Jasper County Democrat, Volume 22, Number 61, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 October 1919 — COUNTY SEAT OF JENNINGS [ARTICLE]

COUNTY SEAT OF JENNINGS

Goes to North Vernon, According to Recount of Votes. North Vernon is shown to be winner of the special election held July 22, 1919, to decide whether the Jennings county seat should be moved from Vernon, according to a commisolon which made an official recount of the ballots cast. I Results of the recount have been announced as follows: For the removal, 2,188; opposed to the removal, 1,351; Illegal ballots, 182; total of legal ballots, 3,489Sixty per cent of the legal -ballots was necessary to make the change in the location of the ( county seat and gfffce that wou)«l mean 2,093, North Vernon obtained 45 ’ more votes than necessary. The commission, which made the recount, was named by John R-1 Carney, judge, and was composed of E. P. Trapp, George M. Crist and Shepherd Whitcomb.