Boucher DeLorme, Bartlotte St. 7,030 District Number Two. BISHOPV1LLE. Miss Nonle Scarborough. 85,050 ST. CHARLES. Miss Juanlta Wilson. 59.330 Miss Jennie McCoy. 9:1,750 Miss Bertha Tallons. 6,200 RIMBERT Miss Mary Harllee. 1 0 5,750 Mrs. W. J. Spencer. 61,0S0 Miss Juanlta McLeod. ?5,810 UAGOOD. Mrs Crawford Sandert. lOO.SiO Sl'MTFR No. 3 Mrs. Doeln M. Josey.,. 10?,ll0 DISTRICT NO. THREE, PAXV1IXE. Miss Pearl Pritchard. 15.010 Mrs. Ben Pack.,. ? 9.020 PINE WOOD. Miss Leo Bruughton. 35,125 Miss Bessie Geddings. 10,036 MAYI .SVILLi:. . . Mrs. J. H. Wilson. 5?,ifU Miss Minnie Chandler. 46,you Mrs. Hugh Wltnerapoon. 11,406 HIM IM. Mist Alma Felder. 11,006 DURWOOD. Miss Coro Truluck. 100,805 OLANTA, MIsk U Hell Moore, R F, D. 105,360 Sl IM II CR, H F. D. NO, I. Miss Hessle Jones. 211.300 I i ma \ iu-i:. MlM Pauline Jone?. 70,070 IHK X.l><>\. Miss Kate Rmgdnn. Closing Rules No information concerning the standing ?>f the candidates will be given out. It will be a fair light "that the best shall win." No favorites wl|l be played and no votes issued except on bona IWe subscriptions. No sub? scriptions will be accepted for over live years on The Dally Item or ten years on the Watchman and South? ron. No personal checks will be re? ceived In payment for subscription* the last two days of the contest. It any of the candidates have noted mistakes In the ?ssumg of votes or in the crediting or them by tho contest detriment, such mistakes mu*' he roi*>rted before noon of the last day of the contest in order to have them rectified. Subscriptions must he turn* od in in regular order?made mit on lite regular receipt books hs hereto? fore. Do not come to the c\ ntest de? partment the last night exr<ecting to see the Pflnta "auctioned off" to the highest bidder. The motto of the contest bus been "A square deal to all" and this policy will be adhered to to the last. Reneeeaber, 9 o'clock I* the hoar. Sat u id a > is the day. May 31st is the date. Votes win and but two days to secure them. vii. on sub? scriptions to The Dally Item and Watchman and Southron ami Uii Merchants touchers. Nay 3lst is the Day