The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1891-08-06
THE BOARD OF ELECTIONS.
1t Is Now Organized and Ready For
Work.

The four members of the County
Board of Electors, recently appointed by
Judge Kelly under the Australian Bal.
lot Law, met on Saturday morning, Au-
gust l, at the Court House in the Office
of The County Commissioners, as requir-
ed by law, to organize and elect clerk.
L. r. Duckwall and D. @. Morrow. are
the Republican members and j. B. Wor-
ley and H. L. Virgins the Democrats.
The law directs that the balloting for
the election OF officers shall begin at or
before one o'clock and that bale shall
be tLken every thirty minutes until
selection has been made. If after ten
ballots no one has been elected then the
Oldest member shall act as President for
the ensuing year. If no one has been
chosen for Clerk at the end of the tenth
ballot then the Clerk shall be selected
by lot from among those balloted for.
Mr.. L. R. Duckwall called the meeting
to order and he was elected President
of the Board by a unanimous vote. Ten
ballots were cast for Clerk, in each OF
which each of the following persons re.
ceived one vote: w. H. Walker, ]. S.
jolly, N. E. Chaney and w. L. Morrow.
No choice having been made the names
of the four candidates were written on
slips of paper and placed in hat, which
was we'll shaken by each member of the
Board to insure an unbiased decision of
the gods of chance. The hat was then
held over the head of the venerable COL
Nathaniel Massie, who with all the
gravity of Jupiter himself thrust bis
impartial hand into the urn Of i;,tes and
drew forth the lot which namel The
lucky man. The name Of N. Z CLANCY
was chosen and he was declared elected
as Clerk of the Board.
The matter of the compensation of the
Clerk was not taken up by the Board
and will not be until it has been more
fully ascertained what the nature and
extent Of his duties will be. The law
provides that the compensation of the
Clerk shall be paid in quarterly install.
ments and shall not exceed $lOO per
annum.
The only other business transacted
by the Board was the appointment OF
August 18th as the date for dividing the
territory of Greenfield into voting pre-
cincts in order that the special election
for Water Works Trustees may be con-
Quoted under the new system. The
division will be made with reference TO
a proper division of Madison township
The Sinking Spring Reunion was held
in Byrd's Grove near Sinking Spring on
Saturday, August 1st, and was attended
by a number of persons from here and
from the surrounding counties. After a
splendid dinner in the grove, to which
about fifteen hundred people sat down,
a historical paper was read by Jos. A.
Wickerham and addresses were deliver.
ed by Hon. P. N. Wickerham and G. H
Collins, Esq. A collection was taken
up to repair the old octagonal brick
school house which is one of the land.
marks Of the neighborhood. having been
built more or less than hundred years
ago. Captain ]. M. Hiestand, Jos. Nc.
Cague and Milton McKeehan headed
the list with $40 subscriptions and other
graduates Of the old school house who
have not profited quite so well by their
arithmetic lessons followed with less
amounts, so that the historic structure
will be placed in such repair as to insure
its preservation. ]. F. Bellison was
elected President of the Association for
the ensuing year and Jos. A. Wickerham,
Secretary. The date fixed for the next
reunion was the first Tuesday in August,
1892.