The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1934-12-06
LIQUOR WINS In 4
TOWNS, LOSES in |
AT POLLS TUESDAY
Morgan, LambertOn, Walnut
Grove, Revere Favor Sale
of IntOXicantS
MORTON, FRANKLIN WET
Lucan Turns Proposal Down by
Large MarjOrity; Elections
Mostly Quiet

Four more Redwood county will
ages voted to allow the establishing
of liquor stores at annual elections
Tuesday while one turned down a
similar proposal.
Morgan, Lamberton, Walnut Grove
and Revere went wet, the first three
by overwhelming majorities and the
latter by margin of one vote. Lu-
can drys won a decided victory.
Also in the wet group are Frank
lin and Morton in Renville county.
Morton vets won over the drys 165 to
IS while incumbent officers were be-
ing reelected. George J. Ahrens was
reelected mayor with 1876 votes to
1O6 for John Van Blair and John
Cheney, caucus candidate for trustee,
defeated R. G.. Quehl 100 to 100.
Franklin reelected John Schroeder
mayor.
Vesta - Robert Marquardt was
elected president of the Vesta council
with As votes to "a for Fred Gertjej-
ansen and William Rehling was
named to the council with 3S votes
to 80 for Arthur Warlop. Louis
Lieske defeated William Rengstorf
for clerk Al to % while j. H. Maus
was elected justice over A. ]. Tolz-
man Al to 25 and Ed thinner won
from William Nelson for constable,
Al to %. Herman Mueller, assessor,
was unopposed and received 81 votes.
A proposal to raise the salary of the
mayor from $40 to a maximum of
$25 received 20 yes votes and Is no..
Belview-Louis Gryting was elect
ed president of the Belview village
council without opposition, receiving
1873 votes. A. A. Hoppenrath, also
unopposed, was elected recorder with
1872. Races developed for places on
the council with George LANCE win
ming the three year term with 80
votes to &c for w. H. Bonner, An
drew Peterson defeating Andrew Sol
berg for the two year term 60 to So
and John H. Johnson beating A. j.
Van Selus for the one year term II
to so. Others elected were Jacob o.
son, justice of peace, with II votes;
constable, Adolph Leonard with %
and August Abraham, assessor, with
124. C. C. Enestvedt beat John
Ziegler for treasurer, Is to 16. Only
Crying, Hoppenrath, Bonner, Van
Selus and Abraham had filed.
Delhi-Although only one candi-
date filed before the election, two
good races developed here. In one
j. F. Bunting was elected president
of the council with 40 votes to % for
Gust Johnson and in the other Carl
Hultquist was elected as constable
over Victor Seifert, 81 to 25. Ole
Flore was elected trustee for one
year with 33 votes against scattered
opposition and Walter Housman was
reelected for two year term with
40 votes. D. M. Monson received %
votes for the three year term on the
council. For clerk, Ernest Turnwall
got 81 votes and for justice of peace,
Milton Turnwall received %. Mrs.
Grace Chroup, who was the only per-
son to file, received 63 votes to be
elected assessor.
Wabasso - Seventeen candidates
here brought out large number OF
voters and resulted in several close
races. Matt Schueller, who last year
won the office of mayor by three
votes, this year lost to the same OPP
ponent, D, E.. Sinclair. The vote was
Schueller "a, Sinclair 1876 and c. j.
FLAG "a.
Albert Kretsch won place on the
council with 10 votes to AT for
Glenn Noting and 70 for Peter Can
tine. j. B. Dietz, editor of The
Standard was elected recorder by a
margin of nine votes, his total being
LOG to 81 for George A. Goblirsch,
incumbent and "a for Mrs. Otto Ga
dow. A. J. Fritz was renamed as
SCISSOR with 125 votes to % for L. w.
Peavey and 80 for Fred Fox while
Howard Jensen won out as justice Of
peace with ITO votes to 80 for Henry
Kormann. Fred Weeks got 1872
votes for constable to 124 for Harry
Kuk in another close race. Only
George B. Snyder, treasurer, was un-
opposed. He got 205 votes.
Wanda Thirty-six votes were cast
here, electing G. A. Otto for another
term as mayor, Peter M. Schons for
three years on the council, Paul
Doepke as clerk, Ray Borte as treas
urer, Arnold Anderson as justice of
peace and Erwin Doepke as constable.
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