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Home My WebLink AboutOrdinance 2099 ORDINANCE NO. AN ORDINANCE ORDERING AN ELECTION OF THE QUALIFIED VOTERS OF THE CITY OF FORT WORTH, TEAS, ON TUESDAY, THE OTH DAY OF APRIL, A. D. 194Z, FOR THE PURPOSE OF ELECTING NINE COUNCILMEN FOR SAID CITY. BE IT ORDAINED BY THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF FORT WORTH, TEXAS: SECTION I. That, in compliance with the Charter of the City of Fort Worth and in accordance with the laws and Constitution of the State of Texas, an election be and the same is hereby called and ordered for the first Tuesday after the first Monday in April, A. D. 19419 the same being the 8th day of said month, at which election all qualified voters may vote for the purpose of electing nine councilmen. SECTION II. That the City Secretary of said City shall prepare ballots to be used in said election and shall stamp same "Official Ballot," on which ballot shall be printed the names of the candidates for the position of councilman. The places of the different councilmen shall be designated on the official ballot as Member of Council Place No. 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8 and 9, respectively. SECTION III. That no person's name shall be placed upon the official ballot as a candidate for the position of a member of the City Council unless the name of such person has been presented to the City Secretary not less than thirty (30) days prior to the date of said election by a petition signed by three hundred (300) or more qualified voters of said City, in ink or indelible pencil, together with the business or home address of each person signing such petition, and it must also appear on the face of said petition the number of the place that the said candidate is seeking and that the said petition has been separately circu— lated. SECTION IV. That it shall further appear to the said City Secretary before said candidate's name is entered on said ballot that such candidate has filed with the said City Secretary a written acceptance of his nomination not less than twenty (20) days before the date of said election. SECTION V. That in the event that there are two or more candidates for the same position and place as a member of the City Council, the position of such can- didates* names on the ballot shall be determined by placing them on such ballot in the alphabetical order of their surname. SECTION VI. That each voter shall vote for his choice candidate for each place as member of the City Council by striking from the ballot the names of all the candidates for which he does not wish to vote and shall vote for one candidate only for each place. SECTION VII. That the polls shall be kept open from seven o'clock a. m., until seven o'clook p. m., and that due return be made to the City Council showing the number of votes cast for and the number of votes cast against each candidate for each of the positions of city councilman respectively. SECTION VIII. That this ordinance, signed by the Mayor and attested by the City Secretary, shall constitute the proclamation of the Mayor calling and ordering said election, and that such notice shall be published in a newspaper of general circulation in the City of Fort Worth once a week for four weeks prior thereto, and that the said City Secretary is hereby directed to post or cause to be posted said proclama- tion at least thirty (30) days before said election in each voting precinct. SECTION I%. That the polling places for this election and the personnel of the of- ficers who are to hold the same, except insofar as they may be changed by the City Council of said City, shall be as follows: PRECINCT WARD IACATIOR JtJD(Z 1 1 Fire Hall 2nd & Commerce Howard Higby 55 2-+S Petersmith School A. C. Johnson 715 West Second Street 2 2-N Courthouse Basement C. L. Cratcher West End 56 3-E Fire Hall - 3.401 Kennedy S. J. Miller 3 3-W Fire Hall - 16th & Jones Wm. E. Hood 4 4 E Fire Hall - Texas & Cherry R. C. Fuller 57 4-W Rotary Park Gembell Randle Seventh & Summit 58 5 E Bessie Street Repair Shoe Shop Mrs. A. D. Rickard 1001 Bessie Street 5 5-W East Van Zandt School H. R. Zimmerman 613 Missouri Avenue 54 6-W Gordon Boswell Floral Co. R. T. Lee 1220 Pennsylvania Avenue 53 6-C Fire Hall Mrs. C. V. Kile Petersmith & Fulton 6 6 E Fire Hall Miss Ella Bidiker Tucker & South Bryan 7 7-VW Jennings Avenue High School J. P. Wear 1015 Jennings Avenue 84 7-SW Phillips Barber Shop Mrs. Sam Dennis 401 West Richmond Street 79 7-SE Worth Drug Store Mrs. C. g. Dinkins 2300 Evans Avenue 59 7-NE 1012 Evans Avenue R. D. Williams 73 7 E Fire Hall W. C. Wehres New York & Maddox PRECINCT WAU ZW-ATION jum 89 7.s Morningaide Elementary School Mrs. F. L. Bass 2700 Evans Avenue 8 8-NE Arthur Teague Motor Company M. Frank Kinney 900 West Magnolia Avenue 71 8-SE Fire Hall Mrs. T. L. Raysor 1601 Lipscomb Street 96 8-S Cyrus Drug Store Mrs. T. S. Cyrus 2001 - 6th Avenue 60 8-W Park Place mire Hall Mrs. R. W. Wheeler 1616 Park Place 70 8-NW Gebhard Drug Store Sam Williams 1314 West Magnolia Avenue 61 9-E Fire Hall Miss Lelia Walker 1019 Peach Street 9 9 W Courthouse Basement W. S. Tannehill East End 97 10-SW Geo. Clarke School Mrs. Frank Pulliam 3300 South Henderson 78 10-ZE Renfro Drug Store Mrs. 0. F. Smith 3048 Hemphill Street 77 10-C Fire Hall - 2800 Lipscomb St. W. W. Sloan 62 10-N E. M. Daggett School Mrs. W. K. Rose 2315 College Avenue 48 11 E Fire Hall - 12th & N. Main St. K. Robey 67 11-SW Denver Avenue School Mrs. W. 0. Bellamy 1.412 Denver Avenue 110 ll-NW Fire Hall - 18th & Belmont Ave. Mrs. T. R. Goff 87 ll-NE North Side Tech Mrs. W. C. Robinson Park & Lincoln Avenue 68 12-W Sam Rosen School R. H. Bogard 1702 N. W. 26th Street 92 12-C Chestnut Avenue Christian Church Mrs. E. W. Kelley 25th & Chestnut Avenue 49 12-E 0. E. Kimmona Furniture Store Mrs. Russell Babcock 124 West Exchange Avenue PF=IWT WARD LOOATION DODGE 10 13-N Fire Hall 1501 E. Hattie Street W. E. Rickard .80 13-0 R. Vickery School W. V. Jones 1905 Vickery Boulevard 90 13-S Bob Carrell Grocery Store Mrs. Pauline Tankersley 1910 Yuma Street 81 14-S➢7 Alice E. Carlson School T. B. Hopkins 3300 west Cantey Street 108 14-SE Fire Station V. P. Baker University & Berry Street 95 14-N Tillery Grocery Melvin J. Miller 2202 Forest Park Boulevard 15 15-S Hudson's Grocery R. L. Crouch 3478 west Vickery Boulevard 64 15-N West Van Zandt School Mrs. Lottie Messerole 1200 University Drive 16 16 E Old South Hi Mount School D. W. Evans 4125 Lafayette 103 16-N North Hi-Mount, School Mrs. W. B. Renfro 3801 West nth Street 86 16-0 Fire Hall Mrs. M. A. Elliott Carlton & Camp Bowie Boulevard 94 lb W Arlington Heights Elementary School Mrs. Forrest C. 5100 E1 Campo Avenue Withers lq lq W. J. Turner School Emmett Curran 3000 N. W. 26th Street 51 18 Diamond Hill High School Mrs. J. A. Stephenson 28th & Oscar Street 19 19-S Riverside Christian Church Mrs. Henry W. Schmidt Swayne & First Streets 82 19-E Fire Hall - Riverside Mrs. Pat H. Lewis 109 19-W Oakhurst School Building Mrs. R. E. Duke 2700 Yucca Avenue 101 19-N Riverside High School Mrs. S. A. Wall North Riverside Drive 66 20 Sycamore Heights Baptist Church Mrs. Fairs Roche 2800 Purrington Avenue PfMCINCT WARD LOCATION JUDGE 11 21-E Old Fire Hall Mrs. C. F. Andrews 1409 Vaughn Boulevard 75 21-W Wm. James Junior High School Ed. L. Sorrells 1201 Nashville Street 74 22-W D. McRea School F. E. Bailey 3318 Avenue N 98 22-E Bishop Street Pharmacy Mrs. J. M. Hard 2201 Bishop Street 14 23-0 Whitleyls Drug Store Mrs. Grace Glasgow 3900 Hemphill Street 107 23fig Langford Furniture Store Mrs. A. S. Whitley 3753 Hemphill Street 85 23-W Rosemont School D. A. Thornton 1600 Prince Street 76 24 Lilly B. Clayton School Roscoe Smith 2000 Park Place Avenue 50 25 Washington Heights School Mrs. A. C. George 3203 North Houston Street 91 26 N Lacyta Store Orville Beall Lake Worth 113 26-5 E1 Campo Store Sam Blair Lake Worth 105 27-N Fire Hall E. T. Bagaley Meadowbrook Drive & Oakland 88 27-S Lee Roy Roquemore Grocery J. G. Reeves 403 Rand Avenue 83 28 Oaklawn School C. E. Jaco 3224 Hardeman SECTION X. That this ordinance shall take effect and be in full force and effect from and after the date of its passage. Mayor ATTEST: City Secretary APPROVED AS TO FORM: City Attorney ORDINJ. ............. .......... No. Tine Date Jav City Secretary