Red River County Louisiana Archives News.....Police Jury Election Proclamation 1896 January 25, 1896

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Coushatta Citizen January 25, 1896
 (Reprinted in the Coushatta Citizen Centennial Edition, Sept. 16, 1971)
                   ELECTION PROCLAMATION
   By the Board of Supervisors of Election for Red River Parish, Louisiana.
   Whereas the Police Jury of Red River Parish, in the state of Louisiana did 
at its session on the 17th day of January 1896 ordain that an election should 
be held in the Parish of Red river on Feb. 27, 1896 at the several polling 
places at which place the last preceeding general election was held.
   Now we the Board of Supervisors of election in and for Red River duly 
qualified, commissioned and sworn, by virtue of authority invested, do hereby 
give public notice that on the 27th day of February 1896, an election will be 
held ... for the purpose of taking the sense and taking the wishes of the 
property taxpayers of the said parish upon the question of levying a special 
tax of five miles per annum for the period of ten years from and beginning 
January, 1897.
   Commissioners are instructed to open said Election at six o'clock a.m. and 
close the same at 7 o'clock p.m. in accordance with Section 22 of Act. 181 of 
the Acts of 1894.
  The following clerks of Election were appointed:
Coushatta -- J. J. STANFILL and W. H. WAMSLEY
Pierson school house -- J. A. TAYLOR and J. W. WREN
Coushatta Academy -- S. P. CARROL, C. J. MANGHAM
Clear Springs  -- W. H. ELIOTT, F. L. FOWLER
Love's Lake -- JOHN PAGE, ED CARLISLE
Gus Jones -- GUS JONES, W. T. CARRAWAY
East Point -- J. G. MARSTON, W. E. HAWKINS
Pecan Point -- CHAS. LANDRUM, W. M. HUTCHINSON
Starlight -- W. B. CLARK, J. A. FRIASON
Kenilworth -- R. H. BROWN, JOHN ATKINS.
And the following Commissioners of Election were appointed:

Ward 1 - Coushatta - EDW. LISSO, T. H. TERRY, F. J. PIERSON, J. R. MONK, M. H. 
BOSLEY, TOM PIERSON
Pierson school house - D. R. HANKINS, JOE WATSON, E. B. DICKSON, EUGENE 
CARGILL, JOHN JACKSON, W. R. WILLIAMS

Ward 2 - Clear Springs - S. T. TEER, W. W. LOFTIN,T. J. McGEE, J. H. COLE,
 O. M. P. RAWLES, HENRY MOBLEY
Coushatta Academy - T. K. GIDDENS, JOHN HOWARD, J. B. HOWARD, O. B. SHERWIN, 
B. C. LEE, A. F. MANGHAM.

Ward 3 - Love's Lake - G. B. CRAWFORD, J. T. S. THOMAS, JOHN CONLEY, SR., C. 
S. CABINESS, J. B. POLAND, T. L. PAGE.
Gus Jones Schoolhouse - J. D. GRAHAM, FRANK HUCKABY, J. J. YEARWOOD, SAM 
FLETCHER, T. C. CARROWAY, W. I BRASSELL

Ward 4 - East Point - A. H. LANDRUM, N. S McLEOD, HENRY MARSTON, D. W. RUFF, 
S. F. SPENCER, W. F. STEPHENSON
Pecan Point -- J. M. WARREN, J. J. GILL, E. T. ROBINSON, W. C. BROWN, TOM 
PICKETT, J. J. YARBROUGH.

Ward 5 - Starlight - JOHN MARSTON JR., ROBERT PERRYMAN, R. M. ALLEN, S. Q. 
HOLLINGSWORTH, J. H. STEPHENSON, EARL KENT
Kenilworth - J. W. CARNES, R. L. BROWN, R. H. ROBIEU, O. T. WEBB, S. A. 
GARDNER, J. H. WILSON.

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