Evening Republican, Volume 18, Number 217, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 September 1914 — PROMPTLY AT12 BELLS FRIDAY NIGHT THE BIG CONTEST WILL COME TO AN END [ARTICLE]

PROMPTLY AT12 BELLS FRIDAY NIGHT THE BIG CONTEST WILL COME TO AN END

Below is the List of Contestants and Votes Cast for Publication Up to Saturday Night.

Promptly at o’clock Friday night Sept 18th the big contest bf the Republicans will come to an end, and below are the candidates and their votes cast for publication up to Saturday night. - If you 'are a subscriber to the Republican you should renew at once and give some candidate the advantage of the votes, for a few votes will make a big difference in some of the candidates’ standing and if you ai;e not a sribscri]?er you should subscribe now while the -contest is on and give the votes to one of the candidates and you will be doing them a great favor, your subscription ‘may be the means of some candidate winning a better prize. Candidates should not let*a day pass this week-without securing Some votes as the race is going to be so close with some of the can--dldates that-in some cases a yearly subscription will be the difference in some of the prizes. J Opportunity of Life may have the opportunity of your life to win a nice prize in the next four days, it is possible for any candidate in the race to win first honors if they will make the four remafning days count in securing subscriptions. There are a number on the firing line and do not realize it Just keep in mind that tfiese prizes are going to be awarded to the candidates who have the votes and why should that automobile not go to you? You are entitled to it just as much as the other fellow. Commission There • are' to be seven prizes awarded to the seven candidates securing the largest number n-f votes and the candidates that do not win one of the-listed prizes will be given TEN. PER CENT pf the total amount of money turned in by them. There is absolutely no

Miss Glen C0bb65,375 Ray Huff ..63,365 Gravelbus Hanssen .62,820 Miss Sophie -Hudson 62,625 Miss Xeafle McOolly .61,825 Miss Thelma Tilton ...60,220 Miss Matie Kersey :....60,175 tMiss Irma Drenth ...60,145 Miss Cecelia Spate ..54,625 Mrs. C. A. Armstrong .53,120 Wade Jarrette .....*50,675 Donald Rhoades ...50,175 Miss Lucy Healy 49,175 Miss Helen Welch ....48,225 Miss Ruth Callahan- . .rt 48,175 Miss Josephine Thomas, R 3. .48,125 Miss Helen Duvall .. r, .47,825 Miss Lijlian Bailey ...46,725 Jack Miller 45,200 Miss Katie Tresmer ............43,350 Cecil R. Rees ».’43,255 Mrs. Perry Griffith 38,155 Miss Floss W. Smith34,6oo Miss Hazel Hurley RR.......33,175 Miss Mildred Parks, R 3 ....32,875 Wilma Peyton .. . .32,375 Raymond McKay 30,125 Miss Bessie Boflman .........29,850 Miss Orpha Barton *...28,150 Miss Ethel Parker ....27,525 Miss Hazel Jacks 26,000 Miss Susan Thurston 23,875 John Richard .23,1-75 Dewey Cqx, R 3 .22,155 Miss Ruth Arnes, R 4...,21,150 Miss Grace Clowry 19,925 Miss Iva Brooks ......19,725 Miss Esther Padgetts... 18,650 Miss Beatrice Clift 18,650 Miss Katie Trump ............18,275 Miss Maggie Hamstra 18,225 Carl Worland .......18,175 Mrs. Steve True 16,400 Herman DeFries .15,650 Miss Ethel Hammerton %14,850 Mrs. Maggie Fairchild ....4... 14,675 Mrs. True Reeve .....14.600 Roy Culp 13,850 Miss Margaret MeGraW .......12,675 Miss Myrtle Sharkey 12.650 Miss Ruth Gundy 12.6Q0 Miss Katie Theis » 4 12,200 Miss Pearl Jay .. .11,600 Miss Florence McKay ~.6,700

chance tor you to lose as every candidate that enters actively wins, look the following votes over carefully and see where a daily subscription will -put your name. Here are the prizes you can win. One Ford Touring Oar. ' One S3OO Upright Piano. One S2OO Building Lot. One $65 Domestic Sewing One $25 Gold Prize. One S2O Gold Watch. One $5 in Gqld. ' 10 per cent to non-prlze winners. Below ar* the nominations and votes cast for publication up to last night: Miss Bliafoeth Davenport ....139,860 Miss Mary C0mer136,480 Miss Lueiila Robinson .129,255 Miss Blanche McCurtain.. 125,380 ♦William Efb.124,220 Miss Marie Arnold.. •118,945 Clifford Wasson 117,205 Mrs. Louella Golden, R 4 ...115,540 Miss Madeline Abbott. 107,020 Miss Freda Wineland .......105,175 Miss Gladys Duggleby 85,120 Miss Della Shumaker.. 82,475 Byron Hemphill 80,320 Cecil Ridenour 72,600 Miss May Lowman 70,870 Mrs. Perry Griffith69,7ss Paul Beam ....68,175