Lexington gazette. [volume] (Lexington, Va.) 1871-1962, 1909-11-03
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Brief Items of Ipteres' FOR the
Rusy Reader

The peanut crop In So lihside Vir-
gipia is q short one this season, ow-
ing to the dry weather.
A record price for Frederick coun-
ty fruit lands vas paid Saturday for
the John L. Grant farm,5 mi rs from
Winchester. Oue tract brought
k105. 80 per acre and another sold
for 1874 per acre.
At a meeting OF the trustees OF
the Presbyterian Orphanage in
Lynchburg it was decided that the
Shelton Cottage, which was burned
October 18th, with FIVE little
girls, is to be rebuilt as speedily as
possible.
A radical cure for inebriety is at
tributed to Zaleucus, who hourished
about B. G. He ordered that any
invalid who took wine in contraven-
lion OF his physician S orders should
be put to death. This story is in
feresting as showing an attitude
toward alcoholic beverages sup.
posed to be ultra modern.
After a session in Lyncburg last
ing nearly 10 hours, the trustees OF
the Randolph Macon system has re-
fused to rescind the action OF last
June, when resolution was adopt
ed at the Ashland meeting to give
the Virginia and Baltimore Confer
ence OF the Methodist Church the
right to confirm elections to future
vacancies on the board.
Warren Sentinel: Clerk 7. Y.
Leach has sent specimens OF graz
phite and Mr.. Ed. NJ. Woodward
specimens Of Asbestos, both OF
which were found in this county,
and are OF excellent quality, to the
Agricultural and Industrial Depart
ment of the Norfolk & Western
Railway, for exhibition at fairs in
the West.
The first outbreak OF Night Riders
in Southwestern West Virginia for
more than a year occurred few
lays ago in the eastern part Of Ca.
bell county. The large tobacco
barn Of Everett Blake, containing
MS entire crop of several thousand
pounds of tobacco, was destroyed
by fire. Blake had refused TO pool
lis tobacco.
DR.. Reid Hunt OF the hygienic
laboratory at Washington who re-
turned few days ago from Europe,
where ne attended the International
Congress on Alcoholism at London,
says the sentiment OF the Congress,
including medical men from all
Iarts of the world, was strongly
,gainst the use OF alcohol for medi-
al purposes.
The good roads idea is making
progress. One county, Duvll, in
Florida. at a special election be d
october 10Th, voted one million do
ar bond issue for good road build
no. When the people of the State
+ Virginia take hold of the good
roads idea, like Duval county, Flor
da, has done, and are willing 10
Jay for good roads, we will get
hem.
The output Of coal in West Vir-
,inia for the year ending June 30
1909, was almost two and Cne-half
million tons greater than for the
oreceding year, according to the
statistics Complied by the Depart
nent Of Mines in that State. The
output for the u months ending
June 30, 1908, was 39,3s7,C1 IONS
Of 2,24O pounds, while for the year
ending June 80, 1909, the output
vas 4l,S5l, 4O3 tons. The coke
manufactured totaled 3,125, 451 tons.
A sentence OF one whipping under
the direction an officer OF the law
and attendance at Sunday school
every Sunday for a period of six
months, was imposed by Judge
Sykes in the recorders court OF
Durham, N. c., last week upon a
l3-year-old negro boy who had stol-
IN a pair of shoes. The Judge re-
quired a written agreement from
he boys parents that they would
10 the whipping and see that the
boy offended Sunday school.
Reports from Washington ipti-
Innate that the Department of Justice
has it's eyes opened at last upon
The four great express companies
that have long been Swimming the
cream of the railroad transportation
# the country. 1t is high time, says
The Philadelphia Record. to turn
The attention OF the government 10
these inside rings, that can be read
| ly dispensed with if the railroad
companies attend to their own ousl-
ness. asaA
A Seattle paper saws: 1t is to be