Lexington gazette. [volume] (Lexington, Va.) 1871-1962, 1906-08-15
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friends are for.
How weak ard helpless a man is
when a bold and aggressive widow
makes up her mind to marry him 4!
Capitalists have offered $500, 900
for 1900 acres of coal land Lear
Hinton, W. Va.
The skeletons Of number OF
Union soldiers have been found
behind church in Winchester.
The Lynchburg Pipe Foundry
has Just been successful In bid
ding for seven miles of eight'inch
cast iron pipe for use in the Dis.
trict of Columbia.
The Richmond City Council has
killed the proposition to establish
an electric light plant to be owned
and operated by the city for
municipal purposes.
The contract has been let for
the erection OF the new Catholic
church in Harrisonburg to a local
firm. Tie church will cost between
$40, 900 and $25, 900.
Appropriations amounting to
$50, 900 have been made in Roanoke
for street improvements, running
the total so far this year for street
improvements above quarter of a
million dollars.
Whatever may be said of Eng.
lands boasted mastery of the seas,
her Government is not afraid TO
reduce her naval expenditures in
the face of the military Powers OF
Europe.
Insanity in the United States is
increasing at remarkable rate and
the annual cost of maintenance of
insane in public hospitsls is ap
prsximately $2l, 200, 900, not In
Guiding the income from pay
patients and other sources.
The Georgia Senate has passed
the House bill appropriating $780,
900 for Georgia's representation at
the jamestown Exposition. This
practically assure an exhibit from
that State, as the Governors APP
proval of the bill is regarded as
certain.
A horse can draw on the worst
kind OF earth road about four times
as much as he can carry on his
back. On a good macadamized
road he can pull ten times as much,
on a wood-paved one 20 times as
much. and on metal SO times as
much.
"Chlnese cheap labor" is not
economical in the tar, pitch and
turpentine business. A Florida
operator in naval stores has sunk
$40, 900 in experimenting with it
and shipped orty-eight Cinnamon
back to Portland, Oregon, where
he got them.
The Federal Grand Jury Of
Chicago has returned an indict-
msnt of 10 counts against the Stand
ard Oil Company charging. nonpay-
ment of storage charges to certain
railroads, procuring thereby un-
fair and illegal advantage over
their competitors in violation Of
the Elkins law.
A fox hunt down in old Powhatan
is being prepared. The campaign
will open on the 5th of September
and it is expected that President
Roosevelt and Governors Glenn and
Swanson will be of the party. The
, dogs are in excellent training and
the local hunters are "spiling"
for the fun.
A sensational attempt at suicide
J occurred in Richmond recently.
! Edward C. Blower, an emplcye
of the American Tobacco Company,
tried to cremate himself by JUMP
! ing into the compang's factories.
: He was dragged out before he was
fatally burned. Religious mania
is assign ed as the cause OF the act.
Governor Swanson has issued a
proclamation declaring the first
Monday in Septen Der Labor Day
and legal holiday, IS directed By
recent act of the Legislature. He
recommends that all citizens OBJ
serve it as a day CT recreation END
pay tribute to the worth and
, dignity of labor.
Thirty-three thousand dollars
for 100 days medical attendance
is the sum that Dr.Samuel Thomp-
son Banes of Philadel phia, asks OF
the estate of William L. Rainey.
now dead, a millionaire cork manu-
facturer Of that sity. Through his
; attorney William Goodrich OF New
York, the physician is preparing
suit for the money.
The Norfolk Common Council
! has passed to It's first reading an
! ordinance appropriating 500, 600
for the payment of the city's share
, of the cost of a boulevard from
Norfolk to the grounds Of the
jamestown Exposition. The total
cost Of the boulevard will be about
$3.50. 900, and it will be one Of the
, handsomest highways in the Unit
ed States.
I C. Bascomb Slemp, State Re-
, publican chairmsn, whi!e on a
, visi. in Richmond last week, declar
ed that mis- father, Col. Campbell
, Slemp. would be elected again In
2 the Ninth district by from 1900