Jasper County Democrat, Volume 12, Number 59, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 November 1909 — THE DEMOCRAT’S ELECTION REPORT. [ARTICLE]

THE DEMOCRAT’S ELECTION REPORT.

Wednesday, for the first time in the history of Jasper county, a complete report of the municipal elections in the county and also a report of the elections in New York City, Cleveland, Indianapolis and many other cities, was published in a Jasper county paper the next morning after the election. The city list of The Democrat containing the full election reports, was in the postoffice at 6:25 a. m., and city subscribers were able to thus obtain a full report when they came up town after their morning mail or came to their places of business. The Surrey, Parr, Fair Oaks and other points north, were mailed out on the milk train at 7:35, while Remington and Goodland rurals were sent by taking the packroutes going out of those places were sent out by taxing the packages to Remington by auto before the rural carriers had started out on their routes, thus supplying the hundreds of Democrat subscribers in that locality with their paper as early as usual Wednesday morning, with a report of both the Rensselaer and Remington elections of Tuesday, in addition to the news from other points. Owing to the fact that the east bound train on the Three-I carries no mail in the morning, we were unable to reach the points east from Shelby until evening, and at Medaryville and Francesville the rural routes were served one day late. We have received many compliments on our enterprise In reaching almost all parts of the county with election returns as quickly as the big city papers, which of course only had the outside reports, and nothing of a local nature-