Lexington gazette. [volume] (Lexington, Va.) 1871-1962, 1909-10-13
CONDENSED NEWS
5rief Items OF Interest for the
Busy Reader

"o'ernbent Dly0rcl
10 BOOK giving the marriage and -di
IT, vorce record for 40 years, has jus
,e been issued by the government.
-s Woodstock, the county seat O
N Shenandoah, voted dry" on the Isl
Il by 50 majority, whereas two years
o ago it went the same way by one
:, majority.
d Washington's claim OF 65, 600 in.
e crease OF population since 1900 is
y one OF the staggering evidences OF
The enormous increase in he mum.
! Der OF federal officeholders. sug.
o gests the Springfield Republican.
A wholesale Jail delivery took
! place at Christiansburg Tuesday
olght when three prisoners made
good their escape by saving their
way out OF Jail with instruments ev.
identity furnished them by friends
on the outside.
What promises TO be a sensation
N medical circles is the impending
hight to have the State board OF med.
cal examiners ousted because OF
alleged grievances OF young doctors
who have been graduated in Rich
mond and who have experienced
'rouble in securing licenses to prac.
tice their profession.
The one hundred and twenty.sec.
md session of the Synod of Virgin.
ia will be held at Elkins, W. Va,
commencing October IA. This
altering will bring lay and minis.
'erial delegates from Virginia,
Maryland and parts of West Virgin
IA to the number OF 300.
The unusual occurrence of a
counterfeit coins bringing far more
han the value it was originally in.
ended to represent by it's makers
ook place last week when a spuri.
ous Spanish doubloon of Charles w
OF Spain, dated 1901, was sold for
$50 at sale of old coins at the Col.
Iectors' Club in Washington.
Abbot Lawrence Lowell was in
iugurated president of Harvard
University Oct. 7th, with impress.
'ive ceremonies. President Lowell
alter conferred honorary degrees
non 30 OF the guests present, TO-
Guiding that of Doctor OF Laws upon
edwin Anderson Aldermen. prssi-
lent Of the University of Virginia.
William Randolph Hearst, once
defeated for mayor OF New York by
'eorge B. Mcclellan and later de.
Gated by Charles E. Hughes for
overnor of the State, has been NOM
mated for mayor at mass meeting
t 1000 of his admirers at Cooper
'nion. This action was taken des-
ite his authoritative statement that
e would not be candidate.
According to an article by Rev.
ouis O'Dorovan, secretary to Car
NAL Gibbons, in the Catholic
'orld, the Catholic Church cannot
'nsistently with it's traditions, al
W non-Catholic ministers 10 be-
me priests unless they promise
libacy. This, be says, may be
id to apply also to married con-
'rts who wish to enter the priest
od.
A curious protest was made re-
ntly against the employment OF
'men clerks in the Bank of Eng
Id. One Of the shareholders
ised the subject at the half-yearly
'eting OF the court OF governors.
hey should not be here" he said.
Women ought not be in this estab-
hment. They cannot keep Sc.
1t. You know they caanot. 1t
impossible.
The Richmond city school board
declared the contract with the
rginia School Supply Company,
1900 chairs to be void. and the
oerintendent has been directed to
'ertise for new bids. This ac-
follows the discovery that the
hrs recently shipped there were
those originally accepted by the
'rd from sample, which later
appeared from the room in which
vas locked. 1t is stated that the
md Jury will probe into the mat
, and it may be that acton will
taken by that body to place the
me for the removal of the sample
ir.
William P. Kent, Republican
didate for governor of Virginia,
letter has answered questions
emily put to him by Henry
rec Atkins, president OF the
ginia Anti-ssloon League. Mr..
'ins asked among other
lgs II Captain Kent favored
principle of local option
he best method of handling the
Tor questions; whether be would
or veto q bill nassad hu the