The Lexington dispatch. [volume] (Lexington, South Carolina) 1870-1917, 1908-10-28
Notice Of Election.
State of South Carolina

State of South Carolina,
County of Lexington.
Notice is hereby given that the
General Election for Presidential and
Vice-Presidential Electors and repre-
sentatives in Congress will be held at
the voting precincts fixed by law IN
the County of Lexington on Tuesday,
November 8, 1908, said day being
Tuesday following the first Monday
as prescribed by law.
The qualifications for suffrages are
as follows:
Residence In State for two years,
in the county one year, in the polling
precinct in which the elector offers to
vote, four months, and the payment
nix months before any election OF any
poll tax then due and payable. Pro-
yided, That ministers in charge OF an
organized church and teachers OF pub
Lie schools shall be entitled to vote
after six months residence In Inc
State, otherwise qualified. -,
Observation-Disclosures OF ail
taxes, including poll tax, assessed and
collectable during the previous year.
The production OF q certificate or the
receipt of the officer authorized to col
lect such taxes shall be conclusive
proof of the payment thereof.
Before the hour fixed for opening
the polls Managers and Clerks must
take and subscribe 70 the Constltu-
tional oath. The Chairman OF the
Board of Managers can administer
the oath to the other Managers and
to the Clerk; q Notary Public must
administer the oath to the Chairman.
The Managers elect their Chairman
and Clerk.
Polls at each voting place must be
opened at O'Clock a. M, and closed
at 4 O'Clock p. M, except in the City
of Charleston, where they shall be
opened at q. M, and closed at 6 p.
m.
The Managers have the power to
I'LL q vacancy; and if none OF the Man
ayers attend, the citizens can appoint,
from among the qualified voters, the
Managers, who after being sworn,
can conduct the election.
At the close of the election, the
Managers and Clerk must proceed
publicly to open the ballot boxes and
count the ballots therein, and contin-
ue without adjournment until the
same is completed, and make a state
ment of the result for each Office, and
sign the same. Within three days
thereafter, the Chairman of the Board,
or some one designated by the Board,
must deliver to the Commissioners OF
Election the poll list, the boxes con-
tanning the ballots and written state
ments of the result of the election.
MANAGERS OF ELEcTIoN.-The
following Managers of Election have
been appointed to hold the election at
the various precincts in the said
county:
Edmund-J. A. Kyzer, Raymond
Shealy, II. p. Bachman.
Leesville-A. P. West, M. Crouch.
L. P. Williamson.
Brook-Ansel Caughman, George
Lewis, Perry Burkett.
NPeak-O. L. Mayer, W. M. Addy,
Jos. 81. Eargle.
Chapin-W. P. Betchman, r. P.
Slice, r. w. Frick.
Spring Hills. w. Amick, P. w.
Sites, H. Benson Slice.
Folks School House,. J. Chap
man, G.. r. Eleazer, N. M. Derrick.
\ Ballentine-S. E. Lowman, H. A.
Buckley, G. J. Shealy.
Irmo-A. N. Dreher, H. A. Lerick,
J. n. Shealy.
lHilton-John H. Hitler, J. A. Ept-
ing, E. L. Derrick.
Lower Fork at st. Andrews School
House-A. 8. Nunnamaker, P. E.
Huffman, s. D. Meetze.
Edrd's Stores. E. Epting, J. w.
Amick, Jr., A. W. Ballentine.
Delingo-D.P. Roof, B. M. Buff, 81.
w. Shu1l.
T. H. ShulIs Store-C. M. Living
ston, Edwin Hendrix, Paul Shull.
r. J. Drafts's Stored. F. Price,
+. P. Drafts, J. L. Sease.
Crout's Stored. A. Hendrix, G.
Sease, j. R. Shealy.
Red Bank-H. D. Boozer, Andrew
Goodwin, Fred Pound.
Gaston-C. II. Hartley, W. D.
Pound, @. G. Goodwin.
swansea-Frank Hilderbrand, ia
cob Wise, Ellie Bars.
Sandy Run at Oak Grove-W. H.
Wannamaker, J. E. Saylor, T. L.
Williams.
P. W. Shealy's Store-J. S. Reeder,
J. s. Millor, Levi Brown.
st. Matthews-C. P. McCartha, L.
M. Steele, S. D. Keisler.
,Pelion-H. V. Rish, J. H. Laird, 81.
L. Scofill.
Poops Mill-M. G. Kirkland, J. W.
Starnes, Jr., J. L. Jefcoat.
,Huffman's Burnt Mills-D. E. Clark,
W. M. Yonce, J. o. Spradley.
Steadman-A. B. Quattlebaum, R.
G. Able, F. w. Quattlebaum.
Samaria-B. J. Rodgers, M. R.
Gunter, J. s. Burgess.
G1lber-D. e. Hammond, Isaiah
Taylor, r. L. Craps.
Summit-E. D. Long, N. D. Hite,
A. L. Price.
Batesburg- M. Adams, F. Ken
nerly, Muller Sawyer.
Lexington-C. West Caughman, J.
M. Caughman, Charlie E. Corley.
Brookland-Walter S. Hook, Hamp
Caughmsn, J. 8. Gunnell.
The Managers at each precinct
named above are requested to dele
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