Jasper County Democrat, Volume 23, Number 1, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 31 March 1920 — DEMOCRATIC PRIMARY TICKET [ARTICLE]

DEMOCRATIC PRIMARY TICKET

For Jasper County Filled, Following Central Committee Meeting. Following • the meeting of the Democratic county central committee held here Saturday afternoon to select delegates to the state convention and candidates for precinct commiitteemen, names were filed for county offices. The women were recognized with places on the delegation to the state convention and also on the county ticket, Mrs. Ura Gwin and Mrs. Alfred Hoover being selected as state delegates, with Mrs. G. M. Myers as alternate for the latter. On the county ticket the name of Miss Gertrude Beese, a well known, popular and competent school teacher of Remington, was filed for recorder. There is nothing to prevent other candidates from filing, of course, for any of these offices, but as the date for filing expires Saturday, April 3, it was desired to get the names on file so that no places should go by default. Any candidate not desiring to make the race for election can withdraw after the primary and the county central committee can fill the vacancy, but no vacancy can be filled for any place on the ticket for which there was not a candidate on the primary ballot. , Following are the names filed for all the offices above mentioned: Delegates to state convention: District No. I—Wheatfield,1 —Wheatfield, Keener, Kankakee qnd Walker townships, F. W. Fisher, Kankakee township. iDist. No. 2 —Barkley, Gillam and Hanging Grove townships, John P. Ryan, Gillam. Dist. No. 3 —Newton township and precinct No. 1 of Marion township, Mrs. Ura Gwin, Rensselaer. Dist. No. 4 —Precinct Nos. 2, 3 and 4 Marion township, Mrs. Evaline Hoover, Rensselaer. Dist. No. s—Carpenter,s—Carpenter, Jordan and Milroy townships. Dr. A. P. Rainier, Remington. , County ticket: Recorder —Gertrude Besse of Remington. Treasurer —W. D. Bringle of RenssoTaer Coroner—S. D. Clark of Wheatfield. Commissioner First District —William Fitzgerald of Kankakee. Precinct commiitteemen: Barkley —East, Grant Davisson; west, O. H. Yeoman. Carpenter—West, George Wood; east, C. W. Harner; south, A. P. Rainier. Gillam —A. D. Hershman. Hanging Grove —William Willett. Jordan —John Kolhoff. Kankakee—F. W. Fisher. Keener —C. W. Gilmore. Marion —Precinct No. 1, E. P. Lane; No. 2, Dolph Day; No. 3, F. E. Babcock; No. 4, E. P. Honan. Milroy—Charles Wood. Newton—Carey L. Carr. Union —South, W. A. Witham; north, Charles Barker. Walker —William Stalbaum. Wheatfield —E. T. Whitehead, Emmett Scanlon of Fowler has filed for joint representative for the counties of Benton, Jasper and Newton.