Lexington gazette. [volume] (Lexington, Va.) 1871-1962, 1909-06-09
CONDENSED NEWS
Brief Items of Interest for the
Busy Reader

the month Il May was g. ,i53, 955.
A single female house fly pre-
duces in one season. over 20 mill.
ions Of defendants.
A dangerous counterfeit SIS In.
dianhead note has been discovered
by the Secret Service.
The first days attendance at
the Alaskan ukon-P Pacific Expo
sition, which opened June LIST, OF
Seattle, totalsd 89,28o.
Its reported that Virginia liq-
uor dealers are laying in large
stocks of imported liquors In sx.
psctation Of = higher tariff on
such goods.
Rev. VIM, H. Milton, rector Of
st. Johns Episcopal church, in
Roanoke, has received a call to the
Episcopal church, at Wilmington,
N. G.
In accordance with the petition
Of the saloon men for LEGAL option
election in Bristol, Va. Judge
Price, of the Corporation Court,
has ordered an election to be held
Thursday. July 9Th.
! In the Senate a !ews days ago
Senator Daniel severely scored
Senator Root, who defended the
course Of the Republicans in sx.
Guiding Democrats from the hear
ings Of experts BY the finance
committee.
The discharge of ], 800 men from
the Norfolk navy yard is threat.
ensd by June 10Th. Or that date
the battleships Virginia, Louisi.
ana and Minnesota are expected
to leave and the heavy discharge
will result from lack Of work.
There are now employed 10 she
navy yard S,lOO men.
In an orchard near Santa Rose,
CAL, there 10 a very old pear tree
which Is estimated TO be almost
100 years old. This last season
the tree bore fine, large pears, free
from blight of any description.
This orchard was planted by Span.
ish gardeners long before Califor.
MIA passed into the hands Of Uncle
Sam.
Railroad earnings in Virginia
continue to show a large percent
age Of increase as compared with
the corresponding period for last
year and from most OF the roads
there come reports of busy shcr'
or orders for cars and equipment,
! or roadbed improvements and OF a
volume of business almost reach
ing the maximum capacity OF the
roads.
The annual conference Of the
, Church OF Brethren, held last
/ week in Harrison burg, has select
, ed Winona Park at Warsaw, Ind,
| as the next place for the annual
: meeting. TIE petition asking that
!, Brethren be allowed to carry life
, insurance was voted down by an
overwhelming majority, not mere
than twenty voting for the pro-
: posed change.
Lot US do oil the business we
can. If we can't be lighthouse
let us be . candle. Some one has
} said: ~ can't be anything more
} than a farthing rushlght. We'll
: IL you cam. be more, be that; that
10 we'll enough. Be ell you can.
: What makes the Dead dead ? Be-
cause it 10 all the time receiving
s and never giving out anything
g Dwight L. Moody
"The prohibition wave has
reached its height and the reaction
:. is already beginning to set in. This
opinion was officially expressed
I by the board of trustees Of the
United States Brewers Association
: in a report presented to that or
E ganization, which met in Atlantic
City last week for its convention.
q The report admitted. that sales oil
beer for the nine months from
e June 80, 1908, to April Let, 1909,
v showed a decrease over those OF
e the preceding year, of 1885,
r Dol. IA.
e Eastern College, an institution
8 that has been located at Front
Royal for many years, will b'
d moved to Manassas and will open
? the session of 1909 and 1910 there
The Baldwin property, has beer
reserved, and the erection OF new
buildings will be commenced al
;, once. The management OF the
= college announced vt the com
- mencement exercises In From
J. Royal last week that the next ses
A sion would open At Manassas. ce'
eral towns were 10 competition FOL
- this institution, and Professo
= Mathew and his assistants bhalll
= concluded that Manassas offere'
!, the best opportunities for sue
in cess.
IL The colored men and women II
=. the South who entertained tn
il idea that the oolored people re
a, ceivs better treatment up Norti
I. than is accorded them in the soutI
ID need only to read the decision
"a handed down by Nsw York cour
"a In q case in whichrrhe plaintiff Wa
II negro. This man had been ar
;s rested for an alleged theft, but D