Lexington gazette. [volume] (Lexington, Va.) 1871-1962, 1909-08-04
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CltlzenS VI Clo'oldnu uofo ioi"S
IN Ohio alrship company with 800
100 capital.
The more female relatives a mar
RED ma has the less chance he has
,f naming the first baby,
The Daughters OF the Confeder-
acy OF Richmond want the proposed
Battle Abbey located on the site OF
old Ford's Hotel.
Miss Mabel Boardman OF Wash
ington, is TO be decorated by the
Italian government as a recognition
OF her work as a member OF the
American Red Cross in behalf OF
the sufferers In the Messina earth.
quake.
When King Edward travels in
Europe he occupies his own cars.
Except when In actual use the
Kings railway carriages are stored
in Brussels and sent to Cherbourg,
Calais or Flushing, according TO the
royal destination.
After having voted against the
licensing OF saloons twice within
tee past four years, Shenandoah
City, in Page county, and six miles
north OF Elkton reversed itself on
the question last Tuesday and the
town was voted wet by majority
OF l9 out of total vote OF l75.
The Council OF Clendenin, WA,
has just passed an ordinance for
bidding women riding astride with
in the town limits Bathing in Elk
river within mile OF the center OF
town is forbidden, while the person
who swears on the street is certain
to land in Jail.
John Mans gan, while picking buck
leberries on the mountain near
Shenandoah, Pa, lost his little girl
5 years old, aud although he and o
detail OF the State police searched
all night they could not find her.
But the next morning she was dis
covered at Girardville, FIVE miles
away. where she had wandered in
the darkness.
The Police Commissioners OF Mo-
bile, Ala, on Wednesday last estab'
lished a curfew law for negroes.
Commencing last week, all the
blacks must be in bed or at home by
10 o'clock. Any of them caught
r wandering at large will be locked
up. This action has been found to
be unavoidable by reason OF the
many disorderly acts on the part OF
violent and vicious colored people.
While a wake was being heldover
the body Of Teeflo Buenrostro Of
, Morelia, Mexico. who was supposed
to be dead, he suddenly came back
to life and sprang from the coffin
The room was crowded with mourn
srs, who were panic-stricken at the
sight. An old woman was trampleo
% to death and other persons injured
~ by the crowd who attempted 10 fie'
from the room. Buenrostro's al
a tempts to explain matters only add
:, ed to the excitement.
of The Chinese government has al
,s ranged to send 100 students eacl
4 wear TO different American colleges
ia 80 per cent of whom will take tech
nicsl courses such as mechanics
3 and mining engineering, agricultur
p. and commerce. A bureau has bee
or established at Pekin to conduct
" preparatory school for 300 student
a from the various provinces. b
es sides this, help is to be extended I
10 those students who are now
vt America on their own expenses.
An ingenious fraud in the butte
line was brought to light recent
in England. In that country II
~ amount of moisture in butter
III limited by law 10 l6 per cen
80 Australian and New Zealand bu
10, ters, on the other hand, usual
a' contain only per cent OF waterfall
DC ing advantage of this fact, sever
ns firms imported large quantities
III these colonial buffers, to which
oo per cent of water was then adde
%. thus bringing them down TO tt
ho British standard. AS the addt
III water naturally cost nothing al
'ou the product was sold at the cure
''0 butter price, a substantial pro
80 was made.
ia Mrs. Betty Taylor Dandridl
- daughter of General Zachary Tayl
"a twelfth president OF the Unit
States, died at her home in WI
l.
oa, chester, on Sunday evening, ~
Got 25th, following lingering Hines
Her death resulted from a sud-
hos heart attack, from which she fail
md to rally. Mrs. cambridge was mt
Al than So years old, having be
-, born at what is now Fort Snellii
100 on the Mississippi river, in MINI
70 sofa, April 20, 1924. The cid
10, sister Of Mrs. cambridge, Sal