Lexington gazette. [volume] (Lexington, Va.) 1871-1962, 1906-10-24
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DubD hCdNOi
Fifty arguments are won by
laughing to every one getting mad.
The supply of school teachers in
West Virginia is fer short OF the
demand.
DR.. ]. M.McBryde, president OF
the Virginia Polytechnic Institute,
at Blacksburg, has been pensioned
by the Carnegie fund for teachers.
Dime novel reading, it is said,
has beer responsible for eleven at
tempts at train wrecking on the
lires of the New York Central Kali
road during the last two weeks.
After careful research Adjutant
General Anderson has reported to
Governor Swanson that the records
do not show that any state colors
for Virginia have ever been author
lied or adopted.
An award of $4,000 has been
made from the Carnegie hero fund
to purchase a farm for the children
of Mrs. Sadie Lewis Crabbe, who
lost her life in rescuing a negro
from drowning near Heathsvllle,
Virginia.
The baseball season Of 1905 Is
now officially closed, and a review,
which necessarily, because OF the
games spread over the country, ls
probably incomplete, shows that 1t
claimed twelve victims; that is,
twelve men or boys killed while
playing.
William D. McClintock, dean of
the University of Chicago, an
nounced last week that the faculty
had finally decided upon complete
segregation of men and women
students, and henceforth the aim
would be TWO affiliated universities,
one for women and another for men.
The buildings for the women's
dormltory and recitation rooms are
to be entirely removed from those
of the men, and the students OF
different sexes will never meet,
except occasionally on the campus
President Alderman of the Uni.
versity OF Virginia, last week
issued q call for a conference In
Charlottesville, November 1880
college presidents, professors OF
secondary education and State
superintendent Of public instruc-
tion in the States of North Car
DINA, South Carolina, Georgia,
Tennessee, Alabama and Virginia
to discuss the high school as an
educational problem and to devise
plans for the establishment and
enrichment of high schools in the
South.
President Blackwell of Randolph.
Macon College has received official
notice from Mr.. Wallace Butterick
of New York, that the General
Board of Education has nnani-
mously appropriated the sum OF
$40, goo to the general endowment
of Randolph-Macon College, on
condition that the 100000, which
the alumni have undertaken to raise,
DE secured. Twenty thousand dol.
lars has already been pledged, and
it is believed that with this impe-
tus the remaining $4,000 will be
speedily subscribed.
Two Italian laborers, employed
by the Tidewater Railway in the
construction of the new road at
Lynch's, killed a large turkey
buzzard which invaded the camp
of the laborers Sunday. They
then dressed the bird, evidently
thinking it wild turkey, and al
I ter cooking 1t up "a la Italian"
Toasted On il. Shortly afterward
the men were taken violently Ill
and physicians FASTENED to their
aid. They could scarcely speak
, English, hut one of them succeeded
in mumbling "big black bird, fly
: high no good"
t Secretary Wilson of the Agri-
} cultural Department, has notified
A Governor Swanson that HE depart.
t nent will be glad to assist in the
e building of road from Williams
t burg to jamestown. An engineer
; and several road making machines
0 will start to work at once, and,
= with convicts to do the work,
: $40, eco appropriated by Willisms-
. burg and James City county, end
! stone furnished by the Chesapeake
e and Ohio Railway, the riacadan
nike from the old capital Of Vir-
= ginia to the site Of tie first perma.
D.. rent English settler ent in America
should soon be a reality.
John Arwstr, Chandler ar
curces ttet re hus in preFs, I'd
S vii. begin L distribute The latter
@ pa rt os this eek, book in which
he attacks prominent New York
i lawyers in connection with his in
: generation for insanity. Chanler
e is member of a very old and
g wealthy New York family and 9
I descendant of the original Astors
He has about million dollars in
his own right, but a number OF
years ago was incarcerated in the
e Bloomingdale asylum, in New
i York, as a lunatic. After -four
!. years confinement, he escaped ane
!, disappeared. finally reappearing
suddenly in Albermarle county