New Britain herald., 1916-10-26
PlaznVille News GARDEN PARTY HAS
 EXCELLENT START EOman'S Club Gets Good Profit
 from Opening Of Benefit Fair WELL KNOWN NEGRO DEAD

Colored Residents, Passes Away at HospitaI-Promise Voting Machine
 Demonstrat ton Saturday Afternoon. With patronage far in excess of
 the expectations of the committee of | arrangements the Woman's clubs i garden party, planned for the benefit 1 of the library fund. had a most au-
 spicious opening last night in the Town hall. The ladies had been
 working energetically for weeks on
 the plans and they were jubilant over
 the encouraging support given by the 1 townspeople. The attendance last
 night was large and the patrons were
 even more liberal than the most san l &:uine mem bers had dared to expect | The canvassers and workers on the
 various booths had a big night and
 their purses were literally bulging from the coins they had collected The hall is attractively decorated | for the affair. Autumn foliage has 1 been effectively used in beautifying the place, the decorators showing ex- cellent taste in the arrangement of | the colors.
 Mduy O1 I1C young men or the 1 town have again this year given their aid to the club and they were among 1 the workers last night The men con- tributed largely towards the success of the opening and their efforts to gather in the money were crowned
 with achievement.
 This afternoon there was a sale of food, fancy articles and candy which attracted a number of women to the hall. A considerable amount was
 realized from this feature of the af- fair.
 The garden party will be continued tonight nnd the ladies expect to dis pose of the articles which remain. The drawing for the miniature auto mobile and the bicycle on which tickets have been sold will also take place tonight. It is probable that there will be an auction on donations of fancy articles, etc., during the course of the evening.
 Judging iron. the start made last night the club should realize several hundred dollars from the undertak- ing This will be added to the rapid
 ly growing fund established for the benefit of the public library. With in the next few years the club hopes to be in a position to erect a suit able building to be used as a reading room and library. An institution of ! this character is greatly needed in | Plainville and the efforts of the club 1 to raise an amount sufficient to make
 it possible are deserving of the sup
 port of the entire community.
 Machines Set Up.
 An expert sent here late yesterday | ty the Automat tic Register company l of Jamestown. N. Y. from which 1 the town is renting voting machines l for use at the coming election, had
 the apparatus set in position in the l court room today. He gave up con- i siderable time to explaining its oper-
 ation and other features to the town l officials ,Who will in turn give instruc-
 tions to the voters. General informa- l ton as well as technical knowledge of 1 the machine was given by the expert
 to John E. Lamb and Joseph N. Me- Herman, who will probably serve as
 custodians of the machine on election
 day. I. P. Newell, republican regis
 trar of voters. was also an interested spectator during the exhibition this l morning.
 MT. Lamb and MT. McKernan will l give a public demonstration on the machine Saturday afternoon. One of 1 the officials will probably be at the 1 court room Sunday also to explain the 1 apparatus to visitors, and every even- 1 ing next week it is expected an op- 1 portunity to receive instructions will
 be offered to the voters.
 l The machine will have five levers 1 st the election. is that number of
 parties has candidates in the field.
 There will be the republican, demo-
 cratic, prohibition, socialist and so- l clalist labor.
 Accompanying the machines are l small models which are to be used in l explaining to the voters the manner
 Of working the apparatus, particular | ly on election day. Considerable lit
 erature containing informa ton on the
 subject of voting machines has also l been received and will be distributed
 among the townspeoDle.
 Officials and others who looked over
 the machines today were greatly l pleased with them and they predicted 1 that they will be a big improvement
 over the Australian ballot. They do l not expect that the voters will find ] them difficult to operate, and 1t was
 their opinion that the results of the l experiment on election day will dem
 onstrate the practicability of the ap- paratus end will cause their perna- 1 nent adoption at the special town
 meeting on November 20.
 Well Known Negro Dead. George Homer, for years a we'll 1 known negro character, died this
 morning at the New Britain General 1 hospital, where he had been a patient l for several days. Homer had been in
 poor health for some time and he recently suffered from a paralytlc stroke. JIe made his home with Ed ward Naaman on Pearl street until his