The Washington herald., 1909-04-16

capital OF $4,000 has been organized and
will soon start work on a Masonic temple
here.
MoundsviIle. w. Va-The cut Of per
cent on window glass will effect many
factories in this State, which may result
in many closing down. throwing hundreds
of men out of employment.
Roanoke. va.-That the Roanoke Anti
Saloon League is preparing for another
local option election in Roanoke, Is IN
dicated by a card the league has is
sued. This card not only instructs but
urges voters to pay their poll taxes IN
order 70 be prepared to vote In the CUB
ernatorial election or any local election
10 be held this year. It advises voters to
take their money to the treasurer and
ask him to mark on the receipt, per
sonally paid"
Morgantown. w. Va.-Joseph Jones. Of
Laurel Point, has received 1 800 fruit trees
and will set out an orchard. The fruit
industry in West Virginia and Virginia
Is leaplng forward in bounds. and in ten
years it will bring millions of dollars in
TO the communities. where the big or
chards are planted.
Grafton, w Va-The Baltimore and
Ohio Railroad plans extensive improve
ments In this vicinity. including the
changing OF the route into the city The
latter improvement viii eliminate the
curve and necessitate the construction Of
a new bridge across the creek.
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Brownlow. while here a few days. ex-
pressed dissatisfaction with the Payne
tariff bill. His objections 10 the measure
is the way il deals with pig iron. coal.
iron ore, and lumber, which are the prin-
cipal products Of the Tennessee district
which Mr.. BrOwnlow represents.
Lynchburg, Va-The Lynchburg council
Of Knights OF Columbus will go in body
to Bluefeld, W Va, next Sunday for the
installation OF a council Of the order IN
that city.
Parkersburg, W. Va.-B0ston Staina-
ker. who had lived as asfniser in a cheap
lodging house here, died a few days
that he was worth 100000. He was sew
enty years old.
Parkersburg. W. va-Judge Reese
Blizzard. United States district attorney.
has purchased the Parkersburg Dispatch
News for S21. 80. The paper was sold at
auction. II. c. Ogden. OF Wheeling, and
former Gov. White were bidders.
Culpeper. Vu.-The town council has
made large increases in license taxes for
the coming year. Il viii cost the Stand
ard Oil Company 800 10 do business
through its local agency. The tax TO sell
the near beer is SO; the merchant SELL
ing cigarettes must pay 50; the skating
rink and moving picture man must each
pay $50. Railroads. telegraph. and tele-
phone companies are included in the in
crease, while the doctors and lawyers
come in for a 50 per cent increase.
Fredericksburg. va.-The Bowling
Green correspondent of the Free Lance.
following an observance made on court
day, when Bowling Green was filed with
country visitors. says that Tucker viii
carry the county IN the gubernatorial
primary.
Norfolk. Va.-The board OF aldermen
has killed the Truxtun anti-gambling law,
the object OF which was 20 break up
gambling in Norfolk Judge Wilcox. in
a strong speech, stated on the council
floor that enforcement of the present anti
gambling laws would stamp out gam
bling in Norfolk. and new laws are un-
necessary. The city has been agitated for
months over an anti-gambling crusade.
Ashland. Va-Dr. Edwin WingfeId
Bowen. professor of Latin at Randolph
Macon, has been offered the chair OF Eng
lish at Sewanee University. II is not
known whether DR.. Bowen win accept
His retirement from RandOlph-Macon viii
cause general regret
Fredericksburg. Va-A T. P. A. post
has been formed here with nineteen men,
bers. d. s. Quinton is president; z. NJ.
Young. vice president. and NJ. O. Willis,
secretary and treasurer.
Fredericksburg. Va.-Fresh FISH continue
scarce and high. Reports from the big
seines in the Rappahannock and Potomac
rivers are not encouraging.
Fairmont, W va.-Ex-Gov. A. b.
Fleming has resigned as director and vice
president of the First National Bank. Of
this city For many years he had been
one of the directors Of the institution.
Gov Flemings letter said that he is
growing tired of responsibility and that
he proposes TO be away from the city
most Of the coming summer
Norfolk. Va.-A E Krise, president of
the Atlantic Trust and Deposit Company.
has resigned because Of i'll health. and II.
II. Trice has succeeded him. Mr.. Krise
has succeeded as vice president Of the in
stitution c. w. Fentress. resigned.
Cumberland. Md.-Edward Mooney a
former Mount Savage. Nd, boy. re-
Gently of Ohio. was ordained to the priest
hood of the Catholic Church in Rome on
Saturday last. Rev. Mr.. Mooney at
tended St. Columbia School, YOUNGSTOWN
and st. Charles College. in Howard
County. Nd. where his standing was so
high that he was named as one of the
men selected from Catholic students from
the entire country to continue his studies
in the American College, in Rome.
Elkton, Md.-Reports from different sec
tions of the Eastern Shore Of Maryland
indicate that the strawberry crop will be
a large one this season and that the cold
weather of the past week has done the
vines 10 harm.
Greensboro. n. C.-The Record says ed
itorially: Richmond lawyers hear that
Hon Frank Fuller. of Durham, is like
ly TO succeed Judge Purnen for the East
ern North Carolina judseship. They say
while they are interested In that this
judge Will sit on the Circuit Court or
Appeals they have refused to dip IN e.
though solicited to do so every few days.
There is no discOunting Frank E7i-fie--