The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1898-09-09
-FOUR MAYORS IN Four MONTHS.
How Sunday Music Has Upset the
Municipality of ThunderboIt

How Sunday Music Has Upset the
Municipality of ThunderboIt.
The Thunderbolt municipality is in dire
trouble. -Four Mayors in four months is
the record, and, according to some of the
citizens of the neighboring burg, an effort
may be made to secure still another.
A prominent citizen of that troubled SUI
burb went to see Judge Hampton l.. Fer
rill yesterday with view to determining
whether another election for commission
ers of Warsaw, as it is technically known,
cannot be ordered. in view of the fact, as
he alleges, that there have been violations
of the charter.
Judge Ferrill did not give any decided
answer, but the matter will be looked into
with view to seeing whether any relief
can be given. The alleged violations of
the charter are brought about by the fact
that in the evolutions of commissioners
there are only two of the original MEM
bers elected by the people of Thunder
bolt left on the board. The others have
folded their tents and silently stole away.
This ''muchly Mayored" town has had
considerable to contend with of late. Five
commissioners were elected nearly five
months ago. At the first meeting of the
board an effort was made to pass an or
dinance prohibiting Sunday music within
the sacred confines of that staid old COM
munity. 1t was a sacrilege, four of the
members said to permit songs to be sung
and pianos to be played there on the Sab
bath day. Mayor L. w. Nelson presided
at that meeting, but he could not consist
emily countenance such an abridgement
of the probervial liberties of Thunderbolt,
and before the meeting was over he re-
signed nor OnlW MaVOr h1lt q : q T1ann-
Der of the board.
Mayor r. f. Reitze was the next official
head of that municipality. In the mean
time it seems his brother members of the
board had weakened somewhat on the
Sunday music prohibition, and he soon
resigned, because they would not uphold
him in the rigid enforcement of the Or
dinance. Thus Mayor No. folded his tent.
The next Mayor was Commissioner Will
liam Gray. Commissioner Gray, Mayor
No. g. appears to have views of his own
regarding the anti-Sunday music law. He
was almost as strong an advocate of it
as was ex-Mayor Reitze. But soon some
thing happened against which he, too,
had to protest. A party named Miller was,
by his brother commissioners, granted
permission to keep an ali-night dance
house four nights in the week. This he
thought was carrying things too far, and
Mayor No. 3 rendered his resignation and
folded his tent.
At last Tuesday nights meeting Mr..
Maxine J. Desvergers was chosen Mayor
no. 4. He is a recent acquisition to the
board of commission ers, which is COM
posed now OF Messrs. Sheppard, Cler,
Toomer and Desvergers, there being no
fifth man. Messrs. Sheppard and Cler are
the only members of the board elected by
the people who remain. Mr.. Nelson re-
signed in May and the fourth Mayor has
just been chosen.
Thus are the residents of Thunderbolt
sorely troubled over their internal affairs,
and for these reasons they want to call
the whole thing off, and elect a new board
The result will be awaited with much in
terest The only question now is, will the
Warsawites make it Mayor No. within
five months? Such a record would be hard
to heat