The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1914-06-27
CONNECTICUT
 SUFFRAGE NEWS.
GA. G. Porritt.1

The second week of the Automobile Sufrage campaign in WfndhaHn coun- encouragement for the sunragists- Much of the time there have been as many as five or six automobiles at work carrying the campaigners from town to town, distributing literature to the waysfde lighthouses, and acting as stands for open air speaking. There is no mistaking the suffrage motor cars They are all decorated in purple, white and green and the Votes for Women signs and banners are always in evidence The canpaigners are now making their Ileadquarters at the Put nam House. Brooklyn. and like the automobiles the hotel is making a fine showing of suffrage colors and ban ners.
 T41e meetings that have been held this week have been at Ponafret. Abingdon. Dayvi1le Danie1son, SterI- 1 ing and Moosup. The campaigners had to be in Abingdon and Danielson on the same evening wh1ch necess1- tated division of their forces Ow- | ing to the fact that the Danielson Equal Franchise League came to their aid in Danielson, while the Putnam sufrragists helped with the meeting. l at Abingdon. there were plenty of help CTS for each meeting. and both meet. ings went or very successfully Miss. A1yse Gregory who was at headduar- \ ters for a short time a couple Of days
 ago, reports that since the opening of the campaign there has been very
 perceptible quickening of interest I among the Windhan county people, and that although from the first the meetings have been well attended, the sunragists can not count more surely Ion the sympathy of their audiences \ than they could in the first few days of their Windhann county experiences. Next Monday the campaigners will z open the third week in P1aindeIdt where a meeting will be held In the sevenine. Canterbury Brooklyn, Eastford and Warrenvflle will occupy l the time Of the sufKrag g1sts up to Sat-
 tlrday On Saturday-tfe Fourth of
 July--11iss Piersons and band of cam I patgners with all the automobiles and all the suffrag1sts whom she can mus ter to her aid will spend the day go- ing from place to place in search of groups of holiday makers. and in
 making open air speeches on every Il possible occasion.
 Next Monday Miss Jane Addanns is
 to speak at garden party ih Green 1 wtc1f given for the benefit of the Ma
 which Miss Addams is vice president. I The garden party is to be given at the home Of Mrs. Seymour J. Hyde, and has been arranged by Mrs. Ernest
 ThOmpson seton and Miss Rulltz f7ees.
 There will be an entrance charge of $2 and it is expected that there VIII lbe a large gathering with correspond- linE1y large takinss for the National 4 Association
 Eceedingly active just now few I days ago the Green wich Equal Fran
 chtse League gave reception. under Il the auspices of NEra Ernest ThoEnpson I Seton. the president at which Mrs |F5avelock Eqlis gave readings from her own works There was asscharge Eof g for this affair. and over $40o was cleared by the League Early in July the League is to hold a big suffrage ttea in the Fafrdaeld Tea House at
 which Prof. Beard will be the prfncf- lcently taken large new headquarters on the post road The big windows are being used for sufrage signs and I exhibits. and there is an attendant aI- Eways on hand to see to the sale and I distribution or Literature and other
 suffrage supplies.
 During the greater part Of this week Mrs Ernest Thompso11 Seton, presf- dent of the Greenwich Equal Fran lchise League, has been at the front
 with Miss Brnily Pieraon and her. band lof campaigners, She spoke at Pom- fret last Monday and at Arlington and lDanieIson This Is her, second visit in Windham county. During the first
 week of the campaign shes Joined Miss l Fserson at Woodstock and went with l her later to Putnam. At Putnam she joined the other members of the ex- ecutive board for the sbusiness session that was held on Friday, June 1stf. and then returned to Greenwich
 The Connecticut woman Suffrage 1 Association is shortly to publish a
 Primer for Voters, which will afford all the Information that women always 1 think they can get from their male
 relatives. until they try to do SO They
 then usually find that the supposed 1 political Knowledge of the men is non-
 existent and that if they want to llearn a thing they must find it for
 themselves.
 The public service will erect a new
 trolley terminal at Newark. N. J.. tc
 cost g. 300. 900.