01-13-1903 election minutes VCM
VILLAGE OF ELK RIVER COUNCIL MEETING
Minutes of Village Election
January 13, 1903
At the annual election of the village of Elk River in the County of Sherburne and in the State of
Minnesota, held at Baldowsky’s tailor shop as appointed by council, after giving due notice thereof
as provided by law, on the 13th day of Dec. 1902.
N.D. Trumbull and E.W. Johnson, two qualified voters of said village who had within 20 days
before said election been appointed as judges of such election, and being present with Recorder as
clerk of election at the hour of one o’clock P.M.; each of them took an oath to faithfully discharge
the duties required of them at such election, and being qualified forthwith opened the polls by
proclamation, and the election proceeded without interruption by ballot until closed.
The subjects voted on at the election were to select: one President, three Trustees, one Treasurer,
one Recorder, one Justice of the Peace, and one Constable.
At four o’clock on said afternoon, the polls were closed, proclamation of such closing having been
made by one of the Judges of election ten minutes previous thereto. The Judges then proceeded to
publicly count and canvass the votes, and the following result was publicly proclaimed by one of the
Judges.
Statement of Result of Canvass
The following is a true statement of the result of the counting and canvass by ballot of the annual
village election of the village of Elk River, county of Sherburne and state of Minnesota held
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Jan. 13, 1903.
C.Q. Scoborio rec’d 33 votes for President and was declared elected.
A.A. Opitz rec’d 33 votes for Trustee and was declared elected.
James McBride rec’d 33 votes for Trustee and was declared elected.
Perry Clute rec’d 16 votes for Trustee.
W.P. Rhoda rec’d 16 votes for Trustee.
Being a tie vote between Clute and Rhoda, the judges proceeded by lot to select one of them.
The lot fell to Clute, and he was declared elected.
H.B. Nickerson rec’d 33 votes for Recorder and was decl. elected.
A. Davis recd. 20 votes for Treas.
J. DeBooy recd. 13 votes for Treas.
Davis was declared elected.
E.H. Davis recd. 33 votes for Justice of Peace and was declared elected.*
E.W. Johnson, N.D. Trumbull, Judges of Election
H.B. Nickerson, Recorder
* Although the text states that one Constable was to be elected, no results are given for that election.