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

In pursuance of the laws OF the State OF Wis
onsin, 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. d. 1886, the following officers arc
to be elected, TO wit:
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. ID. 1881.
A Secretary of State in place Of Ernst g.
Timme. whose term of office will expire on the
first Monday in January, A. ID. 1887.
A State Treasurer, in place OF Edward c. Nc
Fetridge whose term Of office will expire on the
first Monday in January, A. ID 1887.
An Attorney General, in place of Lcander f.
Frisby. whose term OF Office will expire on the
first Monday in January, A. ID. 1887.
State superintendent, in place OF Robert
Graham, whose term of Office viii 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. d. 1887.
Commissioner of Insurance, in place Of Phil.
l.. Spooner, Jr., whose term of Office viii expire
on the first Monday in January, A. ID. 1887,
represe sentative in Congress for the Third
Congressional District, consisting of the counties
OF Dane, Grant, Green. Iowa and La Fayette, in
place of Robert NJ. La Toilette. whose term Of
office will expire on the fourth day Of March, A.
ID. 1887.
Member of Assembly for the first Assembly
District OF Grant County, consisting of the towns
of Clifton, Ellenboro Harrison Hazel Green,
jamestown, Lima, Paris, Plat willie and Smelser.
IN place Of James V. HOLMAN.
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 WIN. J. Mccoy.
A Member Of Assembly for the Third Assem-
bly, District of Grant County, consisting of the
towns OF Boscobel Castle Rock, Fennimorc,
Hickory Grove Marion Milyile Mount Hope
Mount Ida, Muscoda. Patch Grove. WatterstowSn''
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. d. 1887.
A Clerk of the Circuit Court, in place Of A. C.
Morse, whose term OF Office viii expire on the
first Monday in January, A. ID. 1887.
A County Clerk, in place of C. W. Hill, whose
term OF office will expire on the first Monday in
January, A. d. 1887.
County Treasurer, in place of Thomas Nc
Mahon, whose term of Office will expire on the
first Monday in January, A. ID. 1897.
Register of Deeds, in place OF Lester II.
Boughton, whose term of office win expire on the
rst Monday in January A. ID. 1887.
A District Attorney, in place of Robert c. Orr,
whose term OF Office win expire on the first Mon
day in January, A. d. 1887.
A County Superintendent Of Schools, in place
OF Charles l.. Harper, whose term of Office will
expire on the first Monday in January. A. d.
1857.
A County Surveyor, in place Of j C. Scott, who
was elected and qualified for the term of office
which will expire on the first Monday in January,
A: ID. 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. ID. 1887.
Notice is further given that at said General
Election the following proposition Is to be sub
mitted to the people in pursuance of Chapter 211
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 people Of 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 years or up
wards except paupers, persons under guardian
ship, and persons otherwise excluded by section
2, OF article 3 of the Constitution of wisconsin,
who has resided within the state one year and in
the election district where che offers to vote ter
days next preceding any election pertaining Ia
school matters, shall have right to vote at such
election.
Section ,. At the general election to be held
on the Tuesday next succeeding the first Monday
in November A. ID. 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 If the same shall be approved
OF by majority OF all the votes cast on that sub
Ipct IL shall into effect and he force from
and after the date of said election, otherwise il
shall not 90 into effect or in any manner be in
force.
Section 3. The votes cast uron the subject
specified in the last preceding ction shall be by
separate ballot, and shall have written printed
or partly written and partly printed on each Of
them the words, For Woman Suffrage in Schoo
Matters" or Against Woman Suffrage in Schoo
Matters" which words shall indicate the vote o.
the elector for or against the approval of thii
act; and the ballots so cast shall be canvasscC
and returned in the same manner as the vote
cast for state officers are required by law to b.
canvassed. and the Secretary of State shall i'm
mediately on the completion of said canvass, pub
lish a statement of the result thereof, in som,
newspaper printed at the seat of government
legislature at the commencement of its session
Section g. This act shall take effect and be il
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 o
August, A. ID. 1886.
IL. 81 G. w. HILL, County Clerk,
2itd Grant County, Wis.