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Show Exciting Town Election Is Presaged By tylass Meeting Seventy In Attendance At Meeting At Which Citizens Citi-zens Ticket Is Named, j i i The opening guns were fired Tuos-; ihiy evening in what promises to lie one of 'the hottest-contested muniei-p:il muniei-p:il elections in the history of Mil-lord, Mil-lord, initial activities being in the form of a mass-meeting, hold in the Arion hall. First notices of the meet-' ing were given Sunday in the form of ar. our.cements in the churches and a picture show notice but, despite the short notice some 70 people were present. j The moot inc. late in starting, was opened by H. K. Phelps, who appoint-1 ed Dr. Charles K. Parrish as chair-j man and called Dr. 1,. F. Kohler, K.i E. Hihrgsu orth and Harold Cline to; the front, Messrs. Kohler and El-. hn,sworth complied with Thelps' re-; i iiest ar.d Ellingsworth was appoint- j n! secretary of the mooting bv Dr. i Parrish. " Calling1 first for nominations for' president of the town board of trus-i tees, the name of Dr. L. F. Kohler! was presented by Mr. Phelps, that of j W. F. Cottrell by Mrs. Mary Mc- j (.Viley, J. C. Smith by Dick Grogc-i son, Harry M. Hearn by Hy Davis and LaMar Outzen by D. X. Hick-; man. Mr. Cottrell ar.d Mr. Smith : withdrew their names from tiie race and voting by secret ballot was pro-1 ceeded with, the results being: as fol-! lows: Mr. Hearn, 40; Dr. Kohler, 11 ;j and Mi. Out-en, C. j State Senator George Jefferson a'-j this point spoke of the serious work ahead o: the town board and expressed ex-pressed a curiosity to know what the, candidates named or to be named at this meeting, stood for; in other words, what their platform was. C. ' C. Sloan, D. X. Hickman and others j part'elpated In the argument which' followed but it was finally decided to proceed with nominations for four members of the board of trustees.' Xominations for trustees and the results of the first ballot were as follows: J. M. Hughes, 12; Dr. C. P..1 Parrish, 23; Rudolph Nielsen, 29;' William Gardner, 17; Roy Cottrell,! 17; Sam Hickman, 16; Nels C. Schow, -17; Spence Schow, 14; Dr. L. F. Kohler, Koh-ler, 23; Willard Nichols, 14. The; names of J. C. Smith and L. G. Clay were also placed in nomination but, both gentlemen withdrew. Parrish, Nielsen and Kohler were (ieclared winners of three of the foun places on the board with 'the first bal- i loting 'but it was necessary to ballot j again for the fourth trustee, Gardner. Cottrell and Nels Schow being tied with 17 votes each. A second ballot ; eliminated Gardner but still left the other two in a tie with 17 votes. A , third vote resulted in a decision, Schow winning, 36 to 19. Th9 matter of selecting a commit- i tee on vacancies occupied the attention atten-tion of the meeting next and two different dif-ferent sets of men were named be- fore it was finally decided to let the I nominees comprise the committee on vacancies. The matter of platform again came to the front at this point, Senator Jefferson reiterating his former stand, and the matter was discussed pro and con but with no decision being be-ing arrived at, the meeting coming to an end shortly after the pronunce-ment pronunce-ment of Mr. Phelps to the effect that platform promises meant little and were pretty apt to be broken with the entry into office of a candidate. Dr. Parrish was called from the hall before the business of the meeting meet-ing was completed and he relinquished relinquish-ed the chairmanship to Dr. Kohler. There was no name selected for the ticket at the Tuesday meeting but this oversight was taken care of at a meeting of tlie nominees Wednesday evening at the office of Dr. Parrish, when the name Citizens ticket was selected. Nels C. Schow, also at this i meeting, presented his resignation as a candidate for trustee in favor of Roy Cotitrell, present member of the board and a strong contender in the balloting Tuesday night.. Mr. Schow gave as his reason for resigning his expectation of moving to California in the very near future. |