Lexington gazette. [volume] (Lexington, Va.) 1871-1962, 1906-02-07
CONDENSED NEWS
Brief Items of Interest for the
Busy Reader

~ Norfolk offers I0.acre lot, $40.
as 600 cash and $1,000 a year for th,
N new State Normal School.
: Informal negotiations for new
Russian loan of about $4OO, 600. OOC
= have been taken up in Paris.
- Miss Rocsevelt's first WEDDING
e. present consisted Of a batch OF
e large turnips cent by a Kanss
: farmer.
President Roosevelt, who reeer u y
became Red Mar, will be attached
to the oldest tribe Of the order, in
= Alexafdria. Va - ------------
The credit of the United States
!, government is said 10 be back of
: most of the American capital being
: invested in TIE Philippines.
d The Emperor of Japan hae do
mated $25, 900 for the relief Of the
? famine sufferers. According to the
3 latest returns nearly 1000, 900 per-
, soma in Japan are on the verge of
starvation.
, Norfolk Lsndmark :Ohio Gets the
other daughters OF Virginia a mag
niheent example by voting 500, 600
for an exhibit at the jamestown
Iercentenary incidentally, she sets
Virginia herselfan example.
Ex-Presideht Grover Cleveland,
addressing the Medical Society of
the State of New York at Albany.
said that the millions of patients
In the United States needed a little
less professionalism and a little
more sympathy.
The Rockingham county wheat
crop OF 1905 is estimated at 1900.
600 bushels, the largest produced
in any county in Virginia. Sixty
thresher outfits assisted to hruse
the crop, which required $4,000
tone of fertilize' and brought IN a
million and half dollars.
The Grdircn Club at their an.
nual banquet In Washington Sat-
urday night got off a "skid" On
building the Panama canal, iIlus
tratine the extavagant use Of
money and the little work being
done. President Roosevelt was one
OF the guests and made a speech.
Mrs. Lizzie Taylor, widow CT
Ludy Taylor, died recently in
Pocs hontas Co., w. Va. She drew
a pension as the widow of sol.
der of the war OF 1912, and is
said to have been smong the very
last of those drawing a"war of I2'
pension. Her husband died some 25
years ago, at a very advanced age.
The richest man in the world. il
10 clained,is not John d. Rookie
'eller, the American Oil King, but
Alfred Belt, the English king of
mines, who owns half the mines in
south Africa including the Kim
'erly diamond rines the wealth of
Which is fabulous. Mr.. Belts in
ONE is said to be $l,00O,O0O a
rcek.
DIR. Alder man, PRESIDENT Of tie
University Of Virginia, last We'd
esday night il Richmond made
n eloquent appeal to the Legisla-
Ire for the university. lie stirred
ne Legislators and his distir-
nisted audience to enthusiasm
hIle asking big increase in the
The hall was
DIVIDED with people who ap-
auded long and eloquertly as he
'oke of the work done by the
mous old school.
Representatives Of the Virginia
nti-SalC on League have begun
e cirulation of O petition which,
hen the signatures of one-fourth
the qualified voters have been
tanned, will be presented to the
Court asking for a 10.
10y ton election for Winchester.
! effort will be made to kold the
'ction before the II retail liquor
alers apply for their annual
ense in May. They pay mcre
an SO, 900 city licenses a year.
Business is humming at the
chmond branch Of the American
connective Works, and the force
being constantly increased. The
Ger part Of a contract fer IS big
omOtiyes for the Norfolk and
'stern will be filled in Richmond.
e Virginia Carolina Coast Rail.
y, which filed papers of consoli-
ion Monday, have just placed
order wit h the Richmond branch
seven locomotives, and the
nsas City Southern for Is of the
solidated type. All these, with
err small orders, are for delivery
ing the summer.
acOb Riis of New York, who isa
st at the White House frequent
gas asked what he thought about
Presidents political future.
y own personal ideas are thst
should be Mayor of New York
a he goes out of Office as Presi-
b" he responded. eff rot that
Guild like to- see him in Coo
s,where he could continue to do
ething for the people. Tho
ident is the one man who could
hands down for Mayor OF
York. He was cnce defeated
hat office. hut nothing could
at him now. Nothing would