Lexington gazette. [volume] (Lexington, Va.) 1871-1962, 1904-12-21
CONDENSED NEWS
Brief Items of Interest for the
Busy Reader

Cham Der of Commerce to visit At
Ianta mex May.
The body of Paul Kruger reach
ed Pretoria Saturday, and was es-
corted by former Boer generals to
the hall where it lay in state.
The Virginia building at the
Worlds Fair was sold a few days
ago for $500. That sum would
hardly pay one carpenter who
Helped to construct it.
The st. Louis Exposition Off
cials will send to each State the
statue symbolic of it that occupied
the inches in the colonnade of
States, back of Festival Hall.
A hundred and fifty students
were in Richmond last week to
pass their examination before the
State board of medical examiners.
Among them were six negroes.
Prof. Holden, of the Town Agri-
cultural College, will deliver II
lecture at every railroad station in
the State this winter on "Improv-
ed See1 Corn and Better Yields"
In order to secure uniform
freight classification the State
Corporation Commission has re-
Fquested representatives of all Vir-
ginia railroads ID appear before it
January nth.
The local option election at Ber-
ryville, Clarke county, resulted
in victory fer the "wets" by
majority of forty. The vote stood
l04 to 81. The anti-f aloon interests
made Il strong fight.
In order to secure a uniform
freight classification, the State cor
poration commission has request
ed the representatives, of al Vir-
ginia railroads to appear before it
in Richmond, January 18th.
Col. Charles r. O'FerraiI, for
mer governor of Virginia, has been
appointed, by Judge r. Taylor
Scott, commissioner in chancery
for Richmtn nd and Henrico county,
to succeed j. r. V. Daniel, de-
cea sd.
DR.. Hunter, the boil weevil ex-
pert OF the United States Depart
ment of Agriculture, was among
those who addressed the cotton
convention at Shreveport, La, End
said the pest has caused damage
of $50, 100000.
Mrs. Charles w. Fairbanks, pres
ident general of the National So
ciety Of Daughters of American
Revolution, has requested all chap
tiers to hold "a cOlOAial tea on JAN
uary 9th, the anniversary of the
wedding Of George and Martha
Washington.
A suit has been Instituted in
Amherst County Circuit Court
which has for its object the DISC
luton of the charter Of the town
of Madison Heights, which is To-
Gated across the James river from
Lynchburg and which was incor-
porated by an act of the recent
Legislature.
A greet quantity of early
spinach has been shipped north
from the Norfolk section recently,
but it has brought such cor prices
that the farmers are said to have
made very little if anything on it.
AS high as 5000 barrels u day
have gone forward from the Nor
folk section lately.
The aldermen of Nerort News
have passed curfew law. Child
rem under the age of fifteen years
shall not appear on the city
streets or alleys after 1880 O'Clock
in the evening between October
LIST and May LIST, or after 9 O'Clock
from May LIST to October LIST. The
fire bells will be struck ten times
TO warn the child.e to get in
doors.
Mrs. Ferguson, dressmaker OF
B, istol, Va, having suffered from
the effects of an abscess on the
bottom of her foot, removed from
it brass pin. Mrs. Ferguson says
the pin ls evidentl one which she
swallowed when child. She
thinks the pin worked it's way en-
tirely through her body, although
she says she suffered no pain on
account of the ordeal until the alb
ces developed on her loot.
Commissioner of Education
Harris, of Washington, has received
u cablegram from DR.. Parkin, Of
the Cecil Rhodes trustees, inform
ing him that the examination for
the Rhodes scholarships will be
held on January nth and 18th in
all the States. 1t is expected that,
as last year, the qualifying ex
animation for Virginia will be held
at the University of Virginia, but
the Committee of Selection has
not definitely decided that matter.
The scholars to be selected after
these examinations will go into
residence at Oxford in October
next.
Healthy Mothers
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