Daily new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1897-1906, 1900-01-05
ITS OYER.
Four Towns Get Through the
Annual Elections.

prise-M0rgant0wn Elects Posten-
South M0rgantoWn Chooses George
Hall and Seneca John Lcugh-W
Were Voted For and What They Got.
The town elections are over and
the men are selected in the four
towns to act as city fathers for the
coming year. There were few sur
pr:ses sprung in any of the contests.
Greenmont furnished one OF these.
The old council had held meeting
and selected ticket to be voted for.
There was no talk of any other tick
ct and the old members were con
graduating themselves that they
were out of the harness.
On the quiet however some of the
voters got together and on election
day they sprung another ticket com
posed in the main of the members
of the old council and elected it by
a great big majority. The candi-
dates for Mayor were j. A. Powell
who received % votes and w. F.
Sennett who got s. The recorder
elected is Lee Gidley who received 26
votes to 4 for Charles McBee. The
council vote was as follows;
j. A. Smith %, Pierce Hess "a,
Frank Selby "a, c. H. McBee 81,
W. +. Sennett l6, John Sennett 15,
All Lemons s, James Reay 7, Joe
Sturgeon 5, and George Blaney 5.
Messrs Smith, Hess, Selby, McBee
and w. f. Sennett will compose the
next council
In town the election was very
quiet until near the close of the vo-
ting when the votes began to come
in lively. There were 300 votes cast
out of a total of about 400 which is
the number Of those entitled to vote
in the borough. The voting was slow
until the last few hours when some
tall hustling was DONE
The Fireman's ticket was elected
by good majorities. The men ran
rather close to gether although there
was considerable scratching. For
Mayor Col. S. A. Poster received
1872 votes and L. V. Keck 40. Sew
en- votes were blank as far as mayor
was concerned.
w. E. Arnett received 30l votes
while eight were blank on the ques-
ton of recorder. The councilmen
voted in were W. W. Hayes, H. A
Christy, A. w. Lorentz, E. Shisler
and Jos. Moorland. There were
thirteen candidates voted for and
the count was delayed until a late
hour on this account. The result
was not announced until after nine
o'clock.
The vote received by the various
candidates voted on was as follows:
III. A. Christy 1913, w. w Hayes
100, E. Shisler 173, Jos. Moreland
15S, A. W. Lorentz 145, A. X. Smith
139, Robert A. Vance 124, j. j.
Wharton lis, j M. Wood IS, Thos.
E. Hodges 81, Sam Pickenpaugh
35, j. NJ Reed 80 and NJ L. Cassel-
berry o.
In Seneca there was very light
vote polled but thirty seven men
coming to the polls They elected
John Tough mayor he receiving
every vote cast. For recorder George
E Vangilder the only candidate re-
ceived 81 votes. The council elect
is Leopold Sigwart 81, James M.
Jamison 80, Rufus West 90, G. F.
Rosenmerkel 25 and August Boehler
"a The others voted on were d. b.
Waters 20. August Stenger Ii and
j. G. Samsel H.
South Morgantown got out TWEEN
ty three votes George Hall was re-
elected mayor. Several others re-
ceived few scattering votes but he
received the greater majority of
those cast. Col. Fairchild was chos-
en- as recorder for another term
OF the old council G. N. Reay and
j. X. Phillips was re elected w.
L. Coombs, James Wright and
Charles Stephan were elected to the
other places
No particular issues were at stake
in any of che elections and the men
chosen do not go in pledged to any
particular line of work. The towns
electing them are willing to leave
the direction of affairs to them and
will be ready to endorse what is
done.