Norwich bulletin., 1920-10-05

o'clock was very light and not more than 500 ballots were cast The first voter was Leon Dunham Miss Annie Moriarty of No. 40 Hewitt street cast the first womans vote. The fight this year seemed to center about the office of tax collector, the re- publicans working hard for Joseph M Berard and the democrats for William H. Mckinley. From the first it was mo- ticeable that there would be more split ballots this year than ever before From 10 o'clock on, the voting became brlsA and at II o'clock 300 votes had been cast. These were mostly women's votes
 as compared with 23 votes cast during the l same hour in last years election. From II until 1215 heavy voting boosted the l figures to 1,020 mems votes, while iS0 women had voted, making a total of l. | 200 votes cast, or 102 more than in | 1919. At 2.30 o'clock indications were | that the vote would exceed 2,000, as l. | S51 mems votes had been cast and 24ud .women's votes. total of 1,591. This to- tai was but 57s votes short of the to- | tai of 2.167 cast in 1919.
 | The vote of the women seemed split equally between the republican and dem l ocratic tickets, demonstrating the fact | the women will not vote by party die | tate but will vote according to their own | ideas. At that hour the vote of the wo- 1 men was 2i0 and at o'clock it had
 reached 265 or less than the total wo- mans vote of 1919 Later figures sent | the old tally sky-high and it was esti-
 mated that over 300 out of the 725 wo- men registered would cast thcir ballot l Shortly before o'clock the totals brought | the voting over the 2000 mark and it | was acknowledged that the vote would
 be over that of last year. Dope sheets
 at this hour indicated that of the es-
 timated vote the republicans had S34 and
 the democrats 746, these votes being
 only those of men voters. The 300 wo-
 men ballots were about evenly split and
 by the same analysis would indicate a republican lead of over 100. Split ballots,
 and it Wes admitted hat there many,
 would chaneg this check
 Headquarters of both repuib cans ana democrats were on Chuuch street the former in an office in the Jordan block
 on Main street Several women followed
 the votes of the women at the polls the
 total probably will be of use in esti-
 mating the way women will vote in the
 national election in November
 The election officials were: Moderator Judge Frank H. Foss checker for men
 John c. Barstow; official for women, AL
 fred Abbe for women. Alfred Abbe
 ballot box tender tboth men and women
 casting votes in the same box), William Q. Connaughton ballot distributors. , Charles H. Baker and John Shanna han booth tenders, Edward Mitchell, James
 5. Donohue and Ambrose Casey. The
 challengers were Eugene J. Randall for the republicans and Michael F. Kelley and Eugene Moriarty for the democrats
 Mrs. Agnes Greenwood who has been
 visiting her son, Thomas Greenwood. of
 No 1n47 Main street. left recently for
 New York and is to sail for England on
 the Celtic. of the White Star Line.
 Delegates chosen by the democratic electors are to meet Saturday to nom
 mate candidate for judge of probate.
 The notices were sent out by Frank M. | Lincoln, chairman of the probate comnit- l tee. A barn in the rear of No, 11s wind-
 ham road was partially gutted by fire | Monday afternoon when sparks fror, burning brush set fire to the shingles
 on the roof and quickly spread to the in | terior of the building. neighbor of
 Arthur R Stiles owner of the barn | discovered the blaze and called it to the attention Of man. who pulled in Box No l 5l at the corner of sWindharn road and Park street. When the men from En- zine Company No reached the fire one side of the roof, had been almost total- ,ly burned off and flames were shooting Iup through the cuDola A line of hose | was laid and ladders placed against the 1 building. An attempt was made to fight the fire from the outside but ths pitch of the roof was too great and it
 became necessary to fight it from with l in. The recall was sounded about tlir- l ty~ minutes after the alarm had been
 sent in, but theefire in the eornices of the
 barn kept the men busy for over an hour | The lower floor suffered only damage by | water but the roof was badly burned The barn had been used for storing mis-
 cellaneous articles and was rented to the
 firm of Wood & Ladd as a garage for l their automobile truck. The truck was
 not in the building at the time of the
 fire! Insurance on the building will cov- CT the loss
 The Hook and Ladder truck responded
 to- the alarm but came to grief at the
 foot of Jillson Hill when the drivine
 shaft broke. The truck was later tow.
 ed to a garage for repairs.
 Word has been sent out to the mem.
 bers of, the Willimantic Chamber ot