The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1917-02-02
The MeddIer
If the coat fits you. put It on"

II If the coat fits you, pat It ON
The selectmen have done the right
thing in finding out just what it would
cost to build a permanent highway on
Vernon street and submitting the fig
ures TO the taxpayers long enough be
fore town meeting so that the matter
can be thoroughly discussed. 1t is a
big proposition, involving as it does
the expenditure Of close to $4,000
yet there can be no doubt that some
thing must be done to improve the con
dition of this thoroughfare, and con
slderlng the extremely heavy traffic
which 1t Is subjected it is question
whether first class roadway will not
be the cheapest in the long run En-
gineer Helyar has figured on granite
paving from Bridge street as far south
as the lower end of the station, and
cement for the remainder of the 5, Jas
foot stretch included in his estimate.
In addition to the actual cost of high |
way construction, which approximates
$l2, 900, he estimates that about $500
should be spent for drainage, $4,000
for sidewalk and curbing, and S3,500I
for necessary retaining walls.
Whether the townspeople will feel
| as if they were justified in voting a.
further bond issue to pay for this i'm
provement The Meddler is not quail
fed to say, but something will have to
4 he done to better traffic conditions on
this street. Anyone who had occasion
to traverse it last fall, either on foot
or horseback or in an automobile, can
not have forgotten what the surface
was like. And there will be a repeti-
tion of this state Of affairs every
spring and fall Just as long as the road
! way is left as it is. In addition to be-
| ing one of the main avenues of tour
ist travel through the summer Vernon
street is subjected to heavy trucking
at all times of year. This will increase
in volume when the freight station is
moved to the west side of the railroad
tracks.
4 Brattleboro people generally, wheth
1 er or not they know n heifer from {
2 shote, Will be interested III the fac
2 that the next sale of the PurcbraC
Live Stock Sales Co. which takei
place in the local pavilion Tuesday anC
Wednesday,, viii bring together til,
finest collection Of Holstein cattle ev
err offered at auction in this countr,
with possibly one exception. Breeder
from all parts of the country have sig
nifed their intention of being presan
when these animals are placed unde
5 the hammer, and the sale IS bound t
) add greatly to the local company rap
! utation. Local people who have no
n visited the pavilion and are not ia
5 miliar with the way these sales ar
5 conducted should make it a point t
= spend an hour or two at the ringside.
/, just in passing it is interesting t
n note that a sign forhidding the use 0
e tacks in decorating Festival hall ha
:: been put UP this week with the use 0
: tacks.
/; reader of this column sends tn
u following interesting and extremel
e pertinent inquiry:
e | would like to ask through the m,
II dunn of The Meddler what has becom
: of that innate courtesy and chivalr
Y for which the Native Sons of Vernon
k were wont to be famous | have bee
IS stirred by somathing that l have NJ
X ticcd several times recently in OF
:, municipal court room to "rise in NEE
III ing and ask this question. 1t seen
n to be necessary preliminary to re;
= business for some of the court officia
n AMI lawyers as we'll as male witnesst
and onlookers, TO get their cigar
pipes, etc, lit up and well going, al
parentlv forgetting no doub
to their sense of propriety- that ii
Y. court stenographer, lady witnesses an
n onlookers are denied the privilege
; quoting their nerves with tobacco. Tv
81 courses of procedure seem to be ope