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CITIZENS’ TICKET WINSIN MAYORALTY RACESewer Bonds Carried by 29 Majority===C. M. Bonner and J. E. Skyles Are Elected Aldermen for the First and Second Wards Without Op-position^*). J. Johns Wins Aldermanic Honors in Third Ward—Franchise Is Granted to White-. fish=Po!son Electric Railway.Election day passed off very quietly in spite of the fact thatwards it carried unanimously.The result of election is as follows:SNYDER MAYFIELD1st Ward...........92nd Ward ....213rd Ward...........26166760651321st Ward 2nd WardALDERMEN.Cal Bonner_________26J. E. Skyles...............83ISEWER VOTE.Bonds Yes. Bonds No.; 1st Ward .....-6 122nd Ward________19 0! 3rd Ward_________19 3II. T MAY FI KM)1tttliere was quite a little agitation going on for the mayoralty among the friends of the two opposing parties. Mayor Snyder, who was a candidate for re-election, displayed hut little, if any, campaigning. The friends of Mayfield were very active in rounding up the railroad men as fast as they came in. Up to the time that the polls wen* closed it was hard to tell who was going to Ik? the winner, hut the count gave Mayfield the majority.Johns and Davis for aldermen in the Third ward ran neck and neck, hut Johns succeeded in winning •ut by ten votes. There was no opposition for the aldermen in the First and Second ward, so Skyles and Bonner won in a walk.In the Second ward there was no opposition to the bond question at all. Three voted against it in the Third ward, and in the first ward, which includes Lakeside, the bond question was turned down hard, but taking the town as a whole it carried by 29 majority.There were six votes againstgranting a franchise to the White-fish-Poison Electric Railway in the third ward. In the other twoELK*THU’ HOAI).Franchise Yes. Franchise No 1st Ward_________IS 02nd Ward________19 03rd Ward________.17 (The new council will take office on the first of May,and they have a great deal of work outlined Indorethem.The biggest job is to put the sewer proposition thru and get that under way as soon as possible. This is a very important work and will want to be started at once. The street grades are to le established. This work was started by the old council and the hardest part of the work is nearly over with. Fire limits are also to be established. This was also started by the old council and will have to Ix? finished by the new. Then thereIi is the matter of cleaning the stumps 1 out of the streets and alleys that ! will have to he settled, besides the many other little matters that will turn up resulting from these. It is going to be a busy year for the city dads, and one that will try their metal, but we have an efficient set of officers that are equal to the occasion. They hrve pledged themselves to work for the best in-4terests of the town, so we need not worry about what the results will be.
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The Whitefish Pilot
Whitefish, Montana, US
Thu, Apr 07, 1910
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