Norwich bulletin., 1922-05-23

town meeting of May 3. were done to death and emphaticalIy buried al the special town meeting Monday night in the town hall which had been called by the selectmen upon the petition circulated by the die-hards.
 The meeting Monday night had an at tendance of probably close to 1,50o in- side the town hall. in the corridors and down the stairways. It cast total vote of 1889. of which 800 were in favor of daylight saving. and 569 agalnst A roar of applause from about 100 people who | had stayed to the finish of the meeting, | which lasted four hours and 20 minutes, | greeted the announcement of the vote by I Chairman H. H. Pettis at 11.20 p. m. by l the clock in the town hall, which is on | standard time.
 The meeting was called to order by | Selectman Casper K. Bailey at [ D. m, standard time, and Judge H. H. Pettis, 1 corporation counsel, was elected chair man.
 Every seat in the hall was filled, every window seat had occupants, the west aisle was filled with a standing crowd, all the space behind the seats was filled, and the crowd was pscked close out into the main hallway and corridor and down the stairs to the street entrances.
 Town Clerk Charles S. Holbrook read the warning for the meeting as follows:
 ITO take action upon certain petition signed by more than 20 voters within the town and presented to the selectmen for the purpose of providing for a special voting day whereon the voters of the said town Of Norwich may vote in their usual voting districts in the usual manner with voting machines upon the question of ! using standard time throughout the town of Norwich.
 Also to make any such appropriation as may be necessary to cary out the wishes of said meeting in case any such appropriation may be necessary. Also to do any other business proper l to come before said meeting" 1 Resolution for Voting On.
 Frank E. Pecl1ham offered the motion 1 upon which the vote was ultimately l taken as follows: 1 Resolved, That the seIectmen of Nor wich be. and hereby are, authorized to l designate the 27th day of May as a spe- clal voting day whereon the legal voters l or Norwich may assemble in their vot- 1 ing districts between g in the forenoon and in the afternoon. statutory time, to 1 vote and to determine:
 i First, that it is the common sense of the voters of Norwich that the time to 1 be used in Norwich should be the stan
 dard of time designated by section 672o l Of the statutes.
 Second. that an affirmative vote shall
 mean that all town officers shall open their offices at o'clock in the forenoon.
 as has been customary for decades past,
 except during war emergency
 Third that the public schools of Nor
 wich shall be opened at o'clock in the
 forenoon, and
 T Fourth, that the selectmen shall pro-
 vide paper ballots bearing the words
 Standard Time and other ballots bearing
 the words Daylight Saving Time to re-
 cord the vote and to express the will of
 the people.
 Fifth, that the selectmen are author.
 ized to borrow if necessary, a sum oi
 money not to exceed s1,2oo. and the salt
 sum of $1,200 to be used, or such part a:
 necessary to defray the expenses of ths
 said special voting day
 i, Heckled c. Warren Davis. | c. Warren Davis seconded the rnotiol
 and took the floor to make a speech f which was frequently interrupted by out l bursts of laughter as the crowd enjoyet . heckling the chief die-hard, who has ap :. peared prominently as g. letter writer fl : the newspapers in favor of standar, e time.
 r MT. Davis rekerred to the statute lav | on time and read from a letter which h
 
 g a. green rubber stamp. and told abou e what was going on in Norwich, closin l with the words Come. early and brin i, all your friends" He went on to speak c 5, standards as applied to building, mileag, # acreage and other measurements Shout 1t of question !" broke into his line of al II gument, causing Chairman Pettis to rt quest the crowd to be quiet until Mi 3. Davis had finished his remarks, whtc "a l afr Dnft e,fH
 be brief.
 a- The last word hit the crowd right an T. there was roar of apprecfative laughte r. and applause.
 se Then MT. Davis resumed his arguner
 and when he mentioned standard tin
 there was faint applause. succeeded | . shouts of question"
 ,- Again Chairman Pettis' gavel auiete ,e the meeting to allow MT. Davis to DIT n cede, and the leading die-hard continue a. raising another laugh when he told abol q a lawyer who had to sit down to fgu a out his appointm ents MT. Davis read
 letter sent. him from East Gran, " favoring standard time. This ma H signed his name, said MT. Davis. Wh, VI the speaker proposed to read some poet, n- from the letter the town hall shook wi ag laughter again. and repeated the upro re When he told them he would soon he through. But he read the poetry anywa of MT. Davis went on to speak of wh
 was going on in New York, and what
 California legislator said. There " another outburst of laughter when Ss read something about the children ia N cH ing asleep in school. Mention of Plai a field gave the signal for more taught Y. Mir Davis told of children being fore <" out of bed to go to school and asked your home hamDered that way?" got his answer in a resounding shout ,,,s 'No!" Well, I guess you sleep ol ,,a doors, he retorted Shouts of Good ,ls greeted his remark that he was goi r,1 to close though there was much mc +es that he might say. and he sat down an on more applause.
 es- H. H. Gallup took the floor, hemarki
 that this was the largest and finest to,
 meeting he had ever seen in Norwi
 but he didn't suppose the people pres;
 had come here to be entertained by EN ing told about what was going on in N di- York, Washington, California, or e1 ert Plainfeld (applause.) We know vi the is happening here. continued MT. Gall the For two weeks we have been on dayli, er- saving time and outside of a few I h; ton yet to hear of any one who is not D tier fectly satisfied (Applause.) We are fed, here to study geometry, but to settle t for matter and settle it right. If any, s. travels anywhere today he has to tra -ine on the time of today, which is dayli he'd saving time
 Shouts of Do you play golf?' " ny broken into by the applause that , tam given Mir. Gallup, who continued his me gument, saying that we have had