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Newspaper
Cheyenne State Leader
Location
Cheyenne, Wyoming, United States of America
Date
Aug 04, 1909
Page
6
Subscriptions drive offers a $100 gold prize to the candidate with most votes earned by paid subscriptions. Points are based on subscription length with three districts, automobiles, scholarships, and a Buick touring car as top awards. The contest runs through Sept. 11, 1908, with multiple prize levels and district awards.
Miss Bergman Chowns and Perry named as district reps for awards based on paid-in-advance subscriptions. First Grant Capital Prize Buick valued at $1350.44 to the district with the most votes, limited to one prize per winner. Farmer and Ranchman prize valued at $50.00 to the district with the most subscriptions to that magazine.
District A offers a $650 car to the candidate with the most votes for The Leader or The Farmer and Ranchman, plus four scholarships for the top four candidates next in line. If the Grand Capital prize and two specific autos are won in District A, the district car goes to the third place candidate.
The district awards a Buick valued prize to the candidate with the most votes in District B and designates four scholarships for the next four runners up. If the first prize also wins the Buick and Farmer and Ranchman autos, the district auto goes to the third place candidate. Similar rules apply to District C with its own automobile prize and runner up allocations.
Subscriptions to The Leader and Farmer and Ranchman magazine earn “points” toward the $109 Gold Cash prize. Six month plans cost $2.00, one year $6.00, two years $12.00, and Sunday only one year $2.00. Various misspellings appear but refer to point credits and subscription terms.
For each club of 10 one year subscriptions 2.60 is allowed. One point equals three points nine points are noted in the text.
Sheridan Wyoming August 3 Private Philip Wade of Company 1 Nineteenth Infantry is critically ill in Fort McKensie hospital after an attempted self harm with chloroform. Found unconscious in his bunk he was kept alive with difficulty. This marks a second such act within three months as Wade's despondency explains his reluctance to live.
St Louis watchers report the city may seize the title of the nation’s largest dry city when the Constitutional Amendment association meets at Planters' hotel. The group pursues the prohibition agenda as Memphis currently holds the distinction.
The move seeks to force the secretary of state to submit prohibition to a popular vote next year. Signature collection for an initiative petition will be vigorously pursued. St. Louis and Milwaukee are major brewing centers, and plate-wide prohibition would ruin valuable property and cause mass unemployment.
Prevailing dairy and farm supply notice urges use of non toxic dip without coal tar or tobacco, advertising five times more effective dilution for leg and lip care. Look for the white and blue label from The Co., Chicago distributors.
The 2000 acre rest area southwest of Cheyenne adjoins Union Pacific stock yards. Sheep halted here to comply with the 28 hour law will be pastured during the rest period with access to natural forage and artesian and creek water. The site, bounded by UP tracks city dump grounds county road and abandoned Colorado Central grade, aims to become a feeding-in-transit point for shipments long a key change in livestock handling.
The first test shipment of thirty-one sheep cars from Bellevue Idaho heads to South Omaha for the rest ground. The grand Dees Day touring car and the Buick Sixteen arrive for the paper’s contest. Dineen, agent for the famed cars, displays them at his garage.
Sam Berger, manager for Jeffries, reacts to Johnson posting 6000 dollars in Chicago to bind a heavyweight title match. Berger defends Jeffries as dealing with Johnson and the public in good faith, contrasting with calls for massive gate take.
Nursery stock from The Schroeder-Son Nursery Company promises Colorado grown evergreen and fruit trees, ornamental shrubs, and more with healthful, true to name stock. Free catalog offered with a mail request to Box 500 Lafayette Colorado.
The notice outlines advance subscription voting details for The Farmer and Ranchman and The Leader. It lists subscription options, pricing, and vote counts, indicating deadlines and eligibility for the old act in a local posting.
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