The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1919-02-26
BRANDS SCHEME
AS RIDICULOUS
Ballou Thinks County Seat
Good Enough for Brat
tleboro Lawyers
DELOUSING PLANT
IN COUNTY JAIL
Outfit Sufficient to Please the Most
Fastidious Hobo or Even an Attorney
from the County .Hub''-Says Le-
irsSa .s.> Got >
gal Point Involved.


Editor : Of Of Tfhe Reformer:-
irriIe Court house hass Controversy again
seelffs to Be abroad in the' land and sai1
seem to want to ststke peck at settling
it. if printed articles Can do IT. t-
While in Newfane, we cannot expect
to have the brillian talent Of the Hon.
Meddler to say nothing of the 'excep-
tional ability of the bar as represented
by the legal lights of Brattleboro, whom
everyone who has had experience knows
can make black appear white, stin
Newfane in self-defense cannot but
take her feeble peek at the case. 1t
must be admitted that at present New.
fame is the county seat (nominallv at
least) and possession is nine points of
the law.
| 1t is locally considered that county
| court case III order TO be legal should
be tried at the county seat. 1t was the
/ decision of Hon. ]. L. Martin that a
county court case could not be legally
/ held in the federal building at Braftlc
boro and while his argument might not
be infalible, yet he decided eases like
the famous sugar ease in New York
which made favorable comment all
! over the United States. ANYWAY it
should be decided one way or the other
/ Newfane Is the county seat or it ism (.
Judge Buffers remarks in previous
article seemed a joke at the expense of
, Newfane and gave evidence that in his
, estimation Newfane was so far out III
the country from the metropolis of
Brattleboro that Newfane should be
I considered a joke and so treated 1t is
/, this contempt of the law by the legal
, fraternity that brings the law into dis
= repute. Bofshevism is result of q
long oppression by the courts in Russia
. 1t Is always eontended byt the county
metropolis of Brattleboro that the con.
: venienee of the HUB of the county
! is involved as we'll as the cheapness OF
. having the court buildings there. The
: convenience has been pretty well gone
) into, in previous articles. As TO eeono
: my, would the county tax payers hf
willing to saddle the county with ar
! Indebtedness of building a set of coun
i tyibuildings TO satisfy the pride ei
1 Brattlebofo costing SAY two hundred
a and fifty Thousand dollars or upward
d 1t is always stated in any article tha
a is ever written upon the subject
"about moving the county buildings,
i just as if it was case of hitching
v pair of plugs TO them and shaking then
r down. The county now has set o
It buildings entirely adequate for the fey
y cases that arc now tried Recently al
e entire new interior was built to th
f.,t sa,t .a- of. III AZ
n ing of case hardened steel cells, show
:. er baths, to say nothing of steam dc
r fousing plant, steam heat and electri
j. hghts-an outfit to please the mos
or fastidious hobo or even n Brattlebor
n lawyer if he happened to get caugh
e, in the tolls of his own justice az. TIL
ID cell work is all set in cement, imposs
n Bile to move. As for -the court hous,
rs it recently was remodeled at an expens
st of $4,000. 1t is a wooden building, t
1e be sure, but setting as it does anon
n noble maple trees is certainly as mue
ID in an architectural way as any mont
at ment Brattleboro could erect for til
re convenience of the county bar, at a
IL enormous expense of building and vi
ie keep. The present arrangement of VI
We keep is nominal. If changed to Bra
on tleboro an expense of salsried tur,
e; key for the jail would be necessary, 1
ea say nothing of a proper building TO !
built for the turnkey to live in.
ne The proposition or talk of n. chang
nc is ridiculous as it would only convel
DC fence a favored few, and why lawye1
on and court officials should consider ther
70 selves special class is hard to sec.
:; A iuryman gets $3.50 per day for b
OF services at court. Board in NewfaI
can be obtained for 81 per week.
ne Brattleboro it is hard TO get at twi'
NJ m that and would leave the juryman
=. debt besides giving his own time.
- ~ 1 would not go Sc far as to state tn
ne iit Brattleboro would hog everything
:. l.s sight in the county regardless of Il
q payers, but there is certainly somethii
German in the idea of a change of Il
~ ~ county seat. -
tor W C. BALLou.
,nis Newfane, Feb. %.