The Montgomery advertiser., 1902-08-26
A Very Quiet Election.

The election today has been one of the
Quiftest In the history of Dallas County.
At an early hour this morning hacks were
out with banners on them. indicating In
whose interest they were being run, but
they did not have a great deal to do.
The voting was done at five different
polling places In the city, one voting
place in each ward .
Up to II m. less than $50 votes had been
polled. the highest vote up to that hour
ever cast In primary election in this
city.
A good many made application to vote
who had not paid their poll tax or regis
tered. and were promptly told by the
election managers that they could not
vote. Some of these were greatly disap-
pointed when they found that they could
not vote, and in some Instances proceed
ed to "cuss,' out tie new CONSTITUTION,
forgetting that 1t was their, own fault
and not the new Constitution that pre-
vented them from voting.
A good many voters were challenged on
various grounds at the different voting
places.
There were a large number of voters at
the various voting places for the differ
ent candidates, who pulled the voters
about, but work at the polls did not seem
to have the same effect that 1t hereto
fore had, for a great many of the SOW
ereisns pulled away and got into the
polls and voted for the men of their
choice, making out their own tickets.
A good many voted for Col. H. s. D.
Mallory and D. NJ. Scott for committee
men from the Fourth Congressional Dis
trict, and for nobody else. OF course, the
straight jerks men voted for the commit
teemen favorable to that gentleman.
while the Johnston men did the same
thing. as q rule. ~
Selma Man at Salt Lake.
Med. Campbell. who represented the
local lodge OF Eiks at the recent national
meeting in Salt Lake City. talks most
entertainingly of his visit to that city.
He says that the EIks. were royalty en-
tertained, though living was Q little ex-
pensive. the prices Of everything being
doubled and trebled. .'Jts.2f - +
He paid 50 a day for q room to sleep
in and at the restaurants-paid N:ss Tor
meal that he got in Denver for 30 cents.
The climate, he said, was delightful. He
had to sleep under blankets at night.
Salt Lake is fourteen miles from the
city and he went to the lake one day and
took a bath in its briny waters he
waded out several hundred yards and as
the water was only about waist deep ne
got tired and quit. Some OF tine party
Informed Mr.. Campbell that they wadeo
heads, but he says he does not Vouch
for the truthfulness of these statements.
He described the sensation or SWIM
ming in the waters of Salt Lake as being
delightful, 1t being impossible to Sink IN
the water it is so buoyant.3
Mr.. Campbell IL expected to make
speech and give the members OF the
lodge a detailed description OF his trip
at the next regular meeting OF the lodge
PERSONAL AND LOCAL.
Oscar Engledow, steward at the Hotel
Albert. shot at a waiter twice this morn
ing while the negro was assaulting MIN
with empty beer bottles The negro was
not hit.
There was a small blaze al Mrs. Sol.
I,ehmans on Broad STREET Sunday night
but it was extinguished before mucn
damage was done.
Mrs Edgar wilkinson left today for
ssheIbv Springs Mr.. Wilkinson accom-
named her that far and then went on to
Chattanooga.
planters are complaining that the con-
tinued drought in some places IS causing
the cotton to dry up and die In the neius'
Mrs. Frank Hanson passed through the
citv today on the way from Demopolis
10 her old home in Wisconsin.
NFessrs Alfred Nathan and Leon Prince
of New York are the guests OF MI. ana
Mrs. Jake LEOPOLD.
Mrs. Ports WEIGH who has been dan
xercuslv I'll, is reported to be great deal
better today.
Miss Celeste Kayser has returned from
a visit to friends and relatives In Mis-
sissippi.
A. c. Hill. car inspector for the South
ern. was operated on today for appen-
dieitis.
Miss Rec Coleman will leave in a few
days for visit to Virginia watering
places
Rev. and Mrs. Thomas Mangum OF
jackson, have been in the city several
days.
Miss Louise Bonner is on Visit 10
Mrs. William Graham, in Talladega.
Oh. Colson and Miss Fay Harris were
quietly married on Saturday Night
Miss Mary Gardner of Montgomery. ar
ter a visit of several weeks to ner cousin
Miss Carrie Virgins. has returned horhe
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