Jasper County Democrat, Volume 8, Number 38, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 December 1905 — RENSSELAER POST MASTERSHIP. [ARTICLE]

RENSSELAER POST MASTERSHIP.

Much Discussion as to Whose Lap the Plum Will Drop Into. “Who will be the next Postmaster at Rensselaer?’’ This is one of the burning questions that is agitating the minds of several of the g. o. p. patriots here who are anxious applicants for the position. Among those who would like very much to draw the verv liberal salary of SI,BOO per annum and clerk hire, rent, fuel and lights extra, are said to be: Deputy County Treasurer R. B. Porter, ex-County Auditor H. B. Murray, County Superintendent L. H. Hamilton, G. E. Marshall, editor of the Rensselaer Republican, etc. ete. The woods are also reported to be full of horses of a dark hue. The present postmaster’s commission expires in April 1907.