Lexington gazette. [volume] (Lexington, Va.) 1871-1962, 1907-01-23
CONDENSED NEWS
Brief Items of Interest for the
Busy Reader

. N-0, gu! IA Hpt, benQ
Idleness and pride tax with
heavier hand than kings and parlia
ments.
Congressman Carter Glass O.
Lynchburg, has announced hi,
candidacy for Governor of yir
GINA.
The Board Of Supervisors O,
Caroline county appropriated $500
for an exhibit at the Jamestowp
Exposition.
Final action in the matter Of the
site for tie United States Govern.
ment Building in Winchester has
oeen postponed until January 80.
The Roe noks City Council.
Charbe of Commerce and Retail
Merchants Association has decid.
cd TO make a Roanoke exhibit al
the JameAto wn Exposition.
The Deepwster Railway Com.
pany ls reported to be condemninp
right OF way fer the Piney Creek
extension OF the Winding Gulf
branch at Beckley, W. Va. It will
be seven miles long.
The temperance people of Bristol
nave determined to make a fight
In order to induce the Tennessee
Legislature to extend the Adams
law to Bristol at once and elm.
mate the saloons.
A new japanese shipping com.
pany has been formed, with a cap-
ltal OF 81, 100000. 1t already DOS.
sesses flee: Of 10000 tons, and
intends to establish services to
eastern Asia points and America.
lie Adams and Southern Ex-
press companies have agreed to re.
duce rates in Virginia from 5 to
20 per cent, and even more In some
cases, provided the United States
Express Company will come into
the arrangement.
The average number of cloudy
and rainy days this winter is far
In excess of those in any like DER.
lod during the same season since
1871, with one exception, accord.
ihg TO Director Won Hermann, of
The Baltimore bureau.
One hundred and twenty.fiv 30.
lcemen were instructed by Chief
Werner of Richmond, to pursue /.
crusade, in the interest Of the pub.
lc health and cleanliness, against
he habit of expectorating in the
treets, in cars and public places.
At the annual meeting OF the
tockholders of the jamestown Er.
position in Norfolk it wac shown
hat between ss,O0O,O 900 and &c..
100, GOO will have been irveeted in
he enterprise by the time the gates
re thrown open on April 20.
The japanese budget contains
redits amounting to $50, 682 yen,
r about 1921, $40, to cover the
ost Of dIspatching representatives
the army and navy to partici.
ate in the international Exposi.
on at jamestown. Va. The cruis-
rs Tzukubu and Chitoss will be
ant to represent the japanese
avy.
Three and twenty years ago Mr..
. b. Upchurch, of Richmond,
lille angling in Pamlico Sound,
rev an empty bottle, contain.
e a note, into the waters Of the
und. The bottle was found 40
'rdan Point Lighthouse, on the
'mes River, near Petersburg,
st Saturday, and the finding was
in Petersburg paper.
Nine hundred and thirty-nine
dictrents carrying possible fines
,gregating $50, 900. 600, and ir-
isonmert terms from 1919 to $50
ars were returned by the grand
~ at Findlay, Ohio, against
I'm D. Rockefeller, H. r. Rogers,
I'm d. Archbold, tho Standard
| Company of New Jersey, five
bsidiary companies, and their
esijents. Each lie charged with
Ing a member Of trust.
The grand jury in the Campbell
rcuit Court has recommended
at John W. Clay, county
asurer, be removed from office
cause of failure to pay proper
,ard to the law as to making re.
'ts, because he does rot give
'per notice as to times and places
ed for collection of lakes:
'ause he has not used due dill
ice in collecting taxes and be-
se he does not keep his office at
county courthouse, but In
cote section of the county. Judge
rEsdale has taken no action on
report yet.
General Lee was 81 years old
en- the war between the States
'un, far olcer than most mil
y commanders who won great .
tories. He had served with
or and Obstruction IL the Union
ny. Fe had graduated from
st Point with honor. He had
led with credit in the Mexican
r. He had charge of the
eminent forces summoned to
pers Ferry in 1859 to suppress
n Brown and his followers. He
served his county as an en-
Ter as we'll ss a soldier. He
{ lmportert fortified tons. in.