The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1895-09-16
CONTEST WILL BE SPIRIT
UNUSUAL INTEREST MANIFEST
IN TO-DAY'S SCHO0L ELECTION

NN AN~bAA ~ aCHOOL EIEt fIbaf
Several Tickets in the FieId-The Regu
Ticket Expected to Prove Success ,ru
Women's Ticket, 1t is Claimed, win T..
Heavy Vote-Election AIso to be IL,
in Westville.
To-day occurs the annual election
three members of the board of edu
ton to serve for the next three yea.
and the indications are that the &C
test WIN be one of the most spirit,
ever known in the history of the Ne
Haven school district. Besides t
three members of the board of educatio
there will be elected a clerk, treasur,
and two auditors, each to serve durin
the ensuing year, The ballot boxes i!
the several wards of the town, excel
the Thirteenth, which is the Westvil
school district, will be open for the II
ception of the ballots of the legal votel
from 6 o'clock a. m, until o'clock
m, and it is expected that an UNUSUAL!
large number of votes will be polled
There are at least three tickets in tn
field already besides a number of othel
candidates for the places on the board
The tickets already in the field are thu
regular ticket, composed of Harry W
Asher, Ezekiel G. Stoddard and Freder
lex B. Farnsworth; the women's ticket
hlb nj no of Co AXyig
| Ezekiel G. Stoddard and Miss Mari
Ives, and the ticket nominated by tn
colored voters of the city whose sole eff
| fort will be to electe to membership o.
the board, Rev. George H Jackson.
| For several days the managers of tn,
| several tickets have been unusual.
busy preparing for the contest, whicl
| is to take place to-day, and the ad
| herents of each ticket are confident o
| winning at the polls. Last night tn
| indica lions seemed to point to the sue
| cess of the Asher Stoddard- Farnswortl
or regular ticket, and it is believed tina
| when the votes have been counted thi
| ticket will be found to have received
comfortable majority of all the vote
|
ually active in the interests of thei
| ticket. and while it Is conceded tina
| Miss Ives, the candidate on that ticket
| will receive large complimentary vote
outside of the managers of the tickle
| themselves there is mo one who seem
| to believe that the candidates on thi
| ticket will ever reach the desired goa
1 ,Io,o., A. l. IL,
cation of the New Haven school dis
| trict.
| Since Friday the legal voters of tn
| district, both male and female, hav
been literally flooded with tickets beal
ing the names of all the candidates, an
also all sorts of combinations. Severe
bogus tickets are also in circulation
| and voters are cautioned to be sure an
see that their tickets are all right bt
fore depositing them in the ballot boxe
to-day.
1t is expected that the scenes abor
the polls will be unusually interestin
to-day, as the managers of the women
ticket have decided to have wome
located at the voting places in each {
the wards with their tickets, and thu
will be afforded an opportunity to COZ
trast the work done by male and Fl
male peddlers. Although the wome
claim that they will win and all the 81
women of the district who are eligib
to vote will vote solidly for the tick,
bearing the name of Miss, Ives, it
lgenerally considered that they are reel
! t,os.. l.
large proportion of this number wi
support the regular Asher-Stoddart
Farnsworth ticket.
The returns from the wards will
made at the First ward polling plat
this evening as soon as possible aft
the closing of the polls in the sever
wards, and at the same time the r
ults of the election will be made know
Wednesday evening, in Warner hal
the adjourned meeting of the distri
will be held at s o'clock to lay te
on the grand list of 1895, to fix IL
amount of bonds to be given by the &C
lector and treasurer, to request from II
town AM appropria ton of $4,000 for II
purchase of free text books and to {
such other business as may be prop
to be done at said meeting.
WESTVILLE SCHOOL DISTRICT.
The annual meeting of the Westvil
school district win also be held to-da
when the polls will be open from
8 p. m. to elect three members of Il
board of education to succeed John
Austin, E. l.. Hitchcock and Hoba
L. Hotchkiss whose terms expire 1t
said that there are no other candidat
in the field and that the trio will
almost unanimously reelected. II
business meeting of the district will
held in Masonic hall at o'clock.
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