New Britain herald., 1916-09-28

morning at 10 o'clock. The meeting will last three days and evenings and the foremost medical men of the country are in attendance. After the business of the meeting is finished several interesting papers will be presented. Dr. Griswold will read a paper on "The Legislative Aspects of Public Education and Hygiene" at tomorrOW'S session. He is also a member of the executive committee, which will present a report.
 The meeting will be brought to a close Saturday evening with a ban- Quet. Many noted speakers will par ticipate in the post-prandial exer- cises. Dr. Griswold will have for his topic, Medical Fiats."
 The Coming Election.
 Politics is still the talk all over town and "if' with capital I seems to- enter into discussion. If the voters cast their ballots the way they talk, say the democrats. there is nothing to it but Beckley. On the other hand, the republicans claim. if the citizens affiliated with their party follow their usual course, Judge filling will snow Beckley under by large majority.
 Republican leaders are prone to speak of a large majority, but many of them say the dropping of Arthur Woodruff from the school board may have considerable effect on the vote. It became known this morning that some of the party had decided to cam- paign for his election independently, but they feared it would be the means of many useless ballots. The natural thing, they say, is to mark a cross in the republican column, and it would be necessary to write MT. Woodruff s name in blank space, and this would invalidate the entire ballot. A prom inent member this morning advocated the plan of using a ballot similar to those in vogue in Massachusetts. There the name of every man nominated is put on the ballot and the voters must vote for the individual and cannot make one mark signifying his party choice The words republican, demo- crat, socialist, prohibition" and other party names are left off entirely. The contest for the first selectman- ship is the only one which has ex- cited much interest up to the present as far as candidates are concerned. It is said the "drys'' are still working i hard for no-icense, many voters hav- ing been visited by them within the | past week. Rumor also has it that the ''wets'' are on the lob and a close con- test on the question is expected. No Town Reports.
 1 Contrary to the usual custom, the annual town report will not be avail 1 able for distribution at the election 1 Monday. First Selectman William H. 1 Gibney was asked for the reason this morning and he said that owing to the | illness of Auditor Bryan H. Atwater, l the latter was unable to audit the ac- | counts. MT. Atwater was taken with | a severe cold fair week and has been l indisposed ever since. Upon his re- 1 covery he will collaborate with George 1 H. Sullivan, the democratic auditor, | upon the books and they will be ready i for publication. At MT. Atwater S | house this morning it was said he was feeling considerably improved. This will be the first time in seven years that the town report will not be dis | tributed on election day.
 1 Chautauquan to Speak.
 At the close of the regular mid | week services at the Berlin Congre-
 gational church this evening, o. M | Wecht, a representative of the Na- 1 tional Chautauquan association, vii
 deliver address on the work ot l that association. MT. Wecht will en- | deavor to arouse interest in this com | munity and in case the interest is
 strong enough, it is very probable that | the association will have a weeks ses-
 sion here next summer.
 Fall Sports.