St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1911-09-20
VERMONT NOTES.

Annual Convention of Teachers AS
ISOLATION to be Held at Montpelier.
Notices of the 62nd annual con-
vention of the Vermont State Teach
ers' Association to be held in the
new city hall at Montpelier, Thurs
day, Friday, and Saturday. October
IS, 20, and FL, have been issued by
the chairman, Supt- George S.
Wright, Of ST. Adams.
The following speakers from out
side the state have been secured to
address the convention:
Thursday afternOOn-The Rev. f.
s. Luther president of Trinity col
lege. Hartford, Conn, subject, care
We Wasting Time in School and in
COliege9''
Thursday evening=Booker T.
Washington. principal OF Tnskegee
Normal and Industrial Institute,
Tuskegee, Ala, subject, The Negro
and the Application OF Education to
Life
Friday morning-William McAn-
drew, principal of Washington Irx-
| ing high school, New York city, SUBJ
ject, Among Ourselves; the Hon.
PaysOn Smith, state superintendent
of public schools, Maine, subject to
be announced
Saturday n1Orning-Aaiss Sarah
Louise Arnold, dean of Simmons
College, Boston, subject, THE
Child's Side of Things
Friday afternoon will be devoted
to departmental meetings at which
Principal McAndrew, Supt. Payson
Smith, Associate Superintendent G.
Edward Jones of Albany, n. Y, and
others will speak.
Friday evening will be held the
annual meeting of the vermont
Women Teachers Club, at which
Miss Arnold will speak; and the an
nual banquet of the Schoo1masters'
Club, at which DR.. A. e. Winship
editor of The Journal of Education,
Boston, will be the principal speak
er. The clubs will hold their bus
mess sessions after the addresses of
Friday morning.
Barre Woman Attempts Suicide.
Mrs. Gertrude Hamlet, attempted
to commit suicide Thursday evening
in her room at the New Northern
boarding house in Barre, where she
was employed, by drinking carbolic
acid. She was discovered by Mrs.
Lawrence, the landlady, who sum-
moned a doctor and notified the po-
lice. Hopes are entertained for her
recovery. Mrs. Hamlet ard her
husband, James Hamlet parted the
Sunday before and since, then the
woman has not appeared in her right
mind. Thursday night her husband
called to see her. Mrs. Hamlet is
about 80 years old.
VERMONT NOTES.
According to the statistics of the
mine Largest Towns Sand Cities in
~
ingham school report, the town of
Rockingham had more pupils enroll
ed in it's public schools last year
than either st. Johnsbury, Montpeli-
er, st. Adams city or Bennington or
Brattleboro village corporations, the
number being exceeded by but three
places in the state, viz: Burlington,
Rutland and Barre. The number &C
tually in the schools of Rockingham
last year was 1917, while there were
$50 in the high school, and gradu-
ating class of 40.
Word has been received by cable
in Rutland of the death in China of
Miss Nellie Russell, aged about so
years, for many years resident of
that city, who 25 years ago went to
the Far East as a Congregational
In recent letter no
menC1On was maze OF 0or Ill neaICn
and her friends fear that she met |
with violence in some of the recent |
uprisings.
Harrison McNiel, electrician of |
was nearly killed Sept |
IL when he grasped live wire |
while climbing a pole. Twenty-three
hundred volts of electricity went |
his body. It was thought he
would recover.