Lexington gazette. [volume] (Lexington, Va.) 1871-1962, 1908-05-27
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Brief Items of Interest for the
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sea, has been patented py nor
wegian inventor.
The 10, O29 men engaged In the
fisheries of Nova Scotia in 1909
received $685. in bounties from
the government.
g. Z. Zirkle, formerly deputy
sheriff for Shenandoah county, was
convicted at Woodstock of illicit
sale of whiskey and fined $500.
An Indiana man brought suit
against a hardware company for
$40, 900 because the rope he pur-
chased of the company broke be-
fore he could hang himself with it.
The Randolph-Maeon Woman's
College of Lynchburg has been no.
tilted that it has been awarded an
annual scholarship ia the Julian
Art School of Paris.
SIR. Christopher W. Booze of
Buchanan, aged sixty eight years,
died in buchanan last Wednesday.
He was a member of Anderson's
Battery, Botetourt Artillery, and
was a brave Confederate soldier.
His wife and four children survive.
The law in Texas which provid-
ed that per cent OF the gross
earnings of railroads should be
paid for taxes, when the railroad
lay entirely within the State. and
a proportionate sum when they lay
partly within, has been declared
unconstitutional by the Supreme
Court of the United States.
May corn reached record break
ing price or the Chicago Board Of
Trade q few days ago when James
A. Patton squeezed j. Ogden Ar
mour and forced the price to 70
cents. Millions of dollars are said
to have been lost by Armour in his
efforts to break the Patton corner
and cover his shortage.
The Southern Baptist COnven.
ton at Hot Springs adopted reso-
lutions cohdemning the liquor trsf-
&c in all it's phases. Congressis urg-
ed to prohibit the shipment of liq'
uor into dry territory, and people
everywhere are urged not to vote
for candidates who are in sympa-
thy with the saloon interests.
William Dabney Saunders, pro
lessor of dairy hubandry at the
Virginia Polytechnic Institute has
announced that he would accept
the position of State Dairy Com
missioner and Food Inspector ten
dered hlm recently by Governor
| Swanson, and would take up the
work at the end of the present ses~
sion of the V. P. /.
The WOman's Home Missionary
Society of the Court Street Meth
odist Church, Lynchburg, has en-
gagged Miss Bernice jenkins, who
will graduate from the Missionary
Training School of Nashville
Tenn, as deaconess. She 10 ex-
pected to give her whole time TO
the work OF this large church, be-
ginning some time during May.
1t is quite a common sight now
to see about one or two acres OF
land In Buckingham dotted over
with piles of lime, and these lots
are the places where men are going
to try an acre or two in corn, with
| lime and bone meal to cost $3.50
an acre. This is more than most OF
the land will sell for, but If they
succeed with this intensive farm
ing as they hope to do, it may pay +,
The government gives the seed
corn.
John P. Thompson has an
nounced himself as an independent
Democratic candidate for the may
orally of Lynchburg, June 9th In
opposition to Mayor G. W. Smith,
who was recently declared the
Democratic nomiree for reelection
without opposition. 1t is not
thought the announcement Will
cause any uneasiness as to the
success of the regular ticket.
According to information just
published, the fiscal year ending
July lst will be the banner year in
the history of the Chesapeake and
Ohio Railway. In spite OF the
unfayorable financial conditions
throughout the country, the Cbes'
apeake and Ohio has been doing
an enormous coastwise business
and the import and export bust
ness has held up fairly well.
Announcement has been made at
the White House that President
Roosevelt had signed the bill di-
recting the restoration 90 gold
and silver coins of the motto, "ln
God We Trust" which he ordered
stricken from the gold coins some
months ago on the ground tina!
the law did not authorize its use
The Law becomes effective 80 days
from May Is, and the dies with
the additional words already have
been prepared.IE the meantime the
coinage of $50 and $40 gold pieces
minus the me ito will continue,
Philadelphia Record: One year
in prison and a fne of $1,000 has
teen imposed under new law up
on New York druggist for selling
cocaine without prescription. Az
the result OF his Lefarious trade
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