Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1916-02-22
FIRST ELECTIONS TO BE HELD IN
LESS THAN MONTH TO
CHOOSE DELEGATES.
INDIANA FIRST STATE TO
ELECT REPRESENTATIVES
Minnesota and New Hampshire Come
|, Next-Nine States to Hold Primaries
in April-Good Roads Essay Contest
to Be Staged at State Fair-state
House Notes.
Special to Times Republican.


month the spring primaries will start
at which delegates to the national
conventions will be chosen. Indiana is
the first state to hold such a primary,
the date in that state being March Z.
The Hoosier state is entitled to thirty
delegates. Minnesota, with twenty
four delegates and New Hampshire.
with eight, hold primaries on March
IA. North Dakota which is entitled
to ten delegates. holds it's primary on
March 81.
Nine states including Iowa hold pri-
maries in April four in May and two
in June at which delegates to the ma
tional conventions will be chosen. They
are as follows:
Michigan, April 3 Wisconsin. April
4: New York. April 4; Iowa, April 10;
Illinois. April II: Nebraska. April IS;
Montana. April N: Massachusetts,
April 25; Ohio. April Is: Maryland.
May 1: California, May 2; Pennsyl-
vania, May 49,: Oregon, May 10: New:
Jersey. May 80: South Dakota, June o
and West Virginia, June 6. Vermont
and Alabama have also enacted pri-
mary laws but the exact dates for the
holding of them are not at hand.
However, 1t is thus seen that the
people have but little time left in which
to make up their minds, as to their
preferences for the nomination for
president. 1t is thought the vote will
not be heavy in those rural districts
where the farmers are apt to be crowd
ed with spring work and the roads not
In very good condition.
The Cummins workers have done
considerable work in Minnesota and
the Dakotas and are sure Of a delega-
ton for Cummins from these states.
They have not invaded the states
which are known to have favorite sons
whom the voters are expected to sup
port
Good Roads Essay Contest.
"How Good Roads Will Benefit the
Iowa Farmer is the subject for a
state wide essay contest conducted by
the Iowa state fair management this
year. The contest will be put on by
counties and the winner in each county
will be entitled to a free trip to the
fair as has been the plan followed in
similar contests held for the past few
years. These boys make UP the state
fair boys camp. The winning essays
in each county are forwarded to the
executive committee of the state fair
board at Des Moines and from these is
chosen the winner of the state con-
test. The state winner becomes dele
gate at large and an alternate Is chosen
from his county that In all 100 boys
have chance. to get a free trip to the
fair.
The contest is limited to farm boys
between the ages of 10 and 10 years.
The essays have to be in the hands
OF county chairmen. in each county of
the state, by April 1. These county
chairmen are in many cases the county
superintendent Of schools
Legal Holiday Observanees.
Washington's birthday was quite
generally observed by the state offices
today. While many of the state. Of
ficers and employees were at their Of
fees doing some work the offices were
not open for business. Considerable
comment is heard as to the general
lack of the observance of Lincoln's
birthday. The banks in the larger
cities Of the state usually observe it
and some Of the public offices but gen.
orally 1t is not day when business Is
suspended. The public schools make
considerable OF Washingtons birthday
but few of them have an observance on
Lincoln's birthday. Feb. IL. the date
Of Abraham Lincolns birth, is a legal
holiday in twenty-one states in the
union including Iowa. Washington's
birthday is legal holiday in all of the
states Of the union. the District of
Columbia. Porto Rico and Alaska.
The southern states do not observe