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At a called meeting of the Council held on August 29, 1899, W. I. Campbell tendered his resignation as Mayor, and the Council elected W. A. Brazie to fill the unexpired term.
Result of the election held on January 4, 1900, follows: Mayor, H. C. Ragland, 39; Scott Justice, 36; Joseph Perry, 9. Recorder, Alfred Buskirk, 81; Council, W. I. Campbell, 83; G. W. Morgan, 84; S. B. Lawson, 84; J. M. Moore, 84; C. H. Gore, 84; and on the meeting held February 1, 1900, the Council elected the following officers: Sergeant and Chief of Police D. P. Ellis with salary of $25 per month, together with 5 per cent for collection of taxes; Assessor, W. D. Sells, $15 per year, and 25 cents for each license issued. Street Commissioner, John L. Buskirk, at $30 per year and Attorney, J. B. Wilkinson, at $50 per year. At this same meeting Elias Hatfield and Walter Cary were elected spec- ial policemen by the Council and they were allowed $2 for each arrest and conviction.
At a meeting held on September 11, 1900, W. A. Bra- zie was elected Assessor to fill the unexpired term of W. D. Sells who had removed from town. Alfred Buskirk ten- dered his resignation as recorder at this meeting and W. A. Brazie wes elected to fill this unexpired term also. Coun- cilman S. B. Lawson filed the following charges against the Mayor: "As a member of your Honorable body I beg leave to prefer the following charges against our present Mayor :
First: That the Mayor is or has been til recently a superintendent of a Sunday school.
Second: That he is the president of a whis- key club in our town.
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Third: Information has been furnished the Mayor of violations of our town ordinances and no action has been taken against the accused.
Fourth: That men have been received in the Mayor's court under one charge and a fine im- posed under another ordinance and the original release.
On motion the following committe was appointed to investigate the foregoing charges: C. H. Gore, S. B. Lawson and W. A. Brazie. The foregoing committe at a meeting of the Council held on September 20, 1900 found the Mayor "guilty of charge No. 1, and "not guilty" of the remaining charges. W. A. Brazie brought to the attention of the Council that the valuation of all the real estate in said town amounted to the sum of $86,6782 and valuation of all per- sonal property amounted to $26,475.
Following are the results of the election held on Jan- uary 3, 1901: Mayor, H. C. Ragland, 34; Alfred Buskirk, 54. Recorder, E. E. Buskirk, 85; C. O. Brazie, 3. Coun- cil, W. I. Campbell, 87; G. W. Morgan, 29; John Gillam, 27; George Justice, 24; H. C. Gore, 23; John Justice, 61; F. M. White, 62; T. C. Whited, 58; Elliot McNeeley, 55.
The first meeting held by the above officers the fol- lowing officers were appointed : Sergeant, W. S. Huff ; Street Commissioner, R. W. Peck; Assessor, Benjamin Pridemore; and the Mayor appointed George Aldredge and Edward Lawrence Cary special policemen.
At the regular meeting of the Council on August 14, 1901 T. C. Whited and Elliott McNeeley tendered their resignations as Councilmen and J. Cary Alderson and J. M. Moore were elected to fill the unexpired term. At this meeting a building permit was granted for the erection of the present Guyan Valley Bank building.
At a special meeting of the Council held November 16, Alfred Buskirk tendered his resignation as Mayor and the Council proceeded to elect W. I. Campbell to fill the balance of the term. On motion C. H. Gore was elected to fill the
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vacancy in the Council caused by the election of W. I. Camp- bell to the office of Mayor. On motion Walter Cary was elected Chief of Police to fill vacancy caused by the resigna- tion of W. S. Huff.
Election held on January 2, 1902, the following officers to govern the town for the following year were elected : Mayor, Ben Pridemore, 21; R. W. Peck, 54. Recorder, C. O. Brazie, 25; E. E. Buskirk, 46; Bev Spencer, 1. Council, M. F. French, 69; G. P. Hicks, 64; J. Cary Alderson, 71; S. B. Lawson, 69; George Justice, 73; J. B. Wilkinson 2; Will Cary, 2; Bev Spencer, 4; Joseph Perry,1; W. F. Farley, 2; C. O. Brazie,1.
This Council at their meeting held February 4, pre- ceeded to elect the following officers : John Justice, Assessor at $15 per year; J. B. Buskirk, Street Commissioner, at $30 per year. On motion it was ordered that the salary of the Sergeant of the Town of Aracoma for the year 1902, shall be double his fees, in case of conviction, and no fees unless convicted, and in no case will the Town or Aracoma be responsible for his fees, together with his commissions as prescribed by law.
At a special meeting held February 7, 1902, Walter Cary was elected Sergeant and Harmon McNeeley was sworn in as special police to serve during the pleasure of the Council.
At a special meeting of the Council held on March 7, 1902, the Mayor appointed C. O. Brazie special police but we find that the next regular meeting of the Council held on May 1, the said C. O. Brazie tendered his resignation as special police.
At a special meeting of the Council on May 14, 1902, C. O. Brazie was elected Marshal for the year 1902.
At a special meeting of the Council held on July 12, 1902, John L. Buskirk was elected Street Commissioner for the balance of the year to fill the vacancy caused by the death of J. B. Buskirk. W. A. Coalmer was was elected to the Council to fill the unexpired term caused by the resig-
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nation of M. F. French. We find also upon the records a notation of the appointment, by Mayor in vacation, of Law- rence Cary to the position of special police.
At regular meeting held September 17, 1902, George Justice tendered his resignation as member of the Council and H. C. Ragland was elected to the vacancy.
At a regular meeting held on November 29, 1902, C. O. Brazie was elected Sergeant to serve from December 1 to February 1,. 1903, at a salary of $25 per month.
The election held on the first day of January, 1903, resulted as follows: Mayor, W. I. Campbell, 47; R. W. Peck, 43. Recorder, T. C. Whited, 79. Council, W. I. Campbell, 13; W. A. Coalmer, 33; H. C. Ragland, 37; C. V. White, 70; S. B. Lawson, 76; Scott Justice, 50; J. M. Moore, 60; Frank Crutcher, 43; Major Ellis, 3.
This Council prceeded, at the meeting held on February 2,1903 to elect the following officers: C. O. Brazie, Ser- geant, at a salary of $25 per month; G. P. Hicks, Street Commissioner, and W. A. Brazie, Assessor at a salary of $25 per year.
At a meeting of the Council held March 12, 1903, the following order was made: "It appearing that the Council should have the assistance of an attorney, on motion the sum of $25 is appropriated for the purpose of employing an attorney for the town, whereupon S. H. Hudson was em- ployed as attorney for the said town at the salary aforesaid. He being also entitle to any and all attorney fees he may recover in the Circuit Court in suits in which the town is interested."
At a specal meeting held March 14, 1903, an ordin- ance was passed granting a right of way to the Guyan Val- ley Railway Co., for its tracks, over along and across cer- tain street and alleys of the town.
On June 4 C .O Brazie tendered his resignation as Mar- shall and Lawrence Cary was appointed to fill the vacancy.
At the election held January 7, 1904 the results were as follows: Mayor, G. W. Morgan, 47; E. T. England, 52. Re-
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corder, J. E. Peck, 41; T. C. Whited, 59. Council, George Justice, 46; Elias Hatfield, 45; S. B. Lawson, 52; H. C. Ragland, 44; W. R. Lilly, 46; Ben Pridemore, 52; Elliott McNeeley, 52; John L. Buskirk, 54; A. R. Miller, 52.
At a meeting of the Council held February 1, 1904, John Lee Buskirk was appointed Marshall and his compen- sation was fixed at $25 per month and all fees due Marshall but no commission. He was appointed to hold offiice during the pleasure of the Council. L. N. Mitchell was appointed Street Commissioner at a salary of $1.50 per day for all time necessarily employed. E. H. Green was appointed Assessor at a salary of $25 per year. George F. Ferrell Attorney at a salary of $25 per year and Ed Hicks was ap- pointed special police.
At a regular meeting held on March 7, 1904, Frank Crutcher was appointed to fill the vacancy in the Council caused by the removal of Elliott McNeeley from the corpor- ate limits of the town.
At the meeting of the Council held June 7, 1904, W. P. Henritze was granted a franchise for the erection of an electric light plant, said franchise to run for a period of fifty years.
At a special meeting held June 11, John Lee Buskirk was removed from the office of Marshall and Lawrence Cary was appointed to fill the vacancy. July 11 Lawrence Cary appeared before the Council and tendered his resig- nation as Marshall and at the meeting of the Council on July 13 Wyatt S. Burgess was appointed Sergeant.
At a special meeting held August 6, 1904, the office of Sergeant was declared vacant. W. L. McGinnis was then elected to fill the vacancy and his salary fixed at $35 in addition to all legal fees. Hibbard Hatfield was appointed special police.
The election held on January 5, 1905, resulted as fol- lows: C. G. Ferrell was elected Mayor; R. L. Shrewsbury Recorder; Dr. S. A. Draper, W. F. Bevill, Dr. S. B. Lawson,
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At the meeting of the Council held June 7, 1904, W. P. Henritze was granted a franchise for the erection of an electric light plant, said franchise to run for a period of electric light plant, said franchice to run for a period of fifty years.
At a special meeting held June 11, John Lee Buskirk was removed from the office of Marshall and Lawrence Cary was appointed to fill the vacancy. July 11 Lawrence Cary appeared before the Council and tendered his resig- nation as Marshall and at the meeting of the Council on July 13 Wyatt S. Burgess was appointed Sergeant.
At a special meeting held August 6, 1904, the office of Sergeant was declared vacant. W. L. McGinnis was then elected to fill the vacancy and his salary fixed at $35 in addition to all legal fees. Hibbard Hatfield was appointed special police.
The election held on January 5, 1905, resulted as fol- lows: C. G. Ferrell was elected Mayor; R. L. Shrewsbury Recorder; Dr. S. A. Draper, W. F. Bevill, Dr. S. B. Lawson, Scott Justice and G. W. Morgan were elected Councilmen.
Just at this point the records of the municipality have been lost and an exhaustive search failed to bring them to light. However the two years between this date and the year 1907, the office of Mayor was filled by E. H. Greene, who defeated Naaman Jackson for the office at the election for the year 1906 by a majority of one vote, and the year of 1907 Greene defeated T. C. Whited for the office.
By an act of the Legislature of West Virginia, passed at an extra session held in the year 1907, and approved by the Governor on March 6, 1907, effective ninety days from date a charter was granted creating a municipality to be known as the City of Logan and annuling the charter of the town of Aracoma.
Authority is given in this charter granting the Council the right at any time they may deem necessary, to divide the territory of the city into wards. The charter provides for the following officers: Mayor, Recorder, Chief of Po-
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Holly Whitman resigned his position as Street Commission- er and T. C. Whited appointed to the position.
Election held January 2, 1908, resulted as follows, for Mayor, J. E. Peck, 98; R. S. Peck, 84; Recorder, John Jus- tice, 102; T. C. Whited, 83; Treasurer, J. M. Moore, 173; Council, W. A. Lee, 118; H. C. Ragland, 69; A. P. White, 86; Horton Reeves, 76; William Cary, 150; C. V. White, 100; George F. Browning68; Bert Bush, 100; H. Reatherford, 68. ,
At a meeting held on February 5, 1908, a permit was granted for the erection of a building to be used by the Logan Hospital Association for a hospital. This is the building recently vacated by the hospital and now used for a hotel. The salary of the Chief of Police was fixed by the Council at $45 per month and an additional $5 for taking care of the reels and hose of the fire department.
At the next meeting of the council held on February 19, the salary of the Chief of Police was reduced to $30 per month with $5 additional for taking care of the equipment of the fire department.
Regular meeting March 9, 1908, Charles Avis was ap- pointed attorney for the town. John Justice tendered his resignation as Recorder and Scott Justice was appointed to fill the unexpired term.
At a regular meeting held April 1, C. V. White tender- ed his resignation as a member of the Council to take effect April 15.
Regular meeting held May 8, S. B . Lawson was ap- pointed to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of C. V. White.
Special meeting of the council held June 11, 1908, W. A. Lee resigned as member of the Council and George F. Browing was elected to fill the vacancy.
A special election was held June 12, 1908, to vote upon the question of a bond issue for the purpose of paving the streets of the town resulted as follows: "For Adoption of
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the new method of paving the streets, 145; "Against adop- tion of the new method of paving the streets," 32.
At a special meeting held June 13, Bert Bush resigned as member of the Council and J. E. McDonald was elected to fill the vacancy.
At a meeting held July 8, R. W. Peck was appointed overseer of the poor of the city.
Special meeting held July 16, T. C. Whited tendered his resignation as Street Commissioner.
A special election was held August 10,1908 for the pur- pose of voting on a bond issue to provide $15,000 for grad- ing, paving and sewering of the streets and alleys and $10,000 additional funds for the purpose of extending Strat- ton street resulted as follows : For bonds, 142, against bonds, 12.
At a regular meeting held October 28 Scott Justice re- signed as Recorder. Charles Avis resigned as City Attor- ney.
Meeting held November 26 E. H. Greene was appointed City Attorney.
At a special meeting held December 3, G. F. Browning resigned as a member of the Council and C. V. White was elected to fill the vacancy.
The result of the election held April 1, 1909, is as fol- lows: Robert Bland, Mayor; Naaman Jackson, Recorder; C. E. Stafford, A. Y. Browning, A. P. White, Steven Herald and H. H. Farley, Councilmen.
At a special meeting held May 3, 1909, Thomas D. Herald, was appointed Chief of Police at a salary of $45 per month and the fees connected with the office. J. Neddie Bryan appointed Assessor at $20 per year and fees; Kelly Elkins appointed Street Commissioner, at $2.00 per day for the time he was actually employed at work. E. T. England was appointed City Attorney; J. B. McCorkle, City Engin- eer
Special meeting held September 9, 1909, Thomas D. Herald tendered his resignation as chief of Police and R. R.
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Stratton was appointed to fill the vacancy and his salary fixed at $45 per month. It was also order by the Council that the Chief of Police wear the regulation police uniform and the chief was given 90 days to secure same. T. D. Herald was elected Street Commissioner and his pay fixed at $2 per day for the time he was actually employed.
At a regular session of the Council on January 19, 1910, the salary of R. R. Stratton, Chief of Police was increased to $60 per month.
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Regular meeting held on June 10, 1910, Naaman Jack- son resigned as recorder and at an adjourned meeting held June 4, B. L. Holland was elected to fill the vacancy.
We find that at the election held on April 6, 1911, there were three tickets in the field representing the three polit- ical parties, Democratic, Republican and Socialist. The re- sult was as follows:
Democratic Ticket: Mayor, A. W. McDonald, 164; Re- corder, J. Neddie Bryan, 169; Treasurer, George Justice, 181; Assessor, Don Chafin, 174; Council, Ben Pridemore, 157; Frank Martin, 171; S. A. Draper, 171; Robert Baldwin, 173; John L. Buskirk, 168.
Republican Ticket : 1 Mayor, Naaman Jackson, 105; Recorder, W. P. Neekamp, 94; Treasurer, B. H. Browning, 86; Assessor, J. W.Hinchman, 93; Council, C. V. White, 99; George Godby, 85; Richard Kirk, 97; Thomas Wilson, 95; John M. Perry, 96.
Socialist Ticket: Mayor, Willoughby Miller, 17; Re- corder, Jeff Cooper, 19; Council, J. J. Kirkendall, 17; A. T. Elkins, 31; F. Shelton, 17; Joseph Butcher, 16.
Special session of the Council held May 1, 1911, the salary of the police was fixed at $50 per month with fees. J. M. Henderson was appointed Chief of Police aud was also authorized to act as Street Commissioner. C. B. Stratton was appointed Night Police. I. P. Baer was appointed City Attorney at a salary of $100 per year.
Regular meeting of the Council held on May 3, R. W.
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Peck was appointed Overseer of the Poor. J. B. McCorkle was appointed City Engineer.
Regular meeting of the Council held June 1, C. B. Strat- ton was removed from office for failing to do his duty. J. M. Henderson's salary was raised to $75, and he was auth- orized to do full police duty. On motion the salary of the Overseer of the Poor was fixed at $20 per year.
Special meeting of the Council held June 10, 1911, to authorize a bond issue to provide $15,000 for the purpose of extending Stratton street resulted as follows: For Bonds, 218; Against Bonds, 19.
Special meeting of the Council held September 4, 1911, the County Court was given permission to build a wagon bridge across the Guyan river at the end of Dingess street near Mrs. Vicie Nighbert's.
At a regular session of the Council held November 16, 1911, Ben Pridemore resigned as member of the Council and Scott Justice was elected to the vacancy.
At a regular meeting held December 7, 1911, Neddie Bryan resigned as Recorder and Charles Avis was elcted to fill the unexpired term.
Regular session held April 4, 1912, Charles Avis tender- ed his resignation as Recorder and J. Neddie Bryan was elected to fill the vacancy.
A special election was held April 10, 1912, to authorize a bond issue to provide $20,000 in funds for street improve- ment resulted as follows: For Ratification, 149; For Re- jection, 45.
Regular meeting held June 6, Scott Justice resigned as a member of the Council.
Special meeting of the Council held on June 10 A. W. McDonald resigned as Mayor. S. B. Lawson and J. A. Washington were nominated to fill the vacancy on the Coun- cil caused by the resignation of Scott Justice at a former meeting and S. B. Lawson was elected to the position.
A special meeting was held on June 13, and Charles Avis and J. E. Greever were nominated for election to fill
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the vacancy caused by the resignation of Mayor A. W. Mc- Donald. Avis was elected to the office. S. B. Lawson hav- ing failed to qualify as Councilman at a regular meeting held August 13, Burley White was elected to fill the unex- pired term. The salary of the Overseer of the Poor was in- creased to $25, effective from May 1, 1912, to April 30, 1913.
Regular meeting held December 19, 1912, Don Chafin tendered his resignation as Assessor and on motion R. W. Buskirk was elected by the Council to fill the unexpired term.
Regular meeting held March 20, 1913, J. Neddie Bryan tendered his resignation as Recorder and James E. Greever was appointed to fill the vacancy.
Election held April 3, 1913, resulted as follows :
Democratic Ticket: Mayor, Robert Bland, 188; Re- corder, James E. Greever, 195; Assessor, R. W. Buskirk, 180; Treasurer, Edward Hicks, 182; Councilmen, J. M. Moore, 179; F. P. Hurst, 187; C. McD. England, 183; Joe Ellis, 176; Burley White, 174.
Republican Ticket: Mayor, John M. Perry, 109; Re- corder, T. C. Whited, 92; Assessor, Layne Whitman, 108; Treasurer, B. O. Holland, 106; Councilmen, A. J. Lacy, 94, L. E. Steele, 89; Steven Herald, 93; George Godby 97.
Socialist Ticket; Mayor, W. Miller, 11; Recorder, Mas- ton White, 12; Assessor, Joseph Perry, 13; Treasurer,- Councilmen,Edley Browning, 18; Cash Fulton, 12; J. W. Butcher, 13; Jeff Cooper, 13; Ira Ellis, 11
Regular meeting held on May 1, 1913, the salary of the Chief of Police was fixed at $60 per month and fee of $1 on each arrest and conviction. The salary of the Street Com- missioner was fixed at $50 per month and the salary of the Recorder fixed at $100 per year. The following names were presented to the Council as candidates for the office of Chief of Police: U. B. Buskirk, who received four votes; D. C. Kirk, H. C. Duty, Wheeler Hill, J. M. Henderson, who
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received one vote, and Hibbard Hatfield. Buskirk was therefore, declared elected for a term of two years from May 1, 1913. The following names were presented to the Coun- cil as candidates for the office of Street Commissioner: Albert Dingess, who received four votes, and D. C. Kirk, who received one vote, and T. D. Herald. Dingess was elected to serve for two years. J. B. McCorkle was appoint- ed City Engineer.
From the records of the regular meeting held May 15, 1913, we find the following spread upon the minutes of the meeting: "An aggregation of the matron and maidens of the city appeared before the Council and upon invitation of the Mayor to present their demands to the Council, their spokeswoman, Mrs. Jennie Armstrong, delivered a very pleasing and interesting address, in which she informed the Council that their visit was not occasioned by any grievance upon their part but that it was to offer their services to the Council for the purpose of assisting in any way that they could its endeavors to renovate the city in general but more especially the sanitation thereof and requested the Council to map out the work it would expect them to under- take."
The Council tendered its thanks to the ladies through Mayor Bland and Councilman C. McD. England, which was very appropriate and met with the approval of all the Coun- cilmen present. An order was drawn on the City Treas- urer for the sum of $647.09 to pay for a team. of horses, harness and expenses of F. P. Hurst in purchasing same for the City. Albert Dingess was appointed at this meet- ing special police.
At a special meeting held June 7, 1913, I. P. Baer tendered his resignation as City Attorney. E. H. Greene was duly appointed to fill the unexpired term. On motion U. B. Buskirk, Chief of Police, was requested to tender his resignation on or before June 11, 1913.
Special meeting held June 30, the resignation of U. B. Buskirk as Chief of Police, was accepted and J. M. Hen-
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derson appointed to fill the vacancy and his salary was fix- ed at $75 per month.
Adjourned meeting held August 26, 1913, the resigna- tion of Burley White, a member of the Council, was tender- ed and accepted and W. B. Johnson was appointed to fill the unexpired term
At a regular meeting held September 4 we find a no- tation reading thus: "It appearing to Council that R. W. Buskirk, Assessor of the City of Logan, having removed from the state, on motion the office was declared vacant. J. E. Peck, Jr., was then appointed to fill the unexpired term.
A special election was held on October 11, 1913, to authorize the Council to issue bonds for the purpose of rais- ing funds to the amount of $50,000 for the purpose of pav- ing, curbing, sewering and otherwise improving the streets and alleys of the city. Result: For Bonds, 246; Against Bonds, 25.
At a special meeting held on April 20, 1914, Albert Dingess was discharged as special police.
Regular meeting held May 7, the resignation of Albert Dingess as Street Commissioner was received and accepted by the Council and James Jones was appointed to the posi- tion at a salary of $60 per month.
At an adjourned meeting held June 4, 1914, the resig- nation of J. M. Moore, a member of the Council, was re- ceived and accepted and L. G. Burns was elected by the Council to fill the unexpired term.
An estimate furnished the Council at a meeting held August 11, 1914, shows the valuation of the real estate lying in the city to amount to the sum of $1,077,653, and the valuation of the personal property to be $829,951, while the railway and other taxable property in the city to be $332,384
Regular meeting held September 3, 1914, the salary of the Chief of Police was increased from $75 to $77 permonth.
Regular meeting held December 17, the resignation of Robert Bland was received and accepted by the Council to
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take effect December 18, 1914, thereupon James E Greever resigned as Recorder and was elected by Council to the of- fice of Mayor.
At an adjourned meeting held December 19, Elbert Johnson was elected by Council to the position of Recorder.
Regular meeting held March 3, 1915, I. P. Baer was ap- pointed Recorder to fill the unexpired term caused by the death of Elbert Johnson.
The canvas of the ballots cast in the city election held on the first day of April, 1915, shows the following results:
Democratic Ticket: Mayor, J. B. Wilkinson, Jr., 249; Recorder, I. P. Baer, 246; Assessor, Ford McDonald, 249; R. R. Buskirk, 249; Councilmen, George Justice, 238; George Aldredge, 238; W. D. Phipps, 221; F. S. Martin,234. Republican Ticket: Mayor, O. J. Deegan, 209; Re- corder, Robert Claypool, 203; Assessor, T. C. Whited, 201; Treasurer, Cecil Aldredge, 208; Councilmen, Steven Herald, 217; Thomas Wilson, 227; A. J. Lacy, 214; Richard Kirk, 222; Layne Whitman, 218.
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