Perth Amboy evening news., 1908-11-06
LOCAL ELECTIONS
THROUGHOUT STATE

The Gloucester county Board of
Freeholders will have the same poll
tical complexion as formerly.
Detective H. c. Garrison, of
Swedesboro. was reelected constable
an Office he has held thirty-eight
1 years.
In Paulsboro everything went re-
| publican with the exception of
| Gaunt, for senator, Newton winning
| by 22 majority.
Merchantvilie voters upon leaving
the voting machine signed a petition
to council, protesting the further
use of #.
Norm an Robinson, of Wood bury,
I is wearing a straw hat and a heavy
overcoat for a week as the result of
an election bet.
Wildwood reelected Mayor Lati-
mer r. Baker, who ran on both the
! democratic and republican ticketc
and was unopposed-
In Holly Beach Mayor Frank z.
] Smith was reelected to the Office he
has held seventeen years by 345
votes, as against 100 for Garrison,
his opponent.
DR.. Charles Lorence. republican,
was reelected mayor of Wenonah
lover J. e. Charles, democrat. and
John L. Drummer was elected mar
shall. :
In North Wildwood formerly An
glesea) Harry C. Wheaton, demo-
erat, was elected mayor without op-
position, having been placed on both
tickets.
Somers Point, Atlantic county
7 ell fad y zf,a1 TAh hall
the peoples choice, as mayor, and
gave General Grubb majority oi
49,
Mayor ]. /. Lane. republican, was
reelected at Tuckerton by a mapority
of 124, and W. Howard Kelley and
: J. ". Horner as councilmen without
opposition. Henry Truck was elected
: constable
. At the recent primaries in Wood
bury J. D. Carpenter, Jr., democrat
was nominated for justice OF the
peace in the third ward, but fol
some reason his name did not appear
on the tickets On Tuesday. The
Young lawyer win probably exercise
his legal ability to get redress.
In Bordentown the republicans
elected Frank Buchanan to council
in the first and Albert Wilkinson in
the second ward, while John H Hut
Crimson, independent, was elected in
the third. The democrats elected
DIR. James s. Gilbert city collector
and John Swain overseer of the
poor. James Tantum, democrat, was
elected justice of the peace.
James V. Roberts. democrat, was
reelected m ayor of Beverly by ma
jority of 211 over Frank Jones, re
publican. The election of Adams
Davis and Rodman, republicans, ani
Hazard, democrat, gives the repub
licans a majority in council. For the
twentieth term Benjamin F. Soby
republican. was elected collector and
treasurer without opposition.
There was clean republican
sweep in Vineland, excepting e. L
Bolles and Alfred Crossman. town
ship committeeman, who were up fol
reelection. They met their Waterloo
because the voters thought the com
mittee had held too many eXtri
meetings to consider the making O
good roads. In the borough Waldo
F. Sawyer, NJ. D., the present mayor
was almost unanimously reelected.
In one OF the hottest politica
fights ever seen in Egg Harbor Cit
the democrats elected George Muel
Ter, mayor; Henry Otto, freeholder
two members of the council ant
members of the Board OF Education
while the republicans secured bu
one councilman and two minol
offices. The county republican ticke
was given the usual majorities, al
Though Congressman Gardner wa
4 heavily cut.