Lexington gazette. [volume] (Lexington, Va.) 1871-1962, 1908-06-10
CONDENSED NEWS
Brief Items of Interest for the
Busy Reader

There is an epidemic Of black
leg amongst the cattle of Am herst
county.
The BEDFORD City Box Factory
was totally destroyed by fire last
Friday morning.
Orange county will have her
roads macadamized by a contract
or from Pennsylvania.
Two.cent postage between the
United States and Engls nd will 60
into effect October /.
Under the Cum berland, Md, cur
few ordinance no children are al.
lowed on the streets of that city
between the hours of 9 p. m. and
8. a. m, unless they are accompa.
MED by their parents or guardians.
After watching 1852 women
alight from street cars the observer
reported that enc out of each Is
got off correctly, facing in the di.
rection the cars were going, and
then added that he thought they
intended to make it unanimous,
but made mistakes.
Oranges, pears, grapes, cherries.
etc., are now being packed in pa.
per boxes containing nitrogen, and
the exclusion of oxygen seems to
keep the fruit from decay for an
indefinite time. Fish shown in Par.
is in 1900 had been preserved in
nitrogen for seven years.
The Fairfax Herald tells of q
white oak tree recently cut down
in that county which yielded two
twelve foot logs, the two making
POO feet of lum Der. $50 feet Of
sound lumber were made from the
branches, making in all 1850 feet.
Resides this, 4 cords of cord wood
was made from the parts unfit to
be turned into lum Der.
Alexandria Gazette Congress
man Slemp. the only Republican in
the Virginia delegation, was afraid
to vote for the Crumpacker bill to
reduce the southern representation
in Congress, but paired on that
question with a Democrat who
could not be present-which Is just
as bad. This should defeat Mr..
Slemp at the next election and
would in any ether ditrict than
the Ninth.
Judge w. G. Loving, who re.
Gently resigned as manager at
Thomas F. Ryan's estate, in Mel.
son county, has been appointed
assistant counsel for the Seaboard
Air Line, with headquarters at
Tallahassee, Fla. He has gone to
begin his duties there. He will
make his residence in Tallahassee,
and later will be joined by his
family.
A hard blow at the distiIlers,
blenders and rectifiers lie struct by
a provision of the pure.food law.
" hich went into effect Monday,
June /. Blends formed by the mix
ture of one or two or more grades
Of whisky must be tabled offended
" whisky" and liquor that has been
offered for sale under the name of
but which in reality is
not, must be stamped compound"
Or Limitation.
Eleven years as secretary of the
United States Department of Agri-
culture. during which time the eff.
cheney of the department has been
elevated triple-fold-that is the
record of james Wilson. And now
it lie reported from Washington
that Mr.. Wilson is going to lay
down the Office and seek quiet
life. The strenuousness of his work
has won him plaudits from the en-.
ire agricultural community.
Philadelphia Record: Eleven
thousand dollars has been present.
ID to the retiring Mayor Of st.
Paul as an expression Of esteem by
,ightyone business men of that
lty. The Mayer is old, and lost
lis property in a bank failure
which he made as light for credi-
ors as possible by voluntarily
his property. The
'ase is unprecedented in many
vays. Among other things It teach.
g that it is possible fer city off,
ial to earn the gratitude of the
ommunity.
Baltimore American: The good
Dads work is one of which should
g thoroughly done, and with
'hich no political or special inter-
SITS should be suffered to interfere.
he rural community is dependent
D d vital extent on good roads. In
hese up-to-date days the public
tate highways should reflect the
rOgress and intelligence of the
eople, for they are among the
lain arteries Of trade, and unless
Dmm cree can dow freely and easi-
7 through them, the communities
t which they ought TO be the close
nd constant connecting link must
ecessanly suffer.
William Brooks Mason, negro.
ho said he was l2S years old, ask
the police of New York sevsr-
deys ago to look for his 30.year-
d wife who, he said, left his
ONE in Harlem May IL. Mason
lys he was born in Havana in 1907,
I'd that when Lord CORVALLIS