New Britain herald., 1915-10-07
BURTON CHAIRMAN
 OF SCHOOL BOARD
A. L. Rogers Elected Secretary
 and Financial Agent.
NORTON WANTS A RECOUNT
Democratic Leader Claims Modera- tors Report Shows Glaring Errors Many Votes Not Contained In the Report-Want Survey of Streets.

Report-Want Survey of Streets.
 Rev. R. H. Burton was elected chairman of the town school commit tee at the meeting held last evening in the library room in the town building. MT. Burton is to succeed Ava L. Rogers, the latter having been selected for secretary and finan- cial agent, taking the place of Rev. F. l.. Grant. The latter resigned the pressure of other duties making it impossible for him to serve.
 Last nights meeting was held for the purpose of organizing and except for the election of officers little busi- ness was transacted There is but one new member on the board this year. Frederick Bullen made his debut as a school committeeman last evening. The other members were also in attendance.
 The meeting was harmonious in character and the officers were se- it was necessary to take a few infor- mai ballots in some cases before a choice was made.
 
 ed for acting school visitor and L. S. Mills was made assistant.
 The new chairman is one of the democratic members of the board He has served on the committee for the past two years and has shown con- siderable interest In school affairs.
 The committee is satisfied that the portable schoolhouse recently pur- chased will satisfy the requirements of the town for few years. The kin dergarten, which has been holding sessions in the Methodist parish house for the past two weeks, will move into the new building next Monday. At the other school houses everything is reported to be running smoothly and the encouragement of some of the grades is reported to have been accomplished without any confusion.
 The business at the meeting last evening was mostly of a routine char acter.
 Norton Wants A Recount.
 Claiming that the report of Moder- ator A. H. Dresser as filed with the town clerk shows many peculiarities and probable errors, Minton A. Nor ton, chairman of the democratic town
 
 lots cast at Mondays election should be counted again in order that the records will show the vote correctly, even if there is no change in the per- sonnel of the towns official family as a result.
 Chairman Norton declared that Sol omon himself could not figure out now Moderator Dresser's report could be compiled as filed, if all the ballots cast at the election were counted.
 With others he has made an at- tempt to analyze the returns as given to the town clerk by the moderator but he admits that he has given it up as a bad job. The report indicates, according to the democratic chair man, that some fifty or more ballots either disappeared or were over looked in the count. For that reason he wants the ballot box re-opened and the votes again counted.
 MT. Norton called the attention of the Herald man to the fact that while the records show that 671 electors exercised their rights of suffrage, and the ballots of but forty of them were rejected, the vote for the various can didates even where there were no contests is below 500. In some cases the difference is over fifty votes and MT Norton claims it is impossible that such is correct.
 The town clerks reports as taken from the moderator's returns is rad ically different from the results as compiled by A. H. Condell, who served as deputy registrar of voters and par ticipated in the count. They agree as to the election of candidates but the figures do not correspond
 For instance the town clerks rec ord shows a vote of but 316 for W. J. Hemingway for tax collector com pared with 354 the vote which Con- dell claims the candidate secured. The latter is generally thought to be cor rect There was no contest for tax collector, worthy of the name, and the impression is that Mr. fleming way was not cut 10 the extent indi- cated The vote for other officers is somewhat similar.
 Mr Condell maintains that his rec ord is correct and that when the | count was made it tallied with the | He does not understand | how different figures would be shown in the report filed with the town | clerk. The moderator's statement is | and seemingly incorrect in | some particulars.
 Whether a recount would change l the result is not known but the dom | ocrats believe it should be made.
 Their Own Suggestion
 Regarding the claim of the demo- | crats that Moderator Dresser erred in | not counting as votes for first select l man the 'X'' marks placed before the | names of Johnson and Hart, A. H. 1 Condell today called attention to the l fact that the course was followed at | the suggestion of Chairman Norton } and P. J. Prior. MT. Condell is in 1