Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-09-01
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/ The entry of Sheesley and Burgoon
| swelled the mayoralty ticket from two
to four, ex-Mayor Edwin S. Meals and
| Edwin NJ. Winters having filed their
papers a few days ago.
Sixteen Candidates For Council
Sixteen candidates will try for the
nomination for city commissioner.
/ Eight will be selected, and from this
eight four will be chosen in Novem-
Der. The list consists of City Com
missioners Nj. Harvey Taylor, William
H. Lynch. Harry f. Bowman, William
L. Gorgas and Mayor Royal. Raymond
Breach. o. NJ. Copelin. A. P. Dorans,
E. Landis, A. II. Nuss. ]. E. Roden-
haver, Daniel W. Sohn. Charles c.
Steiner and ]. L. Yoder.
Among the later petitions were the
Observation-Disclosures papers of
Harvey b. Bair. Charles F. Spicer, Dr.
NJ. L. Wolford and A. Carson Stamm
for school director and Mr.. Stamm,
Robert A. Enders. DR.. c. E. L. Keene
as Republican candidates. Charles F.
Fohl, whose term also expires this
year, failed to file. much to the sur
prise of a lot of his friends
Row in Seventh For Alderman
The aldermanic scrap in the Sew
enth ward will be four-cornered
affair on the Democratic side. while
two Washingtonians and eight Re-
puhlicans will settle the issue at the
primaries. The way the lines stand
now. the Republican candidates are
John E. Bowers. William A Bowers,
Harry NJ. Frank. ]. Grant Hoffman,
Jacob w. Katz. William S. Moses,
Frank Nickels, George d. Toomey.
The Democrats have lined up thus:
William ]. Clelland. William H. Moore,
William H. Filling. Jr., and John H.
Shaner.
And tho Wasbipgto,, no ,+,. foIl,. ,,,,,t
have troubles of their own in smooth
ing over the differences between the
factions of John E. Bowers and John
H. Shaner.
The final array of candidates for the
various county offices as indicated by
the last petitions has changed very
little. Republican candidates for
county commissioner are John II. Eby,
Albert c. Gardner. Harry c. Wells,
Samuel NJ. Taylor and Charles Keefer,
which, with the exception of Keefer, is
the Washington party lineup. On the
Republican ticket there will be Henry
NJ. Slime, Charles c. Cumbler, Gott-
lei5 Dapp. Charles H. Harman. j. viii
liam Bayles and c. NJ. Bowerman from
which to select.
For Director of the Poor
The chances are that there will be
some fun in the race for directors of
the .por insofar as the Democratic
= " is concerned.
The feature of this row was the fall
ure of Steward S. F. Barber, of the
almshouse, to make good his threat
to run for office. Mr.. Barber in a
statement says. in effect, that his only
object was to insure the candidacy Of
well-behaved men for the job, so he
didn't file. This leaves the Washing
conference.-the contest to be fought
out by the following.
Harry c. Cassel, George F. Fetter-
hoff, Peter Gruber, Harry c. Helig
and S. T. Flickinger.
The Republican candidates for the
nomination include Fernando Louder
milch. David Hoffman, Thomas s.
Manning. f. B. Snavely and Samuel
Smeltzer.
Work on the preparation of the
ballot will be started at once by the
clerks in the County Commissioners
office, although the candidates have
until Friday to withdraw. Otherwise
their names will go upon the ballot,
Among the late petitions filed yester-
day and by mail this morning were
the following:
City
Last city petitions included:
First Ward = Washington, William
c. Roberts, assessor; Edward o. Ho-
gentogler, constable; Republicans.
William c. Roberts, assessor; Demo-
crat, William c. Roberts, assessor.
Second Ward - Democrats. G. Wat
kins, inspector, third precinct; Nor
man T. Swords. judge, fifth precinct;
Fred A. Kuebler, inspector, fourth pre-
cinct; Washington, Norman F. Swords.
judge, fifth precinct; A. Zeiders, in
spector, fifth precinct.
Third Ward = Republicans. Leroy
Rife, inspector. third precinct; TRULY
W. Lentz, ward assessor; Charles II.
Smith, constable.
Fifth Ward = Democrats, Harry
turley, Inspector, fourth precinct:
George w. Spangler. inspector. third
precinct.
Sixth Ward : Republicans, Benja-
min Smith, constable.
| Seventh Ward = Republicans Har-
ry Long. judge, second precinct; Frank
Z. Dorsey, inspector, third precinct;
A. Dennee Bibb, inspector, second pre-
cinct; Aaron Gordon, Judge, sixth pre-
ctnct; Democrats, Paul Wells, Judge,
third precinct; Jonas E. Bless, inspec-
tor; third precinct; H. H. Long, judge,
| fifth precinct.
Eighth Ward - Republicans, Ed
ward Q. Hynica, judge, third precinct;
Luther Newman, inspector, third pre-
cinct; Milton c. White, ward assessor.
Ninth Ward = Republicans, John
A. Bumbaugh, judge, sixth precinct;
Harry b. Lau, inspector, sixth pre-
cinct; Daniel W.Shireman, fourth pre-
cinct; Thomas Eynon, inspector, fourth
precinct. Democrat, Augustus Wald-
schmidt, inspector. seventh precinct;
Dennis L. Barrick, Judge, fifth pre-
cinct; Glenn E. Davis, inspector, fifth
precinct; j. Wesley Davies, judge. sixth
precinct; Nissley Y. Parthemore,
Judge. fourth precinct: Washington,
Joseph D. Coleman, constable; Glenn
P. Davis, inspector, fifth precinct;
Dennis L. Barrick, Judge, fifth pre-
cinct; ]. Wesley Davies, judge, sixth
precinct.
Eleventh Ward - Republicans, Cur
tbs A. Zimmerman, inspector, fourth
precinct; I. L. A. Bruner, assessor;
william H. Lingle, inspector, second
precinct: G. c. B. Buser, Judge. second
precinct; Democrats, John Quaid, in
spector, third precinct; John r. Swell
CART judge, third precinct.
Twelfth Ward - Democrats Will
liam H. Myers. assessor; George w.
Sheaffer, judge, third precinct; Will
liam H. Myers, also filed for assessor
on the Washington and Republican
tickets.
Thirteenth Ward = Joseph S. Lutz,
Jr., assessor, Washington; Charles H.
Baker filed Democratic and Washing
ton papers for constable
Only few petitions were filed by
mail. These came in this morning
from Wiconisco and West Hanover
townships. Two Withdrawals have al
ready been filed, Vernon r. James, a
Steelton Republican who filed Eol,
justice of the peace. and Scott Umber-
ger. a Republican of the First ward.