Lexington gazette. [volume] (Lexington, Va.) 1871-1962, 1909-03-24
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lD6 DOH TeeVlI 6cneVOIept
Association" has been chr rtered
ID Louisians, and will campaign
against the cottor pest.
The Arizona Legislature passed
over the Governors veto a bill
segregatIng white and colored
children in pubic schools.
1t is said that after the first Of
April, the banks of Harrison burg
will change the rate of interest
and discount from five to SIX per
cent.
Southern Governors have named
over 300 delegates to attend Q
Child Labor Law Conference, to be
held in New Orleans, beginning
March 20.
The new $500 900 Naval Young
Mems Christian Association build.
ing, the gift Of john ID. Rookie
Teller, was dedicated at Norfolk
last week.
The lettercarriers have now
joined the striking tslegraphers
and telephone operators in France,
and the capital is virtually cut of
from from all communication with
tie outside world.
A Baptist church in Somerville.
Mass, has decreed that no woman
shall be adm tilted to the services
until she has taken off her hat, on
the ground that women "spend
more time examining others hats
than in listening to the sermon"
The outlook for a good fshisg
season was never more promising
Most Of the fishermen along tho
Rappahannock and Potomac rivers
are doing well. There is a large
catch of fine rock and perch and
chad are also running well.
An act proposed by Ferdinand
F. French TO prohibit the publiea-
ton of certain paid m after in news.
papers and periodicals unless in
serted as advertisements il now
pending in the Massachusetts,
Legislature.
The State Democratic Committee
will be called to meet in Richmond
about the middle of next mOLth.
TO tx q date for thu State primary
for the governorship. This an
nouncement was made ty Chair
man Ellyson Tuesday.
Carrie Nation, who has been
abroad for several months, has
| sailed for home. 1t gees without
saying that the saloon mss Of
New York will not turn out TO
greet her when she arrives in that
city, because with the saloon men
all Nations are welcome except
Carrie.
Women are to be added to the
Des MOinss, Iowa, police force, ae-
cording 10 the accommodates Of
the superintendent of public safety
and chief of the department. The
women police will be stationed at
the principal downtown corners,
dancing halls and ether places
where "mashsrs" have been a
nuisance and where they are tx
peeted to mash the Washers.
| President Taft has sent his cad
dy to college. Elmer v. Loring,
who carried the distinguished
golfers sticks around the links at
Hot Springs, Va, last summer and
exercised such wire discretion that
the President brought him s0
Washington as his special mssssn-
ger, has left for Charlottesville, te
matriculate In the University Of
Virginia. He will take course
calculated to fit him for some work
Mr.. Taft has in view for him, and
the President will defray all Of bis
exE esses, allowing him, it is said.
- y day.
Philadelphis Record; Alcohol is
steadily losing the esteem of the
medical profession Ss = therapeutic
agent. 1t is a far cry to the time
when distilled spirits first came
into vac and received the name Of
aqua vitae (the water of life)> 4
couple of years ago at convsn-
ton of British physicians the test
that minority could find to say
In favor of alcohol was that 10 had
a slight, and indirect, Lutritive
value, in that 1t arrested the Goa
sumntion Of muscular tise-e> At
the meeting of the American Asso.
citation for the Study and Cure Of
Inebriety and Alcobolisla at Wash
ington on Wednesday last the ex.
perts present dssied TO it even this
slight therapeutic value; on the
con trary, it was put in the sane
category with smallpox virus and
tubsrels bscilli as q scourge of
humanity.
Study Of the annual report of
tie auditor of ruhlic accounts Of
Virginia for the fiscal year endsS
September so, 1908, discloses some
interesting figures rels tive to negro
ownership Of property and 1xpay-
ling in the Old Dominion. OF the
NEARLY twenty-five million acres OF
land in the State the negroes own
1,464, 048 acres, little less than
one.sixteenth Of the entire acreage.
THE land IL valued at 80, 239. COS =
The buildings and Improvements
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