110 YEARS AGO: Paper ballots and not voting machines must be used for submitting the proposed new state constitution to the voters at the election on November 2. The decision was rendered as an opinion by Attorney General Woodbury in response to inquiries by Secretary of State Hugo. However, the voting machines may be used for voting upon the two constitutional amendments authorized by the legislature, including referendum or woman suffrage and a $27,000,000 bond issue to complete the barge canal. Woodrow Wilson, the President of the United States, announced tonight, his engagement to Mrs. Norman Galt of Washington. No date for the wedding has been fixed. It probably will take place in December at the home of the bride-elect. Mrs. Galt is the widow of a well-known business man of Washington, who died eight years ago, leaving a jewelry business which still bears his name. She has lived in Washington since her marriage in 1896. She is 38 years old and was Miss Edith Bolling, born in Wytheville, Virginia where her girlhood was spent and where her father, William H. Bolling was a prominent lawyer. October 1915
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