Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1886-09-02
VOLUME a..
Legal NOTICES.
Notice of General
Election.
STATE OF WISCONSIN, :,
GRANT COUNTY. "

In pursuance OF the laws Of the State Of Wis
consin, and of due notice given by the Secretary
| Of State.
Notice is hereby given that at the General
Election to be held in the several Towns, Wards,
Villages and Election Districts in the County OF
| Grant, State Of Wisconsin, on Tuesday succeed
| ing the first Monday, being the second day OF
November, A. ID. 1886, the fol- owing officers are
| to be elected, to wit;
A Governor, in place Of Jeremiah NJ. Rusk,
whose term Of office will expire on the first Mon
day in January, A. ID. 1887.
A Lieutenant Governor. in place of Samuel S.
Fifeld, whose term Of Office will expire on the
first Monday in January, A. D. 1887
A Secretary of State, in place Of Ernst G.
Timme. whose term OF Office will expire on the
| first Monday In January, A. d. 1887.
A State Treasurer, in place of Edward c. Nc
Fetridge, whose term of Office will expire on the
first Monday in January, A. d. 1887.
An Attorney General, in place OF Leander +.
Frisby, whose term of office will expire on the
first Monday in January, A. ID. 1887.
A State superintendent, in place of Robert
Graham, whose term of office will expire on the
first Monday in January, A. ID. 1887.
A Railroad Commissioner, in place Of Nils P
Haugen. whose term of Office will expire on the
first Monday in January, A. ID. 1887.
A Commissioner of Insurance, in place of Phil.
l.. Spooner, Jr., whose term of Office will expire
on the first Monday in January, A. d. 1887.
A representative in Congress for the Third
Of Dane, Grant, Green, Iowa and La Fayette, in
place of Robert M. La Toilette, whose term Of
office will expire on the fourth day of March, A.
ID. 1887.
A Member of Assembly for the first Assembly
District of Grant County, consisting of the towns
OF Clifton, Ellenboro, Harrison Hazel Green,
jamestown, Lima, Paris, Platteville and Smelser,
In place of James V. HOLMAN.
A Member of Assembly for the Second Assem-
bly, District Of Grant County, consisting of the
towns of Beetown, Bloomington, Cassville. Glen
Haven, Lancaster, Liberty, Little Grant Potosi
and Waterloo, in place of VIM. j. Mccoy.
A Member of Assembly for the Third Assem-
bly, District of Grant County, consisting OF the
towns OF Boscobel, Castle Rock, Fennimore,
Hickory Grove, Marion, Mllville. Mount Hope
Mount Ida, Muscoda, Patch Grove Watterstown,
Wingville, Woodman and Wyalusing, in place Of
Rufus M. Day.
Also the following County officers in and for
the county of Grant:
A Sheriff, in place OF Ora Richards whose term
Of office will expire on the first Monday in Janu-
uary, A. ID. 1887.
A Clerk of the Circuit Court, in place OF A. G.
Morse, whose term of Office will expire on the
first Monday in January, A. d. 1887.
County Clerk, in place of C. W. HILL whose
term of office will expire on the first Monday in
January A. d. 1887.
A County Treasurer, in place of Thomas Nc
Mahon, whose term Of Office will expire on the
first Monday in January, A. d. 1887.
A Register of Deeds, in place of Lester H.
Boughton, whose term of office will expire on the
rst Monday in January, A. d. 1887.
A District Attorney, in place of Robert C. Orr,
whose term of Office will expire on the first Mon
day in January, A. ID. 1887.
A County Superintendent of Schools in place
OF Charles l.. Harper, whose term of Ofice will
expire on the first Monday in January, A. D.
1857.
County Surveyor, in place of j. G. Scott, who
was elected and qualified for the term OF Office
which viii expire on the first Monday in January,
A: d. 1887, but who resigned said office on the
9Th day of October 1885, (and the vacancy occa-
stoned by such resignation has not been flled.)
A Coroner, in place of S. C. Mcdonald, whose
term OF office will expire on the first Monday in
January A. D. 1857.
Notice is further given that at said General
Election the following proposition is to be sub
mitted othe people in pursuance of Chapter 2l1
of the Laws of 1885, which Chapter reads as fol-
lows;
CHAPTER 211.
AN ACT relating to the exercise of the right of
suffrage OF women upon school matters.
The pcopleof the state of Wisconsin, represented
in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows:
Section l. Every woman who is a citizen OF
this state, of the age of twenty-one years or up
wards Except paupers, persons under guardian
snip, and persons otherwise excluded by section
?, of article of the Constitution of Wisconsin,
who has resided within the state one year, and in
the election district where she offers to vote ten
days next preceding any election pertaining to
school matters, shall have a right to vote at such
election.
Section 9. AT the general election to be held
on the Tuesday next succeeding the first Monday
in November A d. 1886. at all the usual places
Of holding elections in this state for the election
of all officers required by law then to be elected
the question whether this act shall go into effect
or in any manner be in force, shall be submitted
TO the people, and il the same shall be approved
OF by majority of all the votes cast on that sub
ject, 1t shall 60 into effect and be IN force from
and after the date of said election, otherwise it
shall not go into effect or in any manner be in
force.
Section 3. The votes cast upon the subject
speclhed in the last preceding section shall be by
separate ballot, and shall have written or printed
or partly written and partly printed on each of
them the words, For Woman Suffrage in School
Matters or Against Woman Suffrage in School
Matters which words shall indicate the vote of
the elector for or against the approval of this
act; and the ballots so cast shall be canvassed
and returned in the same manner as the votes
cast for state officers required by law to be
canvassed. and the Secretary of State shall i'm
mediately on the completion of said canvass pub
lish statement OF the result thereof, in some
newspaper printed at the seat of government.
and shall communicate the same to the next
legislature at the commencement OF its session.
Section 4. This act shall take effect and be in
force from and after its passage and publication.
Approved April /, 1885.
Given under my hand and official seal at Ian
caster, in said Grant County, this 10th day of
August, A. d. 1886.
IL. 81 C. w. HILL, County Clerk,
@4td Grant County, Wis