Lexington gazette. [volume] (Lexington, Va.) 1871-1962, 1909-11-24
CONDENSED NEWS
Brief Items of Interest for the
Busy Reader

The Cairo Sheriff, who permitted
the mob to lynch prisoners, lost his
job.
Charles Fl. Crittenton, founder of
the Florence Crittenton Rescue
Homes for Girls, is dead. He estab-
lished these homes as a memorial to
his only daughter, who died in
youth.
A story has reached Roanoke, that
a controlling interest in the Virginia
Iron, Coal and Coke Company,
which operates iron plants in Vir-
GINA, Tennessee and Kentucky and
owns mineral properties in other
States. has been purchased by the
United States Steel Corporation.
Governor Swanson OF Virginia,
will call a meeting of the Gettys-
burg Monument Commission to Sc
lect a new site for the proposed
monument on the battlefield, the
Secretary of War having declined to
allow any monument to be placed on
Bloody Angle" the site previous
ly selected by Virginia.
Without discussion and by una
nimous vote, the Virginia annual
conference OF the Methodist Episco'
pal Church, South, lat its closing ses-
sion last week in Newport News
adopted the report of the temper
ance committee, which urges the
Anti-Saloon League Of Virginia to
petition the State Legislature 10 give
the people OF the State the right to de-
eide whether or not Virginia shall
be put into the dry" column.
There are 200, 900 men and women
, in New York who are willing to
work. but who are not able to OBJ
tain employment, was the statement
{ made on Monday by Cora D. Harvey.
secretary of the national committee
g Of the unemployed, before the State
e commission which is investigating
I tue operation OF the employers LA
a bility act. She urged plan by
b which the State should open factor
les and employ these men and wom-
t en-.
/. At the meeting OF the board Of
e trustees of the Presbyterian Or
phans' Home at the Y NJ. G. A. in
e Lynchburg, it was decided that
d slOC, 900 would be required to re-
J. organize the Orphanage and put it
S upon plan hoped for by the board.
d In order to do this, steps were
Of taken for the members Of the board
it to have charge OF certain territory
lie for the purpose Of organizing those
a. churches for the purposes OF assist
O. ing in this WORK.
n Alexandra Gazette: The Legisla-
N ture will be called on at the session
~ next winter TO enact q statute for
D. bidding the playing OF football in
lie this State. AS played now it should
r be stopped. A game" which ne
Al cessitates the players to be padded
OF or practically armored to prevent
Is the loss Of limb or life should have
" no place in a civilized community.
but unfortunately, by reason OF the
degeneracy of the times, the more
brutal the game the more is it en-
OF ioyed by the spectators. This be-
lis ing the case the authorities should
he stop it at once and call a halt on
lie football.
~ Talk about English newspapers
,o getting things mixed which occur
o. on this side. Why now we read in
n one, "A certain person OF the name
ro of Peary Cook, an American by
90 birth, asserts that be has discovered
the North Pole" Another one re
~ Gently spoke Of Chas. Dana Gibso
~ as the founder of the New IcrF
~ Sun. The Louisville Courier-Journ
,ro al long since found one which spok'
.. of Richard Harding Davis as The
for president OF the Confederate States
,od and another that referred to Booke
asc Washington as the so-called Fathe
nae OF his Couhtry."
ed. Col. Rudolph Bumgardner OF Staun
yes has recently come into possession {
But an interesting Revolutionary doct
.rt. ment in the form of military con
mission to John Steele as lieuter
g OF ant in the First Virginia Regimen
il Virginia Volunteers, dated Aus
hat 25th., ITS, and signed by the Pre-
a il ident of the Continental Congress
The This regiment is said to have bee
ntly composed of men and boys fro
lost around Greenville where now lily
,ere number Of the descendants OF Il
,ssp officer here named. The commissi(
ure is in the usual form and on hea'
ion parchment, part of which has crir
one bled away with age.
Equalization Of the primary So
mot tenn in Virginia is provided in
way bill being prepared by Speak
bout Richard Evelyn Byrd OF the Hou