Lexington gazette. [volume] (Lexington, Va.) 1871-1962, 1907-09-25
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ReI resentatives of five Central
American republics have signed a
peace protocol at Wsshi gton.
The "drys" won in the local op.
ton election held at Berryville last
Tuesday by majority of e2 votes.
Two hundred aad eighty.two votes
were cast. Berryville has been a
"wet' town for twenty-four ears.
The Virginia oyster season
opened in full blast Tuesday
morning. Two out OF the three
gunbOats of the oyster navy are
laid up because OF lack of funds
on the Fart of the State board of
fisheries to operate them.
The Richmond home of John
Marshall, from 1901 until 1885,
chief justice of the Supreme Court
of The United States, bought re-
Gently by the city to preserve it,
has been mysteriously robbed of
its an:ique'fittings.
TIE University Of Virginia has
been presented with a handsome
life-sized bust of it's founder,
Thomas jefferson. The gift
comes from one of the university's
some, j. Alderman Coles, NJ. D.,
of II west Thirty-ninth street,
New York.
A "helIo" girl in a near by town
who could not wake up to get to
the office on time, bought an alarm
clock. When it went off the first
morning she rolled over and said
in her usual sweet voice, though
asleep, "Line's busy; call
again"
1t was reported at Richmond
recently that Governor Swanson,
at the expiration OF bis term would
return to the Fifth district and
again seek the nomination for Con.
gress. The report was brought to
the attention of the governor sew
eral days ago, but he gave it little
consideration.
By general order of Col. VIM.
II. Stewart, Grand Commander,
Confederate Veterans of Virginia,
the dates Ct the meeting of the
grand camp at Norfolk have been
changed from October 16, IL and
l8 to October 20, "a and 20. This
was done at the request of the
Norfolk entertainment commit.
tee.
At the annual reunion o! the
survivors of the Black Horse CAL
vary held last week at the Eau.
quier White Sulphur Syringe but
fourteen of the mt mbers Of that
famous command were present.
A motion to limit the number Of
drinks at the reunion to one for
each member present, or fourtees
ger nan, was lost for want Of q
second.
Son-in-law Longworth annOun.
,es that president Roosevelt will
rot become candidate for renom.
nation unless the entire country
demands it. He has firmly made
Up his mind to stick to bis
course" That should settle the
bird term business, foe it is quite
certain that "the entire country"
g not crying for Roosevelt, nor
IRE a great many Republicans in
n love with third term.
The feature of this years SEES.
ion at Richmond Of the Virginia
organization of Patriotic Sons OF
In erica was the unanimous sdop.
ion of resolutions looking to the
purchase and preservation of
the hone of the Lees,
n Westmoreland county, Virginia.
i've sons OF tie house, beginning
nth "Light Horse Harry" and
nding with Robert K. Lee, are
amed in the prean BILE. The or.
anizatIon proposes to make STRAIT.
ord IA nationsl shrine second only
D Mount Vernon, which is only
ew miles farther up the Potomac,
carer Washington.
The slaughter last week Il
arload Of cows from Loudopn
UNITY, which the much talk d OF
: berculin test indicated 10 be dis
ased, was attended by some prom
tent milk shippers of the Hern-
on vicinity. Many of the COWS
ere splendid looking specimens,
ut the carcasses of all showed the
resence of cheesey tutercular de-
lslts. A representative of the
apartment of Agriculture who
IS present said that Of n ore than
NJ cattle slaughtered at that
lrd, after reactirg under the
ct, all but two showed the dis
se Ia the eye, and the two
owed it plainly under The mi
oscope.