Georgia: Coweta County: THE NEWNAN HERALD Thursday December 13, 1877 ==================================================================== USGENWEB NOTICE: In keeping with our policy of providing free information on the Internet, data may be used by non-commercial entities, as long as this message remains on all copied material. These electronic pages may NOT be reproduced in any format for profit or for presentation by other persons or organizations. Persons or organizations desiring to use this material for purposes other than stated above must obtain the written consent of the file contributor. The submitter has given permission to the USGenWeb Archives to store this file permanently for free access. This file was contributed by: Dianne Wood cowetafamilies@yahoo.com ==================================================================== The Newnan Herald Thursday December 13, 1877 CITY ELECTIONS The following is a statement of the vote for Mayor and Alderman at the election in this city on Saturday: For Mayor : J. J. Neely 181 G. W. Ramey 141 For Aldermen: J. P. Brewster 211 W. B. Berry 156 Thomas Leigh 191 Jno Duncan 144 R. D. Cole 190 R. H. Hardaway 131 J. M. Chadwick 161 J. M. Glass 126 Buck Baily had his corn crib, stables and other out buildings burned down Sunday night last. About 100 bushels of corn were destroyed, and his stables and horses came very near being burned up. The work of an incendiary. Married on the 5th inst, by Rev. W. A. Parks, Mr. Bird Cook and Miss Nellie Leigh, daughter of Judge Ben Leigh. The members of the Coweta Lodge No. 60 are urgently and respectfully requested to attend our next meeting (Saturday night Dec 15th 1877) Business of vast importance to all---- come, all members. J. W. Anderson, W.M. J. H. Shelnutt, Sect'y. Col. J. J. Neely, it can be said that he is a genial, social, and Christian gentleman. Having seen service in the late war, and been in command upon the tented field, loved and respected by his comrades in arms, he is well qualified to take command as chief of our city government, to enforce the laws, maintain order, and promote the general welfare. The Colonel seems to have command of as much leisure time as say one in the city to devote to looking after the best interests of the town, and we believe he will as Mayor, take a pleasure and pride in serving the city faithfully during the term of his administration. Major J. P. Brewster the popular ordinary of Coweta, re-elected at the last county election for his second term, was elected one of the Alderman on the new Board last Saturday, by a vote complimentary and gratifying to himself and his friends. The Major served in the war -lost a leg-came out of the contest with limited means - but by his own untiring energies since, has succeeded in accumulating a handsome property. He manages his own affairs with wisdom and success, and can be safely entrusted with any position his fellow citizens may see proper to confer upon him. As one of the members of the new Board, his weight and influence will be felt as a wise counselor in shaping the direction of the administration of the city council for the next year. Like our worthy Mayor elect, Major B is a single man, but without authority from either of these gentlemen, we are not prepared at the present writing to make announcements as to there being any candidates for matrimony among the members of the new Board. Captain Tom Leigh had command of a company during the war and was always at the post of duty. He knows how to run successfully a good farm, a steam saw mill or a fifty horse cotton gin and make them pay handsome dividends. He recognizes no such word as fail, and every enterprise he takes hold of is rendered, by his skill and energy, a success. He will not be found wanting in the discharge of his duty in the position to which he has been elected by his fellow citizens. R. D. Cole is one of our most respected and influential citizens, who has done much towards building up our city and adding materially to its prosperity-and the honor conferred by electing him one of our city fathers is well deserved. His Iron Foundry Machines and Wood Shops Steam Grist and Saw Mills, show at a glance that he as an Individual, in connection with his brother, is more interested in the good government of the town than any single man within its corporate limits. His enterprising spirit and unconquerable perseverance qualify him for the government of a Duke-dom or a place upon any Board the people may see proper to place him. Jas M. Chadwick is a master builder and has since the war, as contractor and workman, constructed almost every brick building and block erected in the city for the last ten years or more. They stand a monuments to his memory and good taste as a master workman. He may be regarded as the representative of the working men of the city, and as such he is bound to guard their interests with infathering vigilance. With the balance of the new Board, he is emphatically for "reform, retrenchment, and rotation in office," and upon this platform strictly adhered to, we have the promise from him and his honored associates upon the Board, of a city government for 1878, which cannot be reasonably complained of. But as old Tom Reide used to say "We shall see!".