Morning journal and courier., 1882-10-03
The Town Elections

The Town Elections
 The town elections throughout the State occurred yesterday, New Haven and Bridge port excepted. In many of the towns the | contest was quiet and in others local issues | were strong enough to stir up lively work. The license question was particularly in- teresting question in view of the special tenn perance effort being made Returns from some of the towns are given below
 wATERBURY-CLEAN REPUBLICAN SWEEP.
 In Waterbury the city clerk and sheriff are Democratic and treasurer Republican The Common Council 13 Republicans, Aldermen and respectively All the Republican can- didates for town offices are elected, the first selectman by Fl majority, town clerk 322, tax collector 235, treasurer 61, clean Republican sweep. The town voted license. GUILFoRD. Guilford voted no license by about 60 ma- jority and re- elected the town officers of the past year with but few exceptions. CHESHIRE. Cheshire elected the Republican town | ticket by 24 majority. The town clerk Mill l ton c. Doolittle, selectmen Julius Moss and s. c. Jeralds, Republicans, and Atwater Jar l wis, Democrat; town treasurer, Edwin k. l Brown.
 1 WEST HAVEN. l West Haver ~lectsd the Republican town ticket by So majority the justice of the peace ticket by so majority. MT. Main was re- elected town clerk by 12O majority MT. l Main has been town clerk many years, and l the vote shows him to be very popular off l cial License was carried by 16 majority. MILFORD.
 1 Tba in MiIford uaa cro cessful. The principal Democratic candidat es were: For selectmen Charles W. Boards ley, Charles H. Peck for town clerk, John l w. Fowler; for treasurer, David Miles and for registrar, Alonzo W. Burns The Re- ! publican candidates were For Selectman, 1 Elisha T. Peck for town clerk, William G. Cornwall for collector, Thomas N. Clark :; l for treasurer, Nathan E. Smith for regis l trar, John w. Buckingham.
 | NORTH HAVEN.
 The Republicans carried North Haven Cyrus Cheney and Julian Futile were elected selectmen, E. l.. Lindsley, town clerk, and l Hayden Todd Con both tickets) town treas urer. The Democracy had up for selectmen Charles Futile and Isaac Mansfield; for town clerk Stephen Gilbert
 | soUTHINGToN.
 Southington is carried by the Republicans, who reelected Charles Hall and Charles
 Hitchcock selectmen and William Y. Otis, Democrat. Charles B. Barnes, Republican,
 was re elected town clerk.
 l The majority for license was 123, there be- ing 326 yeas and 2O3 noes.
 1 BRANFoRD.
 ! The Democrats carried Branford as usual,
 some of the successful candidates being re-
 elected. For town clerk and treasurer, H. l H. Stedman; selectmen, Richard Bradley
 and William Page; assessor, Richard Dibble; tax collector, James Russell board of relief,
 Roger Hall and Dennis Ready. The Repub
 lican candidates were: For town clerk and
 treasurer, H. H. Stedman selectmen, J. A.
 Blackstone, N. c. Frink; assessor, H. ". 1 Fowler; board of relief, R. Bartholomew
 M. K. Northam register of births, deaths
 and marriages, Dr. c. W. Gaylord tax col l lector, C. A Hoadley. The day was quiet and the polling not large. wooDBURY.
 Woodbury elected Repu blican town officers
 and had bard fight on the license question
 They voted no license by 32 majority. l MERIDEN. The election in Meriden was remarkably quiet. Apathy prevailed on both sides anc
 the vote was light. The election went Re l publican.
 wAILINGFoRD.
 The Republican ticket was elected in Wal
 lingford, and the vote was in favor of Ii 3 cense.
 THE RESULT IN HARTFORD.
 In Hartford the Democrats elect first Sc lectnnan by a little over one hundred major ity, and also elect majority of other officers
 The Republicans re-elect Charles c. Strong treasurer. The town voted for license by . large majority.
 Reunions of the Andrews Family. The descendants of Hiram Andrews, O . Cheshire, held their fifteenth annual reunion
 on Saturday at the ''old homestead' il
 Cheshire, where they have met for the pas fifteen years, but generally on July 4. Tn, farm can we'll be called the s'old hos estead, , as it is at present occupied by Israel An drews, who is the fourth in line of the regu lar descendants who have reared families that have titled the same soil in succession There were present at the reunion this yea all of the family who are living, with thu
 exception of A. H. Andrews, of Meriden, bu t 1 now of Cleveland, O. Around the heavil,
 laden table were seated the aged mother, nov
 in the S3d year. and her family. Meridel was represented by Horace Yale and family g Mrs. Stephen Parker and family, Olln Parke
 and family, Mrs. Thomas Andrews ant r l daughters and Mrs. A. H. Andrews and son
 Miles Hotchkiss and wife and Mrs. W. M Bigelow and family were the representative : from Southington. Waterbury was repre- @ sented by E. M. Hotchkiss and family. Tn l weather all that could be desired, warn 1 and beautiful. Early in the evening the as sembly broke up to meet again next year a Sept. 30.