Evening Republican, Volume 18, Number 199, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 August 1914 — Democrats Nominated Remainder of Their Ticket. [ARTICLE]

Democrats Nominated Remainder of Their Ticket.

Saturday afternoon the county central committee of the democratic party met at the court house to fill their ticket, caused by resignations therefrom. There were three vacancies, that of sheriff, surveyor and commissioner from the first district. They were filled thus: For sheriff, John G. Culp, of Barkley township; for surveyor, L. A. Bostwick, of Rensselaer, and for commissioner, Frank Fisher, of Kankakee township. More than 400,000 acres of arid and non-irrigible lands in the west have been designated for entry under the enlarged homestead act, Secretary Lane of the interior department announced Friday. They are in Wyoming, Washington, Arizona, New Mexico and Colorado.