Lexington gazette. [volume] (Lexington, Va.) 1871-1962, 1905-11-01
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Brief Items of Interest for the
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Frank J. Gould is planning to
erect a 100000 steel plant in
Richmond.
James Whitcomb Riley, the
Indiana poet, is in Virginia gath
erinp material for a historical
romance.
A jury in Norfolk awarded
James Mccormick, a l0-year-old
boy, $4,000 damages for injuries
caused by fall from a street car.
The faculty and literary socie-
ties of the University of Virginia
have invited Secretary Root to
deliver an address at the univer-
sity on February %.
A battle between rs policemen
and 200 students of the Chicago
College of Dental Surgery follow
ed a class rush and Is OF the
students were arrested.
The records Of the land Office
show that $500 Virginia farms
were purchased last year by per-
CONS from outside the State, bring
iEg in, in round figures, s8,0O0,~
900.
Major General Leonard Wood
has arrived at Manila to assume
command of the military depart
ment of the Philippines during
the absence of Major General
Corbin.
Emphatic disapproval Of ex-
President Cleveland's recent ar
ticle on woman suffrage was
expressed at the meeting of the
New York State Woman Suffrage
Association.
For the past two years the ex-
penditures of the government as
shown by the treasurer's report
have been in excess of the revenues
to the aggregate amount of more
than $64, 100000.
The police of Manchester, Va,
think they have in Bob Pusick,
whom they have arrested, the
captain Kidd of the Society Of
/ Yachting Pirates, charged with
looting summer estates and club
) houses on Long Island Sound.
3 S. L. Lupton of Frederick coun-
r ty, has received check for So
! 616.75 for his apple crop produced
: by his orchard two miles west TO
Winchester. In addition 10 this.
: Mr.. Lupton sold the "drops" and
8 "culls" for $3.50. His orchard
e contains 100 acres.
The Massachusetts, State Board
. of Health has taken infantile
e disease by the forelock by iDstitut-
ing a sanitary oversight of the
I II Management of the dairies in the
J. State. To insure the distribution
, of the pure milk is long step
: toward cutting down the death
: rate.
J Five hundred tons of Virginia
tobacco have just been purchased
in this. country in behalf Of the
: French government. Tobacco Is
State monopoly in France, and for
: this reason the raw material used
: in the manufacture of the various
a products made from tobacco Is
!. bought in the United States.
a More newspapers are printed Ia
: the United States than in any
q country in the world, and it is the
belief Of the Bureau Of Manufac-
lures of the Department Of Com
merce and Labor, that the dailies
and weeklies in this country nearly
n equal in number the dailies and
8 weeklies published ii all Europe.
II Of the many and varied gifts
n received at the recent harvest
Y festival held at ST. PauPs Church,
. at Ivy Va, the most interesting
F" was that Of d lady, signing her
- self "a Friend of Virginia." who
e sent in her jewelry to be sold for
n the benefit of the mountain work.
70 This jewelry was sold in New
Is York City ard the proceeds am
If ounted to $425.
- After spending day on tbs
battlefelds of Winchester and
Frederick county the members OF
the Fifty-fourth Pennsylvania
or Reglmental Association of Johns
{. town, Pa, went to New Market last
- Wednesday where they unveiled a
monument that daV. While in Win
q chester they were the guests OF
~ Gen. Turner Ashby Camp OF Con-
r. federate Venterans.
~ In reply to a challenge sent last
- week by Mr.. j. C. French. in
&c structor in English at the Johns
u Hopkins University, Baltimore
70 and coach of the debating team, a
10 letter has been received from the
q debating trio of the University OF
a Virginia accepting the challenge
T. and specifying the last of February
10 as convenient for the debate be-
tween the two universities. The
Oh letter provides that the debate il
ia to be held in Charlottesville, anC
~ the question for debate to b'
IL selected by the Virginia team.