County Commissioners Meeting
source date: 1889
availability: public-domain

County Commissioners Meeting On the re-assembling of the board at 7 p.m. it was found that there was an insuffi- ciency of oil, and Col. Sam Carpenter sent down to the city and purchased fifty cents worth of candles and illuminated the court house on this inauguration eve. It puzzled the bystanders to determine whether it was a wake or an attempt to foreshadow the inevitable result two years hence.