The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1914-07-11
CONNECTICUT
 SUFFRAGE NEWS
eA. e. Porritt.l

After four very successful weeks of ! campaigning in Windham county the automobile campaign of the suffrag- fsts in that part Of the state came to an end on Thursday, and yesterday Miss Emily Pierson and her band of canpaigners opened operations at Marlborough in Holland county. There was also campaign meeting yester- day evening at Hebron which though quite near to AarIb orough, is< over the border of Hartford county. Miss Pierson has now with her her full strength of campaigners, and she also l expects during the next few weeks to Hartford and other towns and cities where there are strong suffrage or ganizations. She has therefore plan ned out a campaign of remarkable wig
 or and activity. The places to be vfs- tied next week include Columbia, ATansfeId Center and Eaglesvi1Ie on Monday; South Coventry, Coventry and Andover on Tuesday; Bolton, Tal- cotvil1e and Rockville on Wednesday,; Crystal Lake and Vernon Center on Thursday, and Ellington on Friday. The executive board eof the Con- necticut Woman Suffrage association will go as a body to Rockville next Wednesday,. The board will hold it's
 monthly business meeting there in l the morning and afternoon and in the t
 will remain to aid in the public meet l iT1gs in Rockville Town Hall, and i11
 the church parlors at Bolton. The
 week will also see many open air
 ever there are factories and on the
 village greens or in the town centers 1 in the early evenings
 If the success in Holland County equals the success that has attend ] ed the Wfndhan County activities | %I ~ sH I 1y satisfied. Throughout the four
 weeks spent in Windham County in
 terest in suffrage Fwas not only sl1s-
 tained but steadily increased. The l largest meetings were in kNVfl1innan-
 tic and Danielson: but in proportion
 to the population many of the small
 CT places showed even greater inter- est than the cities and larger towns. 1 Towns wk1se whole voting popu1a.- l tion does not exceed two or three hundred have furnished audiences for two or three meetings in differ
 ent centers numbering 75 to 300 me outdoor sunset Smeetings@ eetings held in the early evening-have brought together the largest aLdien- ces: but the readiness of the people to attend suffrage meetings in ths@ halls in the evenings has been a pleasant surprise to the campa1gners. The first immediate result Of the campaign has been the formation Of an equal franchise league in South Woodstock, with Mrs. John Sheppard as president. Pomfret and WdIIirnan- tic will also probably have suffrage 1 organizations within the next few days and the equal franchise Ieagues already in existence in Putnam and Daiels0n-Iea gles which have given very active aid to Miss Pferson and her campaigners-have greatly in creased their membership as a result l of the campaign.
 The moving picture film of the Hartford suffrage parade of May End l lis still in great request throughout I the state. Esveryw here it goes it at tracts much attention and is highly popular with audiences In most cases | the theatre managers obtain the ser vices of a local sufragist to make a preliminary speech-usua11y explain parade. Last night the reel was at LakevilIe, under the auspices of the | Salisbury Equal Franchise League. On Wednesday it was exhibited at Ca naan; and the whole of the previous week it was on view in Greenwich
 The Wilton Equal Franchise League E has entered upon a new enterprise. The object of the league isstwo fold to raise money for suffrage work, and to prove that advocacy Of votes for women is compa tible with excellence f in all household arts. The enterprise is a Food Exchange, where food sup plies and cooked food may be ob- tained. The cooking is all done by Wilton are willing to patronize the new exchange, so excellent are the products that are offered for sale.