The Lamar register. [volume] (Lamar, Colo.) 1889-1952, 1910-09-21
We State Legislature now being

course of our Representa- i've, the
Hon. A. N. Parrish. during his
four years service as the represent
tative of this District.
Nominations for various county
officers being next in order oi has.
mess Geo. F. Pearl of Wiley pis.'ed
the name of our efficient county
clerk, Chas. F. Hoag, before the con
ven.don for renomination and 1t was
made unanimously and Mr. Hoag
called forth to accept the honor.
Treasurer being next on the roll
C. C. Goodale nominated c. l..
Margrave of Lamar and w. p.
James placed John o. Stream
of May Valley before the oonven-
ton. On the ballot MT Stream re-
ceived the nomination by , large
vote and made a splendid impressio,
on all the delegates by his speech
of acceptance.
For assessor no name was pre-
sen:ed but that Of W. H. Wheelock
of Amity and he was nominated by
acclamattOn.
Superintendent of schools was
next and Supt. COLLINS Of Holly
placed before the convention the
claims of Miss Emery of Holly.
while w. R. Waldo made q neat
speech nominating Chas. Smeltz.
our present competent superinten-
dent. The vote was close but MT.
Smeltz won out
When sheriff was called J. 8.
McMurtry of Holly placed Johnny
Simpson in nomination as a man
that made good and there was a
general rush among the delegates
to second the nomination. Tha
nomination was carried by p rising
vote amid loud Gala for Simpson.
The nominee got As Ear - the door
of the court room and then the ma,
who has arrested more despera .
characters than all former shertffs
of Prowers county put together
turned tail and ran and could not
be brought back. ,-
s. C. Gregory. who has 20 ably
represented the central district on
the board of commissioners for the
past four years, was renoEasaAsd
by acolamaGion snd will again look
after the interests Of h1s ps0pIe tor
another term.
A lively contest between r. =.
Irwin and l. n. AarkhaA uas
pulled off over the ssrvsyoeship
Mr.. Markham winning BY . cloae
vote.
For corner DR.. J. H. Kellogg was
renominated without opposition
owing to the assurance BY n. J.
McMillin that he always knew =
dead one.
The committee on delegates then
reported the following a. delegates
to the state and congressional con-
ventions:
State-C. C. Goodale. Dwight Miser.
J. s. McMurtry. J. w. Wukin. il.
Mayfield. CRANKY Hillyer. A. Z.
Bent. M. J. McMillin, H. w. Koen.
NJ. Strain. J. F. Hill. Chas Flynn
Congressional-N. N. Mclean. WA.
Merrill. H. C. McCreary. Z. s. Dar-
rough. Geo. B. Merrill. J. H. Wing.
w. C. Simpson, A. Kern. w. C.
Gould. H. B. Manville. Grant Good
win, +. N. Wilson.
For state senator A. N. Parrish
was unanimously endorsed and
given the privilege OF naming his
own delegates to the convention at
Las Animas.
On representative 1t was decided
to vote for the man wanted and
let him name his own delegates. DR.
]. s. Hasty and ]. L. Mayfield
were then placed before the oon-
vention and the former was after
a ballot declared the nominee.
N. N. Mclean and ]. s. McMur-
try were elected as the state COM
mitteemen for the next two years.
CRANKY Hiilyer was elected county
chairman and the following named
as the county central committee by
the various precincts:
No. Wv. E. Fee and Mrs. ]. F.
Curry.
No. 2-J. w. wilkin and w. C.
Simpson.
No. &C. G. Smaltz and Mrs. C.
"A. Fowler.
Nh Al H Myers and Mrs. NJ.