Lexington gazette. [volume] (Lexington, Va.) 1871-1962, 1906-05-16
Supervisors Consider New Roads
and Lay Levies


, present Monday at the STATED
meeting, and many important mat
ters of general interest were con
sidered, among them being the lay
ing Of county and district lsvies,
the action on now roads, etc. Thos,
present we're; Supervisors J. j
L. Kinnear, chairman, of Soutl
River district; j. H. Within ore
Lexington district; T. S. Rees
Natural Bridge district; G.. A
Ayres, Buffalo district; C. NJ
Shewey, Kerr's Greek district; r
L. Patterson, Walkers Creek dis
trict.
A matter that has excited con
siderable interest among the
school people of Rockbridge wal
the requesJ from the County
School Board to increase the coun
ty and district levies cents, max
ing each III cents on the 500 OF
property. The county school levy
was thus increased, and three
districts, Buffalo, Kerr's Greek
and South River. had the 3 cents
Increase, making III cents on the
500, but the other three, Central,
Natural Bridge and Walkers
Creek, remain as last year, 12l
cents on the 500. COultV Super
intendent of Schools Effinger ap
peared before the Boprd in the in.
terest of the increase.
The county levy for general ex'
penses, interest on the Courthouse
bonds, sinking fund, etc., was
fixed at As cents on the 800 fol-
the county outside of the corpora
ton of Lexington, and 81 cents in
the corporate limits of Lexington,
both the same as last year. The
road levy for Lexington district
outside of the town and for 81 Oh
of the other districts was fixed at
20 cents on the 800. The levy
for the poor in the respective dis
tricts was fixed as follows: Lex
ingson end Buffalo,6 cents; Natur-
al Bridge and Walkers Creek, l
cent; Kerr's Creek, 2 cents; South
River, 3 cents.
The sum of $14, 900 was set aside
for tho sinking fund and interest
on the Courthouse bonds. This
amount is $1,000 less than former
ly set aside for this purpose, but
in view of the fact that before an
other year the bonds will all be
paid, the supervisors deemed it
wise 20 reduce the appropriation
by 81, 900. The gum Of 81, 744 out
of the county fund was apportion
ed to the districts as follows on
account of the read fund: Lex
ington, $500; Natural Bridge,
5000; Buffalo, $3.50; Kerr'S Creek,
S8O4.8O; Walkers Creek, S84S /;
South River, $851.20.
In the matter of furnishing
water for the Courthouse and Jail,
the Town Council made a rate of
20 cents per thousand gallons, the
cost Of same for the Courthouse to
be borne as follows; One-third to
be paid by the county. one-third
by the jailer and one-third furnish
ed free by the town, The town
will furnish 600 gallons daily free
of cost to the Courthouse, and all
in excess of that amount is to be
paid for at the rate of 20 cents
per thousand gallons.
The clerk Of the road board of
Lexington district, A. w. Var
ner, presented his report, and it
was ordered to be filed. The re-
port showed receipts amounting to
81, 45S.29; disbursement. 81, 115.'
80, leaving "a balance in the treas
ury of $342.47.
William B. PcindeXter was re-
commended 20 the court for APP
pointment as game warden for
Natural Bridge district.
Hugh A. White, attorney for the
city of Buena Vista, presented a
report OF the condition of the
bridge across North River at the
lower end of Buena Vista. The
report was referred to the road
board of Natural Bridge district.
C. L. Thompson made report
of the San Jose scale in South
River and Walkers Creek districts
fer the months Of January and
February.
An order was entered Offering a
reward of 800 en- tie part of the
county for the arrest and convict
ion of Grover Ford, indicted for
the murder of Charles Cash and
Miss Lydia Entsminger last June.
The Board of Supervisors were en-
powered to offer this reward by an
act of the recent Legislature. 1t
is expected that Governor Swan
son will offer an additional reward.
In the matter of the petition of
@. @. Kirkpatrick and others for
the erection of a bridge across
North River near Alone, the
Board of Supervisors resolved it,
self into committee to visit the
location and make an examination
as to situation, necessity, etc. A
competent engineer will be present.
The petition of H. II. Day and
others for change of road en- Fair
ground road through the lands of
w. B. Wallace, Mrs. Mary E. Wal.
lace and w. P. Gillespie was con.
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