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PAGE SIX Now For The Final Struggle Thrilt Club Ends Next Saturday Night at Nine $1,200.00 In Prizes Waiting For Someone At ten o’clock next Saturday night, April 3rd, it will all be over but the shouting. Where are you going to be when the finish gong sounds? You can be a winner if you will make up your mind to be and will exert yourself during this last week of the big $1,200.00 Thrift Club Campaign. The seventeen magnificent prizes are waiting for their owners. They may be won by subscriptions representing but a small fraction of their value. It is really surprising that more people in this community do not realize what a big opportunity is just about to pass them by. Are you going to be one of the stragglers or a winner? It's up to you now—you can if you will—but there is less than one week left in which to do the needed. Don’t make the mistake of putting off working any longer. The Last Special Offer The ver> last special offer of any kind that will be made in the Times Recoider Thrift Club is now in force, and will run straight through until the close at ten o’clock Saturday night, April 3rd. The offer is as follows: For the first club of three new daily subscriptions, for one year, or their equiv elent, 5,000 extra votes besides the regular votes will be given. For the second club of three new daily subscriptions, foi one year, or their equivelent, 10,000 extra votes besides the regular votes, will be given. For the third club of three new daily subscriptions, for one year, or their equiv elent, 15,000 extra votes, besides the regular votes, will be given. For the fourih club of three new dail> subscriptions, for one year, or their equivelent, 20,000 extra votts, besides the regular votes, will be giver. For the fifth club of three new daily subscriptions, for one year, or their equiv elent, 25,000 extra votes, brides the regular votes, will be given. Fiveot these clubs constitute a set, and upon a completion of a set 100,000 extra votes for the completed set will be given. This offer bolds good until the close of the Thrift Club campaign. Under this offer a new subscription to the Weekly Tirues-Recorder for one year will count as tquiveient to a new three months subscription to the Daily Times- Recoider. NO MORE CHANGES IN THE PUBLISHED LIST There will be no more changes in the published list after today. The Thrift Club Manager has sealed up the lock on the ballot box an < no m >re votes will be counted un.il the judges break open the seal and unlock the babot box at ten o’clock ne\t Satur day night to make the f nal count and award the prizes. The punished list as it appears today will appear in all subsequent issues of the Times- Recorder during the week. THE AMERICUS DAILY TIMES-RECORDER Bing! Everybody Off On The Home Stretch, Running Neck and Neck *IOO.OO GOLD PRIZE SIOO.OO in Gold will be awarded to the lodge, church, society or other or* gani/ation standing highest in The Times-Reeorder Thrift Club. Individ nals are allowed ‘he privilege of do piicating all their votes for their fav orite lodge, church or society. Organ izations competing under this head do not with the individual can didates in any respect. Eastern Star 307,590 Americus and Sumter County Hospital 30«.950 Leslie Woodman Circle 300,140 Presbyterian Ladies’ Aid Society . 301,500 Bronwood Woodmen 304.000 Weston Masonic Lodge 302,320 DISTRICT SO. 1. CITY OF AMERICUS. At least two prizes —a $50.00 Diamond Ring purchased from Thos. L. Bell and a Hoosier “White Beauty*’ kitchen cabinet purchased from the A. W. Smith Furniture Co.—will be awarded in this district. Miss Hole Argo 290,920 Miss .Jessica Physioc 290,160 Mrs. John Bu'ts ... -. 289,890 Miss Gertrude Hudson 288,300 Miss Mitch Pav-’e 288,640 Mrs. Frank Stanley 289,460 Miss Bessie Cobb 287,220 Miss Clara Weeks 256.940 Miss Julia Gordon 287,390 ) DISTRICT TWO. This includes all of Sumter County west of the Central of Georgia Lines. After the grand prizes have been awarded, at least two prizes will be given to the highest in this district. First prize will be a beautiful $30.00 Diamond Ring, purchased from Thos. L. Bell, Aniericus Jeweler. Second Prize will be a Hoosier “White Beauty” Kitchen Cabinet, purchased from A. W. Smith Furniture Co., Americas furni ture dealers. We pay yon a 10 per cent, cash commission, if you don’t win a prize. PLAINS. Mrs. .1. C. Logan 290,170 .Miss Tlieresa Walters 289,910 ANDERSON VILLE. I , Miss Jessie Daniels 289,110 Miss Jessie English 288,160 Miss Annie Pennington 285,220 Miss Susie Williams 287,160 AMERICUS H-2. Miss Mary Wood 288,470 Miss Julia Arrington 285,490 Miss Irene Jones 286,920 Miss Thelma Pilcher 281,1101 Miss Ilia Mae Short 285,910' Mrs. B. F. Daniel 288,660 AMERICUS R-5. Mr. Henry McMath 288,040 FREE FREE $1,200.00 IN PRIZES First Grand Prize: $400.00 in Gold. Second Grand Prize: SIOO.OO in Gold. Prize for Lodge, Church or other Institution: SIOO.OO in Gold. Seven $50.00 Diamond Rings and seven Hoosier Kitchen Cabinets as District Prizes. A ten per cent cash commission to every member of the Thrift Club who remains active up until the close of the campaign, and who fails to win a prize. Mrs. J. S. Glover 288.930 DISTRICT THREE. J This includes all of Sumter County, east of the Cer,tral of Georgia Lines. After the grand prizes have been awarded, at lsast two prizes will be given to the highest in this district. First prize will be a beautiful $50.00 Diamond Ring, purchased from Thos. L. Bell, Americus Jeweler. Second prize will be a Hoosier “White Beanty” Kitchen Cabinet, purchased from A. W. Smith Furniture Co„ Americus furni tiire dealers. We pay yon a 10 per. cent, cash commission, if you don’t win a prize. AMERICI’S R-4 Miss Fannie Doster 285,210 Mrs. Mollie Parker 288,270 Miss Bessie Griffin 286,490 I AMERICUS R-6. Miss Edna Robinsom 287,670 CORDELE. Mrs. Perry C. Cleag 286,270 LESLIE Miss Edith Griffin 288,46) Miss Stella Wade 290,530 Miss Leila Ranew 289,970 DISTRICT FOUR. I This includes all of Lee and Terrell ' *>« *>ties. After the grand prizes have be*n (Continued on Page Seven.) GET YOUR SHARE OF THE 100,000 VOTE COUPONS Get your share of the special vote coupons during this last week of the campaign and it’s almost a cinch that you’ll come out on April ,srd, a win ner. This last special vote offer on new subsc.iptions is the very largest of the entire Thrift Club campaign providing you secure enough clubs and receive the benefit of the extia 100,000 vote coupons offered for the completion of a set or group. You must get these extra votes—or kiss this lifetime opportunity good-bye. MOXDAT, MARCH 29, 1915