Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1914-04-22
|WETS VICTORIOUS
IN SEARS WITH A
MAJORITY OF IA
Unusual Interest Is Taken in
Saloon Issue in the Village
Election.
sNTY-FoUR WOMEN VOTE
Loeai optionists Garry Milan. Al
though 6aHotins Is Mere Form.
as Township Was Dry.

The village Of Sears went wet in tbe
vsrlaSe election yesterday by a major
So Of - Unusual interest was dis
,i,xed in the outcome OF the balloting.
- every available voter was out \
,-..i Of rs votes were cast. half NJ
,ssrl beine by women.
me total dry vote was 80 and the
,,,al vet s.. Twenty-One men and B.
-omea cast dry ballots and AZ men
- Is women wet ones Regardless
!, the fact that South Rock Island
,orushfp went wet the saloon issue
rss ID az the village election. The
avs. previous 10 she township cleo
ton filed a petition for a vote IN Sears
A. that although South Rock Island
vert vet. another opportunity would
be Afforded the drys % vote on TIE
cussuou-
Independents Win
The independent ticket was elected
throughout causing something Of a
surprise No candidates had been
named for police magistrate but the
name OF Charles Hardin was written
IN on four ballots Dy the independents
and he vas therefore elected. The
vote:
Town cIerk-A. r. Mcbride. Ind.
Sc: Frank Fiebig. Cit, 50.
Trustees. r. Carlson. ind. So: G..
n Dibbern. cit. 81. r. d. Fisher. ind.
50: A VI Goddard. cit. 81. Charles
Barnett. cit. 81. Robert Kinner, cit.
81
Police Observation-Disclosures Hardin.
cit, 4
Milan Votes Dry.
Although the sa-oon question was
voted on Al the election. il was purely
a matter OF form. Inasmuch as Black
Hawk township went dry. the result OF /
the village vote was Of no effect. How /
ever. the drys in order TO get two votes /
on the matter. fed a petition previous !
10 the township election, but the sec I
Ond vote proved useless, because the .
battle was won at the former contest. /
Had the township gone wet the situa- |
tioa would have been reversed and'
yesterdays vote would nave counted. /
As IL was, Milan went dry by 16 ma !
iority-
The tota- dry vote was IA and the 4
total wet was 12S- Fifty-fOur men and /
90 women voted dry, while 50 men and
IS women favored saloons.
Considerable interest was shown in
the selection OF village officials. DR..
Warner L. Eddy. independent. was
elected president OF the board over
Fred W Boulton. peoples. by 10 ma
lority, through the votes OF the women.
The vote, the first figure being the
mems vote and the second the wom-
ems:
Preside1t-Dr. Warner L. Eddy, ind,
So. %. total 159; Fred w. BOulton. PEG.
l03. II. total IA.
C.eTk-F. II. Harris. ind, s.. 80. to-
.al 50; A (. Taylor. peo.. SO. 81, total
ia
Trustees-George y. Brown. ind. 20.
g. total 1s3; William 4. Beitiker. ind,
%. s.. total I43: Harry G. Rath5un, !
nd, 50. 81. total 146: William W.
Walker. PEG. 81. 81. total 1874: William I
Ia-e. peo.. los. 80. total 155: Thomas
4 White, peo.. 90. 80. total 134. {
o. Trustee Zone yearI-William r. &
Brown. ind. IS. 80. total 15s: William J
dempsey. PEG. 81. 30. total 49,.
Police Magistrate William O'Neal. q
nd. 81, William Mosher. PEG, 80
Coal Valley.
In Coal VALLEY there was little OPP !
Osition 70 the citizens ticket. All OF r
b. candidates OF that party were elect
d with the exception Of Edward Night
lgale for trustee. VINO was beaten BY I
Ohm Knapp. sole candidate on the PEG
e. ticket
The women showed but little inter >,
- in the voting. 10 being all that n
are ctO march 70 the polls. I'M
Trustee for two years Edward
nightingale. cit. p. .. total IS: Her Z
an Nltz. Cit. 90. 3. total %; James \
cGimpsey. cit. IS. l. total 80. John &
rapp. PEG. IS. s. total 80.
Trustee for one year.. T. Lind 5.
list. cit. -. 10. total 81. The name hi