Evening Republican, Volume 18, Number 214, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 September 1914 — Just One Week From Tomorrow and the Contest Will End. Will Your Name Head the List of the Winners? That Will Be Decided By the Effort You Put Forth in the Next Week. [ARTICLE]

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Just One Week From Tomorrow and the Contest Will End. Will Your Name Head the List of the Winners? That Will Be Decided By the Effort You Put Forth in the Next Week.

. In one week from Friday the gigantic contest of The Republican will come to an end and now is the time to decide where your name will be when the winners are'announced. It is possible for you to win the first prize if you will make the few remaining days count for you. There are so many -candidates that are in running for first honors that it would be impossible for us to pick the winners. It is possible for any of the candidates in the race since the beginning Of the Contest to win first honors if they would take advantage of the saw remaining days of the contest. Many prizes will be won and lost during these days. See that you put yourself where you should and where the efforts of your friends deserve; ! ' ■' All the candidates have expressed a desire to win the big prize. Some are confident that they have already won. Don’t let such thoughts slacken your pace. Over-confidence will kill your chances just as sure as the sun rises and sets. /There are a lot of candidates working quietly and rolling up the thousah<M without attracting attention. These are the people you have need to fear. The content has now reached the stage where you must act, where' you must grasp at every single straw and where you must simply put forth every ounce of energy that there is In you If you expect to win the big prize. Don’t hesitate, for hesitation is the father of failure, tomorrow the mother of regret. Whatever you do, do it now. Coldfeet will get you nothing but a chill and a lot of regret If you will work now as you have never worked before, you need have no fear, for the other candidate will be the one who will do the regretting after the final count has been made. In today’s paper appears the final vote of all daily ballots and subscription votes sent in to be voted. Candidates should check up their votes ahd see,that they have been given proper credit, otherwise this vote will be accepted as correct by the judges. 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 cent to non-prlze winners.

Below are the nominations and votes cast for publication up to last night: Miss Ruth Callahan ..../48,175 Paul Beam ....68,175 Miss Marie Arnold 112,945 Miss Rlialbeth Davenport ....139,860 Graveious Hansson 62,820 Jlack Miller ........45,200 Miss Hazel Jacks .............26,000 Miss Wiima Peyton 28,175 Byron Hemphill 80,320 Miss Thelma Tilton 60,220 Wade Jarrette .50,675 Clifford Wasson 117,205 Miss Helen Duvall ....47,825 Miss Lucy Healy ...49,175 Donald Rhoades .50,175 Mrs. Lou ell a Golden, R 4 ...115,540 Ray''Huff ..63,366 Miss .Lueiia Robinson 129)255 Miss Ruth Ames, R 4 21,150 Mrs. True Reevfe 14,600 Miss Madeline Abbott .86,420 Miss Esther Padgett 18,650 Miss Beatrice Clift 18,650 Dewey Cox; R 3 ........22,155 Raymond McKay ...30,125 Miss Sophie Hudson 62,625 Miss Mildred Parks, R. 3 ....32,875 Miss Josephine Thomae, R 3. .48,125 Carl Worland 18,175 DeMotte. Ind. Mrs. Maggie Fairchild ........14,675 Mrs. Steve True 16,400 Mies Glen Cobb ... .36,175 Miss Maggie Hamstra 18,225 McOoysburg, Ind. William Erb 71,220 Mrs. C. A. Armstrong .53,120 Miss Ethel Parker 27,525 Fair Oaks, Ind. Miss Katie Trump 18,275 Miss Ruth Gundy ............12,600 Mias Hazel Hurley RR .£.33,175 Miss Florence McKay ...\6,700 Pleasant Grove, Ind. Cecil R. Rees 43,255 Miss Bessie Boffman ....29,850 . ML-Ayr, Ind. Miss Orpha Barton r .. 28,150 Remington, Ind. Miss Iva Brooks 1»,7?K Miss Myrtle Sharkey 12,650 Miss Freda Wineland .......105,175

Miss Margaret McGraw 12,675 Miss -Grace Clowry 19,925 ' -. Wheatfield, Ind. Miss Katie Theis 12,200 Miss Leafie MeColly ..61,825 Parr, Ind. Miss May Lowman .70,870 Miss Floss W. Smith .. 34,600 Mrs. Blanche McCurtain9B,Bßo Mrs. Perry Griffith 38,155 John Richard 23,175 ’ e. Surrey, Ind. Miss Ethel Rammerton 14,850 v Thayer, Ind. Herman DeFrieslls,6so Tefft, Ind. Miss Katie Tresmer .43,350 Miss Gladys Duggleby 85,120 Goodland. Ind. Miss Helen We1ch43,750 Miss Helen Welch *48,225 Miss Susan Thurstoni.23,B7s Misj, Pearl Jay .11,600 . Kersey, Ind. -- Miss Matie Kersey ...60,175 Miss Irma Drenth .....’60,145 ' Lee, Ind. Roy 0n1p ; :..... 13,850 Aix, Ind. Miss Mary Comer .../..107,980 ' Newland, Ind. Miss Cecelia Spate 54,625 Pleasant Ridge, Ind. Miss Lillian Bailey 46,725 Francesville, Ind. Miss Della Shumaker 76,875 Seattle, Wash. Cecil Ridenour 72,600