Evening Republican, Volume 18, Number 190, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 August 1914 — OUR GREAT VOTING CONTEST [ARTICLE]

OUR GREAT VOTING CONTEST

Here is the List of Nominations Received Up to Wednesday Night With What Votes that Have Been Sent in to be Voted—ls Your Name is Not Here, Send it in Today—WeAre Very Desirous of Having More Entrants From The Country.

Here is the list of nominations ; that have been entered in our automobile contest and if you have not already entered do so today; call the contest department and they will be glad to call and explain how you can win one Of the fine prizes in the next few weeks. The subscription, ballot of 25,000 <is published in this paper and when property-filled out with a new subscription will entitle any contestant to 25,000 extra votes. Get busy now and win that first prize. If your name is not here send it in at once. Below are the nominations and votes up to date. Here are the prizes you can win. One Ford Touring Oar. One S3OO Upright Piano. One S2OO Building Lot. r . One $65 Domestic Sewing One $25 Gold Prize. One S2O Gold Watch. One $5 in Gold. 10 per cent to non-prize winners. Paul Beam 9,300 Miss Elizabeth Davenport ....8,400 Graivelous Hansson 9,300 Jack MiMer 9,200 Miss Hazel Jacks 6,800 Miss Wilma Peyton ....7,200 Byron Hemphill 9,600 Miss Thelma Tilton 8,800 Miss Helen Leatherman 7,400 Wade Jarrette ....8,600 Miss Helen Duvall 7,200 Miss Madeline Abbott 7,100 Miss Maurlne Tuteur 8,100 Clifford Wasson .....9,300 Miss Lucy Healy-9,280 Miss Edith Sawin 7,400 Mrs. Louella Golden, R 4 ....8,700 Donald Rhoades 7,800 Ray Huff 6,100 Miss Mildred Paries, R 3 Miss Cecil Morgan 7,900 Miss Luella Robinson ~6,800 Miss Ruth Ames, R 4 5,000 Miss Gertie Leopold 5,000 Miss Wilma Peyton ...5,000 Miss Mabel Witham 5,000 Mrs. True Reeve... 5,000 Miss Charlotte Kanne ..6,700 Miss Eva Moore 6,100 Miss Edith Sawin 5,600 Miss Agnes Platt 6,200 Mrs. Joe Halligan 8,100 Miss Marie Arnold 5,400 Miss Qrabella King ....6,000 Miss Loretta Nagle 5,400 Miss Edna Price 6,800 Mrtss Elizabeth Putts ..6,300 Miss Doris Morian ..A...5,800 Miss Angela Kolhoff .....5,900 Miss Esther Padgett 5,000 Miss Pauline Hordeman 5,000 Miss Beatrice dist 5,300 DeMotte, Ind. Mrs. Maggie Fairchild .5,000 Mrs. Andrew Granger .5,000 Mrs. Steve True ••5,000 Miss Glen Cobb 5,000 Miss Maggie Hamstra .5,000 Miss Fannie Robbins .........5,000 McOoysburg, Ind. Miss Ethel Parker 5,000 William Erb ~.5,000 Mrs. D. W. Johnson 5,000 Mrs. C. A. Armstrong .........5,000 Fair Oaks, Ind. Mrs. Cal Burroughs . .5,000 Miss Florence McKay ..........5,000 Miss Hazel Hurley, R. R 5,000 Pleasant Grove, Ind. Cecil R. Rees 5,000 Mt Ayr, Ind. Miss Orpha Barton 5,000 Remington, Ind. Miss Iva Brooks ....7,600 Miss Myrtle Sharkey 6,100 Miss Freda Wlineland 6,000 Miss Tina Dluzak .6,200 Wheatfield, Ind. Miss Katie Theis ',.'.....5,000 Miss Leafle McOolly 5,000 'Miss Anna Hunslcker 5,000 Parr, Ind. Miss Esther Wiseman 5,000 Miss Marie Comer'-,..;..5.000 Miss Flossie Smith 5,000 Miss Edna Babcock ..5,000 Surrey, Ind. c. Miss Eth4 Hammerton.s,ooo Walter Brown 5,000 Thayer, Ind. Miss Alice Ettima 5,000 Herman DeFries...... ~,5,000 Tefft, Ind. Miss Gladys Duggleby .....u.S.QOO Miss Katie Tresmer ...5,000 Goodland, Ind. •Miss Susan Thurston 7. .5,000 Miss Helen Welch ..'5,000 Miss Pearl Jay 5,000 Korhey, lad. Miss Arnia Drenth 5,000 ' ' / • Lee, Ind. Roy Culp ..?...5,000

The Rensselaer Republican is going to give absolutely free to people of this vicinity hundreds of dollars in prizes and money for a little effort in the next few weeks and it presents you the opportunity of ybur lifetime to win an automobile, a nice piano or one of the other prizes, absolutely free. Do not delay, but send in your name or that of Sririend today and the battle is half won and then let your friends know that you ate in to win and begin getting votes. Call the contest department of The Republican and let us assist you in a winning campaign; these prizes are going to be awarded to the candidates securing the largest number of -votes regardless of whether it is ten votes or ten thousand, and if you want your share of them you should not delay a minute but get busy now when there is not much interest being taken anfi you will be surprised to learn how easy it is. How to Get Votes. If you belong to an organization let your fellow, members know yoi are in the race. It pays to adver tise. Don’t forget that the children can do most effective work in collecting coupons. Every little bit

[ helps. Should your father, brother, sister or friends belong to any oiganization get them to work for you. | 'Do not let a day pass without ! casting a ballot. Success is the re- [ ward of persistence. Cast your coupons in as large numbers as possible—this will save you time and trouble. Enlist the interest of your friends and friends’ friends. The Voting Rules. During the first three- weeks of the contest, no candidate will be permitted to vote more than 3,000 votes a day more than the highest candidate had in the previous day’s publication. Send in Nomination Blanks. All that is necessary to enter the name of one of your friends is to clip the nomination blank found elsewhere in this paper and send it to the contest department, whenit will be given prompt attention. Do not overlook the vote coupon which will appear. It is possible for one of these coupons to decide the winner of the auto. Each coupon sent to this office is good for the number of votes printed thereon. Opportunity Knocks. It has been said that opportunity knocks but once at every man’s door. In these days of wonders, every day presents fresh opportunities. This is the day that an opportunity is open to the people of this part of the state whereby, without a cent of cost, it will be possible to win the prizes of life. An election campaign is like a snowball, it grows larger the? longer it is rolled. Candidates entering this friendly campaign with a full understanding of the rules, will find that they have unconsciously formed a chain of f riends, who will be ready and willing to assist them. Advantages of an Early Start For a short time this big race will •be educational. Candidates will run across things of which they are not certain. By inquiring of the contest manager and having things made clear, they will avoid making mistakes the next time. The contest manager will render all the assistance possible to all candidates providing it will not be detrimental to the other contestants.