 On the following day, 78 people also met to vote on the new town officers.Voters elected John S. Earman as the first mayor, while Henry J. Burkhardt, E. H. Dimick, J. M. Garland, H. T. Grant, J. F. Lamond, and George Zapf became the town's first aldermen.Eli Sims and W. L. Tolbert were chosen to be town clerk and town marshal, respectively.