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Show I EXIT VARDAMAN ENTER NOEL I I Special Interest centers In tho chungo of gov- j I liUlVWW ernoi-H In Mississippi next Jnnunry because of WWWwV tho shnrp controversies which have occurred bo- WwywKww. VyW tween tho present Incumbent, Clov. Vnrdamau, sssSSfWMy vw and President Itoosovelt. The now governor- SxmjMm '3kTV elect, H. V. Noel, occupies rather a unlquo posl- WVWl'JHRy 'iflfy. Hon, not only In tho history of his county, but oWwlRf ' of his state, as ho Is the (list citizen of Holmes WWKVWotLN ivNv county ovor chosen, not only as governor, but WwwvWVvS foi any stnto olllce. and, so far- as can bo nscor- wVwVfcSg tallied, he was tho first to bo chosen to any of- wSy lice outsldo his county, and that was when ho llW Tvw was elected district attorney In 1887. V J Xx3-! V The public life of Kdinond V. Noel begnn In ' I !882, when he was tho youngest member of tho s N v . house of representatives, In which ho Served two (JjJ . terms, and was nftorwards elected district attorney, attor-ney, In 1887, which post ho nlso held for two terms, Borvlng until 1895, when he was chosen as state senator for Holmes county, serving as such until tho end of 1903, In which year ho was for tho first tlmo a candidato for Oovoruor, with Messrs. Vnidumnu und Crltz. , Mr. Noel has a brief war record of eight months, having onllBtod In 1898, during the. war with Spain ns a private In the Second Mississippi, Company Com-pany Ki commanded by Colonel W. A, Montgomery, und was chosen cuptaln by acclamation, and with It was uttached to tho 8eventh Army Corps, under General FlUliugh Lee. Mr. Noel has been twice married, first to Miss Lulu Hoaklns, of Lexington, Lexing-ton, who died In 1891, und In 1905 he was united In marriage with Mrs Alice Tyu Nellsun, duughtei or Colonel J. t Tyo, of Plckoua, |