Norwich bulletin., 1916-12-19


 The first meeting of the newly in corporated Bowditch Dye Works, Inc, was held Monday and the following officers elected: President, Dexter FL liott; vice president. Fred Ashton, Putnam; secretary and treasurer, Benjamin Linesey, T., Wauregan.
 The foregoing officers are also the directors of the concern, of which MT. Vaughan Is to be the general mana ger and MT. L1nesey assistant.
 Operations are to commence at once. A force of carpenters will go to work making alterations at the mill this morning. The present roof is to be removed and a different type put on. Machinery used in shoddy making in the past is to be removed from the mill to make way for new equipment. Ready for Suffrage Meeting at Hart
 ford.
 Mrs. W. J. Bartlett and Miss Rosa mond Danielson will be in Hartford tomorrow for a meeting of the execu- tive board of the Connecticut Wom- ans Suffrage association:
 The first full meeting since tke state annual convention al New Ha- ven in Nocember The officers will be able to make a good showing in re- gard to work already begun, and plans will be discussed for work to be un- dertaken when the session of the leg islature begins. The suffragists are strongly hoping that the legislature will show itself more favorable to measures dcsiredfby the women than was the legislature elected in 1914. The bills to be pushed by the C. W. S. A. as an organization will all be meas | ures enlarging the voting rights of women, but individual sufragists are also deeply interested in a number of other measures especially the bill for | the establishment Of a reformatoIy | for women, the bill shortening the working hours of women and girls, the bill for mothers pens:on-a meas ure which has been "assed by every one of the equal suffrage states and by nearly twenty of the suffrage states and a bill raising the age of consent to eighteen years.
 The new leagues that have been organized within the last few weeks and Vtgor. They are mostly small 1 leagues because they are in very small communities. One of ther-the Falls Village Equal Suffrage Leasue-oniy came into existence a few weeks be- fore the state suffrage convention in New Haven last month. Nevtreh eless It Is planning to hold a food sale to raise money to pay it's pledge to the state and to conduct a membership | campaign to add to the number of it's enrolled members. Even in the small community in which 1t Is established | It has already enrolled s6 men and | women as believers in equal suffrage, and 1t Is expecting to add all the re- rnalntng members of the adult popu- lation to its enrolment before many weeks have passed.
 The Connecticut Woman Suffrage Association has no connection with the suffragists who unfurled a banner in the house Of representatives at Washington when President Wilson was reading his annual message. The banner bore the legend President Wilson what do you intend to do about woman suffrage?" The women who were responsible were not mem bers of tho National Association to which the Connecticut Woman Suf- frage Association belongs. The Ma tional Association has always care pearance Of militancy In it's tactics, and Is now busily engaged in making friends for the cause in both political parties.