Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1898-03-25
BRATTLEBORO.

A. F. Brooks has been granted a pen
sion of IS a month.
Roland Worthington, So for manv wears
owner and manager of the Boston Daily
Traveller and for one term collector of the
port of Boston, died at Roxoury Sunday
morning. He is survived by a wife. son
and two daughters. One of the daughters
is well known in Brattleboro through fire.
quent visits here to Mrs. Charles Warder.
Z. W. Gibson, principal of the High
school at Chester, who is a law student in
the office of Waterman, Martin & Hit,
has been appointed register of probate for
the southern district of Windsor county.
succeeding Chas F. Barrett of Proctors-
vile, who has held the Office % years and
who is now in poor health. Mr.. Gibson
has bought the insurance business of Judge
Hugh Henry of Chester
Butts & Crosby, architects and engineers
have issued their prospectus this week
from their office in the Phoenix Mutual
Life building at Hartford, Conn. Mr.
Butts is civil engineer and a graduate of
the Pennsylvania state college, and was
formerly with Ashley +. Tower in New
" ORR city Mr.. Crosby, who studied archi-
lecture at the Massachusetts Institute of
Technology, has been with Cady, Berg Il
See of New York city since he went from
Brattleboro.
The familiar face of J. Il. Chamberlain
is seen on posters about town announcing
that he will arrive in Brattleboro from In
dianapolis next week Thursday with a car
load OF 30 horses which he will sell bv
auction on Saturday, beginning at 10 A. NJ,
at his old stand In the rear of the Brooks
House The consignment includes farm
and draft horses, drivers and matched
pairs, and Mr.. Chamberlain guarantees
them all young, well broken, and selected
for the Vermont trade. He will be at the
stables after Thursday noon to show the
horses TO any who cali-and it will do the
hearts OF his old friends good to see him
ION deck once more. The horses are
coming through on quick time in a special
express car, leaving Indianapolis Wednes-
day and reaching here THURSDAY.
Prof. Edwin B. Frost, professor of as
lronomy, and director of Shattuck obserya-
tory in Dartmouth college, is in receipt of
an offer from the UNIVERSITY Of Chicago TO
take the chair OF astronomy and astro-
physics there, and is considering it's ac-
ceptance. This position would place him
IN control of the big Yerkes telescope.
which, when completed, will be the largest
and most powerful in the world Prot.
Frost graduated from Dartmouth in 1885,
with the degree of A. B. lie got an A. M.
IN 1883. He was an assistant professor in
the Chandler school in physics and astron-
Omy from 1887 to 1890, and has occupied
The chair OF astronomy at Dartmouth since
1882. His father, the late DR.. Frost. dean
OF the Dartmouth medical school, was a
pracuclng physician in BrattlebOrO years
ago.
A representative of the Standard OH
company arranged Tuesday with Superin-
tendent ID. Mackenzie for the location in
the lower part OF the railroad ward of a
steel tank of 20, 200 barrels capacity. The
oil will be brought from the retineries in
New Jersey direct to New London in tank
steamers, and will be shipped from there to
Brattleboro in tank cars, and pumped into
the stationery tank. The Standard oil
company will have a team and oil truck To
carry supplies of oil from the tank to local
dealers. Brattleboro will also be the dis
triDuting point for the surrounding TERRITORY.
and large number of barrels will be kept
on the plot OF ground adjoining the Royal
Wood farm. The company bought this
ground several years ago with the inten-
lion OF erecting a tank there, but the dis
lance from the railroad was considered an
objection 10 location there Brattleboro's
Oil supply has been shipped heretofore
from the tank at New London in barrels.
This method entailed large expense, as the
barrels were returned empty