Evening Republican, Volume 18, Number 193, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 August 1914 — 250,000 VOTES FOR EACH $2O IN NEW SUBSCRIPTIONS [ARTICLE]

250,000 VOTES FOR EACH $2O IN NEW SUBSCRIPTIONS

\ »; ; • Positively the Largest Offer of Extra Votes that Will be Given During Contest. Here is Your Opportunity to Store Up Enough Votes to Win That Ford.

✓ 2'- '-i-S Today the contest manager announces the largest and best offer of the entire contest. The offer is good until Thursday night, at 9 o’clock. The two hundred and fifty thousand votes for each S2O in new subscriptions turned ip during this period. For instance, if you turn in two S2O clubs you will be given 500,000; three S2O clubs, 750,000, etc. Subscriptions can be turned in any time and you can hold back the votes until the close of the contest. This is the largest and best offer of extra votes that will be given and now is the time to do the most effective work. Would you fill in the nomination blank for $506? That is just what it would mean to you if you won the Ford automobile. Or if you don’t want it/ you can make the first or last payment on a home or farm. _ . V Did you ever* stop to think what ybu could do with that much money? It means a college education; it means a trip around the world; diamonds; it will start you in the business world. It is the foundation of a fortune. Fill out the nomination blank and start today. * ‘ Watch the Changes. The daily balloting in The Republican contest does not let up one whit. Many of tlffi contestants increase their vote totals for today’s list and many changes will be noted in the lineup. Those who are thinking of subscribing for The Republican should look over the- list of candidates who are entered in this contest, then turn in their subscriptions and give the votes allowed thereon to their favorite candidate. Nothing will please a candidate in this contest more than a few thousand votes. Seldom does a newspaper of the high standing of The Republican loosen its purse strings and let the gold flow in such a stream. Seldom is the public given the opportunity of determining l ? by popular vote who be the people to receive seven awards of the richness and suitability of these glorious prizes. The race is getting exciting and it is indeed a close one so far. All realize that the time is short—only five weeks until the finish—and each candidate and their friends are putting forth their best efforts to be the undisputed winner. The records which have been made so far are all good ones and the candidates have fairly earned their lam rels if they put forth the same amount of energy. A Systematic Canvass. Many candidates are laying the foundation for a systematic canvass and are accordingly finding ready and loyal support among their friends in the city and outside. A systematic canvass certainly pays. Just explain to prospective subscribers that you are, in the contest and are trying desperately to win and as long as he reads a paper any way, he might just as well have the best. The Republican is making extraordinary efforts to please its readers ind is meeting with unusual success from a newspaper point of view. The Republican is the paper of. this section. . There are thousands and thousands of votes going to whste every single day of the contest simply, for the lack of enough energy to gather them up. There are enough votes going to waste to win' the auto. This fact may be startling but it is nevertheless true. Get busy on those vote coupons and subscriptions this week. Why under the sun don’t you ask all your friends to save them for you? Get them all busy with their little shears each day. By way, why don’t you take your own little shears with you when you go out and clip every last vote you" run across—might as well have them—better to have too many than not enough—better to win by a mile than to lose by a foot. Besides, every one who enters gets something. You can’t lose. How can you spend your time to better advantage during the next few weeks? Ask about it. > Everybody €an Win. entered in this contest can win as each one,who works will get a cash commission of 10 per cent If she does not win one of the big prizes. Of course, the thing to do is to go in to win the biggest and best prize. Start today by securing one of the subscription books, if one has not been sent to

you, and secure all the old and new subscriptions possible. Ask all your *friends to save the free coupon votes from each issue of the paper. ijSet into the contest while it is young and plan your campaign to win. \ - Receipt Books at Office. Voting receipt books, circular letters, return envelopes and other helps are furnished free to candidates and their friends. If you want some of these helps, let the contest manager know about it at once. Telephone or write a letter to the contest manager at the contest department, at The Republican office. Begin today and make an active campaign for votes. Don’t witft for tomorrow. What To Do. If your name has’been entered in the contest for one of the fine prizes secure one of the receipt books and begin active- work at once. Books will be sent to you and if you will let the contest manager know of your wants, he is ready and willing to help you get started. Let him know at once. The office is open evening and you can telephone him at contest headquarters office. Your friends will be glad to help you when you are once started. Here are the prizes you can win. One Ford Touring Oar. ’ One S3OO Upright Piano. One S2OO Building Lot. One $65 Domestic Sewing Machine. One $25 Gold Prize. One S2O Gold Watch. One $5 in Gold. 10 per cefit to non-prize winners. If your name is not here send it in at once. Below are the nominations and vote 3 up to date. Paul Beam ; 19,000 Miss Elizabeth Davenport ...19,100 Gravelous Hansson 18,200 Jack Miller ....19,200 Miss Hazel Jacks ........12,400 (Miss Wilma Peyton 13,800 Byron Hemphill ....18,600 Miss Thelma Tilton 13,200 Miss Helen Leatherman ......8,900 Wade Jarrette 18,800 i Miss Helen Duvall 12,600 Miss Madeline Abbott 18,000 Miss Maurine Tuteur 10,600 Clifford Wassdn .......18,800 Miss Lucy Healy ..19,000 MissisEdith Sawin .' ’....7,400 Donald Rhoades .15,800 Mrs. Louella Golden, R 4 ....14,600 Ray Huff 7,100 Miss Cecil Morgan 12,800 Miss Luella Robinson ........ 16,100 Miss Ruth Ames, R 4 ..... ..8,200 Miss Gertie Leopold ...12,600 Mrs. True Reeve .6,800 Miss Marie Arnold 5,400 Miss Orabelle King 12,000 Miss Loretta Nagle ............8,200 Miss Elizabeth Putts 6,300 Miss Angela Kolhoff 6,800 Miss Esther Padgett 8,100 Miss 'Beatrice Clift 6,100 Dewey Cox, R 3 6,200 Raymond McKay 5,200 DeMotte, Ind. Mrs. Maggie Fairchild 10,700 Mrs. Steve True ....9,100 Miss Glen Cobb 7,100 Miss' Fanhie Rabbit s 7,800 Mrs. Andrew Granger 8,200 Miss Maggie Hamstra 5,800 McOoysburg, Ind. William Erb ....5,000 Mrs. C. A. Armstrong ..9,100 Miss Ethel Barker 5,300 Mrs. D. W. Johnson 11,800 Fair Oaks, Ind. Miss Katie Trump 7,800 Miss Ruth Gundy 6,200 Mrs. Cal Burroughs 5,200 Miss Hazel Hurley, R R. 7,800 Miss Florence McKay .........6,700 Pleasant Grove, Ind. ' Cecil-R. Rees 6,200 Ht. Ayr, Ind. Miss Orpha Barton 8,100 ' ’ Remington, Ind. Miss Iva Brooks ~10,400 Miss Myrtle Sharkey *...10,100 Miss Freda Wineland 11,800 Miss Tina Dluzak ~7,800 Wheatfleld, Ind. Miss Katie Theis 7,800 Miss Leafle McColly 9,800 Miss Anna Hunsicker 8,200 Parr, Ind. Miss Floss W. Smith 11,800 Miss Esther Wiseman 6,800 Miss Blanche McCurtain ......14,000 Burrey, Ind. Miss Ethel Hammerton ........7,800 Tbayer, 2nd. Herman Deities 5.000 Tefft, Ind. Miss Katie Tresmer 6,800 Miss Gladys Duggleby 8,100

Goodland, Ind. Miss Helen Welch .6,400 Miss Susan Thurston .9,200 Miss Bearl Jay 5,000 Kersey, Ind. Miss Matie Kersey ........9,200 Miss Arnia Drenth 9,800 Lee, Ind. Roy Culp 6,700 Aix, Ind. Miss May Comer ~5,000