Windham County reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1901-1906, 1903-08-07
.*BY THE WAYS

President Reed of the Spoford LAX
Fish and Game League sends us wore
that the annual dinner of the League
will be held at Silverdale, Chesterfield
N. H., next week Wednesday noon
The clubs records have been DESTROYED
by fire so that the newspapers are de
pended upon, of necessity, to notify
all members that their feast of plenty
and good cheer is in preparation. Ths
organization, by the way, is one of the
| best in the state in its aims and pur'
poses, and fulfils its mission admirably
New Hampshire cannot be too cautious
in its husbandry of the attractions which
draw the wealthy and refined within
its borders The protection of its nat
ural fish and game preserves is the
duty of every man who cares for the
welfare of the state. About 70, DOC
landlocked salmon and lake trout have
been placed in Spofford lake within
the past two years, and some sizeable
fish have been seen this year They
should be fostered, not exterminated,
and by and by some surprising results
will be recorded. 1t goes without say
ing that all property owners about the
lake and in the villages of Spofford and
Chesterfield should be included in the
membership of the league There IS
good work ahead and the stocking of
the lake should continue.
Commercial men are always enter
tanning. They see so much of life, visit
so many places, have such wide oppor-
tunities for observation and COMPARE
son. Thus it came about that drum
mer" at the Brooks House the other
evening, pulling away at his after sup
per cigar, remarked Brattleboro is a
delightful and restful place for tired
nerves, do you know. For instance,
here in the early morning the o'clock
whistle which awakens you is melod-
ious, deep toned siren, which agree
ably arouses you and doesn't seem of
fensive or challenging in its gentle call
to bestir yourself. But it's not so in
other places that ! visit. know of
one little city in particular, busy
manufacturing hive in Connecticut,
where the shrieking of the whistles
from a dozen shops every morning from
6 30 until the final furious chorus at
is enough to drive you crazy. The place
is small, the shops are close together,
and their united whistling is calcu-
lated to wake the dead asked man
down there one day if this uproar was
not regarded as nuisance, a menace
to health, but he only laughed and said
that the folks in the place had gotten
so used to the thing that they paid
no attention to it--didn't hear it, in
fact"
Instead of sending the loafing tramps
to Rutland Jail for 90 days, it might
be good thing if Judge Newton, in
his kindness of heart, should sentence
the idle to clean out the Milestone
brook The board of bailiffs passed an
order more than fortnight ago that
the pretty brook should be cleaned at
once, but we are daily told that no
help can be found for the purpose
that everybody is haying, just now, or
doing something somewhere. Mean
while the Village Improvement socie- |
ty stands ready and willing, with |
money in its purse, to beautify the |
brook, especially the waterfall at the |
depot approach. \ fellow said the |
other day that it made him laugh to |
think about it. Maybe he is right, but 7
it does seem as if something might be /
lone before snow drifts fall Certain
y it is up to the bailitfs to get move !
IN and do something, else they must \
laziness.
&
DR.. ". Fl. Wiley, of the government
agricultural department. the same who
aid that the devil lurked in the soda
and that iced tea was suicidal,
has found out this week that saffron
,olored butter is ''the limit and all
ire warned of the aniline dyes used to
,olor 1t. Thus is the ruthless scythe
If research making inroads in our re-
rigerators Soon there will be nothing
o do but put in the ice and empty the
IAN Don't forget the pan!
Small boys have dug two caves in
he huge sand bank near the Canal
treet schoolhouse. The holes are big
nough TO admit youngster of eight
ears, feet and all. Some day there
' i'll come a cave-in and then there
will be different sort of an item to
write, for different column. Some
ensible man in the neighborhood ,
hould push in the sod roofs of those
wo caves before the boys get caught |
u the trap. Now is the time to do it.
The Hay Crop.
Reports from all directions indicate
much larger yield of hay than was ,
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