Lexington gazette. [volume] (Lexington, Va.) 1871-1962, 1906-05-23
CONDENSED NEWS
Brief Items of Interest for the
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terested IN prOJect TOT the de-
vslOpment Of the water power Of
Roanoke rapids, North Carolina.
The skeleton OF . human being
OF gigantic proportions supposed
to be that Of a prehistoric man
was unearthcd near Bristol last
week.
Great Britain is removing from
her navy all but her really efficient
warships. In three years 40 battle
ships and cruisers have bs1n taken
off the list.
The "Jim Grow" street car law
will be in full force and effect in
less than thirty days. The bill
was enacted by the last General
Assembly. and it applies to every
city in the State.
In the Southern Baptist Conven-
tion at Chattanooga a paper was
adopted condemning lynching and
condsmning also the tedious delays
Of the law as frequently provocative
Of lynching.
That Japan is striving to
eliminate the American flag from
the Pacific is an open secret, and
the next sixty days will probably
determine whether she will be
successful or not.
Last Thursday was SET apart in
Roanoke by proclamation Of Mayor
Cutchin as "Cleaning-up Day."
when the citizens generally partic-
ipated in exercising the evil spirit
of dirt.
II, as reported, John D.Rocke'
Teller owns 33 per cent. OF the
capital stock of the Standard OIL
Conn any he has received in
dividends, since January /, 1898,
approximately sll35OO,O0O.
Virginia travelling men, if the
two-cent mileage book law is de-
clared to be imperative, will begin
a campaign for fat rate Of two
cents. Ths Churchman mileage book
lawis operative from Jure Is.
At the closing of the Beverly
Manor School in Augusta county
last week, Mr.. John w. Todd had
the pleasure Of delivering to Miss
Vivian Lohr. daughter Of Mr..
Thomas Lohr, a gold medal, in
honor of her being present every
school day for the last ten years.
Officials of the Baltimore and
Ohio aud Pennsylvania Railroad
Companies, in testifying before
the Interstate Commerce CON-
mission at Philadelphia recently,
were compelled TO admit that favor
itism had been shown to certain
coal companies with respect to
supplying cars.
The Southern Baptist Convsn-
ton adjourned at Charlottesville
last Wednesday 70 meet next year
in Richmond. One OF the most
interesting incidents of the morn
ing was the introduction of twelve
young men and women who are
already under appointment to 60
to foreign fields.
After having been attentive to
Mrs. Caroline Christine Swanson's
l7.year-old daughter, Juliet, for
several months, l9-year-old Grover
Cleveland White, of SomerVille,
Mass, Tilted the daughter and
married the mother, who is az and
q widow with four children, the
youngest daughter of whom is 10.
Finding that interest in and at.
attendance at his Bible class were
falling off, Rev. W. T. Rogers, Of
the First Cumberland Presbyterian
church, Knoxville, Tenn, inserted
a page advertisement in local
newspapers. Amorg the results
were an immediate increase of one
third In attendance. and scores of
letters of inquiry.
Men with one eide of their faces
shaved and the other side showing
a weeks growth OF beard or ore
half their head clipped and the
rest sporting luxurious locks were
common in the hill district of
Pa, last Sunday. They
were not paying election bets, but
had just been caught in a raid on
Sunday barbershops.
Exchanging his old clothes for
a new suit, after forcing an entrance
to Isadore Boyle's general store at
Greenwood, a suburb Of Altoona,
Pa, last week a, nervy robber
opened the store for business, and
made several sales to early custom
Ns before the proprietor arrived,
and made his escape before being
detected.
Tuskegee Institute of Alabama,
this year the fret twenty
five years of its existence. 1t wac
opened July 4, 1881, with one
teacher and thirty pupils. At that
time it had neither land nor build
ings, nothing but the 81, 600 a year
granted by the Alabama Legis-
laturs. Even the dilaridsted
shanty and the old church in which
its first sessions were conducted
were lent by the colOred people Ct
the village. 1t was not long. how
ever, before the school acquired
small tract af land. The fret head
Of live stock which 1t became
possessed of was an old blind
mule, the gift Of white man in