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the subscription money they turned in; all the others to get twenty per cent or one-fifth of all that they turned in on subscriptions. Rules Governing the Contest. Candidates. Rule 1. Any lady regardless of age may be a contestant in this piano contest.

Photo graphs. Rule 2: Al lcontestants must provide the office with a good photograph of themselves to be used for publication purposes. Changing Votes. Rule 3. No votes can be changed, altered or transferred after being once cast.

Casting Votes, Rule 4. Votes are cast as soon as they are turned into the office and registered or placed in the ballot box. Rule 5. The ballot box is made of galvanized iron and is securely sealed, and will remain sealed until opened by the judges after the contest. It Twister and Hail.

Lasita was visited Monday night by a severe wind and hail stprm. Right in the edge of the town the corn was laid nearly flat to the ground by a north wind and a half mile west it was laid nearly flat by a south wind, and the corn was badly split up by hail stones. -o HE GOT A GOLD WATCH. H. M.

Berbohm purchased a gold watch and chain for $26.50 from Anton Horling's jewelry store on Monday, August 1. Go in and see his nice watches and chains h3 has got for safe now. They are good ones. Viola Carlson Dead. Viola, the 2-year-old daughter of Mr.

and Mrs. Statt Carlson, died Saturday morning of infantile paralysis. Owing to the nature of this disease the funeral was conducted privately by Rev. Janssen and the little body $126,840 i For the purpose of raising the above amount, the following levies were made: For state tax, 1.05 mills on the dol lar. For county general revenue, 1.57 mills on the dollar, For C.

K. N. sinking fund, .85 mills on the dollar. For C. K.

N. interest fund, .23 mills on the dollar. Making $3.70 on each $1,000 of tax able property in Riley county. GEO. H.

HUNGERFORD, County Clerk. Three Girls Wanted. As announced in our last issue, we are just starting a big Popular Lady Voting Contest in which we will give away, absolutely free, one fine piano and several other valuable prizes. We want to see from 100 to 200 young ladies, covering every section of this country, and adjacent territory, enter this We have prizes for all of them. If you are not successful in getting the piano (a fine $350 Bush Gerts Piano), you may get one or more of the many valuabel prizes.

Read about it on another page, fill out and send us the nominating blank and the free voting coupon and get busy at once to get the gold watch or writing desk (or ona or the other), beautiful prizes to be- given away on Wednesday, August 17, at 4 p. m. Guld.9 to Contestants. Carefully read the rules printed in paper, and be sure you understand them thoroughly. We supply you with receipts which you give subscribers upon receiving their subscriptions.

Return to the News office, when you get a full book. The ballot box is in the News office. All free coupons iu paper and official ballots secured on subscriptions may be placed in it. Be sure your paper coupons are turned in before date of expiration printed on each. A new subscriber is anyone who is not taking the News.

Be sure that an old subscriber is not marked "new" and that a new one is always sped fled as such. Receipts should always be given when a subscription is secured. This insures both you and the subscriber asainst aniy possible question that might arise. Be careful about sending in correct names and addresses of subscribers Failure to turn in a correct address will result in subscriber not receiving the paper, and you will be put to needless trouble to rectify the error. Call in and get a list of back sub scrintions due.

which we will be pleased to give you on request. Remember, any contestant, no mat ter wherevshe resides, can work any territory for subscriptions. All votes count on piano, but only subscription votes count on special prizes, as free and paper coupons are deposited in ballot box by contestants and friends, and ballot box is not opened until the contest is closed; therefore no record is kept of anything but subscription votes. Pursue your work systematically, and feel free to call on the editor at any time to explain any details you do not understand. Above all, take time by the forelock and hustle, for that is what your friend or rival is doings if she is in earnest.

Address THE EWS Total Gave Bond for $1,000. This is to certify that Geo. C. Hall, publisher of The News has deposited in this bank, payable to The Bank of Gresn as trustee, a mortgage1 of $1,000 on 160 acres of land, as a guarantee that all subscriptions to said paper and all premiums in the contest now going on, will be filled or paid. This mortgage covers all such transactions covering a period of five years after date.

W. E. DA VIES, Cashier. The Bank of Green. The above is self explanatory, so none of you need hesitate about paying your subscription to The News.

Each of you will get a receipt from this office as soon as possible after your subscription has been received. It will be in the form of the date of expiration stamped on your paper in addressing it to you. Watch for it. You will get the receipt every week in the year. GENERAL INSTRUCTIONS.

Standing of the contestants will be published in the paper more or less regularly, same to be compiled from editor's records, as ballot box is locked and sealed. No employee of the paper or rela-the of the editor shall be a candidate or work in favor of a contestant. The publishers are not to tell for whom anyone votes except in case of alleged error or irregularity. Make up your mind whom you are going to vote for before coining to the office. We positively will not decide the matter.

The right to postpone the date of closing for a sufficient cause is re-terved. The contest shall close at a certain date, to be announced in the News. Great care will be taken in this piano voting contest, and a fair and square deal is guaranteed to all concerned. Any lady, married or single, is eligible, provided conditions here set forth are complied with. Any questions or controversies that may arise are to be settled by the con test manager, and his decision will be final and conclusive No candidate will be permitted to transfer votes, to another after re ceiving them for herself.

Ladies over sixteen free to Al Ray's show Monday night. Wanted Cream. We want all the cream you can furnish, we'll pay top price for same. FAIRMOUNT CREAMERY CO. Ed Helm, Agt.

Try an ice cream sundae any da at Newman's. The News is as truly a Leonard- ville paper as the Monitor is and all persons who believe in the welfare of Leonardville will be a subscriber for one or the other. The average millionaire is the golden mean, with the accent on the mean. Ladies over sixteen free to Al Ray's show Monday night. Try a cool refreshing drink or a dish of cream at Newman's.

All subscriptions to the Monitor must be paid in advance from this date on. Tell your Friends about The News, take jour Home Paper. is so made that no votes can be got ten out without breaking the seal Rule 6. The date of closing will be announced at least 30 days prior to the closing. Expiration of Votes.

Rule 7. All votes will, have an expiration date printed on them and they will not under any condition be counted unless cast before that date, Rule 8. All votes cast whether subscription votes, ad votes, store votes, job work votes, or merchandise votes, all count on the winning of the prizes. Tie. Rule' 9.

In case of a tie vote on any of the prizes the prize will be dupli cated. Rule 10. No subscription to the paper will be accepted for over five years in advance. Rule 11. Special Priz.es will be of fered occasionally for extra efforts put forth.

Judges. Rule 12. The contestants will se- ect by ballot three persons to act as udges and ocunt the ballots after the contest is over. Rule 13. The relative standing of the contestants will be published occasionally to give each an idea as to how they rank.

Kinds of Votes. Rule 14. New Subscriptions, $1, 1 year, 1000 votes. New subscriptions. $1, 2nd year, 2000 votes.

New subscriptions, $1, 3rd year, 3000 votes New subscriptions, $1, 4th year, 4000 votes. New subscriptions, $1, 5th year, 5000 votes. Back subscriptions, 1000 for each $1. Renewals, count just half what a new subscription counts. For soliciting, getting and collecting for ads or job work out of town.

1000 votes for each dollar. For store votes, merchandise votes and nomination votes, you will have to watch the paper for further par ticulars. Rule 15. The contestant having the highest number of votes to her credit at the end of the contest will receive the grand prize, a $350 Bush Gerts piano or a fine budding lot in Green or in Manhattan as the winner may choose. For the contestant, except the one receiving the grand prize, receiving the highest number of votes in each of the following townships: Bala Fancy Creek, Sherman, Center, Jack son, Grait and Madison, they will each get a life scholarship in the Business College in Abilene val ued at seventy-five dollars or a purse of silver equal to two-thirds of laid to rest in Che Randolph cemetery Sunday morning.

Randolph Enter prise. Mrs. Milliccnt Byarlay Dies. Mrs. Millicent Blarlay, an old lady well aud favorably known in this com munity, died at the home of her son in this city at 4 o'clock yesterday af ter a lingering illness.

She was 79 years old and left four two of whom, Butler Byarlay and Harvey Byarlay, reside in this city and two in the country. The funeral will be held at the residence of her son this afternoon at 5 o'clock, the services being conducted by Elder Underwood. The body buried at May Day; Clay Center Republican (Saturday). Amel Johnson Buys Iperi Farm. Am el G.

Johnson of Olsburg has bought Mrs. Kanna Ipsen's farm of 480 acres near Mariadahl, paying for it. He will take possession next March. Mrs. will move to Manhattan next spring and will make her home there.

While the Ipsens were not among the first settlers of that vicinity they were early settlers and will be missed from the community. Mr. Johnson was superintendent of the Orphans' home several years ago and is a hard working, substantial, desirable citizen. Randolph Enterprise. Tax levr.

The board of county commissioners of Riley county, met in annual session at the office of the county iClerk in Manhattan, on Monday, August 1, 1910, that being the first Monday of August of said year, all members of said board being present. The following estimates for the re quirements of the expenses of the -coming year were made: For assessment and 3,000 For bounties 1.500 For books, printing, etc. 1,800 For bridges 15,000 For courts 3,000 For county officers 8,000 For county home 2,000 For health 1,500 For jail 800 For paupers 2,000 For rebates for full payment of tax 4,000 For roads 1,500 For miscellaneous 4,500 For defiicit 24,770 For state tax 28,720 For C. K. N.

interest 4,750 i For C. K. N. sinking' fund. 20,000 4.