Lexington gazette. [volume] (Lexington, Va.) 1871-1962, 1905-05-31
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Students have taken the place of
the striking street-cleaners in
Stockholm, Sweden.
President Roosevelt has issued
an order prohibiting the employ
ment of convicts on work for the
United States government.
Hiram Cronk, the last survivor
of the war of 1912, is dead at
Bonneville. N. Y, at the age of
105. He was buried with military
houors.
The strawberry crop in the low er
counties of the Eastern Shore of
Maryland is large this ear and
the berries are being shipped in
great quantities.
In order to insure their compile
tiOn by July LIST, work on the
buildings of the Lewis and Clark
Exposition, at Portland, Ore, will
continue day and night hereafter.
The Board OF Supervisors, of
Stafford county, has reduced the
tax rate for 1905 from 40 cents to
IS cents for 500 value and have
done away with the extra county
poll tax.
DR.. j. ?. Kennedy, secretary of
the Iowa State Board of Health,
is author of the slogan "No beard
for men and shorter skirts for
women" as preventives of disease
germ dissemination.
Directors of the Interstate Fair
Association of Lynchburg have
appropriated $4,000 for Hhe i'm
provement of the old fair grounds,
including an athletic field with q
grandstand to cost $4,000.
Under orders issued by the
Chief of Police Of Manchester, all
unemployed men there must go tc
work at once, leave town or be put
in Jail. There has Of late been a
great growth of idle men, and this
was considered necessary.
Lord Roberts, the famous British
general, will visit this country
some time next fall. He has an
nOunced his intention to his old
friend, Colonel w. Gordon Nc
Cabe, of Richmond, who is ac-
customed to spend a good portion
of his time in England.
Three thousand incandescent
globes will sooa be placed in the
dome of the Capitol, and it will
then Outshine the dome of the
Congressional Library, far famed
for its great brilliancy. The dome
OF the Capitol will soon rank az
one Of the handsomest Of its kind
in the world, so many are - i'm
provements that are being made.
The new catalogue of the Vir-
ginia Polytechnic Institute shows
the total number of students who
have matricuIted for the session
of l904-l905 to be 72S. Among
these there are men from nearly
every State in the Union, Argen-
tina, Canada, Cuba, Ecuador,
Newfoundland, SantO Domingo
and Spain. Out of the senior class
Of l03 it is expected that bout 10
or so will receive diplomas on
commencement day.
When President Roosevelt visits
Georgia, in keeping with his
promise to Senator Clay, be will
be presented with two receipts and
bills for four negro slaves, by
Colonel George H. Jones, of Cobb
county. These sales were made by
the Presidents grandmother, thot
she might obtain ready money
with which to purchase the trous-
seau for the wedding of her duugh-
ter, Martha Bullock, to Theodore
Roosevelt, Sr., of New York,
father of the President.
Judge L. l.. Lewis, district
attorney for the Eastern District
Of Virginia, who was in Washing
ton recently, is reported to have
said: ~ am not a candidate for
the guberaatorial nomination Of
the Republican State convention.
do not want the nomination. or
| have hea. d all the talk
about my being candidate and
NY being made the nominee
whether l want the honor or not,
but shall not seek it, and, honest
Y, | should regret it if the con-
lentioa should offer it to me. :"
Morgan Treat, who has just
,een reappointed Uni'ed States
Marshal for the Eastern district,
!. K. B. Stuart, who succeeded
lin, having been given the collec-
orship at Newport News, is highly
,ratifisd and declares that Presi-
lent Roosevelt has acted most
handsomely In the matter. There
lave been dark days recently for
dr. Treat; he lost his office and
lis daughter has been lying
i'll ut hospital. Almost
simultaneously, however, with the
Iews that he had been reappoint-
d marshal came the tidings from
he hospital that his little girl will
ecover.
A Continual Strain
MANY men and women are con