Lexington gazette. [volume] (Lexington, Va.) 1871-1962, 1910-02-02
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To prevent the loss of women's
back and side combs, an ingenious
inventor has patented combs with a
small hook on the under side to en-
gage the hair.
Washington Post: The election
of John W Daniel to his fifth term
in the Senate secures to Virginia
and the country at large six years
more OF the services OF one Of the
most useful and popular members
OF that body. Daniel is the great
est living Virginian," proudly pro-
claimed an old comrade-in-arms in
seconding his nomination before the
Virginia Legislature.
1t is proposed to erect by popu-
lar subscription George Washing
ton Memorial Building in Washing
ton, d. c., at cost of $500, 600
and efforts will be made to raise the
required sum before Washington's
birthday, February %, 1910. The
building is to be used as head
quarters and auditorium for every
educational, patriotic, art and liter
airy organization in the country.
Representative Martin Dies of
Texas has resigned from the pension
committee of Congress because he
cannot stand the system as now car
ried on. He says the people are now
grooming under a taxation of $780,
600, 900 a month, and If the wild ex-
travagance of Congress does not
stop we will soon be in a condition
worse than the militarism OF Europe.
There" he says, every laborer
must work to support soldier; and
in our case every laborer will have
to work to support pensioner.
Clifton Forge Review: Messrs.
]. ii. Carlisle, w. G. Mathews and
F. 1. Cabell OF Richmond, Chief En-
gineer for the G. & o. railway, left
this morning for Natural Bridge,
where they will investigate the ad-
visibility and arrange the prelimi-
nary plans, of erecting q new station
house at that place. The proposed
new building will be used jointly
by the C.. & o. and N. & w. rail
roads. 1t will be equipped with an
electric elevator. electric lights, and
in fact all modern convenienceS.
Work will possibly begin at an early
date.
Winchester is now in the midst oil
one of the largest religious revivals
in the history of the lower Shenan-
doah Valley by Rev. DR.. William
Black, evangelist of the North Car.
DINA Presbyterian Synod, and the
meetings are being held in Marke,
Street Methodist Episcopal Church,
the largest in the city. Overflow
meetings are held nightly in church
es in the neighborhood and many
cottage prayer meetings are in pro
gress from morning till night. Many
persons are coming daily from Fred
erick and adjoining counties to at
tend the services.
When Mrs. William Hodges Manr
few days ago, entered for the frs
time the reception room of Virginia.
Executive Mansion, where she and
her husband, Governor-E Elect AND
vice-president of the Virginia A nti
saloon League, will make their home
for the next four years, a huge
punch bowl made of cut glass, which
has ornamented the Gubernatoria
buffet since the days when Thoma:
Jefferson was at the helm of Vir
ginia's ship of state and which wa,
filed with champagne punch, fel
from the dumb waiter to the foo
and broke into hundreds of piece.
Col. William Wood Finnev dice
last Wednesday morning at the res
idence of his son-in-law, E. G. Kent
in Petersburg. Born at PrOspec
Hill, Chesterfield county. Va, Ma.
16, 1929. he was the son of the lat
Capt. William Finney of Ellock
Powhatan county, Va. After at
tending private schools in severa