The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1918-09-07
Many Activities at Head
quarters of Board
of Trade
LARGE SERVICE
TO COMMUNITY
Farm Bureau and Red Cross Presidents
Offices Located There-Handsome
Furniture and Important Accessories
The Years Work.


The Years Work.
Today is the first anniversary of the
opening of the headquarters of the
Brattleboro board of trade in the rooms
in the town hall building which were
occupied many years by the postoffice,
and in the past - months large
amount of work has been done in the
va7ious departments located in the
board rooms
The cold postofice, as many per-
sons still call the quarters, surely un-
derwent a transformation. Partitions
were knocked out and new ones were
built, steel ceilings were put in and new
hardwood floors laid The ceilings and
woodwork are finished in old ivory and
the walls are done in colonial buff. The
results are big, light, airy offices in
which 1t is pleasure to work.
Furniture of handsome golden quar-
tered oak adds to the attractiveness of
the rooms and the long directors table
ian the center of the main room is Brat
tleboro product, having been built at
Holden & Martin Is and finished at the
Estey Organ company shops, and the
big, comfortable arm chairs were made
by the White River Chair company.
Other pieces of furniture in the main Of
flee are two three-section bookcases of
directories, not only the national and
state commercial directories, but the
directories of many cities and towns as
well. These are in the corner to the
left of the entrance. After passing a
double tfat-top desk, for .the use of
| President William L. Hunt and Seere-
tary Harold f. Moffitt of the board,
one finds another three-seetion book
case filled with farm bureau literature,
for County Agent Arthur W. Sweeton
occupies the next desk, which is of the
| roll-top type.
Miss Gladys Adams, stenographer for
the board, occupies fat drop-head
typewriter desk in the northeast cor
ner of the main room. She not only
does work for the board, but assists
County Agent Sweeton and Home Dem
| onstration Agent Lucy G. Swift, whose
! desk is of the fiat top style located in
the southeast corner.
| Large double doors in the east end
separate the main office from smaller
room, which is used bv Oscar f. Ben
chapter of the Red Cross. and his as
sistant, Mrs. Harold w Mason. Local
! Food Administrator Jean J. Vanderveer
and stenographer also have occupied
desks in this room part of the time. A
door opens from the south into the
main corridor of the building.
The walls are hung with series of
! Vermont views, which are splendid pho
tographic enlargements by Benjamin T.
Crown. They lend an added attractive
ness to the rooms, in their frames of
natural finish birch. There also is a
large map of New England Hotel as
sociation tours, showing routes from
New York through the Berkshires and
Green Mountains to Lake Champlain,
Wllloughby lake, Rangeley lakes to Bar
Harbor, Me. In the Farm Bureau sec
| ton of the room are framed specimens
OF moths, beetles, caterpillers, scales,
| etc, a spray chart for scale and insects
and an enlarged photograph of girl,
member of the pig club, with the ami
mai which is of most interest to her.
This is done in colors and is the work
of Horton ID. Walker. Mr. Walker,
who is county food administrator, also
has headquarters in the main Office
room.
Utility was not forgotten when the
Office was planned. Everyone can find
something there of Importance TO him
self and it will pay one to browse
among the magazines and pamphlets
on the table. where there is a fund Of
valuable information for almost anv
man. The United States Chamber of
Commerce bulletins cover governmental
actiyities of every sort as they affect
the merchant, manufacturer, banker and
professional man. Its regular month
ly publication, The Nation IS Business,
is mighty interesting and authori-
tative magazine. Other magazines COW
er civic and business affairs. One would
hardly think of going to the board of
trade Office to find out how to build q
cement runway into a garage, but all
the information would be found in the
little Cement Highway Magazine on
the Office table.
The expression board of trade'' is
not merely the name of an organization,
but is synonym for service, and that
the organization has been performing u
real service to the community is shown
by list of some of the more important
tactivities in which it has been interest
, ed in the past year.
Various patriotic meetings have been
, arranged for the public with such speak
ers as Sergeant Collins, Rev. Samuel B.
Knobbs, Mrs. Beatrice Forbes Robert
i son Hale and others, and several gath
A nd Do \