CANDIDACY DECLARED FOR BON HOMME COUNTY AUDITOR
A. G. Serr announces candidacy for County Auditor to Republican voters in Bon Homme County. The statement promotes the campaign and urges party backing ahead of the election.
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Newspaper
The Citizen Republican
Location
Scotland, South Dakota, United States of America
Date
May 18, 1916
Page
1
A. G. Serr announces candidacy for County Auditor to Republican voters in Bon Homme County. The statement promotes the campaign and urges party backing ahead of the election.
In Bon Homme county, incumbent Register of Deeds Stoddard announces candidacy for re election and asks fellow Republicans for support in the 1916 primary. He urges party members in Co. E to back his bid.
County candidate Maude E. Fites seeks nomination for Bon Homme County Superintendent of Schools. The brief appeal requests support from voters in the upcoming primary and outlines commitment to education leadership.
L A Eads announces his bid for sheriff of Bon Homme County and submits to the Republican voters in the 1916 primary. The statement emphasizes adherence to party wishes and the electoral process.
At the request of many friends T N Treat announces his candidacy for the office of County Judge subject to the Republican voters decision in the coming June Primary.
Wm McBurney announces his candidacy for reelection as county treasurer of Bon Homme County. He states he runs to serve under the will of Republican voters as expressed in the 1916 primary.
The writer declares candidacy for the office of County Judge subject to the will of Republican voters in Bon Homme County during the June 1916 primaries.
A Republican candidate announces his run for Representative, pledging to seek voters’ support in the primaries and to look after constituents’ interests if nominated and elected. The notice is addressed to supporters and copies Torrence.
J H Stephens announces candidacy for Republican nomination for State Senator. He pledges support for better roads Rural Route extensions improved telephone service and efficient state administration pending primary voters' will.
Springfield Feb 14 1916 JW Whiting announces himself as a Republican candidate for the Bon Homme County Superintendent of Schools office, subject to voters at the Primary Election. He notes friends solicited his run and asks for the party’s support.
The Methodist Episcopal general conference, by a vote over three to two, refused to pass a resolution favoring organized labor in employment matters. The decision frames the issue as economic rather than moral and argues it falls outside the church’s religious remit.
A meeting was held in Tyndall last Wednesday of commercial club members from towns along the Yankton Platte line to formulate an appeal to the railroad company for a Sunday train. Petitions from all towns were presented and a committee was appointed to present the matter to railroad officials.
The coal miners' strike yields wage gains in Pennsylvania and operators announce an advance in anthracite coal prices. Consumers face higher ash costs as a result. The federal revenue department is inspecting deed offices for under-stamped filings, revealing many cases. Penalties of $10 apply for under-stamped deeds, with exemptions if no fraud is shown and the shortfall is made up.
In Yankton County no delegates were filed to attend the Republican state convention, leaving no representation for the county at the August gathering. The piece notes the convention as a platform exercise held long after nominations, and criticizes the expense and timing as a pointless formality. The piece also previews The Great Pageant of Yankton at Garden Terrace Theatre on June 14 to 16, a dramatization of early Dakota history by Joseph Milla Hanson featuring about two hundred characters.
Hon Franklin K Lane secretary of the interior conferred full citizenship rights on 160 Yankton Sioux and issued land patent titles. The plan to classify patentees and release guardianship may hurt some who face immediate loss of ward status. Twenty five Indians had earlier planned sales to Lake Andes capitalists, and were blocked from citizenship. Auto trade expected to surge in the area this autumn.
The state food and drug department warns automobilists about two scam products sold in bright tins and yellow boxes. One is two dollars a quart gasoline colorant, the other one dollar for a box of one hundred nappthalene tablets. Tests show the liquid is ordinary gasoline and the tablets are coal tar naphthalene.
Bronx Falls legislator Mr. O A Christopherson, speaker of the house and congressional candidate, was in Scotland Tuesday to bid farewell to friends before next Tuesday's primary. He is described as a pleasant gentleman with a solid legislative record. The primary election will be held next Tuesday amid a mix of joys and sorrows.
Bon Homme County South Dakota will hold a primary election on May 23 1916 at all regular polling places from 6 am to 6 pm. Voters of each party will cast separate party votes to select candidates for United States Senate state Congress Judicial Legislative and County offices and to elect party committeemen and delegates to conventions. Dated April 22 1916. J J Maub County Auditor.
Notice lists designated polling locations for the May 28, 1916 primary across multiple precincts. Locations include City Hall, schools, halls, and a courthouse, with each site tied to its respective district and town. J.J. Maus, County official, signed the notice.
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