Lexington gazette. [volume] (Lexington, Va.) 1871-1962, 1909-12-08
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Recent tornadoes in III South ar,
said to have can sed the loss If 200
lives and OF 5000 5000 feet OF tim.
Der. oa iH''i ~a'i'' >D' 4,
Company G, First Virginia Reg.
iment, volunteered its services TO
the government for duty In Near
aqua. -.o
President Taft said be would re-
fer to the project TO fortify the
Chesapeake Bay capes in his mes
sage TO Congress. Ftsa
Ninety per cent. of prosecutions
begun In Illinois for violation OF
the local option law have resulted
in convictions.
A local option election for January
II, 1910 has been called at Lees
burg by Judge E. S. Turner, as .
result Of petition OF the required
number OF voters.
1t is reported in Richmond that
Senator w. W. Sale OF Norfolk, Is
slated TO displace W. Mcdonald Lee
of Lancaster county, Us chairman VI
the hsh commission.
Acca Temple. Mystic Shriners Of
Richmond, will meet in Lynchburg
. December 10 to initiate candidates
, from Lynchburg, Danville Roanoke,
Farmville and Charlottesville.
1t is reported in Richmond that
D. Lawrence Groner OF Norfolk, 10
slated for the United States dstric,
attorneyship OF the eastern district
Of Virginia, which position is now
. held by Judge L. L. Lewis.
Hon. R. E. Byrd OF Winchester,
Speaker of the Virginia House Of
: Delegates, who, IL was rumored,
!, would be chief editorial writer on
the new Richmond Virginian, soon
O to be published in the interests OF
: the Anti-Saloon League, denies that
e he is to have any connection with
t the paper.
l. An inventor ofmoving. picture ap-
:. planes and machinery has devised
new screen which gets rid OF the
= annoyance Of darkness in the room.
O With his patent screen, a large mir
e ror with chemically frosted sur
: face, pictures are as plain in the
l. light as in darkness, thus doing
K away with the danger OF panic in
n the dark.
More than $3.50, 900 has been add
. ed to the exchequer of the State by
:, the Norfolk and Western Railway
% Company, Virginia's biggest tax
payer. The second biggest corpor-
J. alton in the State is the Chesapeake
y and Ohio, which has yielded up
r. sl69, 5s447. The third is the South
lie ern Railway, which this year paid
ie sll4, C23,s.
- More men attend the churches
70 and Sunday.schools in Richmond,
n proportiouately speaking. than any
t. other city OF the SOUTH" said Rev.
D. ]. T. Watts, who has been in Rich
mond since April 1st. last, coming
from a large charge in Louisville,
KY. He is leading the Sunday
- school and Bible class campaign in
80 Richmond.
$. An exchange says: Somewhere
t. between the years 1850 and 1851
&c the last survivor OF the great war
er between the States may be expected
as to pass to his reward. Forty years
+ hence the spectacle OF an aged vet
IL Gran who is able to say that b,
. marched and fought as one Of The
/, great armies that followed Lee OF
a. Jackson, Grant or Sherman, will b'
ce a rarity.
- Houston has shown an example o
Texan initiative by an ordinance
requiring street car conductors v
collect only cents fare from strap
=, =" hanging passengers. II there Is
~ seat, the passenger must pay TIT
ho full fare OF s cents. There is a pop
a ular impression that steam roa'
cannot lawfully charge any fare un
re- less seat is provided; wheths
he this is so or not, the Houston ~
thorities have struck happy med
lie ium, reasonably arguing that
ed; staud.up ride is better than non
ne at all, but not as good as ride On
VI seat combined.
re, Mrs. O'Leary's COW, which near
" forty years ago ACHE we'd world
wide notoriety by starting q hr
which burned large section OF th
WI wa city of Chicago, is not, it sens, de'
J.'' tined to remain as prominent a his
III toric figure as Erostratus or Nsr'
ay' the two we'll known incendiaries
rod old. A minister in q sermon