The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1918-08-14
Board OF Trade Efforts to
Please Visitors All-round
Success
EVERYBODY HAPPY
IN SPITE OF HEAT
Address by Edward s. Van Zile. War
Correspondent, Patriotic Feature
Work of Various Committees Reaches
Successful Climax.

Guest day Is here and with it a happy
crowd of 1900 or more persons. and Incl
dentally the highest temperature of any
day this year with the possible excep-
ton OF last week Wednesday 1t has
been great success all around. in spite
OF the heat, because people do not let
that stand in the way when they are out
for good time.
i am abundantly pleased with the
measure OF success which has resulted
from our efforts to give the people around
Brattleboro day of pleasure and with
the spirit of cordiality which is evident
SAID President William L. Hunt of the
Brattleboro board of trade, under whose
auspices the day was planned. when
asked by The Reformer for a statement
With the exception of the heat a bet
ter day could not have been chosen. At
| O'Clock /. r. Naughan's registering
thermometer showed a temperature of 81
degrees. On Wednesday, Aug I, it was
W at l.30 o'clock and 1922 late in the
afternoon, which was the hottest day of
the year up to today.
Ihe committees have done their work
faithfully and well, leaving nothing un-
done that would minister to the happi-
ness OF the visitors, and they are the ones
who are entitled to the credit for having
accomplished large undertaking with
out slip.
The exact registration cannot be stated
now, but at l.3o nearly l,s00 cards had
been counted and there were more at
both registration booths and persons still
arriving. 1t is known also that many
visitors did not take the trouble to reg
lster, so it Is safe to state that fully
2,o0O visitors are in town. Some regis
tered from distant points, including st.
Augustine, Fla, Denver, Colo, and Sac
ramento, Calf. One visitor is William
| +. Hoehn of Peekskill n Y, secretary of
the Hudson Valley Federated Chambers
| of Commerce.
At O'Clock no decision had been
reached as to what towns had won the
Red Cross prizes offered by the board
/ of trade for the towns sending the
largest delegations in proportion to their
population, but the registration cards
| were being sorted for that purpose.
1t was only 7.20 O'Clock when the first
visitors registered. which was at the reg
Istration booth at the town hall steps.
| They We're Mr. and Mrs. T. II. Jones of
| Newfane AT the foot of each registra-
tion card was the question, Do you ex-
ipect to attend the Valley fair this year
To this question Mr. Jones replied that
he had not missed any fair thus far and
did not intend to stay away this year
| On the plaza at the foot of Main street
the registration booth was not opened as
early as was the other one, and the first
registration there was at $40 by Ray
mond Walker of Hinsdale. n H.
The booths were in charge of Miss
Pearl G. Gibson. who was assisted by
Mrs. e. FL. Metcalf, Miss Florence Hol-
den. Miss Marjorie Leach, Miss Grace
Leach, Miss Beatrice Vinton, Miss Har-
riet Arnold, Mrs. George f. Foster and
Miss Sylvia Crosby
| During the early part of the forenoon
the registration clerks were only fairly
busy, but by 10 o'clock people were COM
| ing in good numbers and both booths did
a rushing business from then until noon.
At times rows of people four deep were
waiting for an opportunity to sign their
names and receive the blue tags bearing
the words, .Brattleboro's Guest" which
would show that they were visitors and
as such were entitled to enjoy without