The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1922-05-12
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70 LEADCOUNY'Y TICKET
STRONG FIELD OF CANDIDATES
: SLATED%AT MCLEAN co. t.
ss% CONVENTION ,5'.
.sHERlFF,s OFFICE LEFT OPEN

About 80 delegates gathered at Gar
/ rison Wednesday answering the call
4 forssthe Republican county convention
toshominate candidates for the state
B legislature and county offices. Through.
/ out the entire meeting harmony pre-
vailed and every delegate had the feel
ing that the convention was a success
and that q strong list Of candidates
had been put into the field. K
c. d. >Stocker, of Wilton, former
( county auditor was nominated to head
the ticket for state senator. The 9th
Y er men for the lower house were John
!. j. Hill of Roseglen, H. R. Freitag Of
4 Max, and Carl Onsrud of Coal Har-
+ bOr NJ:
The Office of sheriff was left alone,
4 after committee had talked with the
three candidates., Sam Newman of Ell
4 GboWoOds, T.. Moe of Ruso and Chas.
Tauer of Underwood. The committee
let them decide whether the conven
+ tion should nominate one Of them, but
all three wished to enter the race
and the matter was left that way.
The convention unanimously endors-
ed the good work of Chris ]. Hill, the
present county auditor, and nominal
ed him on the ticket to run again for
that office. Mr.. Hill has managed the
4 Office in very creditable manner and
the opinion Of the delegates was that
he was entitled to another term.
r. e. Whitesel of Max was nomin.
ated for treasurer He being the only
candidate to announce himself for that
Office. The same was true of w. B.
Sehreiner, Of Underwood, for Register
OF Deeds.
& Two candidates were out for States
. Attorney/C..3 IL Foster of Turtle Lake,
and H. C. Bradley of Wilton. The
delegates nominated Mr.. Foster and
by an agreement between the two gem
tlemen the one nominated would have
the entire field to himself. When the
nomination for the Office Of Judge
came before the house, Mr.. Bradley
received this nomination.
Joe Young Hawk of Elbowoods, was
3 nominated for the Office of Clerk of
!. Court. Mr.. Hawk is real American.
He lost a leg in the World War while
fighting in France and the delegates
feel they could not have picked q
better man for the Office. .s' 81: I:
NJ. E. McCurdy was nominated for
the Office of Supt. Of Schools. Mr.. Nc
Curdy is at present serving in this,
office and tn, convention felt that it
could not find q better man In the
county to fill that place.
n DR.. Heinzeroth Of Turtle Lake was
nominated for county coroner, and the
Washburn Leader received the nomin.
sation for the county official paper.
n. 3 After this the convention had q re-.
cess while the delegates from the diff
ferent districts nominated a candidate
Tor rscommissioner and assessor. The
delegates from the first district nom
i mated Ben o. Bverson for commits
sioner and Andrew Sauer for assessor.
The second district left the Office Of
4 commissio ioner open and nominated Joe
Packineau for assessor. Andrew
5Schotts Of Underwood was nominated
i for the Office OF public administrator,
]. CA. Brummund of Washburn for the
ONCE Of Justice Of the peace. No can.
didate was nominated for county con-
stable, ;z:3 Il NJ
That the people can become more
acquainted with the candidates more
will be published about them later.