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Lexington gazette. [volume] (Lexington, Va.) 1871-1962, 1909-09-15
Real E-Tate Tran sfers

The following deeds OF bargain and
sale were entered of record in the
Clerks Office of Rockbridge cosnty for
two week ending September 9TH, 1909:
Arthur II. Gerhardt, etc, to John
l.. Campbell, Jr., O 10 acres and "a
poles known as Spout Spring Proper
ty'; (2) house and lot OF one acre. adj.
V. NJ. l.; g. u certain lot conveyed to
Annie r. Howell by 5. II. Robinson.
John A. EntsinIuger to Samuel X.
vess, 3 acres on Golfers Creek, adj
s. W. Foster, $50.
], Frank Arehari 20 VIM. B. WISE
nan, q acres and SO poles, northeast OF
old Ludwick cemetery. $275.
Mary A. Smallwood to w, T. Pat
terson, house and lot OF 1 acres on west
side Main street, Browasburg, adj. W,
L Patterson, $3.50.
Murray Moe. Lackey to G.. 4.
Moose and G. az. Moose 40 to former
and 10 to latter Of ia acres and 1878
rods near Failing Spring ehurc b, adj.
II. Il. Lunsford, o., 400.
Lexington gazette. [volume] (Lexington, Va.) 1871-1962, 1909-09-15
MOore's School House

Garrhe Cor,eJsOndtnee
Sept. 13.-The annual picnic at this
place was held last Saturday. A large
crowd was present from other places
and with the present school with Dr.
II. H. Lee, superintendent. All enjoyed
a fine diner with LEM onade and fine az
ternoon OF different plays.
Yesterday evening fine sermon was
delivered by Rev, DR.. Manly Of Lex
ington at $3.50 o'clock. the room being
unable to hold the people present.
Mr.. and Mrs. l.. NJ. Leibig after
spending few months visiting their
old home in Pennsylvania and their
daughter, Mrs. F. Neil in West Virgin.
ia, have returned to their home.
Mrs. w. s. Moore had very pain.
full and dangerous accident. running
thorn ia the palm Of her hand. but with
the ski led lance OF DR.. bold the thorn
was removed. She is getting along
nicely.
Mr.. Lewis P. Davidson was In the
neighborhood threshing last week.
The wheat is fair quality and short
yield, Dir. w. ii. Smith had the best
yield as yet heard OF. On 7-S acres
he threshed g. 4 bushels Of nice wheat.
Well / must mention our best potato
raiser. Mr.. G. l. Lofts has dug his
crop. He had Two potatoes that meas.
ured 10 inches and weighed 3 pounds,
How is this for potatatoesi Can 1t be
beateni
Mr. w. N. Badly had bad break on
his engine short time ago. Broke
the front axle. stopping him a week
with his threshing.
Mr.. Charles E. Davidson has much
improved his barn by hew weather.
boards and new metal roof.
The much needed school house at
Borden's Run Is under way.
The dry hot weather Is burning up
ouuer ara tomatoes. All fall crops
ire pershing.
Mrs. o. d. Goodwin OF Roanoke and
laughter Of Salem are visiting friends
md relatives heie.
Dessrs. Eark and Finley Lofts of
Augusta paid their brother, Mr.. c.
Iotts short visit last week, BIB.
Lexington gazette. [volume] (Lexington, Va.) 1871-1962, 1909-09-15

Springfield Personals and News
Gazsffe Co1tsbOndenee
Sept. 13--Miss Scotia Starke lef
Friday for Birmingham, Alabama
where she will teach the coming
session.
Misses Cora and Alice Leech who
have been the guests of Mrs. G. NJ.
Leech returned Saturday to their
home in Middlesboro, Kentucky,
Misses Maoaline and Gladys
Gillian Of Buchanan, are visiting
the Misses Starke.
Mrs. W. e. Arnold returned home
Sunday from two weeks stay in
Botetourt.
Dr.. L. B. Moore and family are
occupying the residence OF Mr.. G.
M. Grim near Natural Bridge, Mr..
Grim having moved to his farm at
Red Mills.
Mrs. Lila Entsminger of Taylors.
vile, Illinois, is visiting her par
ents, Mr.. and Mrs. G. G. Watts.
Rev. George o. Green of Clifton
Forge, is conducting a series OF
meetings at Natural Bridge Baptist
church.
Rev. L. McC. Williams left Mon
day for Princeton, W. Va, to attend
the fall meeting of Montgomery
Presbytery.
Mr.. Andrew Johnston went to
Fairfield the first of the week where
ne will attend school this winter.
Mr.. Arthur Padgett viii move
his week to Springwood, Va, where
le has rented farm.
CLOVER Blossom
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I'll. A. WHITE ON GOOD ROADS

The Richmond mes.Dispatcl
of last Sunday published letter
from Democratic nominees for thu
Legislature giving their opinion
Of the Democratic primary, an(
also whether or not they favor thu
goods roads movement in Virginia
Mr.. White replied at length tC
both. Following is wkat he sale
about good roads;
"To ask one if he is In favor OF
good roads 10 about like asking
him If he wants to 20 to heaven,
as the answer is in the afflima.
tive. l have been interested in
good roads for a long time, and l
believe that they must ultimately
be acquired by the various local.
ties. ! do no believe in q State
road tar. l believe in local self
government wherever it is possible
l believe that the various counties
in Virginia have the intelligence
and means to have good roads if
they determine to do SO. I do not
see the economy in taxing the peo-
pie and taking the money to Rich
mend and then sending it back to
the counties.
"Of course, if tbece is surplus
In the treasury at Richmond
which ought not to be, then l
should favor returning it to the
counties in proportion 20 the
amounts each has paid in, to be
used by the counties for roads or
such other purpose as they see fit.
1t may be on advantage 10 have
State Highway Commission com
posed OF expert road builders,
whose services can be OF tanned by
the counties without expense. /
hope to be able to do sOmthing to
encourage the building of good
roads, and l hope sooner OF later
to see Virginia well equipped in
his line"
Lexington gazette. [volume] (Lexington, Va.) 1871-1962, 1909-09-15
China, Queensware
Glassware, Housefurnish
ing Goods and Stoves

and invite the patronage of the
public.
1t will be tic endeavor of the
new owners to keep thi busin IS
M to the nigh stage of usefulness
it has enjoyed under the owner
ship of Mr. Anderson, and to
supply the homes of the town and
county with articles of household
use that will add to the comfort
and beauty of the home.
China, Cut Glass, Lamps, Met
al Ware. of beautiful design will
continue to be features of the
store, as we'll as articles Of every
day use for which demand is con-
stantly arising in the household.
We are now selling at cost
Druggets and Rugs, and Odd
Pieces in China and Glassware to
make room for fall goods.
Refrigerators and Hammocks
at reduced prices.
At the came old stand-No. 49,
North Nelson Street, Lexington.
The R. S. Anderson Co., lrc
Lexington gazette. [volume] (Lexington, Va.) 1871-1962, 1909-09-15
Glasgow Personals and Locals
and Local News Items

}, Glasgow Personals and Local
!. and Local News Items
@ Gazette Co1esSondenee
t Sept. 4.-Mr. aud Mrs. Ernes
: Echols and daughter Mildred lef
8 last Wednesday for Washington, D
D c., where they will be joined b,
friends and the party will visit sew
, eral western States before their re
, turn home.
Miss Ethel Gerow who spent the
summer in Canada is now on a yisi,
to her sister, Mrs. W. R. Moose.
Mrs. W. B. Moss and children Of
Roanoke are spending some weeks
at the home of Mrs. Eben Locber.
Mrs. Casper Of Lynchburg is WIS.,
iting Mrs. John Voolfolk.
Miss Grace McCulloch OF St.
Louis, who has been very i'll with
typhoid fever is able to be out. Her
mother'Mrs. Robert McCulloch, who
has been with her during her ILL.,
ness, hopes to take Miss McCulloch
home next week.
Mrs, Lottie Bryant who has been
on a visit to her father, Capt. Part
low, has returned to her home in
Washington, D. G.
Miss Norma Partlow is spending
several weeks with relatives in
Washington and Alexandria.
Mr.. Morrison Paxton, who Is en-
gagged in work in Mississippi is on
a visit to his home in Glasgow.
Our little village has been filled
with summer boarders for some
months but now as fall draws near
they are fast returning to their city
homes.
DIR. Phil Taylor of Richmond Is
visiting at the home OF Mr.. G. Fran.
els Moose.
Miss Ella Irby and Miss Anne
Smith who taught in the Glasgow
school, are expected back in a few
weeks to again fill their positions in
our school.
Mr.. and Mrs. Sam Monkey and
daughters, who have been on a visit
to Gladstone, have returned home.
Mr.. Denny, express agentat Glas-
gov, has been transferred TO Clifton
Forge and Mr.. Walter Martin is
now filing his place.
Little Nellie Hickman. daughter of
Mr.. Will Hickman, who has been very
sick for several months, we are
sorry TO say, is no better. Her
illness, a peculiar form OF nervous
ness, has baffied number OF ply
,icians.
Miss Louise Leckey OF Fancy
Hill has been on a visit to relatives
n Glasgow.
Mrs. Miller OF China Grove, N. c., .
pent several days last week with
Ter sister, Mrs. Thomas.
Mote The above communication
vas crowded out of last weeks is
ue OF THE GAZETTE. Editor.
Lexington gazette. [volume] (Lexington, Va.) 1871-1962, 1909-09-15

Great Roanoke Fair, Sept. 21.24
The seventh annual exhibition O
the Great Roanoke Fair, September
21-24, promises to be the biggest
show of its kind ever held in this
State.
The cash premiums this fall
amount to 500, 1000 and the exhibits
will come not alone from the Old
Dominion. but from all over the
United States.
Entries are being made every day
and the officials of the fair are much
encouraged at the bright prospects
for q record-breaking exposition.
This county will doubtless be
well represented in all the various
departments of the fair and many
hundreds OF people will be in at
tendance both day and night. There
will be great free shows every
morning, afternoon and evening.
Pyrotechnical displays will take
place On the grounds every night.
There will DO daily and nightly
flights by Strobel in bis world-beat-
ing airship. There will be wild
west shows on the race track every
day and numerous other free attrac-
tions.
The railroads will offer reduced
rates and the Roanoke hotels and
boarding houses have promised to
be most liberal with fair visitors.
Lexington gazette. [volume] (Lexington, Va.) 1871-1962, 1909-09-15
Lexington Home for Sale

The comfortable home owned AND
occupied by the undersigned IN north
east Lexington Is offered for sale,
Contains two acres and has on it a
splendid frame house of ten rooms.
with ne W stable and other out build.
ings.
Is situated a short distance from the
Virginia Military Institute grounds and
commands beautiful Wow OF river,
mountain and country side. Apply to
Mrs. HERBERT w. WHlTMORE.
Sept. 80 II
Lexington gazette. [volume] (Lexington, Va.) 1871-1962, 1909-09-15
Kills W0uld-be SLAYER

A merciless murderer is Append
citis with many victims. But DIR
Kings New Life Pills kill 1t by pre-
vention. They gently stir ulate stom
ach, liver and bowels, preventing thai
cloggipg that invites appendicitis
curing Constipation. Billiousness.
Chills, Malaria, Headache aud Indl.
gsstion. 2be. at 3. H. Gerrsll's.
Lexington gazette. [volume] (Lexington, Va.) 1871-1962, 1909-09-15
Wood Contract

Sealed bids will be received by the
undersigned on or before OCTOBER 1,
1909, for furnishing good merehauta.
BILE wood to the Poor OF Lexington Mag
isteriil District, anywhere In the dis.
trict, ia half.cord and quarter cord
loads. 10 long or cut, for the year end.
ing July, 1910.
j. L. HENDERSON,
Sept 8 Q st Overseer of Poor
Lexington gazette. [volume] (Lexington, Va.) 1871-1962, 1909-09-15
The Leader Among Newspaper.

The Leader Among wspapers
One of the many traits that com
mend the Philadelphia Record to
people who do not live in the great
cities is that it is newspaper that
is not selfish about it's news, and is
not city -centered in it's ambitions.
There has long been we'll ground
ed complaint that most of the great
metropolitan dailies are provincial,
and take it for granted that city
news is all that it is necessary
for them to print.
The Record apparently takes a
different view. While giving a
faithful chronicle OF all that occurs
in it's own city, it does not neglect
nor skimp the news of any part OF
the wide field that it covers. Any
issue of this big newspaper is full
of proof that it prints full and -elia-
BILE reports of everything of interest
that occurs in it's whole territory.
The Record is refreshingly diff
ferent from other big dailies in many
ways. 1t is steady and reliable,
and not prone to get wildly excited
over some spectacular undertaking
crusade OF it's own making. In
stead of packing its columns with
frenzied discussions, it simply
prints the news, and, according to
well-verifed claims, more items of
news than any other newspaper in
the country.
Lexington gazette. [volume] (Lexington, Va.) 1871-1962, 1909-09-15

look at the town and the city horse
how be gets used to these machine.
My answer to that is, the city hors
and country horse are wo differer
animals, living under entirely di
ferent conditions. When the hors
is bought and taken to the city b
is bittsd and gagged by his drive
as IL he were an outlaw; the sam
man drives him every day and th,
poor horse is put to 1t until he real
ly has no will OF his own, notice.
nothing in the world but the lash il
the hand OF the driver.
In the country and on the farm
the horse runs idle great deal o.
the time and may not be on the pub.
lie road unless there is some extra
hauling to do over once week, and
then only for q short drive to
church or to make some social call;
and when the quiet horse meets one
OF these footing machines he becomes
perfectly frantic. Woe unto the
poor woman and children that are
in that buggy. And il the machine
is not met the dread aud fear OF 1t
by these defenseless occupants is
but little less than the fear that our
ancestors had of the Indians of old.
In fact any country man who is the
owner and user OF a we'll kept horse
has look Of dread upon his face
when he md his horse are on the
public road.
A few years ago the Board OF
Supervisors of Bath county, after a
thorough discussion of the whole
matter, passed an ordinance forbid
ding the ownership and use OF au-
tomobiles in that county, because it
has rendered the use of the horse
so dangerous; and this is what our
Board Of Supervisors should also
do. Rockbridge county is by ma
ture very billy; great deal of our
county is underlaid with limestone
,averns and our roads on account OF |
The four preceding wet summers
AVE washed till they are rendered |
Unfit for the use OF automobiles. |
Again, on account of the mud in !
he winter, no practical use can be
made by the taxpayers OF our coun-
y by these machines. We have a
Inc grass and grain country and
ny one who has sufficient business
o justify keeping an automobile
ould just as easily keep horse.
nd not make himself a nuisance to
is neighbors. The farms and farm
RS are the foundation of ourw ealth,
Prosperity and happiness, and any
rider made with reference to our
ublic roads should be made with a
lew of beneftting that class of
eople. And you, Mr.. Editor, be
5 the children OF Mammon are, wise
, your generation, and advocate
lrough your paper, what will pro-
'ct the class of people who have S
orne the burdens and paid the
'xes of this country from time i'm
emorial. SUBSCRIBER.
P. S.-Should any fatalities occur
our county, when the great race c
pulled off, who pays the funeral q
ipenses, the News or GAZETTE ?
Lexington gazette. [volume] (Lexington, Va.) 1871-1962, 1909-09-15
Restaurant

| have op5ntd ny Restaulan; In W.
+. Granger I room, Washington street
(adjoining rool roor) Hope my old
patrons will follow ne, and solicit
patronage OF others.
Ms county friends are invited to
call aud eat with me.
Highest market prices paid for but
ter. eggs, chickens and ether produce.
Sept set LEWIS ROBINSON.
Lexington gazette. [volume] (Lexington, Va.) 1871-1962, 1909-09-15

Tho "drys" waged their campaign
In Roanoke with vigor last Sunday.
Temperance sermons were delivered
from the pulpits Of practically all the
churches. The local option election
will be held September 30. Both sides
are confident Of success. The cam
paign for CLOSED" town has been re.
vived and the blue laws put into force
eiPh IT months ago are again to be ef
fective.
Lexington gazette. [volume] (Lexington, Va.) 1871-1962, 1909-09-15
Dissolution Notice

l have severed my connection with
Riding Bros, and will hereafter con-
tract for buildings and carpenter work
on my own responsibility. Repair
work a speciality. The patronage OF
the public Is solicited.
June 20 eft J. y, MyERH.
Lexington gazette. [volume] (Lexington, Va.) 1871-1962, 1909-09-15

The Jewish New Year, or Rosh-
ha-Shanah, begins this evening at
shutdown, and will be observed by
the Hebrews throughout the coun-
try.
Lexington gazette. [volume] (Lexington, Va.) 1871-1962, 1909-09-15

Spring business is about over,
Summer is here. If you want to
do business you have got to put
the RIGHT PRICES on your
stuff. Now that's what / am do.
ing-marking my goods down
not up. People are buying better
stuff. | am glad to see it. A
poor merchant don't exactly have
a pudding He has simply a big
picnic. Customers want shoes
not to leak, shirts not TO fade.
clothing not to wear out, hats not
to get wet, ties not to wrinkle.
L just can't tell you what they
don't want. | want part of this
country myself. YOU GET ALL
THAT'S COMING TO YOU
HERE. Come and see NE.
Lexington gazette. [volume] (Lexington, Va.) 1871-1962, 1909-09-15
Make Oid Things New

A door, a mantel, kitchen chairs
benches, any small old things to be
made new is quickly done by painting
with a pound or two Of our l.. d NJ
Home Finish Domestic Paint In al
colors. Have you an old carriage,
Make 1t new with small can OF L. &
III. Home Finish Carriage Varnlsh
Paint. Won't cost more than about a
dollar and saves hundred. We sup
ply everything in paint and saye you
money, Sold by McCrum Drug Co.,
Lexington. II. l.. Gilkeson, Buena
Vista.
Lexington gazette. [volume] (Lexington, Va.) 1871-1962, 1909-09-15

Watch babies bowels till the frosts
come. DR.. FIhrney's Teething Syrup
keeps them in gooo shape. Sam pie free
Lexington gazette. [volume] (Lexington, Va.) 1871-1962, 1909-09-15

Leaves are falling. Babies don't
fall away while taking DR.. Fabrney's
Teething Syrup. 1t makes sap-blood.
Lexington gazette. [volume] (Lexington, Va.) 1871-1962, 1909-09-15
Et,|'ll35Y!|

PREPARED INSTANTLY. Simply add boil
ak <rocers. 7flavors. Refuse all substitutes
Lexington gazette. [volume] (Lexington, Va.) 1871-1962, 1909-09-15
beavers BATTLE
For Better Goods at Less Money

l still sell
Clothing
Shoes
Hats
Gents Furnishings
Dress Suit Cases
Trunks and VaIises
H@~I make SUITS OF CLOTHES
and PANTS to order. Prices
right. Fit guaranteed.
Some bargains for CASH."
Want to take trip. Help me
to buy Il ticket.
The Fairmont West Virginian. (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1904-1914, 1909-06-16

have no chance and only the tlttest
can survive, for the strong men Of all
lands are bringing their power and
vIgor here to mould and direct the
frontiers destiny. Do not infer, how
ever, that physical or mental power
alone constitutes fitness to survive IN
| this western environment. Moral
strength is. perhaps, the most power
iul factor in the struggle. the indi-
vllual who needs the support Of FAM
lily, friends, or law to lead moral life,
takes too great a risk among the open
temptations of the west You must
not only feel able, but be able to stand
alone, for 1t has been we'll said that
! mo law of God or man runs west Of
ninety-seven." The camps and mills
and sequestered valleys are already
filed with men with shamed names,
outcasts from other lands, seeking IN
these remote and lonely places to for
get and be forgotten. OF such people
the west wants no moro
The frontier mas ever been and still
Is potent factor in the training of
our strongest men-tne men who have
made our history, I need only men,
ton Washington and Lincoln and
Grant, of national fame, and Stanton +,
and Huntington, and Field, and Ere
mont, of the Argonauts, to remind you
Iof score of others. Roosevelts sue.
cess has recently been ascribed to the
schooling OF Harvard and the plains. !"
The most effective regiment in the
Cubsn war was the Trough Riders
the brains of such papers as Golfers.
The New York Independent and Jour.
nal are furnished by the west. The
greatest American physicist today the
winner of the Nobel prize, was reared
in a western mining camp and suc4
men as Mark Twain and Bret Harte
The Fairmont West Virginian. (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1904-1914, 1909-06-16
An hrspiring
Address 6yDr.
Maxwen Adams

DR.. Maxwell Adams, of Nevada, de-
1ivered the commencement address at
the Fairmont State School yesterday.
DIR. Adams graduated at the Fairmont
Normal Just 81 years ago yesterday,
June 10, 1888. After dwelling for a
short time on "reminiscences, of local
Interest, DR.. Adams spoke as follows:
Since history first records the deeds
of men, we find the more adventurous
members Of the human race, faring
forth from the eastern centers of pop
ulaton, to explore the wilderness and
make homes in the west. The patti.
arch Abraham led his family out from
Chaldea to Palestine, the then far
West. The Arians poured out of Cen
trail Asia to people Europe the Ro,
mans planted their imperial Eagles in
Gaul, and the Saxons established
homes on the shores of England. Our
own colonial days need only be men
toned to recall to you the story of
western migration, which peopied our
Eastern shores.
Fifty years ago Horace Greeley's
The Fairmont West Virginian. (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1904-1914, 1909-06-16

received their first inspiration from
the western frontier. The esst may be
likened to the trunk of the tree, whit
the west contains the prOtoplasm md
chloreplyl of the growing changing
branches.
know OF no more effective way to
separate a young man from sopho
merle concelt and narrOwness, than
to turn him loose somewhere in the
open west, with roll Of blankets. He
perceives the true value OF things anI
recognizes his own limitations. He
soon finds room to grow. and when he
now grows, it is with broadness Of
vision and appreciation never before
touched. Walt Whitman says: 81
think heroic deeds were all conceived
In the open air. It is 10 grow IN the
open air and to eat and sleep with the
earth"
In the "spenders" we read OF a
young man VINO, event west, a New
Yorker stayed two years and return
ed home an American" These from
tier contitions, which turn men into
the same blankest and make them
brothers, is a great leveller of artiR-
clal distinctions. This is why a maa
in the west is judged solely by what
he can do, not by what his ancestors
have done. Can you deliver the
goods" Is much used phrase among
westerners. If you can you are as
sured a royal welcome, and your asso.
ciates ask no further questions, least
of all that delicate one as to "wha!
name you went by in the States" In
short, the west is a mans land with
male standards of action, land where
one most give and take, stand or fall,
as a man.
For aaca Individual person the west
sounds its special call. I shall try
The Fairmont West Virginian. (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1904-1914, 1909-06-16

to interpret this call to three particu-
lar classes: The Traveller, the pres,
Dsctor, the teacher.
believe 1 am entitled to speak with
some authority for these three classes.
During my summer vacations for the
past fifteen years ! have travelled
with saddle horse and pack over thou-
sands of miles Of this western coun.
hy; many prospeetors on the frontier
have been my friends, and have felt
with them the thrill of anticipation
which a rich piece of float can furnish;
AMI last Of all, / lave been teacher,
among the people of the west, for more
than decade.
The Spaniards under Cortez, wnen
they came into this great basin region,
called 1t the painted desert" What
locality within our borders can furnish
more surprises. or call more perslla-
sIvely to the traveller, seeking now
and strange scenes than this same
frontier, with Its snowcapped peaks
on the east and west and the greet
desert alive with co.,
or and STEPPED in sunshine lying be;
tween. .
Did you, in your childhood, ever fol-
low some woodland path across the
hills or along the brook, and look with
expectancy toward the next hilltop.
or turn in the trail, and feel the THRILL
rc,t'rgst mn eaee FourJ