Lexington gazette. [volume] (Lexington, Va.) 1871-1962, 1907-08-28
CONDENSED NEWS
Brief Items OF Iaterest tor the
busy Reader

old complains that society ! Mt as
lively as it used to be. Giddy
thing
Edward S. Cramp, late of the
Cramp Shipbuilding Company, Of
Philadelphia, has purchased q
large tract OF land at Norfolk as q
site for a shipbuilding plant.
A movement has been started
having for its object the incorpora-
ton of Ocean View and Willough.
by Beach. The citizens there are
anxious to make improvements.
United States Ambassador Reid
unveiled the memorial erected in
the Salisbury Cathedral to the
An erican victims Of the railroad
wreck near there last summer.
A large water main In Shensn-
dcsh river burst Saturday, and
the people of Berryville were
several days without water, except
what could be drawn from cisterns.
The Grand Camp CT Confederate
Veterans of Virginia will meet In
Norfolk, commencing Wednesday.
Octt Der nth, and continuing three
days. 1t promises to be we'll attend
ed.
Attorney General Bonaparte has
given council to the distillers final
notice to prepare test case for
decision by the Supreme Court In
the contention arising over the
pure food law.
Excessive eigaIe cite smoking has
made q raving maniac CT "Buck"
Glover, l9 years old, whose hone
hrs been with bis parents in Ports
mouth. He was cOnfned in the
hospital waid of the Portsmouth
jail.
Mr.. William Astor Chandler Of
New York, grandson of John Jacob
Aston, has purchased from ". A.
Metzger of Leesburg, the 400
acre farm a mile south Of Iees-
burg, formerly che property of w.
F. Lewis.
Lee Camp Confederate Veterans,
through Capt. john A. Curtis, has
taken a decided step looking TO
the erection in Richmond Of y
monument to the memory OF the
devoted women of the Confederacy
10 cost 500, 0G0.
Senator TayloL OF Georgia,
wants the price OF marriage licen-
ses in his State changed. He thinks
men OF 81 should get them tor
nothing, but THAT Tor each ann.
eeAding year over that age they
should be forced to pay an ad'
ditionsl dollar.
Grace Memorial Episcopal
church of LynchburR has extended
a call to Rev. E. R. Carter OF Boy
| ton, Va, to become rector OF that
church to fill the vacancy caused
by the recent resignation of DR..
John Lloyd, who left LynchburE
| to become archdeacon of the South
ern Diocese CT Virginia.
The last surviving chief of the
once famous Sioux Indians, Chief
Good Voice, SO years old, is dying
| in his tepee on Oak Greek, Meyer
county, South Dakota. He is the
Isnly Ir dian chief who has always
stood for good government, and
has made eight trips to Washing
ton in the interest OF his race.
The Bishop of London, the 1t.
| Rev. A. F. Winnington.Ingram,D d.
D., expects to leave England for
America at the end Of August. He
will preach the opening service at
the General Convention in Holy
Trinity Church, Richmond, ~
October. While in Richmond he
will be the guest Of Bishop Gibson.
Hazing or "running" of plebes
has again broken out at the Naval
Academy, according to a weil'au'
thenticated reports coming from
members of the fourth class. The
harassing of plebes is being done
by members of the upper class,
princig ally Of the second class,
who were held over for a course OF
practical sumner instruction.
At the Euclid Avenue Baptist
church, at Cleveland, o., Sunday
Mr.. John d. Rockefeller ga. in his
pew and heard Rev. Myers sug-
vest that he make gift OF
300, 900, 600 to Christian Eyangel'
lem. The oil king seemed Il be
pleased 1T tie suggestion, for after
the sermon he greeted Rev. MT,
Myers etfusively and invited bim
TO dine at Forest Hill.
The first importation of foreign
labor to take the place Of the
striking laborers in the slate quar-
ries at Aryunia, Buckingham
county. passed through Richmond
last week on their way to the
quarries, where they were put to
work. There were probably
dozen Italians in the lot. They
are said to be- the advance guard
Of two or three hundred 10 fellow
as fact as the labor agents In New
York cab secure ttem.
The report of the State Audit
ing Committee was r. bmit cd to
the Governor saturday. 1t is n
severe condemnation Of the
methode Of Keeping the State at