The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1912-07-26
ONLY TWO MEMBERS
OF COUNTY COURT
SANS OPPONENTS
DAVIS AT SPRING HILL AND ROSS
AT MT. PLEASANT HAVE
NO FIGHT.
CONTESTS IN EVERY DISTRICT
Forty-one Candidates for the TWEEN.
ty-Four Places In the Court TO BE
Chosen on the First Day Of August.
Old Members Are Running.

Not in years has there been so ex-
citing a contest for membership in
the county court of this county as
there is at the present time. But
two members Of the old court have
been honored by having no opposi-
ton. The time within which candi-
Gates could qualify expired on Mon
day and every district in the county
had contest for justice Of the peace.
The candidates who have no opposi-
ton are the members front he towns
Of Spring Hill and Mt. Pleasant.
There are twenty-one district mem
hers Of the county court. Two from
all the districts of the county ex-
cept the ninth which elects three.
For these twenty-one places there are
tnirty-seven candidates. Three mem
hers are elected from the towns of
Spring Hill and the city of Column
Tia. Four candidates are after these
places.
To John M. Davis, the veteran
magistrate of Spring Hill and C. C.
Ross, who succeeded the late Judge
Frierson from the city of Mt. Pleas
ant, about four years ago, belong the
distinction Of being the only candi-
dates for justice of the peace who
are reclining on fiowery beds of ease.
In the first district there are four
candidates, the two members now
sitting, Ad H. Forgey and R. G. Null
Inns, ST., and two new entries, E. E.
Woody, of Santa Fe, and J. B. Alder
son, Jr, of Fykes Mill. Mullins has
served one term in the court and
Forgey is filling out the unexpired
portion Of Hardy Skelley's term, hav.
ing been elected two years ago.
The second district has three can
didates for two places, insuring the
return Of one old member. It will
be J. w. C. Church or w. J. Mcknight
and both might come back. The
election alone can tell which, If
either will be succeeded by Jasper N.
Haywood, the third candidate.
The third district boasts full
complement Of candidates for ever
ything from advisory board on up or
down, just depending on the angle
at which one views the matter. For
justices Of the peace w. D. Stephen
son. present incumbent; J. A. (Doc)
Grove, J. Il. Johnson and Sam D.
Glenn are the candidates. p J.
Pcay, one Of the sitting members, is
not a candidate.
In the fourth district. both the old
members, Allen Holt and J. M. Hun
ter. are seeking another term. They
ere opposed by s. H. Denham. for
mer member of the court and Harry
H. Borum, some time candidate for
register.
1t is said by those who live in that
section that the contest for justice
OF the peace in the fifth district has
the weather skinned block for
Gown right heat. It is declared that
the toridity of Old Sol these dog
days is not a circumstance compar-
ed to the warm generated by the fight
between w. E. Ballanfant, C. C. Den
ton, Roy Wilkes and Bob Murphy for
justice of the peace. Ballanfant and
Denton are the sitting members
There are two members to be elect
ed in the sixth but only three candi-
OATS are out They are the sitting
members, M. T. VOORHEES, and Thos.
F. Hill and T. Y. English, Jr. J. B.
Lowell. the other member from the
district, has moved to the ninth dis
trict and is not candidate for re-
election.
The same situation exists in the
sevents district where there are three
candidates The two old members,
c. 8. Jackson and F. M. Ricketts, are
opposed by C. D. Harder.
The eighth has four candidates in
the persons Of John M. Brooks, vet
eran county legislator. and joe T.
Wilkes, w. E. Gray, and C. W. Ham
ilton. G. N. McKennon, Jr., Brooks
colleague, is not a candidate.
For the three seats in the court
fom the ninth district there are
five active candidates, John Carr, T.
L Lipscomb and w. e. Alexander be-
ing the new richmonds, although
Carr sat for two years among the
solons. The two old members, g. w.
Hayes and r. H. Guest are candi-
oates. Judge e. E. Erwin, a member
OF the court almost from the time