Lexington gazette. [volume] (Lexington, Va.) 1871-1962, 1909-06-30
CONDENSED NEWS
Brief Items Of Interest for the
Rusy Reader

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married at Grand Lake, COL, June
24tb.
Judge Holt of the Corporation
Court of Staunton, has designated
Thursday, July %, as the day for
the local option election in that
city.
g. The "drys" won by a majority
of 104 votes in a local.option
election held last Thursday, June
oath, at Radford, Va. The "dry"
nj ajority two years ago was 1873.
In lecture before the Ameri-
can Institute of Homeopathy, at
Detroit, DIR. Hills Cole Of the New
York Department of Health, advo-
Gated State supervision Of con-
sumptives and criticised the feath-
er buster as a potent agent in
spreading tubercle bacilli.
The annual reunion of the Forty
third Battalion. Virginia Cavalry
known as Mosby's Rangers), will
he held at Front Royal on August
%. The Warren Memorial Asso.
citation and the board Of trade ex-
tended the invitation to Mosbv's
men to meet there, and 1t has been
accepted.
Booker 7. Washington. the ne.
gro educator, left Norfolk few
days ago on tour of the Virgin
ian railway in execution of plans
laid at the death of Eenry H. Rog.
ers to have Washington Investigate
the condition of the negroes in the
new country opened up by the
Virginian system.
Many of Basic City's industries
are now in full blast, and it is sell
dom DOW that an unemployed man
can be seen on the streets. IL is
hoped that the old Virginia Car
Works will be opened up, in which
event Basic City will come to the
front. An electric light system
will soon be installed there.
Newspapers all over the country
report scores of towns and cities
as preparing to curtail noise ard
reduce fatalities on the coming
Fourth of July. Chicago has
Joined the "safe and sane" indie.
pendence Day League ard it's 70.
! lice department has had printed
for general circulation a list Of
"Don'ts" prepared by the Corpo-
ration Council.
Parson Alfred Harrison Bur.
roughs. tie matrimonial parson of
Bristol, has just married his 81
965th couple. He expects to com.
plete the cycle of 1000 couples in
his 16 years of service in Cupid's
vineyard within the next two or
three weeks. Though be is ad-
vsucing in age, the venrable mar
rylng parson is still active and
meets every train.
At her present rate OF phllsn-
thropy it will take the widow of
Russell Sage about five years more
to give away the 5.000,0 900 for
tune which her husband built in
fifty years. An examination of
! the philanthropies of the tinan-
cier's widow, reveals the fact that
for the past three years she has
been giving away the cash at the
rate Of $4,000 day.
One of the sights that greet TIE
ewes of visitors at the Seattle ex'
position, is an artisticall} ar
ranged bed containing 100000
English pansies. Another feature
that interests the doricrlturist is a
display of all she plant creations
of Luther Burbank, including the
spinelese cactus, plumcot and
other interesting forms of new
plant life.
The War DEF artment intends to
save $l92,S00 in the next three
years and a proportionate sum
yearly thereafter by changing che
cloth of the fatigue uniform, or
working clothes, of the enlisted
men of the army from brown khaki
to blue derim. The reason for this
change is that it has been found
the blue denim is in every way
lust as satisfactory as the brown
canvas and the cost is about one
fourth less.
Dividends and interest will b
disbursed July l by railroads.
trolley companies, etc., the Federal
Government and the municipality
of New York, according to the
computation of the New York
Journal Of Commerce, to the
amount of $lS7, 1928, 24S, an in
crease OF s18, 100000 over year
ago. Perhaps the most striking
feature of this statement is the
fact that, in spite of all the bust.
ness depression following the Fan.
ic, these payments a year ago ex-
cesded $174,O0o,000. There is an
increase of over $1,000, 900 in div
dends and little over 5000, 900
in interest.
A sharp attack on William j.
Bryan by Senator Daniel, marked
Mondays tariff debate. Mr.. Dan
iel voted for a duty on iron ore,
and is expected to vote fer duty
on lumber and other products.
Those votes have attracted criti'