The Brattleboro reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1907-1912, 1911-03-17
The Meddler
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The cold wave that struck ths ~,
night before last put to flight - h5s
an early spring that is, a spring a IA
as the one OF last year, a year ag1 =
the Connecticut river was almost ireeb
ice, the streets about the village -
pretty well settled and there wa, IA
sign Of snow. So little frost was Z
in the ground that the roads iu he
lying districts became passable Tor u
mobiles in a wonderfully short time.
April | il was possible TO go By au.o1
bile TO Hinsdale, Greenfield and Others
rounding towns, portions OF the hIghFs
being actually dusty. This year tie IA,
pect OF immediate automobile traftl
anything but good. The depth 70 II
the ground is frozen means that AZ
warm weather will have to elarse "a
the usual mud holes come and 20 N
warm weather doesn't seem 10 be luft.I
in the immediate vicinity OF New EnslsI
lust at present. The trout fishermen III
iourneyed into New Hampshire on III
/ OF last year and found the streams |
fairly good condition are likely 10 enot.I
ter little else but ice and snow bfO,t |
they have the hardihood to venture III
two weeks from tomorrow. In fact, L Il
unlikely that any but the earliest stnla|
in this state will be sufficiently low or q.
TO tempt the angler when the season gaI
April 10. However, such a conditim !
not unusual and constitutes one re.u
why the early open season helps press7
the trout supply.
1t must have been extremely peasin,
Manager Fox to see such a large and II
satisfied audience coming out OF the ~:
forum on Wednesday evening, for II
date was the 25th anniversary Of bis ID
as a theatrical manager in BrattebmI
The first attraction that he booked vH
lecture on My Trip to the Rocky Mo.I
tains by Rev. M. II. Harris, then Of Wei
cester, Mass, and it was given in d
Crosby opera house in Market block II
since the town hall was remodeed
years ago Mr.. Fox has been a TeE.E
purveyor of stage products, and DUR
that time no town in the state has had |
better theatrical menu served up to it,
many respects the auditorium is y
playhouse and compared to other social
theaters hereabouts it is still sometime
in which Mr.. Fox can take much pni.|
but he probably realizes, as do md
many other people, that unless somethl|
is done pretty soon the scenery and interr|
decorations will be beyond repair n
selectmen ought not to wait until anoths|
meeting before giving this matter alta
ton. Waiting until something is beyu.|
repair before beginning to repair it Is
ways the poorest kind Of economy.
A recent news item stated that N
Woodstock Inn was filled to overfoEI|
with city visitors; and this right in u
dead OF winter. The Woodstock hostelTi|
an all-the.year-round hotel for city peOpk
and while it is not perhaps so largely El|
ronized In the winter as in the summed
it is understood that there is no month 4
the year when it does not pay a reasonibs
profit. The summer hotels of the futlr|
in Vermont will undoubtedly be built vin|
the view Of being kept open II month; d
a year and they will pay too, for al|
people are beginning to understand ttf|
the pleasure OF sojourn in Vermont do,
ing the sleighing season is only seOnl
to summers vacation among her gsI|
hills. Brattleboro must have a new hds
before very long or else lose her repua|
ton as progressive community.