Connecticut western news., 1911-08-03
SUFFRAGETTES COMING.
GaiIy Decorated Auto Full of College
 Bred Oratoresses.

g1sts is taking a new form. The month of August is to see 8 suffrage campaign which will embrace the whole of Litch field County, The quiet tree-lined streets of highly respectable and long settled towns such as Litchfield, Goshen, Sharon and Cornwall are to be invaded by automobiles carrying parties of women, led by Miss Emily Pierson. the State Organizer of the Connecticut Women Suffrage Association, reinforced by speakers-both men and women from within and without the State of Connecticut. The invading party Is to consist of five college graduates-a enthusiastic suffragists-who are to travel over 8 pre-arranged itinerary which started atWatertown on Tuesday, August first. and winds up at Torring- on the last day of the month.
 Halts are to be made during the tour at thirty three towns and villages, and in every one of these places halls have already been secured and all arrange ments made for the holding of the meet ings. An advance courier will go ahead of the party to secure the proper adYer- tising of the coming of the Suffragettes, and when the automobile and its invad- ing host arrives in the town, the inhab- itants will be keenly ready for this new form of summer entertainment.
 The route will necessarily be some what zig-zag and irregular It starts from Watertown, whence it goes to Woodbury and Roxbury in the south part of the county. On the 4th of Au. gust, the invaders will reach Bethleham whence they will proceed to Morris and Thomaston, reaching Litchfield in the center of the county on August 9th. Goshen will be the next stop after Litch- field and from Goshen the party will re- trace it's steps in order to visit Bantam on August 10th. From Bantam the route runs southwest through Washing ton to Brookfeld on the 11th, and there the party will turn north for Kent, where a meeting will be held in the evening of the same day. New Milford
 
 as the party will return from Kent to i taese towns on August 18th.
 Gaylordsville will be the first stop in the following week. and a meeting will be held there on Monday, August 14th. ] West Cornwall, Lime Rock, Sharon, Lakev1lle, Salisbury and Falls Village will then be shaken out of their accus- toned calm by the novel spectacle of gaily dressed automobile with its flags and banners and it's warlike crew of suffrage orators. The fourth week in August will find the party at the north ern end of the county. Canaan will be visited on the 2lst. Next the party will pull up at Norfolk, passing on the Cole brook and Riverton and reaching Pleas ant Valley on Friday and New Hartford on Saturday, the 26th. The few remain ing days of August will be devoted to Winsted, Highland Lake, Winchester and Harwinton, bringing the campaign to an end on the S1st at Torrington. Among the speakers who will join the invaders as endorsements at various points on the route will be Mrs. T. N. Hepburn, the President of the Connecti- cut Woman Suffrage Association, so well known for her enthusiastic leader ship of the suffrage forces of the State, Mrs. Ernest Thompson Seton, who is devoting her great abilities and her in- exhaustible enthusiasm to furthering the Nf Routz-Rees, Principal of Rosemary Hall School, Greenwich. Mrs. N. J. Rogers of Meriden, Mrs, M Toscan Bennett of Hartford, Mrs. Edward O. Parker of Greenwich, and Mrs Edward Porritt of Hartford, all officers of o. W. s. A. will also be among the speakers, as will be Mrs. s. T. Davis of Bridgeport and Miss Clara M. Hill of Norwalk. The men who have offered their help to the suffragists include MT. Julian Street and MT. Lincoln Steffens, the we'll known authors, Senator McNeil, Attorney General J. H. Light. Senator Brinsmade and Representatives Lester o. Peck of Bedding and Otis J. Range of Guilford, representing the political life of the State; Professor Charles A. Board, of Columbia and Prof. A. N. Holoombe of Harvard and MT. Robert H. Elder of Brooklyn, N. Y., who made so able an address before the Legislative commit tees when the hearing was held on the municipal suffrage bill for women, last April. Colonel Norris G. Osborn, of New Haven and MT. Julius Maltby. of Waterbury have also promised their as- sistance.