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The three gentlemen whose names appear below have kindly consented to act as judges in The Daily Item, Watchman and Southron and Merchants' Con? test. They wt!1 be present at 9o'clock Saturday night and take charge of the ballot box immediately after the contest closes, and start the final count of votes: Mr. Bernard Manning, Cashier of Bank of Sumter. Mr. G. A. Waterman. Sec. Chamber of Commerce. Mr. W. R. Parker, of W. B. Upshur Ins. Co. All reserve votes must be in the ballot box by nine o'clock Saturday night or they positively will not be counted. Candidates should bear in mind the importance of having their subscriptions and votes sent in before nine o'clock on the closing night. Sub? scriptions should be made out in regular order and everyone is requested to come early to avoid the rush of the closing hour. THE CONTEST will close 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 t..e shouting and the work of notifying the shouters that they will be qualified to shout 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 enthusiastic 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 take many a vote to outstrip them at the finish. Rumors of hew many votes such and suclw 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 apparently 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 vague 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 made 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. AS Contestant after contestant has expressed herself, she cannot now let defeat overtake her because of her person? al pride in achievement. Many have made their cam? paigns matters of personality and their families and friends have taken up the work. As a young ladies father struck the keynote when he said, "1 have never lost out yet in any battle 1 have en? tered, and 1 have brought up my daughter with that thought up? permost in her mind?never to lose 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 disposition to win unaided. As I told her she would not be a daughter of mine if she were defeated." It is this same spirit "that is being instilled into the contestants all over the territory by their parents and friends that is nerving the young ladies to do the battle 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 nothing 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 The ? .iiu.--.it will 1 i..-.- promptly at nine o* lock saturda) evening May 31. |t!3. All subscription* and merchant * ?midier* must ???? turned In by the doslna hour of the con? tent or they absolutely will earn no vote*. No allowance wll he made to Um? out-of-Siinuer candidate* for the ckwdng n Ight In mailing In subscrip? tion*. Subscriptions and \otcs may he. mailed In but they will have to be mailed early enough to reach this of? fice before the clo-dng hour of the content. All rote?? now hi |m??*sesslon of the candidates mihi Im? Iii the bal? lot bo* by t# o'clock Saturday even? ing or they po*dtl\el> will not la* counted. All candidates who are In the ? "tit. -1 editor's othVc by 1? o'clock Saturday night will he waited upon ?ml checked up. The office will be lucked in tl?c clock strike*- nine ami those coming late will not Im* allou.d to enter, no matter how many siih* rtcrlptH'na or vo|i*s thc> may have. The udgf* selected to make the It mm I can \mn of vote* will Im* present at !In? closing hour and wll start the final ?*ount Immediately aft?T the last can? didate MM been waited ii|h?ii and die ? ? -oil ..t Heir .m xi. in i*. pntdldi ed In Monday'* |ss.r The Dalit lion and Tuesday's I??muc of the Watch? man ami southron. The Contestants and How They Stand District Number One. Miss Kathryn Stubhs, 11 Washington. 111,710 Mrs. Richard Wilder, Magnolia St. 101,026 Miss Georgia Beethum, B. Salem Ave. 64,096 Mrs. Julian D. Wilder, Magnolia St.. 78,620 Miss Mabel Myers, W. Bartlette St. 4 5,02f? Miss Boucher DeLorme, Bartlette St. ti?.oTO District Number Two. ST. CHARLES. . 69,330 . 112,210 . 6,990 REMBERT Miss Mary Harllee. 110,77'* Mrs. W. J. Spencer. 62,210 Miss JuanJta McLeod. 110,620 IIAGOOD, Mrs. Crawford Sandern. 112,910 SUMTER No. 5 Mrs. Docia M. Josey.^. 111,223 DISTRICT NO. THREE. PINEWOOD. Miss Leo Broughton. 86,125 Miss Wessle Geddings. 10,1 10 Miss Juanita Wilson Miss Jennie McCoy. Miss Bertha Tullons m wi svii.m:. .. Mrs. J. H. Wilson. . . . Miss Minnie Chandler.. Mrs. Hugh Wlthorapoon May 31st is the Day Miss Alma Felder. . Miss Coro Trulurk RUMINI. DURWOOD. OLANTA, 4 6,900 I I I .t.-.o 1 2 :; Ml Closing Rules No information concerning the standing of the candidates will be given out. It will Im' a lair light that the best shall win." No favorites will he payed and no votes issued except on bona tide subscriptions. No sub s< riptions will In? accepted for over live years on The Daily Item or ten years on the Watchman and South? ron. No personal checke will be iv refved in payment for subscriptions the last two days of the contest, lr any of the candidates have noted mistakes in the issuing of votes or in the crediting of them by the contest department, such mistakes must la* reported before noon of the last day of tin' contest in order to have them rectified. Subscriptions must be turn? ed hi in regular order?made out on the regular receipt hooks as hereto? fore. Do not come to the contest de? partment the last night expecting to see the priese "auctioned oil" to the highen! bidder. The motto of the contest has been "A square deal to all" and this policy will la* adhered to to i lie last. Remember, I o'clock i* the hour. Saturday is the day. May :t|st la the date. Votes win and but one day to secure them. on sub? scriptions to The Dull) Item and Watchman ami sout hi on and on Merchants vouchers, Miss L, Boll Moore. It P. l>. St M i l it, It. I\ D. V>. I. Mi-n L ess I o Jonen. n ui.i \ ii i i . Miss Paulina Jonsi. ItltOGDON, Mlsi Kate Brogdon. 1 00 !i l 'I 111 t'lfl 28,.190 ',(1,: I ?? 111.'. May 31st is tbe Day