Election contest

VOORHEES, ARNOLD, ELLIS

Posted By: Ken Wright (email)
Date: 5/12/2012 at 07:24:33

Maquoketa Excelsior, April 14, 1898

Election Contest Decided

The long deferred and anxiously awaited trial of the election contest between James A. Voorhees and Hiram Arnold in Jones County was held beginning Saturday last. Tuesday afternoon Gid Ellis received a telephone call from his brother-in-law, Mr. Arnold, that the contest had been decided in his favor, he being elected by four votes.

Dr. Gideon Ellis
 

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