Evening Republican, Volume 18, Number 220, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 September 1914 — BIG VOTING CONTEST ENDS FRIDAY NIGHT [ARTICLE]

BIG VOTING CONTEST ENDS FRIDAY NIGHT

Get in Tour Votes or Mail Them by Friday Night or They Will Not be Counted Tomorrow night at 12 o’clock Sharp the judges will take charge of the ballot box and the vote will be in 'Monday’s Daily and Tuesday’s Semi-Weekly Republican. The final vote will not be made until the mails have arrived on Saturday .morning and all mail that bears the postmark of Sept. 18th will be counted. 'A few subscriptions will make a big difference in prizes for some of the candidates. When the winners are announced and you should ‘need a few thousand votes to win an automobile, piano pr one of the other prizes you could then think of a dozen subscriptions that you could have had for the effort. That is just the case that will be with some of the contestants; A few subscriptions would give them a better prize if they would only take advantage of the opportunity now while they can. Pay no attention that so and so have so many thousand votes as in most cases this is used to scare some of the candidates out and the candidate that talks that way you can figure out wants something for nothing and will be the one that comes out in the commission class. 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-prize winners. Below are tne nominations and votes cast for publication up to last night: 'Miss Eliabeth Davenport ....139,860 Miss Mary Comer 436,480 Miss Lueila Robinson .129,255 Miss Blanche McCurtain..... 125,380 William Erb124,220 (Miss Marie Arn01d118,945 Clifford Wasson ........117,205 Mrs. Louella Golden, R 4 ...115,540 Miss Madeline Abbottlo7,o2o Ray Huff... 106,565 Miss Freda Wineland 105,175 Gravelous Hansson94,32o Miss Gladys Duggleby 85,120 Miss Della Shumaker..B2,47s Byron Hemphill 80,320 Cecil Ridenour ..72,600 Miss May Lowman 70,870 Mrs. Perry Griffith .43,155 Paul Beam 4.68,175 Miss Glen Cobb .65,375 Miss Sophie Hudson 62,625 Miss Leafle McColly 61,825 Miss Thelma Tilton 60,220 Miss Matle Kersey ..60,175 Miss Irma Drenth 60,145 Miss Cecilia Spate .56,850 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 48,175 Miss Josephine Thomas, R3..48.125 Miss Helen Duvall 47,825 Miss Lillian Bailey 46,725 Jlack Miller ......45,200 Miss Katie Tresmer 43,350 Cecil R. Rees 43,255 Miss Floss W. Smith34,6oo Miss Hazel Hurley RR33,175 Miss Mildred Parks, R 3 ....32,875

Wilma Peyton 32,375 Raymond (McKay 30,125. Miss Bessie Boffman 29,850 Miss Orpha Barton 28,150 Miss Ethel Parker 27,525 Miss Hazel Jacks 26,000 Miss Susan Thurston ~,23,875 John Richard 23,175 Dewey Cox, R 3 ,22,155 Miss Rhth Ames, R 421,150 Miss Grace Clowry 19,925 Miss Iva Brooks 19,725 Miss Esther Padgett..lß,6so Miss Beatrice Clift ..,.18,650 Miss Katie Trump 18,275 Miss Maggie Hamstra ,48,225 Carl Worland .....18,175 Mrs. Herman DeFriesls,6so Miss Ethel Hammerton .14,850 Mrs. Maggie Fairchild 14,675 Mrs. True Reeve 14,600 Roy Culp 13,850 Miss Margaret McGraw 12,675 Miss Myrtle Sharkey .42,650 Miss Ruth Gundy 12,600 Miss Katie Theis Miss Pearl Jay 111,6(kj Miss Florence McKay 6,700