The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1913-09-24
VOTING MACHINES TO BE GIVEN TRIAL AT
 WESTPORT ELECTION
Have Many Advantages Over Ballot System of Voting Now In Operation At Town Hall.
Especial to the Farner.l


 ] Especial to the Farmer.) ] Westport, Sept. 24-Voting machines are to be used at the coming election 1 The Triumph voting Machine Co. have 1 placed two machines in the town hal
 and now have a representative there 1 to instruct the voters in the use ot l the machine. Prior to placing the ma | chine, the company secured the con
 sent of the selectmen, who decided that | this year would be good one to start 1 the innovation.
 i Fair minded electors concede that the voting machine is far superior to the
 complicated Australian ballot. In towns where opposition has arisen against the use of the machines it has for the greater part been started by
 scheming politicians. Election work CTS have been known to Inanipulat te ! figures and ballots in such a way that when the winners were announc-
 ed they were not the same as declared by the voters. Fortunately Westport has been free from this sort of schem- ing.
 In view of the fact that many par ties now enter the field and that of ten through the slight error in the
 marking of the ballot by the voter his real intention is nisconstrued by
 the counters, though it is conceded
 that this ballot has better recommen-
 datfonS than any other ballot ever tried in this state.
 In time the voting machines pay
 for themselves. They effect a great saving at each election as they cut down the number of counters who have
 been heretofore employed after the
 polls were closed. All that is neces- sary now is to have the moderator read of the totals to a clerk and
 seal up the machine. There is no
 after disputing as the figures on the
 machine never lie and are final. With the machines the result of the election can be learned with-a few
 minutes after the close of the polls.
 Heretofore it has been many hours,
 in which warm and long disputes arose before the results were known. The machines will be on trial only
 at this election. The company af- terwards will offer them to the town
 at $500 apiece.
 George S. Jennings, a well known
 local resident, was yesterday served
 brought by his wife, A1exdrfne Fuller ton Jennings also of this place. Mrs. Jennings alleges intolerab1e cruelty
 claiming that her husband has ill.,
 treated her since January, 1912 They were married in New York on March 30, 1906, and have one child aged
 21 months, whose custody the mother desires. The plaintiff also wants ali mony of $1O, 900 claiming that he has property valued at $50, 900. Sheriff H. R Flwood of Fairfield who served the papers for Judge Fillmore S. Banks, Mrs. Jennings counsel, attached prop erty on Myrtle avenue here and also in Bridgeport. Only last week an ad- vertisement appeared in the Bridge port papers inserted by Jennings who forth he would not be responsible for bills contracted by his wife, who he claimed had left his bed and board.
 There are several cases of measles in town but according to the local health officer there is no cause for alarm on the part of parents as there is in no sense an epidemic or any
 danger of one. At this time of the year the change from one season to the other, cases of measles are often reported to the health officer. Strict attention is paid to them, to prevent their spread, and if there are other children in the house they are kept from school X When the cases exist in town at the present time they are under strict surveillance. It is re- ported that the three eases of scar let fever which came to the atten- stion of the health officer last week are now well on the road to recov- cry.
 Work on the repair of the causeway to the State street draw bridge was started yesterday morning by Gam pher Bros, who have the contract. About a, dozen men are on the Job and
 will have the road in proper condition within a few days. The heavy stones will be relaid and will be used again
 as the bulwarks to the approach. This time the heavy stones will not only be placed upon top of each other but
 will be set in place with quick set ting cement. After the roadway is repaired the full bridge will be thrown open for all traffic with the exception of trolley traffic. This is the season for prize win ming farm products. In the window at the B. O. Simpson pharmacy in | Main street are specimens of corn on the cob, potatoes and apples. W. J. Sturges of Westport and J. W. | Couch of the Farms have some very l large Green Mountain potatoes. One I of the Sturges' exhibits weighs one pound fifteen ounces. MT. Sturges
 also shows two cobs of 90 day corn
 Both cobs are about IS inches in | length. Andrew Deacon of Good Hill shows a cluster of three large red l apples on one twig.
 Parishfoners of the Green Farms i Congrega gational church are awaiting | the decision of Rev. Lawrence l.. Bar | Der to whom they have extended a