Jasper County Democrat, Volume 16, Number 81, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 January 1914 — GENERAL AND STATE NEWS [ARTICLE]

GENERAL AND STATE NEWS

Telegraphic Reports from Many Parts of the Country SHORT BITS OF THE UNUSUAL Happenings in Distant and Nearby Cities and towns —Matters of Minor Mention from Many Places. STATE CONVENTION MARCH 19. Time Also Set for District and Committee Meetings. The reorganization of the democratic state committee resulted Thursday in the election of the following officers: Chairman, Bernard Korby, of the Seventh district; Vicechairman, William A. Kunkel, of Bluffton, Eighth district, and Treasurer, Hugh Dougherty, of Indianapolis. The committee empowered Mr. Korbly to choose the secretary. This he will do later. Burt New, the old will not be reappointed, as his work at. the statehouse takes all his time. The committee decided that the democratic state convention shall be held March 19, at Tomlinson hall. The representation in the convention shall be one delegate for each 150 votes, and one delegate for each fraction of seventy-five or more cast for Governor Ralston. The district and committee meetings are to be held on March 18.