The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1919-04-18
The MeddLer
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NOW InaI 1plkS nave Deen without
telephone service for several days and
the habit of subconsciously taking
down the receiver has been partially
conquered good many of them are
discovering that there are distinct adj
vantages as well as disadvantages that |
go with wire paralysis. OF course. it |
is nuisance to be obliged to order |
one 5 groceries a whole day ahead of |
time to save trip downtown and the |
difficulties of converting n card party !
on short notice are greatly increased |
But, on the other hand. it has been pos
lsible since Tuesday for good many
people to complete tasks that have been
simply because something was always
coming up to distract the doors thereof
And that something nine times out of
| ten started with the ringing of the tel
ephone bell No less than FIVE local
business men have confded to The Med
dler the satisfaction that has come TO
them by reason of being able to work
through whole morning without once
Having to answer a telephone inquiry
1t would be foolish, however, to as
sumo that the stoppage of telephone
communication is in its broader aspect
lanything but serious handicap to
A A. ,,l
activities depend almost wholly on tel
lephone service and in consequence have
been brought to q standstill during the
lpast few days Chief among these are
the concerns that depend upon the tele-
lphone for the sale of their products,
Especially those whose customers cover
: a territory beyond what can be reached
quickly by mail Incidentally it may
be said that the lack of the telephone
is somewhat of handicap to the job of
daily newspaper making. Ordinarily
! the phones in The Reformer Office re-
) lquire the attention of one person almost
: lall of the time and of several persons
t a considerable part of the time, and the
encouragement of their use is what ha:
Ienabled The Reformer to make itself
What it is. In addition to the report.
of ordinary doings that continually
trickle into newspaper Office anC
make up the matter for which peopl,
r buy the paper, there are the big events
!. either of local or national Importance
i Almost invariably the first tidings o
: Them come over the telephone wires
5 The news of the beginning and of Thu
end of the world war first came to Brat
tleboro by. telephone to The Reforme
office.
/ The activity of the local real estat
- market during the past few weeks
r. pretty good indication of an abidin
C faith in the business future of Brattle
q boro. And if there is anything bac
of the rumors that are travelling abou
more important property transfers ar
likely to be made public before Ions
> The Meddler has always. held that Brat
ID tleboro would be among the first town
!. to adjust themselves to after-war COZ
70 ditions, and events seem to be justify
IL ing this belief It would not be SUI
prising if in spite of the high cost Q
material and labor the town buildin
record for 1919 proved TO be an unu
ually long one.
lie Even to the most observant angle
at the moods of trout are inexplicabl
Sometimes with water and weatht
conditions apparently most favorab
Ethey will not bite while at other time
>Ethey seem ravenouslyg hungry for I
to good reason at all. The result is tbs
) Isonaes fishermen depend Apen. the ssiggl 81
" tof ba zodiac o4bnrS rlnt their faith