Lexington gazette. [volume] (Lexington, Va.) 1871-1962, 1908-01-15
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From irrigated fruit lands Wash
ington orchard men are making
from $1,000 to %, 900 net per acre.
Senator Beyeridge will ask for
commission of four to help revise
the tariff. ,
The Japanese theatre building,
which was one Of the attractions
on the War Path of the jamestown
Exposition, was burned last week.
iLittie Glmn euiivannas offered
a resolution In the New York board
of aldermen which prohibits smok.
ing by women in hotels and other
public resorts.
A special dispatch from Vancou-
yer, British Columbia. says that
hundreds of japanese ex-soldiers
now in Vancouver have received or
ders from the Mikado to return to
Japan at once.
Col. James Hamilton lewis told
200 students Of the Northwestern
University Law School that an oath
is nothing 70 a woman, and that in
testifying she lie always guided
By her feelings.
Mrs. Francis j. Pray, of Han
cock county, Missouri, left $4,000
by will, the in ONE of which is TO
be used to buy turkeys for Thanks.
giving and Christn as for the poor
of Carthage and Monticello, H.,
Were she spent her early life.
The town of Christiansburg has
sold its electric light plant and the
new owners will DIT once form a
company for the purpose of opera
ting IL. A dispatch from there says
che council has been relieved OF q
great burden az in this instance.
ID. F. Detweiler, one Of the laag.
est produce dealers in the Harrison.
burg section of the State, buying
eggs, butter, chickens, and turkeys
in Virginia, West Virginia, Ten
nessee and Kentucky, has n ade an
assignment. His liabilities are ad.
mitted to be more than $4,000.
TIE Virginia Portland Cement
Company at CraigsyiIle is doubling
it's plant. and has tut on record
ir the office of the clerk OF the cir.
cut court Stanton Monday a
mortgage for 2,000,0 0O, the New
York Trust Company being trus-
tee.
The board of directors VI the
Presbyterian Orphanasc Of the
Synod OF Virginia, which adjourn
ed in Lynchburg last week, elected
Rev. Polling Hobson, of Pearls.
burg, Giles county, superinten-
dent, to succeed Rev. G. w. Max
well, who has rendered his resigns-
ton.
Representative John Wesley
Gaines, Of Tennessee, has itroduc-
ed bill appropriating $4,000 an
nually for three years, and $1,000
annually thereafter, to be paid to
the Ladies Hermitage Association
of Tennessee for the purpose Of
caring for the Hermitage, the home
and tomb of Andrew Jackson, near
Nashville.
The fight Of the growers Of tobao-
co in Kentucky and Tennessee a.
gainst the American Tobacco com.
pany, which has resulted in RIO
ting, bloodshed and the burning Of
the company's warehouses, has led
to conferences between represen-
tative of the company and the
growers, and the dispute has been
transferred to the heads of the CON-
pany in New York for considers.
ton,
A press dispatch from Paris says:
That Japan is spending 1900, 900
yen with corruptible European
newspapers for prejudicial public
opinion against America is asserted
in newspaper circles here. The re-
port is unsupported by evidence,
but there is no doubt that journal
lists here generally attribute many
pro-Japanese articles published
here to secret capital. A large part
of TIE French press is nevertheless
friendly to the United States, and
the government is doing all in Its
power to encourage ttis feeling.
A committee representing the
Virginia bar association which was
in Washington last week for the
purpose of extending an invitation
to Secretary of War Taft to ad-
dress the association at the Virgin
ia Hot Springs. 10 the summer,
suggested to the Secretary as an
inducement for him TO come to Vir.
GINA that he would be treated to
real old Virginia mint julep rather
than Fairbanks cocktails, which re-
mark brought response from Pres
ident Roosevelt, who also greeted
the delegation, that the Virginia
juIep in HE opinion, is far more
seductive and much less dangerous
to Presidential aspirations than the
other.
Philadelphia Record: Governor
Warfeld of Maryland, in his mes
sage to the Legislature at the close
Of his term advocates an amend
ment to the State Constitution FIX
ing a higher standard of qualifica-
ton for rhe exercise OF the suff-