St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1907-09-25
VERMONT NEWS.
President Brainerd May Resign.

President Brainerd May Resign.
While no official announcement has
been made that President Ezra Brainerd
of Middlebury college contemplates re-
signing and while it is not true that he
has rendered his resignation, President
Brainerd says that he has expressed a
wish to the trustees of the college that
he be relieved of the duties of his Office at
the end of the college year. This Presi-
dent Brainerd stated was his wish at
the present time, and would continue
to be if found compatible with the best
interests of the college next June. He
has been president ofthe college since
1886.
Suit Against Rutland Herald.
Senator Redfeld Proctor and E. r.
Morse have filed an amended bill in the
suit brought last spring as minority
stockholders of The Herald & Globe
Association against P. w. Clement and
The Herald & Globe Association for an
accounting on the ground that Mr.
Clement had subverted the newspapers
property to his own use. The claim is
made that Mr.. Clement, in the political
campaign in 1902, by paying made
quately for papers sent out, defrauded
the stockholders to the amount of 81
600 and in 1906, $4,000. 1t is claimed
that under the Clement management the
debts of the Herald have increased
nearly $4,000.
Death of Miss Tyler.
Miss Minerva A. Tyler, aged A, secre-
tary to Judge James M. Tyler of Brattle-
boro, Judge of the Vermont Supreme
court, died Friday night in Hartford,
Conn, where she went six months ago
fer treatment She was the daughter of
the late Dewitt Clinton Tyler and was
born in Wilmington, March %, 1868.
She had lived in Brattlebore 33 years.
Her mother, Mrs. Martha (Howard)
Tyler, is the only surviving member of
the family. The funeral took place in
the Congregational church at Brattle-
boro, Monday afternoon, Rev. H. R.
Brattleboro and Rev. c. H. Merrill of St.
Johnsbury officiating.
Death of Mrs. Mathewson.
Mrs. Angie B. Kelley, wife ofO D.
Mathewson, principal of the Spaulding
High School, Barre, died Saturday, after
brief illness. She has been identified
with that community for the past 21
years, Is of which were passed as
valued teacher in the Barre public
schools. She was also actively identified
with work in her church, and had been a
member of the Philomathian club since
it's inception. Mrs. Mathewson was 46
years of age and was married to Mr..
Mathewson on July 1, 1891. Besides
her husband she is survived by sister,
Mrs. E. ]. Willard of Galway, NY
Suicide at Barre.
Sophronia Lawrence, who drank a
third of pound of Paris green with
suicidal intent, died last week Monday
night at the home in South Barre, Of
Elson Spencer, who tried to commit
suicide two years ago on her account.
She left a letter addressed to Frank
Landry, whose engagement to her re-
Gently was broken. The body was sent
to the home of William Lawrence, her
father, in Middlesex, for burial
Meeting Vermont Bar Association.
The Doth annual meeting and banquet
of the Vermont Bar Association will be
held in Montpelier Tuesday evening,
October /, which will be the opening day
of the October term of supreme court
A business meeting of the association
will be held in the afternoon. In counties
where superior courts are in session, the
presiding judges will arrange for short
recess to allow the attorneys to attend
the opening of supreme court, the bal
meeting and the banquet.
The state council meeting Of the Jr 0
u. A. M. will be held at Montpelier
October and 2, one day earlier thar
usual.
Raymond L. Sharkey of Barre, aget
IS years, who was arrested in Man
chester, n H.. Thursday, for burglariz
ing a store in Bellows Falls, made hi
escape from the jail at Bellows Falls
Saturday, by entering a fireplace in on
of the corridors to which he had access
and crawling up through the chimney
so feet high, to the roof From there h
descended by ladder which the fir
department used for drying hose.