Lexington gazette. [volume] (Lexington, Va.) 1871-1962, 1905-05-17
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The design for the Mckinley
Memorial A. Canton. Ohio, has 81
last been definitely accepted.
The Omahs Bee quotes Presi'
dent Roosevelt as reiterating bis
determination not to be O candidate
for reelection.
The $40. 600, 900 Carnegie fund
tc establish retiring pension for
college teachers, has been formally
incorporated at Albany, N. Y.
The winter output Of gold in
Alaska and the Northwest Terri.
tory will total $22, 900, 900 il not
more. the Klondike alone turning
out about $l2, 900, 900.
Az a protest against the food
furnished at the Vir. mia Poly
technic Institute, ut Blacksburg
the whoIs corps of cadets refused
to 90 tn the mess hall.
The Emperor Of Germany takes
HE meals with this whole family,
even the children being allowed at
the table from the time they are
old enough to sit on high
chair.
Richmond's board OF alderman
recently, by concurring 10 the
councils action, provided for the
extension of the city's area by
5000 acres, and its population by
$4,000.
Ambassador Choate has enrolled
as a member of the bench of the
Inner Temple Of England, the
ceremony taking place in the old
dining-hall opened by Queen
Elizabeth in 1870.
Governor Stokes OF Neg jersey,
Is being urged by his advisers to
personally return to South Carolina
the famous "plowooy" battle d <
captured by u jersey regiment
during the Civil War. Ii he does
he wall take his personal staff and
make the trip, May IL, che
occasion OF big celebration at
Braniord, ). T..
Rev. Walter ". Moore vas in.
stalled president OF the Unlen
Theological Seminary at Richmond
last week. The charge was given
by Rev. Esbert ". Smith of
Greensboro. n. T.. Tie greeti. gs
Of the Northern and Southern
Presbyterians were extend ID by
Rev. Robert Dick Wilson Of
Princeton, and Rev. Prof. Charles
b. Hamphill Of Louisville.
II the local option election held
IN Shenandoah, Page county, last
Wednesday the dry" ticket won
BY majority of four votes,
the "wets" polling forty eight.
The contest was q bitter one, ia
which every preacher and many OF
he town ladies were engaged. The
own has had number of bar
'ooms for several years. II . vote
If Shenandoah removes the last
licensed bar-rOOm from the county.
The report of the State Board OF
Health for the month of April has
,een issued by DIR. Paulus A. Irv-
ng, the secretary. A summary of
he report shows that smallpox,
,rippe, typhoid fever and whoop-
ng cough are prevailing in many
ections. Basing tie population
f Richmond on 100, 900, the death
ate among the whites and blacks
8 as follows: White population,
2, $50; deaths, 81. Colored popu-
alton, 81, $50; deaths, 90. With
ne-third Of the total population,
he number of deaths among the
egroes is ii moro than that Of the
mites.
At the meeting of the Virginia
;rand Lodge of Odd Fellows held
.st week in Lynchburg, the
blowing officers were elected for
he ensuing year: Grand master,
Iorman Ashby, Cu.peper; deputy
rand master, Roland 4. Chase,
'lintwood; warden, c. c. Vaughan,
rankin; secretary, I. Wiley
|avis, Richmond; treasurer, j.
=. Ferguson, Richmond; CHAPLAIN,
.ev. J. j. Sherer, March; rep
to Sovereign Grand
odge, Frank Cassel, Radford;
-ustees of Orphans Home, w. ID.
I'LL, j. P. Haddock and p. M.
"A romantic marriage took place
tuesday, afternoon at the Union
assenger Station in Lynchburg,
he contracting parties to the
edding having seen each other
" the first time just three hours
revions to their union. The groom
as w. Thomas Mullin, a we!l-to-
, farmer of Campbell county. and
le bride was Miss Ellen Allen,
Salt Rock, Cabell county, w.
q. The couple had been c,rres-
,nding fer some time. After n
inference they decided to wed,
I'd Rev. ID. G. C. Butte cf
sntenary Meth, d ct church, was
lied. The marriage took place
the whiting ROOM in the presence
large caowd.
A Continual STRAIN
Many men and women are c)n