The daily morning journal and courier., 1899-11-22
WALLINGFORD HAPPENINGS
REP PUBLIC1NSM 1T AXE CLEAN SWEEP
 THOROUGH FL FICTION.

Favorable Weather for voHng-Lnrges
 Vote fla the Borough's History--1h,
 New Departure as to Voting Place,
 The republicans made a clean sweel and buried the democrats under ma jorties ranging from 50 to 150
 The next board of burgesses will have republican majority.
 The democrats were buried in theil own hunting ground in the Wallace hose house.
 Wallingford has redeemed itself
 The weather yesterday for the an nual borough election was all that could be desired and the largest vote was boiled in the history of the borough The new departure in voting hours went into effect and the polls were opened at 6 a. m. and closed at D. m. There was lively voting soon af- ter the polls opened, and at o'clock 219 votes had been cast. At II o'clock 535; at 1230 o'clock, 7S0; at , o'clock. 967; at 8 o'clock, 1,022 The last hour was rather quiet, although both sides were hustling with their teams to get in the needed votes. When the polls closed the chances favored the repub- licans as near as could be judged from the tally rooms. The total vote was 1,164. Straight republican ticket, 515; Straight democratic ticket, 454 There was 195 scratched tickets about evenly divided The counting was completed and the vote declared at 730, and the result showed a clean republican vic- ;oI-o IN@t, elected by from 50 to 150 majority.
 The following figures are the official ones:
 Republican,: Warden, Henry B. Hall 595.
 Burgesses-Samuel Hodgkinson, 600; Daniel l.. Barber, 627; George H. Craig, e0O
 Clerk-Fraray Hale, 605.
 Treasurer-Charles D. Morris, 613.
 Collector--Frederick M. Cowles, 59S.
 Assessor--George H. Yale, 611.
 Auditor-Theodore F. Lane, 59S.
 Bailiff-Noble F. Ingraham, 5S1.
 Water commissioner Daniel w. Burke. 651.
 Treasurer of the water fund-Charles D. Morris, 613
 Democratic - Warden George T. Jones, 554.
 Burgesses-William E. Becroft, 547; Patrick H. Darrigan, 536; Oscar Peter soh, $40.
 Clerk-John M Hull, 549
 Treasurer-George F. Dickerman, 543.
 Collector-Lorenzo R. Cook 55S
 Assessor-Thomas Kennedy, 547
 Auditor-Roswell D. Perkins, 554.
 William s. Fogarty, 565
 Water commissioner Patrick D. Leonard. 505.
 Treasurer Of the water fund-George E. Dickerman 543
 The changing of the voting place from town hall to the Wallace hose house as was intimated, proved boom- erang.
 All hail our new chief executive War den Henry B. Hall.
 Daniel W. Burke, for water commits sioner got the largest vote of any man on the ticket, and defeated his oppo- nent by majority of 146.
 Yesterday was genuine republican day as far as the weather was con- cerned.
 Yesterdays vote exceeded by 20 the highest vote ever boiled at a borough election, in 1928.
 Bill Miner was before the borough court yesterday and was fined $5 and $11.S9 costs and given thirty days in jail for drunkenness.
 Mrs. Ole Eng, whose husband com mitted suicide week ago Sunday, has gone to Brooklyn to enter the Norwe- gian hospital for treatment for nervous prostration brought about by the ex- citement over her husbands terrible death.
 Levi P. Perry has .sold to Edwin P. Smith ten acres of land on Church street, Yalesville.
 The dials of the town clock were talk en out yesterday to be repainted.
 Eben Whitaker is now located as an inmate at the Masonic home.
 A year ago the democrats burned lots of red fire. They didn't last night. And now they wonder how it happen ed. One of the dynamos for the electric plant has arrived. The other is ex- pected-sometime. Mrs Rebecca Leader of Newport, R. l., is the guest of her nephew, William Molyneux. Abe Wright of South Norwalk was the winner of the $1,000 at the T. A. B. fair. It did not take long for the saloons to open when the polls closed at , o'clock.