Norwich bulletin., 1917-09-11
THREE NOMINATIONS FOR SELECTMAN
Contest Developed Democratic Caucus Town Hall Mon day Night t-Henry Gehrath Got 19s of the 365 Votes Cast-Nomination Afterwards Made Unanimous Patrick I. Cornell the Choice for Second Selectman

to second the nomination of MT Lilli- bridge. l arise to second the nomin- alton of Albert W. Lillibridge, said William H. Shields. MT. Shields went on to tell of the office of selectman be- ing a very important one and made reference to the fact that MT. Lilli- bridge is now the only democratic member of the board and that he has had twelve years experience. As there were no other nominations the vote was taken with the follow ing result:
 Ballots os east, sss: necessary. for bert w. Lillibridge, 11s: Joseph D. Harris, AS. Mir Gebrath was de- clared nominated. On motion of J. J. Corkery the nomination was made unanimous.
 For Second SeIectman.
 Patrick T: Connell was then nom unanimously chosen.
 Other Nominations Unanimous.
 Other nominations were made unani- mously follows:
 Assessors, Michael J. Curran. nom mated by J. T. Shea: two members of the board of relief-James Murphy nominated by Thomas M. Shields and Jeremiah T. Donovan nominated by J. T. Corkery. Town clerk. Charles s. HOlbrook. nominated by Felix Cal lahan. Collector of taxes Thomas A. Robinson. nominated by Thomas NJ. Shields. Agents Town Deposit fund and George A. Seidleman. Town treas urer Charles S. IIolbrook Consta- bles. Never B]umenthal. Dennis Don ovan, Alonzo T. Letendre and Chas. Lavarge. Registrar of voters. Come lius J. Downes, nominated bv Dr. E. J. Brophy. Auditor, Daniel J. Donovan nominated by John H. Carney. Two members of town school committee, Thomas J. Kelly and Charles O. Mur- phy. This completed the iicket.
 Selection of Town Committee.
 The next matter was the selection of a town committee. On motion of M. V. Murphy the following were named committee to return list of names for town committee: Charles s. Avery, Dennis Donovan. Patrick Bray, John Connell, Timothy J. Sullivan and Henry Gebrath. The committee retired with John R. Fowler as proxy for MT. Gebrath who was not present and brought in the following list of names:
 First District-William Callahan. Errol c. Lillibridge, Charles S. Avery.
 Second Dictrict-Dennis Donovan, Joseph Williams.
 Third District-Daniel Donovan, and Richard Sheehan.
 Fourth District-John Cornell and A. w. Lillibridge.
 Fifth Observation-Disclosures Clifford and James Daly.
 Sixth District-John R. Fowler and Henry Gesrath.
 John B. Renoit Objects.
 John B. Benoit of Taftville raised objection to the name of John Clifford for the Fifth District and made mo- tion that it be stricken out and the name of Michael Murphy substituted. His motion was made and Mir. Mur- phys name was substituted fJc Mir Clifford.
 Martin Keough said he thought that there ought to be more First District men on the comn Ntee. Milo R. Wa ters made a motion that MT. Keough be mad9 a member of the committee from the First District but MT. Keough declined to serve.
 On motion of Thomas M. ?hields the town committee was empowered to in- crease their membership as they see fit. Before adjournment was taken the town committee was empowered to fill all vacancies. The caucus ad- journed about 9.3O o'clock.