The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1920-07-09
The Meddler
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1t will not be great while before the
honor roll on the plaza near the station
will begin to look worn and out OF
keeping with the endurance of the cause
which it was erected to commemorate
This perhaps is to be expected, for nobody
considered the present board in the light
of permanent memorial and it's TEN
porary purpose already has been wei
fulfilled. 1t is time, however, that
thought should be given to the task OF
making an accurate and permanent rec
ord of the Brattleboro men and women
who served in the World war. On this
subject The Meddler recently heard sug
gestion which seems to him an excellent
one. 1t was that the work of preparing
this record be turned over to the local
post of the American Legion, and that
a bronze tablet bearing the names b
placed in the corridor of the town build
could be read at any time by anybody
Without regard to what form the pro
posed soldiers memorial may take i
seems proper that a permanent record 0
the names of those who served in the
World war should find place in tn
town building, and certainly there is NJ
organization better fitted to prepare
this record than the American Legion
One years interest on the fund already
set aside for memorial purposes woult
doubtless be sufficient to defray the ex
pense of suitable tablet, and its dedica
ton might well be made a feature of thu
observance of Memorial day next spring
So far as The Meddler is able to ascer
tain there is no opposition to the ide;
of granting tax exemption for fiv'
years on the new plant which the kol
stad, Taylor Co. is erecting on Flat street
the property which the Millers Falls Co
recently bought of the National Machine
CO., and the proposed additions to TIL
Fort Drummer Mills The first named i,
distinctly new industry and Their,
, seems to be no good reason why the tow
should not treat it the same as othe'
new industries have been treated in re
cent years. As for the Millers Fall
plant (already enjoying exemption) at
time when the latter was in a precariou,
financial condition, has already doubled
the number of hands employed there AMI
What the town would have been glad t.
do for this company had it come her
with the idea of erecting a new plant
seems none too much to do under thu
present circumstances. The exemption
granted the Fort Drummer Mills on it
present property expires this year anc
the corporation will come into the grand
list in 1921 as one of the towns heaviest
taxpayers. 1t has already made plan
for extensions which will involve the ex
penditure of hundreds of thousands OF
dollars and give employment to man,
additional hands, and it is on these ex
tensions which 1T would like five
year exemption. The mills value to tb
industrial resources of Brattleboro durin,
the past few years would seem to be rea
son enough for encouraging its growth il
every reasonable manner.
1t would be little short of astonishing
if the reports of bad roads made by tour
lists to the secretary of state did moi
contain reference to that section of the
Brattleboro- Bennington road known as
Church Hollow. This particular stretch
which extends for about two miles be-
yond the schoolhouse on the main MARI
boro road, is in about as bad condition
as any piece of so-ealled trunk line high
way that The Msddlsr has ever ridden