The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1911-08-21
.Suffragists Do
 Slashing Work
 In Old LitChfieId

Ihe first appearance of opposition that the suffragists have encountered during their campaign in Lithcfield County which has been going on since the first of August, threatened to develop last week at Cornwall The meeting was held on Tuesday evening, and in canvassing the village before the meeting, the ladies were again and again assured that it would be useless to try to speak there as number of the rougher boys and youths had made up their minds to break up the proceedings and to make things altogether too hot for the advocates of votes for women. When Tuesday evening came how thunder shower, which rendered travelling difficult, and the suffra- g1sts who had come from Lime Rock were late in arriving. They found the hall dark through a misunder- standing with the janiter. and con- ing outdoors under the friendly shelter of nearby porches.
 Appealing to the bigger boys and young men for help which was readily given, the suffragists soon had the hall lighted and the banners put in place. and in spite of adverse weather, the hall was soon filled.
 The first speaker was Mrs. F. M. Bjorkman of Denver, who gave a graphic description of working of woman suffrage as she had seen it Tn Colorado. She was listened to with close attention, but as she closed there was a slight attempt to start was quickly put down by members of the audience who were anxious to hear more, and Mrs. Edward Porritt then gave an address on infant nor tality and Politics. She made an eloquent appeal for Votes for Women in order to enable them to obtain the primal necessities for the babies of the cities-air, sunshine, pure water and clean food; and her appeal so stirred the hearts of all her hearers that after sEe had finished a collection was made amounting to over eleven dollarss-quite the largest collection for so small village, during the whole campaign. Instead of the threatened disorder. the suffragists declared at the close of the meeting that West Cornwall was one of their chief successes, and that their audience there had given them the closest attention and the warmest response.
 . Another of the meetings which is worthy of note was that at New Mill ford, last Saturday. At this meet ing they had the help of Mrs. Walter H. Weed, daughter of Rep. B. J. Hill, who with her two sisters Miss Clara and Miss Elsie Hill have been active in the campaign since its start. Mrs. Weeds husband is the we'll known geologist who in making the survey of Yellowstone Park for the Govern ment discovered the famous Death Gulch, where deer, elk and bears are killed by carbon dioxide gas from an extinct hot spring.
 PrOfaSSOr RQard and Prof Tam ac and Politics Department of Columbia of the suffragists. Prof. Robinson gave a long and able address at the New Milford meeting
 Sharon and Salisbury have been the most recent scenes of the suffragist activity. At Sharon, a large and rep resentative meeting was adressed by Miss Pierson, Mrs. Bjorkman and Miss A. E.. Spon, an Englishwoman who has recently joined the suffra ge movement in this country after a wide experience of English methods and activities The Sharon people showed their practical sympathy with the cause of Woman Suffrage in a collection of over twenty-five dollars at the close of the meeting.
 The coming week will see the suff- rage party at Canaan, Norfolk and New Hartford, with meetings at the invening villages and small towns, while the largest towns of Litchfield County, Winsted and Torrington, are left to the closing days of the cam paign, which is to wind up at Tor rington on August 31st.