The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1895-11-17
SALE OF COUNTY BONDS.
the FINfNCEs OF EOCKBRTDGE IN
PINE CONDITION..
The Thank givins Game OF foot-baii NJ
Lynchburg-FourH Hundred stuoe"'s
VIII Go From Lexington.

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The $1,000 issue of per cent. bonds
issued last week by the Board OF super
vissrs TO retire a like amount OF . per
cent ends were at once scooped up ana
still the cry is for more. The credit OF
| old Rockbridge Is above ar. There Is held
] IN New York city $1,000 OF the county
bonds bearing . per cent. interest anu
no doubt a like sum could be placed
there tomorrow.
The big blast furnace at Buena Vista
| continues to turn out n large quantity
OF high grade foundry iron and every
thing there Is working like a charm-the
output OF the furnace TO the last OF jan
uary SO. has been already sold a. good
price.
Thanksgiying-Day at LynchSurg viii
be a big day. There will be some four
hundred college men from thls place ana
n like number from BlacSsburg and tho
principal cities OF the Safe Will send
delegations there and other college men
who are in sympathy with the virginia
Military Institute and the BlacksDuig
will come FROM various sections OF the
state. The football game between the
cadets of the Y. Nj. l.. and the cadets
OF the Blacksburs College will be the
attraction and the day prom res 10 pflns
together more college men than has ever
before assembled In Virginia TOWN. lOl
many years il ever before.
Apple buyers from the North and West
are buying up large quantities ol "pps~s
in the county at sixty cents per barrel
Noxt week the cadet team OF thc \. NJ
J. and the student team Of W. and T. l..
will play two practice Sames-Doth teams
are Gown to hard work under the manage
ment of their trainers. and are csFeiop-
tn. V. VI. l.. foot ball team is now
under the direction Of Mr.. c. W. Bryant
II Princeton who is taking a post-grad-
lEte course at that institution Of learn
ing. He comes here highly endorsed as a
football player and versed i'm all the best
plavs and approved up-to-date methods
of playing the game. lie arrived here on
last Wednesday and at once took the
team in hand. He is getting the cadet
team i'm the pink OF perfection for the
great game that is to be played on
Thanksgiving-Day. at Lynchburg, with
the cadet team of the Virginia Agricul-
ttral and Mechanical College of Blacks
burr-a contest that promises 20 20 on
record as the best game of football ever
played south of the Mason and Dixon
Line. Tho two teams are made up OF The
best material. are up 10 high standard o.
perfection in training. and both teams
are made up Of heavy-weights and men
of pluck. Tho result Of the game seems
20 be a matter Of close doubt. and If there
is any money 40 go up on it, IL would
seem wise to place it on even money.
The Washington and Lee University
football team is scheduled 20 play the
University or West Virginia ait Charles
town. on Thanksgiying-Day
Mr.. II. f.. Hutton. of Baltimore. the
general superintendent Of the Lexington
Light and Power Company. 10 whom was
| awarded the contract Of installing the
plant at Buena Vista. changing IL from
a steam power 10 a water power plant
/ and for the rcmodelling and improving
that plant, has completed his contract,and
| old Buena Vista has a plant now that is
the equal OF anything Of its size in the
state.
There IS a strong probability that the
! c. and .. railway. will make an
/ Important change i'm ITS schedule soon
that is in SO far as the Lexington Branch
, Is concerned. I understand that there
! will Doe "a train 10 Buenl Vista in the
carly morning 10 connect al Buend Vista
with the Norfolk and Western train from
New York. Philadelphia, Baltimore ard
Washington and also c0nna,ti0n from
the man line o. tho e. & @. 40 Basic
city for passengers from Richmond Pas
sengers leaving New York. Philadelphia.
Baltimore. Washington and Richmond ut
night viii by the change reach LeXing-
ton the next morning by 1880.
Mr. Sandy =. rissatt has gone 10 New
York. whore hc has accepted position i'm
the wholesale department OF Chas. Broad
way houss. as book keeper
Col. Jno. W. Patton. of Gainesville. Fla.
am OLD ". 81. 7. boy and sub-professor
IS in the county visiting friends az Tim
bcr Ridge
DIR. e.. Graham DOld. recently practicing
medicine and surgery in the county, has
located here permanently.
The wheat sown during the drought
is coming mp finely and the farmers arc
-uOnlingly elatad.