Lexington gazette. [volume] (Lexington, Va.) 1871-1962, 1909-04-14
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luO hHOuC lFIdbu LfBIelhluTe
has passed a bill fixing Is hours a
week as the limit for work By wo-
men and children after this year.
The Persian government has
aeen notified that the United
states will hold Persia responsible
for the protection of American
citizens at Tabriz.
w, f. Shipe, Frederick county
eacher, was poisoned and came
near losing his life last week as
result of eating an apple that had
been drugged by girl pupil and
by her presented to the teacher.
1t is proposed to parade the
streets of Washington with fifteen
or twenty thousand women and
girls from the hosiery mills of that
city to bolster up the demands Of
the National Association of Hose
iery and Underwear Manufacture
ere.
Fanny Crosby, the famous blind
hymn writer, author OF "Safe in
the Arns of Jesus" has just cele.
brated her eighty-ninth birthday
at Bridgeport, Conn. Miss Cros-
by has been blind almost from
her birth and she was born in
Southeastern New York.
The Board of Supervisors OF
Fairfax county has appropriated
$500 for fruit tree inspection for
the year 1909 and adopted the act
of the Legislature requiring the
owners of any animals or growing
fowls which have died from any
contagious or infectious disease to
cremate or burn same.
The Anti. Saloon League end the
executive committee of the pro-
posed independent party of Roam
oke met few nights ago and de-
cided that there was no legal
grounds for an appeal to the Su-
preme Court from the decision Of
Judge Staples, who decided the re-
cent local option election illegal.
Frank T. Glasgow. Jr,, son of F.
L. Glasgow, one Of the best known
business men of Richn ond and
brother Of Miss Ellen Glasgow, the
famous Virginia authoress, shot
and instantly killed himself at the
Tredegar Iron Works in that city
Wednesday. Ill health is alleged
as the cause of the rash act.
1t is intimated in Washington
that President Taft is ready to
throw overheard another Of the
''policies his admired predeces-
: sor in the commercial treaty with
Germany in order to crafty the
stand-patters in Congress and the
Protective Tariff League. AT this
rate there Will be little left of the
Roosevelt policies at the end OF
this administration.
A Mrs. Turner, living near VIM
etc n.Salem, n. c., presented her
husband with five healthy babies
recently, three bOys and two girls.
The quintuplets weighed from
four to six pounds each. Fly
= siclans from all over the State
and curiosity-seekers journeyed
y long distances to see the marvels.
1t is the first case Of its kind IN
that paIt of the country on record.
Gov. Swanson has appointed the
following delegates to the National
Peece Congress, to meet In Che
ago May 3 and 8: Rev. DR., Hugh
G. MacIachien, Richmond; e. w.
Maup. Grangersyille; Rev. D.. X.
ii. Pitt, Richmond; w. K. Allen,
Covlngton; H. o, Humphreys,
Bedford City; A. y. Monieiro,
Maldens; r. +. Blackwell, Ash
, land; John r. johnson, Christians
curg; Timothy Rives, Prince
George; Judge James O.Shspherd
!. Palmyra.
!, Justice John Jeter Crutchtield
), of Richmond has given out an
l. edict that hereafter married mer
}. may be allowed to stay out as late
r as 1920 o'clock at night, whether
the wife issues orders TO the con
! trary or not. The case came VI
F. when Mrs. katherine Shiplin oren'
~ declared that her hubby had {
Tad and vicious he bit of staying
f. cut after $3.50 O'Clock, talking
r. politics and smoking cigars on thu
D. porches of his neighbors' homes.
r The first month of "dry"Lynch
C burg. when compared with the
d las. month of the old regime
as elbows that the number of cases
not including delinquent watel
. charges, decreased from 2S3 t
II 141, THE being decrease o.
u slightly more than 81 pei, cent
o. The number Of drunks fined in thu
t asst month of the saloon was oil
D. The number the first month unde
Il local option was Is, 9 of which
y were made the first two days afte
i TIE saloons closed. Then came I
&c period of IL days without an ar
r. est, and Others followed durips
he remainder of the month.
>, A town that never has anything
n. TO do in a public way is on th'
h. way to cemetary. Any either
: who will do nothing for his tow
! Is helping to dig the grave. 4