The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1916-04-06
A. F. Long Was
Chosen Mayor of
St Petersburg

St Petersburg
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"+'s IL determining .ac.o-. Of tie
-3f To,@s cas-. for mayor. VI. Lang
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accredited 70 hin :-ozn a-s, choice
'o.@s fo- EAnDerea-er. Lewis ana
HcNaoo. as required vnder ,he phi
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e-o.e@ roles from the o,he- three
candidates
Race for Commissioners
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e.os+!y c.d Tie ,a-@e run VI
151aa&so1 ~as victorious BIZ ua--
or margin = e!ga, roces o7+r Nj
G1;.9s NJ H'tecsiag finished oa.y
T9t@s te1i16 Mr c1.5s
Result Not Known Until Late
Beca1s+ q r. area, 14u3er 0.
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.o41ri1g ,tsm - ara, -+sa., vas
-7' asfe-,4.1@3 ANIL after oa4
. clock Wednesday morning and /;
vas Z ,i:ed y; .. election officials
ia, finished ,aei- !4oors after bein
r d1;y :or practically seventeen
1r1rs !, vas s4sa cary in the
evening ia, NJ Lang would prob
ally be victorious ol, the bg crowd
o. hand 70 witness th4 counting re-
manned un;:l long after midnight 70
%, th+ Official returns After Mr.
Lang's success vas assured intetes,
Il ~ao would Tva second was grea,
aa0 for soule tine Mitchell and Van
eT@nter ran neck and neck
Tie For First Place
\ coinc!deEt Of the result for CON-
missioner vas the fac, tina, A. p.
Avery and A c. Odom. J-. received
e1actly the same number Of Yo,es.
Charles R. cai,er was tAird, having
- more votes than did r. L. Dayi-
son James 5 Norton vas close be-
lind and J r Harrison ne next.
a : Thomasson nosed out Mr.
aids and me remaining candidates
o,aer than Mr. Wiecainz received
IS Tan 5aa votes.
Interest in the ElectA
Interest in the outcome 81 the elec-
ton was grea, ,hroughou, ,he tay
and The fact ths, only no mino.
disturbances marred the occasion
was doubtless d. 70 efficient disci-
pine maintained .y tn presen, city
administration The incidents men
toned resulted in only d verbal CON
bat in one instance and one blow
being struck in the other. AutoIpo-
5!les were used all day in carrying
voters 70 the polls and while a larse
crowd was on hand there vas an ab-
sence Of confusion in voting The
faet that two books were used expe-
dited the casting 0; ballots and very
few electors were deprived OF an op-
portunity to express his preference.
Information by Board and Telephone
That the people generally were in
terested N the outcome was apparent
~ the numb4r that stood in Central
avenue, in iron, Of the large bulletin
board used 5y the Board Of Trade
Not only was information displayed
on the bulletin board but in addition
several hundred telephone calls were
answered 4 v. Fisher. Paul
Boardman and l.. 4. Whitney did
yoeman service in getting available
figures on the result.