Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-06-15
ELECTED IN VIRGINIA
Many Cities Choose Mayors
and Counci|men.
LIGHT VOTE IN RICHMOND
Regular Der:scratic Candidates Are
Successful in Norfolk.
DANvILLE CONTEST INTERESTS
Result Conceded to Be Victory for
"Wets''-No Ticket for
Woodstock Voters.
DANvILLE CONTEST INTERESTS

Municipal elections n held yesterday
in many of the cities + irginia In some
a mayor and all city <~.cers were elected
In others either mayors or councilnen
were chosen and in other places only
| vacancies were filled
| At Richmond the election was very
quiet. Rain helped to make the vote one
| of the lightest on record. The choice
was for aldermen and councilmen, and
the democratic nominees had no opposi-
| ton, except in the recently annexed
| Washington ward, formerly Manchester
Here there were several Independent can
| didates. but these were showed under
by the democratic nominees.
At Norfolk w. NJ. Hannah had no op-
position for the controlership and T. S
Purdie. around whom the recent water
scandal" revolved, and who was the reg
ular democratic nominee for the two-year
term of the board of control, was over
whelmingly elected. Democratic candi-
| dates for the councils had practically no
opposition.
Danville Chooses Councilmen.
| At Danville fifteen members of the city
council were chosen, as follows: Alder
men, Charles C. Snead, l.. B. Conway, jr
| John w Mum. Col. A. b. Darlington,
Charles NJ. Mahan and Robert P. Wal
| tiers; cOuncilmen, 2. T. Barrow, jr., j. l..
| Walker. Fred Clarke. George W. Crawley,
George S. Moore. Julius kaufman. w. X.
| Anderson, J. w. Powell, J. w Haraway
| and D. B. Gardner. The election, follow
| ing upon the recent victory of the vets
| here In local option contest, was
| marked by much interest, and a full
| corps OF workers was out at each of the
| six voting precincts. The election is con-
| coded to be victory for the "wets," and
| several members of the council who were
pronounced "drys' in the recent contest
were defeated. among them Aldermen
| Carter and Clement. and Councilman
| Cousins, in the fifth ward.
At Staunton G. w. Fretwell and S. P.
Sflling, independents, We're elected alder
men in the first ward against R. E. r.
Nelson and w. r. McCue democrats
l.. c. Ware, w. G. Moffett and B. B.
Buchanan, Independents, and John Cros-
by, democrat, were elected to common
council, two democrats, Peyton Cochran
and J. H. Bryan, being defeated. In the
second ward the entire democratic ticket
was elected. H. l.. Lang and W. H. Ian
dis, to the board of aldermen, over j. H.
Bowman and H. c. Parent, independ-
ents, and j. j. Flavin. G. Frank CARRIER
| r. r. Heydenreich and l.. w. H. Pey-
! ton to common council.
No Opposition at Portsmouth.
AT Portsmouth the democratic candi-
dates for city council had no opposi-
ton.
| At Virginia Beach w. J. Wright was
elected mayor over Sydney Bot by a
vote of d to "a. Six councilmen also
were elected.
| At Petersburg an election was held for
members of the board of aldermen and
city council There was no opposition
and a very light vote was polled.
| At Lynchburg a small vote was cast.
In the first ward E. E. Menefee and A. P.
| Montague. councilmen, and James l. Lee.
alderman, were elected; in the second
ward John Victor, w. B. Bigbie and A.
| n. Pierce counCilmen; William King and
DR.. John Carroll, aldermen; in the third
| ward, John S. Witt and Thomas Chris
tian councilmen, and r. c. Stokes, alder
| man.
| At Culpeper, in a strenuous election.
Mayor II. c. Burrows was reelected "
a majority of five over W. A. Bickers. j.
Gordon Thomas and DR.. r. B. Mccoy dn-
| cumbents), and J. B. Rust and Col. S. NJ.
| Newhouse were elected councilmen. Fred
| Hudgins recorder, and George w. keerl,
| treasurer, succeeded themselves.
At Woodstock Mayor J. H. Rodeffer
was reelected. H. Morrison, jr. j. B.
| Clover, w. l.. Newman, J. G. kneisley
and II. F. Boyer were reelected. and H.
| O. Ncodemus was elected for council
The official ballot was blank. All names
had to be written, no candidates having
| filed their names
| Mayors Are Elected.
In Southampton county there were mu-
nicipal elections in four towns, the fol-
lowing being chosen mayors: c. c.
| Vaughan, at Franklin; w. J. Sebrell. jr.,
at Courtland; R. H. Rawls, at Ivor; E.
D. Priddy at Boykins.
At Winchester Lewis F. Cooper was the
only republican elected to the city coun-
| Gil at the local election. He led the ticket
| in the second ward The democrats elect
| ed five councilmen. The liquor issue played
| an important part
At Fredericksburg six members OF the
city council were elected as follows:
Upper ward, J. P. Rowe, w +. Bradley,
H. B. Lane; lower ward. Henry Warden,
| j. w. Masters, w. S. Embrey. The de-
feated candidates were S. w. Somervile,
X n. Goorick, T. NJ. Larkin, S. E. Eos
At Roanoke, Murphy (dem) was re-
| elected in Kimball ward a member of the
board; Johnson tdem;l ana rattle ana
ST. Clair (rep) were elected to the coun-
Gil In Melrose ward, Page tdem.) and
| Porter Gnd. rep.) were elected members
| of the board, and Parrock Tep) and Jor-
dan and kesler fdem.) TO the council.
| At Salem, j. S. Persnger was elected
MAYOR over w w. McClung by a ma
| iorty Of II. McClung has held office two
years W. A. Vest was elected town
sheriff over f. r. Moore, incumbent, by
| a majority of two.
| At Bristol the following were chosen
| members of the council: II. +. Jones, I.
c. Adams, P. A Goodwin. S. L. NAL
| lard Reelected were j. r. SpauldinS
| and r. D. Smith.
| At Bedford City there was tie vote
| for mayor
| At Radford half of the total number of
| councilmen were chosen, and three indie
pendents won out In West ward.