The Washington bee., 1907-03-09
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hibited by the President towards the
South? The following will explain
President Theodore Roosevelt, the
staunchest national friend of the ex-
position at jamestown, IS delighted and
touched with the suggestion that Georgia
shall reproduce as its State building
at jamestown old Colonial Bulloch Hall,
at Roosevelt, Ga. the birthplace of
Martha BulIoch. the mother of the
present Chief Executive of the Ameri-
can nation
President Roosevelt has written very
grateful letter to W. n. Mitchell, presi-
dent of the Georgia State Ter-Centen-
NAL Commission, who made the sugges-
ton. The letter is as follows:
"My Dear Mr.. Mitchell: need not
say how much touched and pleased was
by the proposition to reproduce my mo-
theirs old home at jamestown. What
ever the decision in the matter may
finally be, allow me to thank you most
warmly for your suggestion"
From the Norfolk Pilot.
1t was remarkable as interesting that
the first use of the fine, new guns OBJ
tained from the United States Govern
ment by the Virginia Infantry was to
fire a salute over the grave of the wild
ow of the President of the Southern
Confederacy.
Mrs. James F. Johnson, of D street
southwest, has been very sick.
Our old friend DR.. P. B. Brooks is up
and out again.
St Monica's Protestant Episcopal
Church, Southwest, has very interest
ing services The congregation is in
creasing very much.
The difference between rising every
morning at six and eight am. in forty
years amounts to 5000 hours, OF three
years, one hundred and twenty-one days
and sixteen hours, which are equal to
ten years.
Our old friend c. A. Champ, letter
carrier, has remarked. So far, Bill is
much pleased.
'You need exercise" said the Nj. D.
''Exercise% said the patient; "and I
letter CARRIER" Pardon me-" said the
Doctor; what you need is rest Join
the police force"
Washington-The furry caused by the
report that the President intended to
appoint a negro surveyor in Cincinnati
was ended by his sending to the Senate
the name of Amor Smith, Jr., now col
lector of Cincinnati. Senator Forker
recommended Smith, but the nomination
was held up until Representative Long
worth saw his father-in-law
William Wetch, of Claremont, n. H,
oldest member of the G. A. R. and NJ
sonic Order, died last week; age, 100
years.
The President has given employees of
the navy yards, arsenals, etc, Saturday
half-holiday during the summer.
The Salvation Army of Chicago, ILL.,,
has established bureau to prevent sui
cides.
For the first time in twenty years the
whipping post will be used in Maryland
for a wife-beater.
The alI-night bank of New York will,
after the 4th of Mrch, resume day
hours.
Broadway. New York city, will have
barber shop that will be open day
and night There will be nineteen bar
bers and twelve manicures in attend
ance.
Mrs. William Maurer, wife of De-
tective Maurer, died at Chicago, ILL.,, last
week. She weighed $40 pounds.
Harrisburg, Pa, Feb. 27-G. Calvin
Dickey, a s3-yer-old white man, blew
out his brains today with a shotgun,
pressing the trigger with cane, He
was led to this deed by melancholia,
caused by the death of his wife, a Ne
gress, three years ago.
Massachusetts, maintains a State Free
Employment Office for the unemployed
of the State.
The seventy-ffth anniversary of the
founding of Oberlin College, will be
held June 1925, 1908.
Mrs. May Wilcox, of Lincoln, Neb,
is the only woman blacksmith in Amer
ica.