Lexington gazette. [volume] (Lexington, Va.) 1871-1962, 1910-06-22
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ing cast in its favor.
The apple crop in Albemarle
county this year will be lai ger tina
ever produced in the history of the
county. This is the forecast Of
Walter Whately of Crozet, secretary |
and treasurer OF the Virginia Horti- |
cultural Society.
Senator jeff Davis Of Arkansas
provoked an amusing collOquy in
the u. S. Senate a few days ago
when be spoke in advocacy of his
bill making it unlawful for the gov
ernment to issue liquor licenses in
prohibition districts.
A rather unusual series OF misfor-
tune has followed Dow Thacker, a
Lee county farmer, through married
life, resulting in the death OF three
wives. The first was gored by
mad bull, the second was drowned,
and the last fell from horse, infict-
ing injuries which proved fatal.
Notwithstanding that seven jur-
ors signed his application for par
don, Governor Mann refused exec
utive clemency to Gilbert S. Lonas,
convicted ia Shenandoah county for
seduction, and he must serve his
term of two years. He was taken
to the penitentiary in Jan, 1910.
Both San Francisco and New Or
leans must raise $500, 900 before
they can hope to receive govern
ment Endorsement for their eXposi-
tions in celebration of the completion
Of the Panama canal. The House
committee on foreign affairs decided
not to invite foreign nations to par
ticipate until these conditions were
complied with.
Resolutions condemning the action
of the State of Virginia in placing
the statue of Gen. Robert e. Lee in
Statuary Hall, Washington have
been adopted by the Vermont De
partment. Grand Army of the Re-
public, assembled In its fortified an
nual convention at Montpelier. The
resolutions declare that Virginia had
aggravated the insult to the union
soldiers by draping the statue in 7
Confederate uniform, and state that
had style of uniform, in vogue
prior to the civil war been used the
action would find less opposition.
Mr. Thomas J. Whalen, who lives
about three miles out of Stauntor
on the Greenville road, was award
ed a patent for flying machine or
March II, 1908. Few persons il
this section knew that the subjec
of aviation had received attention
from any one of our people. Blu
such is the fact. Mr. Whalen hai
all of his drawings complete anC
his idea not the plane as used b.
the Wrights, Curtiss and Others
but propellers that open and clos
at the right time, after the name
of the wings of a bird though no
in shape of them. He claims tina
the only real idea of aviation mus
be gathered from nature as Their
the perfect flying is seen and done
Mr.. Whalen believes his machin
could be made to move at the rat
of 100 miles per hour.
Down in Georgia a certain farme
is SO, 600 richer to-day as result {
good roads movement he presi:
tently refused to aid. This ma
owned a hree-hundred- acre farI
that he tried, for more than yea
to sell at $50 per acre. The Ian
was good, but there were no higf
way facilities, and no one wante
his farm at the price. When a ne
road way was projected that woul
pass his farm his neighbors, reali
ing the great value of the improv
ment, freely gave right of way {
was so prejudiced that he refuse
even small strip of his land fl
the purpose. The roadway W;
built in spite of his opposition. Wit
in ten days after its completion tn
man sold his farm for $40 an acr
There is no moral that exactly fl
thic ctOrv The man worked as ha,