The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1919-09-19
THE CONTEST FILED
ABOUT SUPERVISORS OFFICE
ASPIRATIONS OF TWO WORTHY CITIZENS ENLIvEN
MEETINGS OF EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE-PA-
PERS FILED IN THE CONTEST AND MINUTES
OF THE MEETINCS-FRANk ANDERSON
DECLARED THE NOMINEE.

lnaSmuch as quite deal OF lnteT-
est has been manifested in the con-
test for Supervisor in District 8, The
Sentinel is publishing herewith the
Minutes Of the Executive Commit
tee held the day after the second
primary Aug. 27, the Minutes of the
called meeting of Sep. 13, and SUM-
dry matters filed with the Democrat
ic Executive adinterim relative to the
pending issue.
After the meeting of the Commit
tee held August 27, M. Anderson
ana hisfriends got the mp"es so"
somehow that the 'ase was goin% to
he an1e.. led t.. the State Excutl"e
Committee which net Sep Z, anc
they fled sev,ral affiGavits relative
% the place cf residence # w. X.
Koonce end also filed the stat"men.
from representative citizens o. botE
Districts 2 and 3 rs where they
;noueht Mr.. Koo9cc ived-these at
fidavi's and statements a'e also pub
'ishrG
Executive Committee Meet Aug Il.
The Democratic Executive Conn it.
tee OF Grera ada County, M'ss'ssi! pi,
met IL. t:,e fiji e Of IL" Clerk of tn =:
circuit Court of Grenada County,
Wednesday, August 27, 1919, at IL
O'Clock, A. VI. for tie purpose OF re.
Giving and canvassi7g the returns OF
,he Second Primary Election held ic
aid County on Tuesday, August 70.
There wcre present, o. F. lawrence,
chairma1. distric' I also A. T. Nc
Elwrath district 1, H. NJ. Ander on
district 2 and .. =. Lawrence el1
the proxy of Jim Wood, District 2;
J. n. Roberts. J. n. Provine and }. r.
Smith, District 3, T.G Bowles, S. {.
Minis. Sr., and V. A. Bridgers Dis
trict 4, j, w. Wood, ldus l.. Single
ton, District 5. J. N. Provlne held
proxy of Capt. j. A. Blount of Dis
trict l..
All the boxes used at the voting
precincts ia the Second Primary Were.
on hand except the box from P-evi-
dence Precinct which was brought
in a short while after the Committee
convened.
The Committee having knowledge
about the matter of counting the bal
lot of MIR. r. KoOnce at Spears pre-
cinct, which ballot was challenged at
the voting precinct and was, because
of the challenge, not counted by the
Judges of that Precinct but place l
in a sealed envelope and was before
the Committee, after some consldeTa-
bic discussion and without ever haV-
inc opened the ballot to see how
Mr.. Koonce rad marked his prefer
encc sor Any candidate, l. was de-
cided 20 stand by the action OF the
officers of Spears pTecnlt ard accept
the returns as certified to by the Of
.icers at tnat precinct, without open
ing the envelope said contain MI
Koonce's ticket and without knowing
how he iniicated his preference.
At this juncture in the proceedings
Capt. j. A. Blount entered and took
his scat with the Committee.
On motion it wasord cred that, be-
ginning with Grenada box, the ballo.
boxes be opened and the returns as
certified to by the officers of the dlf-
frent precints be accepted and certi.
hed to as tie correct tabClat.or OF
of tie vote oe Grenada County, nut
bs1or, ope in" TIE boycs the Sol her
,-cte was counted aGd a 'ded to the
'ist which is shown in a separat
column as .'Soldier Vote. Tie +ab.
ulation at the eleven precincts show
ed the following re;ul' for Gren%oa
90 ,rty for the Second Primary.
Calculation on Separate SheeD
On m. ion the following were
de Jared the Democratic nominees
for Grenada County by virtue of their
having received a majority OF the
vote cast either ct he first or nj TN:
second primary: ,
Representative in Legislature, w.
A. Winter; Sheriff, d. w. Beck;
Chancery Clerk, James B. keeton
Circuit Clerk, w B. Barnes; Supt.
Education; NJ McKibben; Tax As
SCISSOR, Groce Carver; Treasurer, AL
bert j. Long and also the following
Beat officers: /, Supervisor. l.. b.
Yearger; Magistrate, J. H. Owen anc
w. HI. Williams for Constable; Dis
t,-ict 2, Supervisor, j. H. James; DIS
trict 3, Supervisor, Frank Anderson
District A, Supervisor, Ira G. Roun-
saville, Magistrate, A. M. Howell;
District 5, Supervisor, G. P. Cunning
ham, Magistrate, B. l.. Harris anc
w. T. Turner and for Constable, W.
S. Lowry.
1t was ordered that the Chairman
and Secretary be authorized ane
empowered to certify the rrorer re
turns as shown in table or separate
sheet referred to as to State, and
District officers to the proper Com
mttees.
Capt. Blount stated at tbs Junc-
ture that he had pr missed ONE gen
slemen h .ar;rg interested III hav-
mo- counted the ballot already rceer-
red to as having been offereI at
Spears precinct, District 3, refused
by the election officers. ThereupoE
Mr.. R. Koonce, who offered the bal
Mr.. W. v. Horton. one of the candi-