Evening Republican, Volume 18, Number 196, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 August 1914 — NOW IS THE TIME TO TURN IN YOUR NEW SUBSCRIPTIONS. YOU WILL RECEIVE MORE VOTES NOW THAN ANY TIME OF CONTEST [ARTICLE]

NOW IS THE TIME TO TURN IN YOUR NEW SUBSCRIPTIONS. YOU WILL RECEIVE MORE VOTES NOW THAN ANY TIME OF CONTEST

250,000 Rxtra Votes For Each S2O in New Subscriptions and 125.000 for Each sl2 in New Subscriptions.

GREAT BONUS pPFER. Monday the contest manager announced the LARGEST and BEST extra vote offer of the contest. The offer is good until 9 o’clock Thursday night, Aug. 27th, and will be as follows: ' . > Two hundred and fifty thousand extra bonus votes will be given for each S2O worth of subscriptions turned in during this offer. For instance, if you turn in TYfO S2O clubs you would be entitled to 500,000 extra votes, etc. Subscriptions can be turned in any time and you can hold back the votes on same until the closing day of the contest. THIS IS THE LARGEST AND BEST EXTRA VOTE OFFER OF THE CONTEST. SUBSCRIPTIONS BOTH OLD AND NEW WILL COUNT MORE VOTES ON THIS BONUS OFFER THAN EVER AGAIN. Now Is the time to get in a few votes. The contest is fairly on its way and the people all over the country are aroused to meet the demands made iby the contestants who are soliciting votes. If a little effort is displayed the people will be glad to help you and you will find getting subscriptions not at «;li burdensome. In fact, it will grow to be a pleasure. There Hre so many peculiar and funny incidents to happen in a day out after votes that you will miss much happiness aftft' the contest Is over. The manager of the contest department feels that the support already given has honestly been earned. While the contest is in Its infancy get out among the people, friends and relatives and do a little talking. You will grow to enjoy It and the experience thus gained is worth four prizes. If you don’t get the subscriptions someone else will, as Jasper county will be scratched with a fine tooth comb in the endeavor to get subscriptions. While the affair is just getting started 9tart right in and do your little work on the quiet. A reserve will do lots of good and It can best he acquired by getting people to subscribe ter The Republican. Votes Coming In. Votes are coming in more rapidly dally and from now on The Republican contest will he the most absorbing topic in Jasper county. Interest' is increasing daily since the publication of the first list of names and indications are that the different people in the contest will be able to get votes a great deal more easily from now on. Every mail brings In votes to the contest manager and the doors of the office are "kept constantly swinging by voters who go in and out casting ballots for their favorite candidates in t'he race. The contest is certainly gaining ground day by day and no one can anticipate what height this good natured tug of

war can attain. At least 50 per cent of the people of Rensselaer and the •adjacent country are directly interested in the outcome of the contest and before another week has elapsed the other 50 per cent will he info the contest as deeply as the candidates and their friends are today. , A great number of popular, candidates are putting in leisure days in securing subscriptions and gathering voting coupons from The Republican and many of them are going to be satisfied with nothing less than the- great touring car, which is the capital prize. The contest is an easy and quick way of securing a valuable prize, something to yield pleasure and delight for a lifetime and to be enjoyed by every member of the family. „ ; The Republican is worth the price and every one that helps a contestant js getting their money’s worth in news of this vicinity and the world, so in reality you are conferring a favor oh the subscribers by attending to their subscription for them and they will be glad in return to give you the votes on them. Now is the time to do your best work when there are few who are actively Interested in getting subscriptions. Start today and get your first subscription and the battle is half won. Here are the prizes you can win. One Ford Touring Oar. One s3oo,Upright Piano. One S2OO Bpilding Lot. One $65 Domestic Sewing Machine. One $25 Gold Priie. One S2O Gold Watch. One $5 in Gold. 10 per cent to non-prize winners. If your name is' not here send it in at once. Below are the nominations and votes up to date. Miss Ruth Callahan ~.12,850 Paul Beam 29,840 Clifford Wasson ~..28,650 Miss Elizabeth. Davenport' ...29,600 Gravelous Hansson 30,200 Jack Miller ..26,000 Miss Hazel Jacks ....26,000 Miss Wilma Peyton ..18,850 Byron Hemphill 30,150 Miss Thelma Tilton 22,825 Wade Jarrette 28,400 Miss Helen Duvall ....24,640 Miss Madaline Abbott 29,600Miss Maurine Tuteur . .28,950 MISS Lucy Healy ...29,850 Donald Rhoades 20,100 Mrs. Louella Golden, R 4 ....30,850 Ray Huff ...23,675 Miss Cecil;Morgan ............ 18,225 Miss Luella Robinson .......26,225 Miss Ruth Ames, R 4 8,200 Miss Gertie Leopold 18,600 Mrs. True Reeve 10,150 Miss Marie Arnold 27,600 Miss Loretta Nagle .......9,800 Miss Elizabeth Putts 12,800 Miss Angela Kolhoff 12,825 Miss Esther Padgett ....14,600 Miss Beatrice Clift ~11,600 Dewey Cox R 3 ~...8,250 Raymond MeKay 10,600 Miste Sophie Hudson ...18,650 Miss Mildred Parks R 3 11,825 Miss Josephine Thomas 10,200

Surrey, Ind. Miss Ethel Hammerton 10,200 Thayer, Ind. Herman DeFries 12,650 Tefft, Ind. Miss Katie Tresmer ...17,800 Miss Gladys Duggleby 21,650 Goodland, Ind. Miss Helen Welch 6,400 Miss Susan Thurston .16,200 Miss Pearl Jay Kersey, Ind. Miss Matie Kersey .....' 16,840 Miss Arnia Drenth ....; 15,200 Lee, Ind. Roy Culp 10,850 Aix, Ind. I ' Miss May Come* .;....24,625 Newland, Ind. Mrs. A. E. Reif ......,.'.*5,000 Miss Cecelia Spate .9,250 Pleasant Ridge, Ind. Miss Lillian Bailey ....5,000 Kniman, Ind. Miss Minnie Schmidt ......... .7,250

• DeMotte. Ind. Mrs. Maggie Fairchild ........ 10.700 Mrs. Steve True 16,400 Miss Qlen Cobb .....16,825 Miss Fannie Rabbit s :... 7,800 Mrs. Andrew Granger 12,250 Miss iM’aggie Hamstra 11,950 McGoysburg, Ind. William Erb .................21,660 Mrs. C. A. Armstrong 24,660 Miss Ethel Parker ...14,200 Fair Oaks, Ind. : Miss Katie Trump 13,825 Miss Ruth Gundy ...\ 12,600 Mrs. Cal Burroughs 5,200 Miss Hazel Hurley, R R .....18£50 Miss Florence McKay ..........6,700 Pleasant Grove, Ind. Cecil Ra. Rees ..12,850 Mi. Ayr, Ind. Miss Orpha Barton 12,450 Remington, Ind. Miss Iva Brooks ..............17,800 Miss Myrtle Sharkey 12,650 Miss Freda Wineland ........15,600 Miss Tina Dluzak .16,775 Wheatfleld, Ind. Miss Katie Theis 12,200 Miss Leaifle McColly ....18,225 Miss Ann* Hunsicker 9,200 Parr, Ind. Miss May Lowman 10,^0 Miss Floss W. Smith 25.625 Miss Esther WJseman ........6,800 Mhw Blanche McCurtain...... 16,600 Mrs. Perry Griffith 13^00 John Richard ............11,850