Evening Republican, Volume 17, Number 303, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 December 1913 — Page 4 Advertisements Column 3 [ADVERTISEMENT]

Democrat* Choose Delegates to Convention to Be Held Monday. Marion township democrats held a convention at the east court room this Saturday morning to choose sixteen'delegates to a county dele gate convention to be held Monday afternoon at 1:30 o’clock in the same room, at which time eight delegates to the district organizing) convention yyill be selected, The! latter convention will be held at ; Hammond on Dec. 29th. The delegates chosen were as follows: O. K. Rainier, N. S. Bates, Joseph Luers, J. A. McFarland, W. R Nowels, C. F. Stackhouse, Dolph Day, W. L Hoover, Ed Herath, Lee Glazebrook, E. P. Honan, Will Barkley, W. FL Ritchey, Henry Eigelsbach and Lucius Strong. Nineteen names were proposed and the three defeated ones were F. E. Babcock, Joseph Nagle and William Ervin. Babcock received. 8 votes, Nagle 12 votes and Ervin T 4 votes. The delegates elected received from 15 to 19 votes out of the 21 in the convention. While the is sue was not shown on the surface, there was a-contest between the Murphy and anti-Murphy supporters and Babcock was against Murphy and it is safe to conclude that the election of these delegates was a complete Murphy success.

The defeat of Mr. Babcock as a delegate was especially significant from the fact that he had opposed Murphy so vigorously in his paper and urged that the voters turn out and support anti-Murphy While the number at the convention was comparatively small the size of Mr. Babcock’s vote, as the only avowed Murphy opponent, shows his failure to secure the endorsement of his opposition. In the current issue of The Democrat the editor took a little fling at Mr. McFarland and Mr. Littlefield, the city chairman and county chairman, respectively, of the democratic organization. The paper said: “He (Mayor Thomas E. Knotts, of Gary) found but three or four here who favor Murphy, including, of course, McFarland and Littlefield. Everyone else thought it would not do to put him again at the head of the district convention.” It is not known whether Mayor Knotts reported the result of his canvass to Editor Babcock or whether the editor made a guess, but the estimate seems to have been woefully short, for in a direct contest when both McFarland and Babcock were candidates, the former received 16 votes and Babcock only 8. What the result was in other townships The Republican has not learned. There is to be a total of 51 delegates selected, and they are to assemble here Monday afternoon. Lucius Strong was the chairman and Editor Babcock the secretary of the township convention held today. “ ——■■ -—■

Miss Flora Park, of the Mt. Ayr schools, is spending the Christmas vacation at her home in Hammond. All kinds of hard and soft coal at the Grant-Warner Lumber Co., Phone 458.

Trustee Oonda Stucker and wife and son, of Mt. Ayr, visited with relatives in Lowell Friday and went to Chicago that evening, where they will visit over Sunday with relatives. > A woman can be proud of her husband’s ability even if he doesn’t make good. Call Tel. 6 for aIF kinds of hard and soft coal, quality aind service guaranteed.—J. O. Gwin Lumber Cd,

Call Tel. 6 for all kinds of hard and soft coal, quality and service guaranteed.—J. C. Gwin Lumber Co.

Fill your basket with eggs by feeding Blatchford’s Egg Mash. Sold by Hamilton & Kellner.

Editor Will J. Logan, of the Goodland Herald, who had been in Chicago looking after the purchase of a new linotype machine which will be installed in The Herold office about the first of January, stopped off in Rensselaer this morning for a visit with his friends at The Republican office.

Our assortment of candies for Christmas this year is larger, better and cheaper than ever. JOHN EGER.

Some things go wrong in this world. The amateur singer always loses his friends before he loses his voice.

I aim reserving a useful souvenir for each lady of the home. Call and get yours.—D. M. Worland, The Furniture Man.

Nearly all of the bums tn town are against the %ioney trust, but most of the hustlers didn’t know there was such a thing.

Try our new range coal. GrantWarner Lumber Oo„ Phoife 458.

As a general thing, when a girl haS pretty ankles she gives Cupid the fairest kind of chances to shoot her In the hosiery.

I have a splendid proposition In a talking machine a $25 machine which I am selling for $4.98 with a $25 purchase or given away with a SIOO purchase. *D. M. WORLAND.

C. Wilson Bussell has a new line of groceries with his other stock at McCoysburg.