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Home My WebLink AboutOrdinance 1804 ORDINANCE 10*.,i v AN ORDINANCE ORDERING AN ELECTION OF TRE VALIFIED VOTERS OF THE CITY OF PORT WDRZS, TX AS, ON TUESDAY, THE 2ND DAY OF APRIL, A. D. 1935, FOR THE PURPOSE OF ELECTING NINE COUNCII-M FOR SAID CITY. BE IT ORDAINED BY THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF FORT WORTFI, TMW: : 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. 1935, the same being the 2nd 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 Bamber of Council Place No. 1, 2, 30 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 lose 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 circulated. 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 Y. 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 candidates' 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'clock pe 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 Councilmen 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 order• ing 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 City Secretary is hereby directed to post or cause to be posted said proclamation at least thirty (30) days before said election in each voting precinct. SECTION IS. That the polling places for this election and the personnel of the officers who are to hold the same, except insofar as they may be changed by the City Council of said City, shall be as follows: PMOINCT WARD VOTING PLACE PRESIDING JUNE 1 1 Fire Hall 2nd & Commerce Streets Tom Shankle 55 2-S First Christian Church Basement A. G. Johnson 2 2-N Courthouse West End Basement lbs• Mary Utter 56 3-3 Fire Hall 1401 Kennedy S. d. Miller 3 3+W Fire Hall 18th & Jones Streets Wm. E. Hood 4 4-2 Central Fire Station Texas & Macon R. C. Fuller 57 4-W Rotary Park 7th & Summit E. Be Randle 58 5•,E Watson Drug Store 1001 Bessie Street Mrs. A. D. Rickard 5 5-W Missouri Avenue Methodist Church 520 Missouri Avenue H. R. Zimill rman 54 O-W Henry's Hospital Pharmacy 1406 Pennsylvania R. T. Lee 53 6-0 Fire Hall Peteremith & Lasker T. L. Hogle 6 6.3 Fire Hall Tucker & South Bryan Ella Bideker 7 7-NW Hanger Furniture Store 1115 South Main Street J- P. Wear 84 7-SW Rafferty Drug Store 1830 May Street Mrs. Sam Dennis 79 7-9E Worth Pharm ay 2300 Evans Avenue Mrs. C. E. Dinkins 59 7-NE Keep.*U.Neat Cleaners 951 Evans Avenue J. W. White 73 7-E Fire Hall New York & Maddox W. E. Wehres 89 7-S Residence J. R. Black 957 Mulkey Avenue J. Be Black 8 8-HE a Cooke-Fillingint Motor Company Z. S. Ratliff 900 W. Magnolia 71 8-SE Gaither's Drag Store 1801 College Avenue Mrs. d. L. Raysor 98 8-S College Avenue Pharmacy 2263 College Avenue lfrs. Hugh Sloan PRE03NOT WARD VOTING PLACE PRESIDING JUDGE 60 8-W Fire Hall 1616 Park Place bars. R. W. Wheeler 70 8-NW Will Foster Cleaners 1560 W. Magnolia L. F. Perkins 61 9-E Fire Hall 1019 Peach Street Miss Lela Walker 9 9N Cour thous e Basement - East End Mrs. Christine Duncan 97 10-SW Fields Grocery 1715 Berry Street J. R. Francisco 78 10-SE Renfro Drug Store 3040 Hemphill Street Mrs. J. W. Heffington 77 10-C Fire Hall 2800 Lipscomb J. J. Ray 62 10-N Stewart's Drug Store 2425 Hemphill Street Mrs, W. S. Rose 48 ll-E Fire Hall 12th & North Main Streets K. Roby 67 11-sW Lone Star Grocery 609 W. Central Avenue Mrs. W. 0. Bellamy 87 11-NW Fire Hall 18th & Belmont Mrs. J. R. Goff 68 12-W Trinity Methodist Church 25th & Azle R• H• Bogard 92 12-0 J. 0. George Plumbing Co. 906 N. W. 25th Street J. W. Vaughan 49 12-$ Heinies Cafe 125 W. Exchange Avenue Mrs, Russell Babcock 10 13-N Fire Hall 1501 E. Hattie W. E. Rickard 80 13-0 Glenn Mattress Factory 1914 Vickery Boulevard Frank J. Evans 90 13-S J. E. Dalton Grocery 1348 Be Richmond Mrs. Velma Tankersley 81 14-S Fire Hall University & Berry Mrs. D. T. Swint 95 14-N Renfro Drug Store 2200 Forest Park Blvd. 0. C. Tunstill 15 15-S Hudson Grocery 3478 Curzon J. 01 Hildreth 64 15-N vacant Building - Next door Fashion Cleaners 3200 W. Seventh Street Mrs. L. Leroy Burton n1W NCT WARD VOTING PLACE PRESIDING MDGE 16 16-B Arlington Hts. Methodist Church Thomas Place & Crestline Road D. W. Evans 103 16-N Baptist Temple 3726 Camp Bowie Blvd. W. Be Renfro 86 16-0 Fire Hall Carlton & Camp Bowie Blvd. Mrs. M. A. Elliott 94 16-W Acme Feed Store 230E Merrick Street Mrs. Forrest Co Withers 17 17 Rice's Feed Store 2803 Azle Avenue Emmett Curran 51 18 Diamond Hill Methodist Church 3005 Oscar Mrs, J. A, Stephenson 19 19-S Odd Fellows Hall Riverside Mrs. Henry W. Schmidt 82 19-C Fire Hall Riverside W. M. Eagle 101 19-N Oakhurst Land Company Office Cliff Magers 66 20 Morrison's Pharmacy No. 2 2639 East Lancaster Avenue Mrs., Laura W. Maginnis 11 21.3 Fire Hall 1409 Vaughan Street Mrs. B.L. Hooker 75 21-W Reynolds-sCampbell Lumber Co. 2701 Vickery Blvd. C. Hightower 74 22-W Fred's Cash Grocery 3326 Millett Street H. L. Collins 98 22-E Pennock Cafe & grocery 3400 Millett Street J. M. Hard 14 23-B Whitleys Drug Store 3900 Hemphill Street E. T. Jenkins 85 23-W Seminary Service Station 1701 Gmbr411 L• M. Jones 76 24 Welborn Drug Store 2144 Mistletoe Drive Roscoe Smith 50 25 F. J. Mahaffey Grocery 3125 Horth Houston Mrs, F. P. Carson 91 26 Lacy's Store - Lake Worth J. Be Lacy 105 27N Fire Hall Me4dowbrook Drive & Oakland Be A. Beldridge 88 27-S Sagamore Hill Baptist Church 4400 Panola Street J. a. Reeves 83 28 Matthews Grocery 3201 Hardeman Street C. Be Jaoo SECTION 7L. That this ordinance shall take effect and be in !Lill force and effect from and after the date of its passage. Mayor ATTEST: City Searetary APPROVED AS TO FORK AND LEGALITY: City Attorney