The Belding banner-news. (Belding, Mich.) 1918-1973, 1919-03-19

date the only demonstration Of the
evening took place and from all over
I The auditorium came the sounds OF
hand clapping. It was either the
judges flowery bit of oratory or the
/ sterling character Of the man whom
| he had the pleasure to nominate
perhaps a bit Of both, which brought
cut the little demonstration compli-
mentary to Mr.. Essex, and when the
| votes were counted it was found that
out Of total Of $3.50 ballots cast, Mr..
Essex had received 1876. Mrs. Hubbell
16, Byron Brown 81, Mrs. Arnold 6S
and one scattering.
Some cf the young fry i'm this city
started a joke going and claimed they
had plan whereby they were going
to beat Judge Lapham out Of his job
as justice and accordingly Ed. ID.
Engemann was suggested as a fit
man for the position. Quite lot of
work was done in order to slip some
thing over on the Judge while he was
not looking but the old boy was also
on the job and when the ballots were
all in and counted it was found that
the judge, though small in stature,
lowered head and shoulders above his
opponent as far as votes were con-
cerned. The judge had 1872 votes,
Engemann had SO votes and some fell
lows who thought that r. Earl Will
son would make an exceptionally good
man to grace the bench in a local
justice court, voted for him and he
received 33 votes. In spite of the
33 votes which Wilson received, how
ever, the judg'se majority was
enough so that a second ballot was
not deemed necessary and he will
J continue to dish out justice to mis-
creants and others who perform some
infraction CT the law and thereby of
fend the peace and dignity of the
people of the state, for the next four
years to come.
Mrs. w. A. Wilder was then nomin-
! ated for school Inspector. No other
nominations being offered the rules
were suspended and the entire vote of
the caucus cast in her favor.
0. j. Barker was chairman of the
First ward caucus, Art Brown, secre-
tary, and Mrs. Myrtle Hubbell and
Charles Williams, tellers. Frank III.
Baldwin was nominated as candidate
fer supervisor with no opposition. M.
M. Benedict and f. V. McNally were
nominated for alderman and the for
tiACt ltCciNCu OO VI Tile % NOJtS cast,
Mr.. McNally receiving the other
three. Joe Upper and Ed. Driese
We're nominated for inspectors of
election and Athur Waite was select
ed to make the race for constable.
Vern r. Brown called the Second
ward caucus to order and B. F. Hall
was selected as chairman of the eau
Gus. Charles Madden and Dan Skel-
lenger were selected as tellers. In
the contest which developed for al
derman. Dennis Hollenbeck. the pres
| emit incumbent in office got 40 of the
81 votes cast, N. p. Werner getting
the other H.
Rumors had it to the effect that w.
b. Travis, supervisor in the Second
ward. was due for a trimming for
several reasons, one and chief among
them being the fact that it was alleg-
ed that Mr.. Travis had great deal
to do with the defeating of the COM
mission form of government charter
in that he took the first steps to de-
termine whether or not the election
was legally conducted and whether or
not the charter commissioners who
were elected under such charter
would be upheld in the acts which
they performed while in the office.
There were two sides to the question
and Mr.. Travis had his supporters at
the caucus and when the ballots had
been cast it was found that he had
received AZ votes to the IL votes that
w. j. Clarke, who had been nominat-
ed to oppose him, received.
Harry Dimmick and Patsy Costello
were nominated for inspectors of
election and to Mark Brown was en-
trusted the office of constable to-
gether with the multifarious duties
and cares which go with it.
George w. Gotta called the Third
ward caucus to order and DIR. G.. F.
Smith was elected to the chairman
ship of the meeting. Mrs. G.. d. We
ter and Mrs. w. A. Wilder were Sc
lected for tellers. No contests took
place and the caucus nominated Bar
ney G Curtis for supervisor, Henry
. Friedly for alderman, George E. Wag-
ner and Alfred j. Jonas for inspec-
! tors of election and gave the con-
stables office to Elmer K. Cook.
, The caucuses were all peaceable af.
fairs and the women voters were
shown every consideration by the ole
timers to whom such sights were not
} new. The ladies thought that il
was a novel experiment and evidently
} liked the idea of attending caucus
J While none of the aldermen or other
council Offices fell to the ladies, they
carried off one of the most important
offices in that of the city clerk, going
! to Mrs. Hovoer, and another city office
that of school inspector, going to Mrs
Wilder. 1t is probable now that tht
, ice has been broken, SO to speak, thai
! at succeeding caucuses the ladies vii
have more candidates up for offices
t It was said by many of the people
} who were in attendance that the cit.
/ callcus was the best attended AM