The Marietta journal. (Marietta, Ga.) 1918-1944, 1919-11-21
CITY PRIMARY TO Be
HELD NEXT WEDNESDAY
Polling Places Are Named by the
Committee and Hours for
Voting Are Fixed

City Executive Committee of the
! City of Marietta, met at the Court
House in said City on Wednesday
night, November 10Th, 1919, being
present: William Attaway, from First
Ward; w. L. Benson, Second Ward !;
S. c. McEachern, Third Ward; F. G..
Marchman, Fourth Ward; E. G. Gil
bert, Fifth Ward; R. w. Noe from
the Sixth Ward being absent
F. G. Marchman was. elected chair
man, and William Attaway Secretary
The following provision. made and
resolution passed:
Resolved by the City Executive
| Committee of the City of Marietta,
thsi day assembled, as follows:
/. That white primary election is
hereby called for the 26th day of
November, 1919, for the nomination
of Mayor and six Councilmen for
the City Of Marietta for the general
election for Mayor and Councilmen
to be held on the 9th day of Decem-
Der, 1919.
2. Said Primary election shall be
held under the law now in force gov
erning Primary elections; only the
| white registered voters who are en-
titled to vote under the registration
law governing the qualification of
voters shall be permitted to vote in
said primary.
I 8. The polls shall be opened at
6 O'Clock a. M, and closed at o.
clock p. M, city of Marietta time.
4. The POLLS shall be opened and
voting places provided in each of the
six wards of the city of Marietta;
no voter shall be permitted to vote
except in the ward of his residence.
5. Each voter shall be permitted to
vote for his choice for the nomina-
ton of Mayor in his respective
ward; that is, the ward of the resi-
dence of the voter, but each voter
shall only be permitted to vote for
one candidate for Councilman and
that candidate must be a resident of
the ward in which the voter resides.
6. At the same time and place and
under the same rules and regulations
herein provided as to nominations six
members of the City Executive Com
mittee nominated for the ensuing
two years, one from each ward. the
voters of each ward to elect a men,
Der of the Executive Committee who
resides in their ward
z. The polling place for the First
Ward shall be held at Lawson Fields
Printing Office, on Washington Ave.
The polling place for the Second
Ward shall be held at the office of
Ralph w. Northcutt, on Powder
Springs Street. The polling place for
the Third Ward shall be held at The
Black Builders Supply Company Of
flee on Church Street. The polling
place for the Fourth Ward shall be
held at N. M. Mayes Livery Stable
office on Cherokee Street. The poll
ing plac efor the Fifth Ward shall
be held at the Merchants & Farmers
Bank on corner of Lawrence and
Cherokee Street. The polling place
for the Sixth Ward shall be held at
Council Chamber, Court House, on
Public Square. The managers and
clerks Of all said voting places shall
be named by said Executive Com
| mittee.
8. Immediately after the CONSOLE
| dation of the votes of each of the
respective voting precincts the man.
ayers of all the voting precincts shall
meet with the present Executive Com
mittee at the Council Chamber a the
Court House in the City Of Mari
eta, and consolidate the whole vote
| and declare the result, and the can
didate for Mayor receiving the high
| est number of votes in the consolda-
ton shall be declared the nominee for
| Mayor, and the candidate receiving
| the highest number of votes in each
of the respective wards shall be de-
clared the nominee of his ward, pro-
vided the rules herein set forth are
complied with by said candidate.
9. The tickets for each ward shall
be furnished by the Executive Com
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printed the names Of all the candi-
dates who qualify under these regu-
lations, and the ticket used for each
ward shall have the names of the
candidates for Councilmen for that
respective ward who qualify under
these regulations; no tickets voted
other than furnished by the Execu-
/ tive Committee shall be counted in
the consolidation Of the votes cash.
10. Each candidate for Mayor is
hereby assessed the sum of Thirty
Dollars ($30.00), and each candidate
for Councilman is hereby assessed
the sum of Eight Dollars ($8.00),
to defray the expenses of holding this
primary.
II. Any candidate failing to pay
his assessment as herein provided, on
or before Monday, the oath day Of
! November, 1919, at 6 o'colck o, M,