Rensselaer Republican, Volume 20, Number 32, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 April 1888 — Page 4 Advertisements Column 1 [ADVERTISEMENT]

Anuounceracnh Caudfdatea FOR COUNTY SHERIFF. PHILIP BLUE. Wo are authorized to announce the pame of Philip Blue as a candidate for the office of Sheriff of county; subject to the decision of tne Republican nominating convention. A. G. HARDY. We Srp authorized to announce to the Republican voters of Jasper county that A. G. Hardy, of Carpenter town ship, is a candidate for the office of Countv Sheriff, qnbject to the dccisioh pf the Republican nominating convention. • ERASTUB PEACOCK. Editor Republican: Please announce the name of Erasfus Peacock, of Marion tp., as a candidate for the office of County Sheriff. Subject to the decision of the Republican County Convention. GEO. W. PAYNE. Editor Republican: Please announce that the undersigned is a can i didate for the office of County Sheriff, of Jasper county, subject to the decision of the Republican county conven"tion. Geo. . Payne. Barkley Township.

O. A. YE?)MAN, Editor Republican.—Please allow me through your paper to announce to the voters of Jasper county that I will be a candidate for the nomination to the office of County Sheriff subject to the action of the Republican nominating convention. In making this an nouncement, I respectfully ask the support and co-operation of all my friends in a friendly contest for the nomination, if deemed worthy thereto. Respectfully, O. A. Yeoman. GF.O. J. DEXTER We are,authorized to announce the name of Geo. J. Dexter as a candidate for the office of Sheriff’ of Jaspercounty, subject to the decision of the Republican nominating convention. FOR COMMISSIONER. LEWIS P. SHIRER. We present for nomination as a Republican candidate for Commissioner pfthe 3d district, Lewis P. Shirer, a man of good common sense, with good habits, well posted on the duties of the office—the right man living at the right place, Wheatfields

Call for Township and Coun- > ty Conventions. Notice is hereby given to the Republican voters of Jasper county, that a count} 7 delegate convention will bo held in the court house jn Rensselaer, on Saturday, May 5, 1888, At 1 o’clock p. M., to nominate candidates to be voted for at the ensuing November, 1888, election, for the following offices. Coupty Treasurer, County Sheriff, County Surveyor, County Coronor, County Commissioner for the First District, County Commissioner for the Third District. Mass conventions of the Republican voters of the several civil townships and voting precincts of Jasper county will be held on Saturday, April 28, at two o’clock p,m„ to 'elect delegates to the county’ convention above called, at the following named places: ,'T ' In Marion township, South Precinct, in the court house, in Rensselaer. ‘ In North Precinct, Marion township, in the Opera House, in Rensselaer. In Carpenter township, West Precinct, in Exchange Hall, in Remington. In East Precinct, Carpenter tp., in Ohio street school house. In Wheatfield township, in the Wheatfield school house. In all other townships, in their respective voting places. The ratio of representation will be one delegate for each ten votes cast for Robert S. Robertson, i n 1886, and one delegate for a fraction of five voles or over, apportioned as follows: Vote. Delegates. Hanging Grove 58 6 Gillam 85 9 Walker. , 7 64 6 Barkley 113 11 Marion, N. Pre. 207 21 Marion, S. Pre. 121 12 —Jordan 55 6 Newton 59 6 Keener 86 9 s Kankakee 51 5 Wheatfield 33 3 Carpenter E. P. 154 15 Carpenter W. P. 124 12 Milroy 24 2 Union 75 8 Done by order of the Jasper County Republican Central Committee. ~ M. F. Chilcote, Chm’n. G. E. Mabbhat.li, Bec’y.