The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1919-06-30
EXODUS OF MALES
TO BOOZE GASES
Roads from Here to Massa-
chusetts Hot Saturday
Night
BARGAIN PRICES
IN GREENFIELD
Several Returned with Skins Full as
Well as Grips and Suit Cases, and
Some Fines Are Collected in Munici-
pal Court Today

In anticipation of the drouth to follow
the beginning of the statutory prohibition
July / there was an exodus Of males from
Brattleboro and other towns to various
oases in Massachusetts Saturday night,
the like of which the oldest inhabitant
does not recall Some of the results were
apparent in the municipal court today,
because some of those who joined In the
pilgrimage imbibed to excess of the in
ebriating fluid rather than bring it home
in grips and suit cases as their more dis
Greet fellows did.
1t was the last Saturday night for pur-
chasing stocks of old John Barleycorn
and the wheel ruts of the highways be-
tween here and Bernardston, Greenfield
and Springfield, Mass, were kept warm
by the string Of automobiles that either
passed through Brattleboro or started
| from here. Some went earlier III the
| day by train, returning in like manner,
and the amount of booze brought back
| in parcels as well as within the human
| skins was not inconsiderable.
| In Greenfield large signs informed the
populace where it might 90 to Obtain
| booze at bargain prices, and one former
| Brattleboro man who came from Green
| field to stay over Sunday said that on
| the way to the railroad station the po-
lice were taking four drunks to the police
station and that in the year and half
that he has been in Greenfield he never
saw so much intoxieation as he did Satur-
day afternoon
The Brattleboro police state that auto
/ mobile loads of men were returning tc
town at all hours of the night. until near
~ morning, some stopping here and 9th
ers going on to other towns. Traffic was
SO heavy on the main road to Guilforo
that persons living in that town who
come to Brattleboro to do their Satur
day night trading felt that they would bt
taking too great a chance to venture out
that night and so remained at home.
Knowing the habit of certain booze
parties to stop at the Valley fair grounds
to sober up on returning from Massachu
setts barrooms, Sheriff Frank L. Wellman
Deputy Sheriff Fred Cressey and State
Attorney f. w Gibson made a little so
journ in that section of the town to se
what might develop along that line. The,
took the names OF some whom they con
sidered to be suitable subjects for tn
municipal court. and two others they ar
rested and locked in the police station
These two were from Windsor, aud tn
officers said they had driven from Wind
sor to Springfield and returned as ia
as Brattleboro. One Of these was bale
out and the other remained in the COO
er" over night
In the municipal court this mornin
4 one Of the Windsor men pleaded guilt
TO charge of intoXication and a simlia
/ plea was entered for the other Windso
{ citizen by Attorney F. f. Barber. Fac
was fined So and costs by Judge A.
I, Cudworth Two others have been sun
q moned to appear this afternoon for sim
4 lar offenses. All are for first offenses.
d As the prohibtory law does not go int
n effect until after today the officers al
I looking for another exodus to Nassach
W setts tonight