Little Falls transcript. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1876-1894, 1893-03-17
Town Elections.

Tuesday was the day on which
annual town meeting was held III all
the towns in the county.
At Royalton there was consider
able excitlnent over the license ques-
ton and Isl votes were polled. There
were 80 yotes>i1l favor of license and
3S against. Royalton saloons will
run as usual. The following officers
were elected: President of village
council, Geo. E. Wilson; trustees, j.
W. Bouck, L. w. Bell, DR.. G.. E. Put
ney; recorder, e. A. Boutwell,; treas
urer, A. &, Wilson; justice, L. D.
Forbes; constable, JAS. d. Boyd
Following are the names OF the
town officers elected at Elm Dale:
Supervisors, Watkin Davis, chairman;
Gust Nilsson, A. Anderson; clerk J. j.
Jacobson; treasurer, Andrew Nilsson;
assessor, Frank Anderson; Justice of
the peace, +. A. Anderson; constables,
r. f. ROssihg, Nick Edstrom.
At the election at Pierz. on Tues
day the following town officers
We're elected: Supervisors, VIM. Grell,
chairman, Mat Gross, Chas. Hauer;
clerk, Chris Vernig; treasurer, 6.
Terhar; assessor, F. Dahman; justice
of the peace, VIM. Grcll; constables,
+. Steinkujler, T. Carl.
At Bellevue annual town meeting
the following officers were elected: Su
pervisor, Frank Rennick, chairman,
JOS P. Leigh, J. D. Lambert; clerk,
"A. W. Swanson; treasurer, A. G. Will
son: assessor, z. B. Nc Doyle; con-
stable, j. D. Boyd.
Following are the town officers of
Swanville, for the ensuing year,
Supervisor, Albert Melke; chairman,
Paul Miller, Henry Games: clerk.
John J. McRae; assessor, E. J.
Bachelor; justices OF the peace, \.
Robert, B. Taylor: constables, Jas.
Cofield, Luke Casey. Eighty-tive
votes were cast. The herd law was
defeated and cattle will be allowed
to run at large as usual.
Considerable interest was taken
in the annual meeting at Belle
Prairie. Besides the election of
town officers the herd law and license
questions were voted upon. Cattle
will be allowed to run at large and
the citizens will buy their boo re
at Little Falls or go without. Fol
lowing are the names OF the town
officers: Supervisors, F. }. Farrand;
chairman, F. Branchaud, NJ. HerOuX,
clerk, II. Rasicot,; treasurer, JAS.
Gravel: assessor, Peter Picott; jus
tees of the peace, G. W. Little. +.
Bedow; constable, NJ. l.. Lii tie.
At Green Prairie there was rather
a lively contest and the following Of
ficers were elected: Supervisors, JAS.
ChadN ick, chairman, Il. Peterson.
Chas. Gedvey; Clerk, Eugene Ecker
son; treasurer, Robert E. Denny, as
sessor, William Chadwick; justices Of
the peace, f. d. Hall, Geo. Edden;
constable, Henry Chadwick; road
Overseer, Geo. Edden
At Pike Greek the da, was stormy
and only 63 out of 2lO votes were
cast.
The election was evidently Il
harmonious one as there was only
one ticket in field and the following
named persons We're unanimously
elected: Supervisors, O. Duclos,
chairman, L. Keidrowski.J J. Mantey;
clerk, James Dobie; treasurer, n. L.
Dargis; assessor, NJ. Styger; justice
Of the peace, William White and
William Gray: constables, T.. P.
Eidam, j. Michaud, road over
seers, first district. Geo. Coultas,
third j. Schubert. fourth j. Ginter,
fifth, +. p. Eidam. The name of
the Overseer in the second district
could not he learned.
There were 80 votes cast at
Randall, and hereafter citizens of
that town will be obliged to come to
Little Falls or go to Staples when
they want a "wec drap OF lick' r.
No license carried by a majority of
- votes and it is probable that the
recent stab6ing affair at that place
had considerable to do with bringing
about the above result. Following
are the names of the officers elected:
supervisors, j. NJ. Barnhart, chair
man, J. r. Wood, David Ebner;clerk,
G. w. Shumaker, treasurer, $. $.
Langmade; assessor, Walter Jackson,
justice of peace. =. A. Smith; con-
stable. John Mills.
Everything went off quietly at the
Little Falls town election and the
following officers were elected:
supervisors, j. l.. Clapp, chairman,
Z. L. Raymond, NJ. Porter; clerk
Nj. O'Neil; assessor, T. O'Neil;
treasurer, P. j. Rerk; justices OF the
peace, NJ. O'Nei], Eugene Gotta; con-
stables, J. O'Neil. Geo Harrison;
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