Lexington gazette. [volume] (Lexington, Va.) 1871-1962, 1909-03-17
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Mr.. Taft is raking plain tLs
tact-thst ne iDbtrits norr of tie
enmities OF the RCosev.lt Admins
tration.
Mr.. j. o. Ogden Armour il
quoted as tayiDg that meat will be
cheaper this summer. 1t is to be
hoped GO.
1t is said that thousands Of men
are deserving their wives and chill.
dren In York because they cannot
lind work. 1t is alleged thai there
sreI200, 900 idle men and women in
that city.
At meeting Of the board of
the Western State Hospital IN
stanton last week, the action OF
the general board In the purchase
of the Morris Willis property, near
Lynchburg for State epileptic
colony was ratified.
One OF the most in portant opin-
ions that has come from the Inter
tate Commerce Commission re-
Gently is that just announced by
Chairman Knapp, in which it 10
neld that hereafte. express COM
panies will no longer be required
TO chip beer C. o. ID.
When former Vice. President
Fairbanks addressed the Indiana
Legislature on Monday be said: 81
cannot conclude without q word OF
caution in regard to the peril OF
Capitalization. We are moving
forward toward centralized power
never dreamedof by our fathers"
Ex-PresIdent Roosevelt 10 said
to have com bined with Secretary
Root to control the New York
Sta,e Republican machine and to
have Chairman Parsons elected
United States senator to succeed
Mr.. Depew, 1t appears to be hard
for Mr.. Roosevelt to keep OUT"
An ice war is being waged in
Norfolk between the ice factories.
The Wholesale price Of ice has
dropped from So to 81 per 100
pounds, and the retail price to Is
cents. The independents forced
the fight, is said, on account OF
overproduction.
An informal Teeting held in
Lynchtrrg last Thursday of lead,
ing Virginia Republicans, many
of whom are attending the U. ).
Court, brought out the fac. that
L. 5. Marshall s. Brown Allen Ut
Staunton. was the choice of alb
present as the Republican cabdi-
date for governor.
Representative Henry Of Texas,
last Thursday secured permission
of Speaker Cannon to introduce
the first measure in the Sixty. first
Congress, a joint resolution pro-
posing to amend the Constitutions
of the United States States so as
TO change the date OF InsugUra.
ton from March 4 to April 80.
While mem bers Of the State Cor
pOratiOn Con mission will not dis
cuss the after, there is h general
impression that the commission
will shortly ISSUE an order allow.
my u maximum rate of two and
half cents mile for passer ger
q alfic and thousand mile ticket
at TWO cents mile.
The New York American says
thut President Taft has given
BE- llamy Storer the choice Of either
the London Or Paris em bassiss. MIR.
Storer seems about TO come to lis
own agaiE since the retirement Oi
Mr.. Roosevelt who placed him in
the Ananias Club and declared
hIu to be an VI desirable citizen.
The Supreme Court of Appeals
ito not EuEd down its decision
Thursday, in TIE Ware election
law case nor in the poll tax case.
as wac expected. 1t is under
stood that the decision in teose
TWO cases OF Statewide interest
will be given tie latter part OF
this month.
Under an opinion handed dcwR
IN the Supreme Court of Appeals,
The estate or tie late J. Samuel
McCue, iOfn es mayor OF Cfdl.
ottssyilie, viii have TO pay the
costs Of The trial OF McCue tor
wife murder, and the cas- has
been hanging in the courts since
hut time. The trial cost up
ward of $4,000.
Mrs. Ruth Bryan Leavi,,. eld
.st daughter Of William j. b. ysn,
was few days ago in Lincoln .Neb.,
granted u divorce from W. II.
Leavitt. Mrs. Lesvjtt ard her
mother appeared in the court of
Judge Cornish, and both alleged
hat Leavitt had not contributed
he support of his wife. There
vas no defense. Mrs. Leavitt was
granted the custody Of tie two
children.
The dangers OF the soft Dirk
,abit" and the innocence with
ghich girls become sddicted 10
t were e.nphs slzed by Dr.. Harvey
". " iley, the gove'rOe t. tur'
God exreIt, =
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