The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1921-08-19
The Meddler
"If the coat fits you. put IL on"

With the fact pretty definitely estab-
lished that the business conditions
throughout the country are beginning to
show improvement, slight at the present
time, to be sure, but likely to be more
noticeable this fall, Brattleboro's good
fyrtune in this regard furnishes food for
cheerful reflection While numerous
manufacturing lines here have been and
still are comparatively quiet, and local
trade for the past few months has slowed
down somewhat, Brattleboro business in
general has felt the effects of the general
depression to a very slight degree. In
deed. it is safe to say that no other town
in Vermont has pursued so nearly a nor
NAL course. Let the person inclined to
disbelieve this statement take trip up
the state, stopping in such places as Bel
lows Falls, Springfield and Windsor, and
| if he possesses even medium powers of
observation he will soon become con-
WINGED of it's truth. In Windsor and
| Springfield especially, manufacturing is
at a standstill and the prospects of its
renewal are wholly uncertain. Far be
it from The Meddler to show any inten-
ton of gloating over this situation, for
| he realizes that it would be far better for
the state as a whole if all its industrial
centers were prosperous, but the cOmpar-
ison is worth considering for the sake of
its value as proof of the oft-made asser-
of comparatively small and diversified
industries is certain to be better off year
In and year out than one obliged to fol-
low the ups and downs of any particular
line of industrial activity.
The Meddler doesn't know the plans of
, the town officials in regard to further
use of road oil this season, but he is con,
WINGED that it would be economy to buy
enough more of ae liquid to make pos
Isible at least one more application before
cold weather comes. One has only tC
compare streets that have been oiled with
lothers that have not to be convinced thai
the oil does a lot more than merely lay
the dust. 1t gives the highways a water
/ proof surface that enables them to with
stand even heavy rains with little or NJ
damage. The full benefit f4oil cannot
be secured, however, unless the appIica
tionS are frequent, and this is particu
larly true in the case of our so-calleC
soft roads. They should be giver
enough of it this summer so that il
, won't be a case of starting all over agar
in 1922.
The bridge: There she stands, where
/, it is hoped, she viii stand long enough
E to entitle her somewhat turbulent brit
to a place in The Reformers 80 Year:
Ago column. }
: The trout season which came to an
end Sunday was an average one in Wind
{ ham county. The streams in this par
1 of the state have suffered far less from
drouth than those farther north, ana
for that reason should yield Better
catches when next season opens. 1t i.
a fact, however, that the only hope oil
. continued trout fishing lies in systematic
stocking and that is why an organiza
ton like the Windham County Fish &
: Game club deserves the support of ev
! cry sportsman. If it did not systematic.
ally supplement natures efforts at repro
duction trout would soon be as rare as
, passenger pigeons
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Rutland. like Montpelier, Barre and
, other Vermont. communities, is con-
fronted with a street railway problem,
and it is giving the merchants of the