Lexington gazette. [volume] (Lexington, Va.) 1871-1962, 1908-08-05
CONDENSED NE VS.
Brief Items of Interest for the
Busy Rsauer

BUSY H. duCT
William j. Bryan accused Taft
of grating Democratic planks on
the Republican platform.
William HI. Taft has been elected
tn membership in the Steam SHOW
elers' ard Dredgmen's Union.
William F. Asst, enc of Staun.
toms oldest business men, died
suddenly July 28tb, aged rs
years.
The Roanoke Traction Company,
capital stock from $500, 900 to 3d.
was chartered at Rich
mond last week.
The Chinese government is mak-
ing elaborate preparations for the
entertainment of the United States
feet when it arrives at Annoy.
Richard e. Byrd of Winchester,
speaker of the Virginia House CT
Delegates, is prominently mention
ed in connection with the attorney
geners lship of the State.
Transcontinental railroad lines
will abandon the Pacific carrying
business November l and japanese
steamship companies are expected
to get all the business.
Attorney General Bonapart has
issued a statement in which he
declared that the war or the Stand
ard Oil and all other trusts will be
carried on with renewed vigor.
The government Of Russia is
preparing for an outbreak of
cholera along the Volga and ls tag
Ing steps to prevent the disease
from reaching st. Petersburg and
Moscow.
King Edward has his own dis
tillery, where whiskey is made
solely for the Use of the members
of the royal family. No whiskey
is put on the royal table that Is
not at least fifteen or twenty years
old.
1t is reported in New York that
Hartman and Gould have entered
into an alliance by which Harri-
man will get an entrance INTO
and Gould will get funds
to finance his outlet to the sea-
board.
Northern Neck News: Mr.. V.
b. Hardwick, of Kinsale, threshed
this week, from a field of ten acres
716 bushels, or II 6.l0 bushels per
acre. If there has ever been a
larger WELD in the Northern Neck,
we would like to hear from
the farmer holding the blue rib
bon.
The members Of the State Medi-
cal Society living in the Tenth
Virginia district are called 10 meet
in Stanton on August 8 to noml-
nate a member of the executive
council for the same district. The
Augusta county society meets ON
the same day for the election OF
officers.
During the year 1907, 6,4SS new
industries were reported in the
south, compared with GAIL in 1905
which was the best record ever
made. The leading states were
Texas, 1, 1888; Oklahoma, 794, and
Virginia, Tennessee, North Caro-
lima, Alabama and Arkansas, from
400 to $50 each.
X. B. Stoner, of Fincastle, near
Roanoke, has sold his rights in a
new wheat seed which he has de-
veloped, to westeruers tor a quarter
of a million dollars. The first
single seed brough forth l20 stalks
of wheat. Seed sent TO number
of States for experiment have done
equalS as we'll.
An old and tried recipe says:
"Butter may be kept solid in
warm weather If put in a bowl
that Is covered with a plate and
set in pan of Geld water. Then
fold a towel and lay across the
plate with the corners hanging
down into the water, put the pan
in a cool, if possible drsfty place,
end the evaporation will keep the
butter firm.
1t is the opinion of DR.. 5. C..
Hatcher, member Of the State
board of charities and corrections,
also a former pastor of Norfolk,
bit now of Farnyiile, that Indiana
will certainly give Bryan and Kern
a handsome majority in the No
vember election. DR.. Hatcher has
Just returned from trip through
Indiana, where he went, accom-.
panied by Mr.. p. Arriving, in the
interest of the State board.
Orde.s were issued by Adjutant
General anderson on Saturday
disbanding two military companies
attached to the Seventy-6rst Vir.
ginia and mastering in one COM
pany to be assigned to the Seventy
second. The two companies are
disbanded as result of inspections
recently made by Colonel 10 Lane
Stern, assistant inspector'genersl.
One is at Newport News and the
other atFranklin. The new company
at Roanoke, known as Company +,
has been assigned to the Seventy
second Regiment.
Congressman Henry ID. Clayton,