Jasper County Democrat, Volume 16, Number 93, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 February 1914 — ANOTHER MISTAKE MADE. [ARTICLE]

ANOTHER MISTAKE MADE.

Congressman Peterson Appoints Frank Retterath Postmaster at Goodland. Congressman Peterson has recommended the appointment of Frank Retterath as postmaster at Goodland to succeed A. J. Kitt, whose comniission expired last Sunday. Just who Retterath is The Democrat is unable to state, as it has never heard of him before, but of course he bore the “Boss” Murphy-Taggart-Fair-banks brand or he would not have received the appointment. The choice of the leading democrats in Goodland and Grant tp., The Democrat is told, was M>r. Lemman, the old hotel proprietor there, who has been one of the foremost party workers in Goodland for many years. But Mr. Lemman is now in very poor health, and his appointment was out of the question. Therefore nine-tenths of the democratic and republican patrons of the office were for Arthur Spinney, perhaps one of the very best party workers in Newton county and a man who is well liked and thoroughly competent in every way to serve the patrons of the office in the most satisfactory manner.

Spinney’s friends, w r ho are legion in Goodland and Newton county, are sure to resent Mr. Peterson’s ill-ad-vised choice for postmaster at Goodland.