Lexington gazette. [volume] (Lexington, Va.) 1871-1962, 1904-09-14
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Politicians Of both parties are
puzzled by the situation in West
Virginia.
Government officials outside the
classified list are taking an active
part in the campaign for President
Roosevelt.
The cultivation of Sumatra to-
bacco under tents in the Connecti-
cut River Valley has proved finan.
cially Improbable.
Returns from the Vermont cleo
ton indicate that the Republicans
have carried the State by more
than 800 plurality.
Ex-Governor Robert L. Taylor
of Tennessee, was married to Miss
Mamie st. John at Chilhowie, Va,
last Wednesday afternoon.
Mr.. w. w. Astor arrived in New
York last week on the Majestic, it
being his first visit to bis native
city since he became a British SUBJ
ject.
A chemical laboratory has been
opened in New York by the De-
partment OF Agriculture for the
examination Of imported food
stuffs.
Ex-Governor Frank Brown is
actively at work organizing Parker
and Davis leagues on the Eastern
Shore for the white mans supre-
macy in Maryland.
In the event of Judge Parker's
election, his wife may become
President-General of the National
Society of the Daughters of the
American Revolution.
The government is going to put
out all issue oe Lewis and Clark
souvenir dollars. The coins will
have head of Lewis on one side
and Clark on the other.
Richmond. News-Leader: "The
two silent men in the country are
Alton b. Parker and Theodore
Roosevelt. What is the matter
will the latter 2" Gagged.
Governor Montague's friends
deny the story that he will leave
the State to practice law at the
end of his term, and declare he
will enter the Senatorial race
formally in short while.
The second annual exhibit of
the Warrenton Colored Horse Show
Association was held last Wednes-
day. In several classes a full field
of excellent horses were shown,
most of them being borrowed for
the occasion.
Vice-President of the National
Milliners' Assertion declares it is
a crime to sell woman O hat she
cannot afford. In that case no
milliner is guilty, for what woman
will admit that the best is too
good for her2
Hurricane" Branch, the blood
hound detective of Suffolk, Va,
was married Wednesday afternoon
at Windsor, Va, to Miss Ella Mae
Kitchen, daughter of Captain
Dixon Kitchen. The bridegroom's
daughter Fannie was maid Of honor.
A negro, who was ordered from
the dining saloon of a Rhode Is
land steamer the other day. "sank
his teeth in the neck of the cap
tain and would not let go until he
had been choked into insensibil-
ity." The negro probably was
hungry. Negrophobia in the North
carries people to cruel extremes.
At a meeting of the Richmond
City Republican Committee last
week resolutions were adopted de-
nouncing the Federal officeholders
In the party on the ground that
they are trying 10 disrupt it by in
ducing n negro to run for Con-
gress. The committee determined
TO send evidence against them TO
Washington and demand their re-
moval.
Acting-Mayor A.. Blair Antrim
of Roanoke, in the absence from
the city of Mayor Cutchin, order
ed a wholesale raid last Tuesday
night on the various gamb-
ling joints and houses of Ill repute
in the city. Clarence Coleman
was arrested for running a gamb-
ling house and bailed in the sum
of $500. Nearly twenty houses of
questionable character were pulled
and the proprietors taken to the
city Jail.
The evidence Of a possible crime
was brought to light last Wednes-
day by the discovery by two col
ored children while crossing an
old pasture field near Gallowstown,
Stanton, of a skeleton of a human
being buried in a box. The box
is some four feet long by two feet
wide and two feet high buried in
the ground and covered by five
inches of earth. The bones were
in a perfect state Of pres arvation,
as was also the hair and nearly the
whole of the scalp.
Healthy Mothers
Mothers should always keep in good
bodily health Tney owe il 20 their