Lexington gazette. [volume] (Lexington, Va.) 1871-1962, 1909-03-03
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passed, and the Governor will sign.
a bill 70 elect United States Sena-
tors by the Oregon plan.
United States Secretary of Ag-
ricultOre Wilson sage that the use
OF nitrogen peroxide as -four
bleach lowers the strength of the
-four and makes it possible TO use
inferior wheat in its manufacture.
Many leading citizens of Balti-
more expressed themselves as fav-
oring the action taken by the Cath
Ollie clergy in denouncing race sui.
eide as blow to national life, ard
Bishop Corrigan, in an interview
explained the opposition of the
Catholic clergy TO race suicide.
Rockingham county is determ.
ined TO have good roads. The
board OF supervisors has auth
orized the purchase of a steam
rock crusher for each magisterial
district of the county. The ma
cbinery is tc be used in general
campaign OF permanen; road
building in the county.
1t is announced that Postmaster
Cabell of Richmond and Repre-
sentative Slemp of the ninth dis
trict, will not be candidates for
the Republican gubernatorial NOM
ina tion, and, according to Repub-
lican leader of Statewide promi.
hence, the nomination now is al
most certain to 20 to A. z. Giles
pie. the TazewelI lawyer.
Buckingham county is elm bling
into the good roads band wagon.
The board OF supervisors has de-
cided to appropriate an amount
equal to that appOrtioned to Buck
ingham from the State appropria-
ton for road building. An order
of court will be applied for to se-
cure an election On tie question OF
issuing Bonds Of the county TO
raise a rum sufficient 10 buy
mule team, road machine, and 70
enjoy a permanent road force by
the year.
The State General Hospital
Board have decided to purcl ast,
TOR S35, 600, bout a thousand acres
of the Morris and Willis estates IN
Amherst county, across tie river
from LynchbUrg. as u site for the
State erileptic colony. The
board Will sell the MurkI land prop
erty, left to the State for tins pur.
pose. A subcommittee was ap-
pointed 10 have plans prepared, let
contracts and proceed with the
building at once, thus ending a
long controversy.
Mr.. TAFT was the principal
speaker last week in the interest of
Hampton institute, At Hampton,
Va, under auspices of the Arm.
strong Association, at Carnegie
Hall, New York. He pointed TO
the work of Hampton Institute in
solution of the race problem and
said he believes the negro is es-
sential TO the South. He said rud-
mental and industrial education
is what is needed. Later he was
entertained with plantation songs
sung by school chorus.
Sixty prominent Boston club
women have conceived the idea OF
influencing the people Of their
city for good by means of adver-
tisements. "Curing Boston by
suggestion" one paper has it. The
plan is to placard the city with
posters bearing such sentiments as
"The greatest possession is self-
possession, ""We gain the strength
of the temptstlon We resist" and
others designed to give the people
who see them an inspiration to-
ward higher place Of thinking
and living.
A new disease, called "electric
1phthalmia," is SAID to threaten
all users of electric light. Accord
ng to two Dresden scientists. the
damage is done to the eye tissues
ny the ultra viole. rays Of the
electric light, and cataract may
ultimately result. The same in
vestigators have discovered
simple preventive for electric oph-
thslmia in the shape OF yellow or
green spectacles, which they
prophesy will become univer-
fal as electricity comes more and
more into use as an illuminant.
A remarkable feature OF the sin.
augural souvenir" issued by the
committee in charge of the inaug-
ural ceremc MES, is a biographical
-ketch of President. elect Taft by
President Roosevelt. This is sig.
nificant in view Of the runors that
friction exists between Roosevelt
and Taft. The keynote of the
Presidents sketch is In these
words: mo man of better train.
ing, no man of more dauntless
courage, of sounder common sense
and Of higher and finer character
has ever cone to the Presidency
than William Howard Taft"
Jchn W. Churchman, who, it
nay be said, was the "father" 81
Virginia's two cent passenger rate,
dropped dead last v ednesday Hf.