The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1915-08-12
Invites Everybody in This
County and Nearby
Towns Aug. 25
MANY ATTRACTIONS
AND ALL TO BE FREE
Band Music, Moving Pictures, Street
Car Rides, Speaking, Vaudeville,
Baseball, Wrestling - No Special
Sales and No String Attached.

In really sincere and genuine manner
Brattleboro will be the host on Wednes-
day, Aug. %, to the people of Windham
county and the neighboring towns of New
Hampshire and Massachusetts. The latch
string of the town will be out all day long
and the keys viii be turned over to the
hundreds of visitors whom it is hoped
will come here to receive the towns hos
pltality and to enjoy some worthwhile en-
tertalnment absolutely without expense.
So far as is known this is an entirely
new idea and it is being worked out by
the board of trade, of which Horton ID.
Walker Is president. For years Brattle-
boro has enjoyed a measure of patronage
from the inhabitants of other sections of
the county and from some of the towns in
other states As an expression of appre-
eiation the town viii provide entertain
ment all day on Aug. - to whomsoever
will avail themselves of it, outside of the
| local residents.
| This is no trading scheme, but purely an
| expression of appreciation for past fayors
The stores will be open as usual, of course,
/ but there viii be no special sales and the
visitors are not asked to buy a cents
worth of anything. They are simply asked
to come here and be entertained all day
with no thought of any commercial bene-
fit, and the board of trade is preparing to
make the day one that its guests will re-
member long time
Excursion rates are being arranged for
on the Central Vermont lines from South
Londonderry and from Millers Fails. and
aside from the railroad fare and dinner,
(which the guests will provide for them
selves, no expense will be necessary
There will be band concerts ball games,
ispeaking, vaudeville entertainment, NOV.
ing pictures, wrestling and other forms of
amusement, street railroad service will be
absolutely free and all day long the facto-
. ries and printing plants viii be open for
visitors. Boy Scouts will assist as order
lies and guides.
Not all of tile details have been worked
, out, but tentative program has been ar
,, !ranged. In the morning the train from
ISouth Londonderry will arrive at S45
and the train from Northfeld, Mass, viii
; come at $40 At about $50 the First
Regiment band will begin a half-hour con
cert on the plaza near the Main street
bridge.
Registration booths will be established
near the bridge and near the town hall
, twhere visitors from ont of town may give
their names and receive some sort o
Ebadge which will entitle them to the free
dom Of the town and incidentally vii
- snow the number OF guests ANY person
reeeiving one of these badges viii be ad
mitted free to both the Empire and Prin
lcess moving picture theatres, to cars OF
the street railroad, to ball games at lslan'
, lpark, and to speaking and vaudeville OF
4 the common, etc. The moving picture the
! Iatres will give double performances in tn
afternoon with special reels for the day.
n At 10 o'clock the band will go to Islant
;, Epark to introduce a baseball game, whicl
: will last until about noon. just wha
!. teams win play is not known, but the
II probably will be selected from the Yves
! River Valley league, the Brattlebor
:, league, Hinsdale and Pine Grove Springs
On both the island and the village com
! mon there will be tables and benche
: where visitors may spread their baske
! luncheons. At L. so there will be ban
, concert on the common, followed by speaF
!. ing and by vaudeville acts on a temporar
:, lstage. While this is going on there wi
: be a wrestling match at Island park 10
], those who prefer that to the speaking an
g vaudeville.
:. While the speaking is in progress on tn
: common the band will return to islam
;. [park to start off another bali game at
= o'clock 1t is planned also to have tn
= band play at the railroad station as tn
: guests depart for their homes.
- As before stated, all this will tax
- lplaee Wednesday, Aug. %, and no strln
- is attached to any of it.