People's voice., 1900-09-06
EDNA SIPPEY wins.
The Belle Plsine Candidate Carries Off Jub.
lice Queen HOnors.

lice Queen fiOnors.
The contest for the hOuOrs OF Jubi-
lee queen had au exciting close at 10
pm. Friday. Miss Edna Sippe,
Uf Belle Plaiue carried OF the houurs,
Win Miss Maggie BaTndollar of We'll
lngton d ciUse second. Miss MaOei
Klein OF Wellington was third.
The excitement during the closing
minutes Uf the contest somewhat re-
sem6led the scene 10 board OF trade
PIT when the trading is sharp. Soon
after supper crowd gathered In
front OF Snyder's drug store tu watch
the contest. The three leading can.
dluates TOOK their turu leading ln the
race. Some friend OF Miss Barndnllar
would drop 10 and plank down $40 or
$50 as a banter " the friends OF the
other candidates. The friends OF Miss
Klein would get their heads together
aud In a few minutes Que OF them
would walk IN ana plank down enough
money 10 meet the ante aud "raisen IL
a couple Oi hundred votes. Then a
Belle Plalne mau who was backlnl
Miss Sippey would retire to lone
stairway or behind the prescription
counter IN the store and come back
with enough votes to place Miss Sip.
pey 10 the lead.
80 the voting went until about 9
O'Clock, with interest about eouaU,
divided between the progress OF The
voting aud the dark cOmplexioneo
young man from Belle Plalne, who
was backing Miss Sippey. 1t was
whispered around iD the crowd that
he mad roll" and would spend $500
II necessary To elect his candidate.
This young man-Lucas is his name
played his hard we'll. The Welllpg-
ton crowd watched him, and as the
voting grew more spirited after 9
O'Clock, MADE up their minds that he
would not stay 10 The game till IL
closed. With apparent reluctance be
would walk up to the counter and
cast Two or three hundred votes for
Miss Sippey when she needed twice
tnat number to catch up with her
nearest competitor. The young man
grew nervous and watched the bulletin
board constantly. The increasing
crowd and excitement made the vot
ing more lively, and Miss Slppey fell
near thousand votes behind. But
Lucas knew what he was doing. BE
made frequent trips to the telephone
booth in the central office upstairs
and held conversations with Belle
Plaine people about "yearlings."
"How many yearlings will you
huy?" Lucas would ask.
"Ten" would be the response. "How
many can you sell?"
81 have l50," Lucas would say. The
number would be approximately the
number of Miss Sippey'S votes, less an
additional cipher. "But my friend
has 200 and his partner has 20 more
well, III take 20 then" Tha
Belle Plaine man would add a cipher
to the numbers and knew how the
contest was progressing. He would
buy 200 ''yearlings" az Belle Plaine
instead Of 70, and the man at this end
OF the line added them TO the number
Miss Sppey had on the bulletin. He
was careful TO keep the vote here
within certain number OF the high.
est candidate. Ten minutes before
10 o'clock he sold few more "yearl-
ings" to the man In Belle Elaine, and
came back and looked at the bulletin
board Dervously. Miss Sippey was
over six hundred votes behind. He
bought l5O votes and the Wellington
crowd thought he was weakening.
The street and walk In front OF the
drug store was by this time a mass Of
people, and interest in the contest was
at high pitch.
Five minutes more and the contest
will close" yelled John Haughey.
The man from Belle Plaine went to
the telephone booth again and gave
bis orders to buy in Belle plaine.
Miss Barndollar and Miss Klein
each had over 1000 votes and Miss
Sippey had l,5l5. 1t looked like she
as out Of the race. The last ten
ecOnds were counted of by join
Haughey while the friends Of Miss
BarndoIlar and Miss Klein struggled
for the victory. When the contest
closed, the bulletin board showed the
following vote;
hlelu '..''..''.''.... .Z,3lS
birnuOllar .................... 2,UeI
olppey ..'...,............ ,5l5
Someone vent the rounds Of the
nther drug stores and reported that
Miss Barndollar had received 1875
votes at other places. This brought
hnr tntal I'm tn Q lR0 Enlln plainn