The Brattleboro reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1907-1912, 1910-12-23
The Meddler
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There ls much sound ssnsc IN she CON,
munioa,ion from u. y TasksF, printed n
another column, regarding the pfoIosel
sale Of two II the Village steamers nj tie
hallids. one heed no, doubt the tiliasaey
II the present water system Ia onlfg =
io-l opposed 10 the disposal Of lhusr steam,
cts, No Heihod 81 hFe protection i =
ntar perfect that there Is 10 possibility q
~ sriiins out Of order temporarily. ana
the danger ls that The tfupbe may cone
AZ the worst conceivable time Mondsys
break IN Grrrn street Hatsf main 3 a.
illustration. Had the local Department
been fighting a serious iift ID that ss-,i6s
al the time !, would undoubtedly have
had opportunity 20 demonstrate ilr yaius
81 an adequate reserve equipment Tie
wisdom oi selling these tao strsmris 5
open 10 serious question.
The need 81 a card index 10 The togn
clerks Office y made evident even tine
person has occasion to trace the Dan.
ership Of q parcel Of land IN this town Il
i only guess work 10 start on job Of irst,
ing land titles from the records II there
was a card index with every name and
subject mentioned IN the records properly
entered u would h. a matter 81 minutes
not hour, 10 locate the information thar
a person might be seeking. such an index
could b. kept up 10 date with very Little
work every day. Probably les than u
minutes would suffice 20 make al entry oi
every transaction for a week
Merchants who complain Of the infolds
made into their business by Chicago mai
order concerns should credit AZ least one
Of these cheap merchandise houses with
increasing local Christmas trade thi. year
TO some extent. 4 family Of Brltieboro
youngsters were writing letters % santa
Claus and enumerating a let of presents
which would be acceptable. 4 seyeuyear.
old boy made W lit that included every.
thing Imaginable. and father, who bad
made tour Of the shops, could not re.
member seeing half Of the thing, enume,
rated Questioning the boy a. 20 bis
knowledge Of appropriate Christmas gifts
aud where such gifts could be procured Il
was found that he had selected them from
a mail order catalogue. Is the catalogue
stated plainly that Santa Claus earned all
Of the various articles in stock Il was use.
less TO attempt to convince the boy that
his list was beyond the limit Of Bratile-
boro shops.
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y q
Germ was making tour OF the Prospect
Hill district late the other afternoon and
while he was discussing with a hired girl
the weather, the chances Of success Tor the
Brattleboro hose teams basketball squad
and Champ Clark's chances Of being elect
ed speaker Of the next house Of representa-
tives, his horse became restless and moved
along about four lengths, another grocery
team built upon about the same lines
moving up and taking the place OF the
restless horse. 4 few minutes later the
clerk hurried from the house and jumped
into the waiting wagon. He urged the
horse into a trot and drove along past a
number OF houses to his next customer.
Picking up a package he started for the
house only to discover that the bag con
tanned oatmeal. Now the clerk knew that
this particular customer never bought oat-
meal, Something was wrong. He gazed at
his horse while he attempted TO collect his
wits. The horse didn't belong to his EN-,
ployer, and the clerk at length discovered
that he had boarded the wrong vehicle.
Now the clerk trims his conversations
with hired girls, even though they may be
attractive.