The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1912-10-25
]. NELSON KELLY
Wins N THE RACE
FOR N,O.E,k, KEAD
:Balloting Confines Today on
Other Candidates-Final
Count Tonight.
PRIMARY SYSTEM DIDN'T
WORK OUT VERY WELL
Number of Names Voted on For
More Than One Omco-Further
Voting This Afternoon to Settle
tho Dispute.

tho Dispute.
With ]. Nelson Kelly. superintend.
ent Of the Grand Forks schools. elect
ed president. members Of the North
Dakota Educational association today
are voting for the other Offices. In
yesterdays primary there were not
enough votes cast in the contests for
the other Offices to make q choice,
and consequently the members were
called on today to- vote in general
election for one Of the nominees fol
each office.
According to the report Of the tel
lers Of the primary election, which
was submitted this morning. the fol-
lowing are the nominees for the va.
rious Offices. and they are being voted
on at present:
First Vice President-A. q. Crane
lP. q. Knowlton.
Second Vice President-E. R. Ed.
wards Thea Picard.
Secretary-E. w. Parsons, Mayme
Sorenson.
Treasurer-Richard Hayward. p. A
McNillen.
Executive Committee Zone yea,
|term)-Clyde r. Travis. Frank l.
McVey.
The report Of the tellers this morn.
ing showed many discrepancies in the
primary system, as adopted. AS su.
perintendent A. q. Crane. who pre-.
sented the report, expressed 1t. mum.
Der Of important changes will have
to be made before 1t proves a good
working plan.
AS a result Of the primary. j.. Mel.
son Kelly was elected president and
nominated for flrst vice president. and
|C. r. Travis was nominated for sec.
ond vice president and for secretary
Mr.. Crane also reported that both
Mr.. Travis and Mr.. Berg. the nomi.
nees for secretary. declared they
would not act even IL elected. AS a
result Of this situation. the commit.
tee submitted a supplementary re.
port, I'M which they named as nomi.
inees the Persons with the next highest
elected president. was declared inelis.
ihle for the ONCE Of first vice presi.
dent. -. -.
According to the canvass Of votes
j. Nelson Kelly received 27o. and C.
r. Travis lit. while there were sew.
enteen scattering votes. AS 233 votes
were eneded to elect, Mr. Kelly wae
declared elected.
In the contest for first vice president
A. q. Crane received 1876, and J. N.
Kelly. twenty-five. with 1s1 scattering
It required 201 votes to elect, and
consequently A. q. Crane and ]. N
Kelly were declared the nominees. p.
O.. Knowlton had the next highest
number. and he was declared a can
didate in the place Of Mr.. Kelly,
- <taA v,.i$ Il
In the second vice presidential con-
test e. r. Edwards received .108 and
|C. r. Travis twenty-five, while there
were ZIG scattering votes. e. r. Ed
wards and c. R. Travis were declared
the nominees but as Mr.. Travis re-
fused to act. the name Of Miss Thea
Picard. next in order. was substituted.
Names Substituted.
For secretary. G. r. Travis secured
81 votes and p. s. Berg secured so.
while there were 260 scattering. G.
r. Travis and p. 8. Berg were both de-
clared nominated. but both refused to
act II elected. Consequently the
names of w. r. Parsons and Mayme
Sorenson were substituted.
For members Of the executive COM
mittee, Minnie ]. Nelson received sc
votes, 8. Henry Wolfe So and p. 8.
Berg IS. Miss Nelson was declared
elected for the four year term. Mr..
Wolfe for the three year term and Mr..
Berg for the two year term. Clyde
r. Travis and F. L. Mcvey each re-
ceived So votes for. the position of
fourth member of the committee. and
were declared nominated for the one
year term.
The polls were opened about 1880
o'clock this morning. and will re-
main open until O'Clock this after
noon. Voting is going on at the Hotel
Dacotah. the Central school building
and the city hall. The auditorium
polling place was transferred to the
city hall this afternoon. as there is
Morning Program.
The program this morning was
opened with prayer. offered by Rev.
Homer NJ. Cook. pastor of the First
Baptist church of Grand Forks. Fol
lowing this. Harold r. Harvey, vioI-
mist at the Grand Forks school Of
by Miss Jane smith,
head Of the school.
Senator Wesley c. Mcdowell Of
Marion. who fathered the state aid
for the rural schools bill in the last
legislature. was the first speaker to-
day. Mr.. Mcdowell spoke on "Edu-
cation and Rural Life" and touched
on a number of important facts con-
corning the two. He spoke chiefly of
the educational department Of the
State Bankers association. and show
ed how the bankers. working with the
teachers Of the state. could do more
for North Dakota than any other or
Land and Children.
He denounced the rural school
teacher who breaches the joys and
Of the city. He declared,
In no uncertain terms. that such a
teacher should! not be allowed in the
rural schools, for they were directing
the boys and girls away from a life
Of independence to life Of strife
and poor returns.
There are only two things in
North Dakota worth talking about"
he said. "These are the children and
land. Don't got away from either, and
don't let the children get away from
the land
by carrying out this work. he said,
the teachers would make q mark that
could not be effaced from the records
Of the state. There are greater prob
lens to be fought now than ever In
the history Of North Dakota. he
and 1t Is up to the teachers.
Just as much az any other organiza-
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