Rensselaer Republican, Volume 20, Number 34, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 April 1888 — Call for Township and County Conventions. [ARTICLE]

Call for Township and County Conventions.

—Notice is hereby given to the Republican voters of J asper county, that a couuty delegate convention 'will be held in the court house in 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. County Treasurer, County Sheriff, County Surveyor, County Coronor, County Commissioner for the First District, County Commissioner for the Second District. County Commissioner for the Third Distiict. Mass conventions of the RepubM hcan voters of thtwseveral civil townships and voting precincts of Jasper county will be held on Saturday, April 28,1888, at two o’clock p. m., to elect delegates to the county convention above called, at the following named places:- : In Marion township, South Precinct, m 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. 4" 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, in 1886, and 6ne delegate for a fraction of five; votes or over, apportioned as follows: . . Vote. Delegates. Hanging Grove 58 6 Gillam 85 9 Walker 64 6 Barkley 113 11 Marion, N. Pre. 207 21 Marion, S. Pre. 121 12 Jordan 55 6 Newton 59 6 Keener _B6 9 Kankakee 51 5 Wheatfield 33 3 Carpenter E. P. 154 15 Carpenter W.P.124 12 jtfiiroy 24 2 Union 75 8 . Done by order of the-Jasper County Republican Central Committee. M. F. Ciiilcote, Chm’n. G. E. Marshall, Sec’y.