Lexington gazette. [volume] (Lexington, Va.) 1871-1962, 1910-04-06
CONDENSED BUDGET
OF CURRENT NEWS
Brief and Interesting Items for the
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Brief and Interesting Items for the
Busy Reader
The ladies OF the committee on
monuments of the Virginia Division
q. D. c., are trying to raise $50, 600
for the erection OF q Confederate
Monument in Arlington and have
asked the school children in the
State to assist in the movement.
Fourth Assistant Postmaster Gen.
eral DeGraw has issued circular
letter to postmasters urging them
to request patrons of rural routes to
paint their letter boxes and posts a
purs white color, thus giving them
q uniform color and fixing to identify
them as United States mail boxes.
The Confederate Memorial, or
Battle Abbey" will be located in
a small park fronting on the Boul-
evard, in a part of what is now
the Soldiers Home grounds, Rich
mond recently rendered by the State.
The offer of the city Of triangular
plot on Monument Avenue has been
rejected.
Col. James V. Bidgood of Rich
mond, has been appointed secretary
Of the Virginia military records by
Governor Mann to succeed Major
Robert w. Hunter. who declined to
accept re-appointment. W. Samuel
Burnley of Charlottesville, was
named as assistant to Colonel Bid
good. The newly appointed officials
will assume their duties about
July /.
Reports made to the annual meet
of the Baltimore Confert nee, NJ. <.
Church, South, held last week in
Washington, showed the following:
The total church membership Of the
conference is 1862; travelling
preachers, 225; local preachers, So;
Epworth League members, lO,32O;
Sunday School members, so, 355;
church buildings. 600, valued at
81, GAS, 313; raised for ministerial
support, s155, 900.
Colonel S. Brown Allen, United
States Marshal, and r A. Fulwiler,
postmaster. who were re-appointed
by the President, changed places at
Staunton last Thursday night, This
closes an exciting political episode.
Colonel Allen has been marshal for
the Western district for twelve
years, in which he has received and
disbursed s646, 3S7, 68, using 81, 600
checks, his accounts balancing to a
cent and no unfinished business left
on hand.
The State Board of Health has an
nounced that DR.. ]. N. Mccormack,
lecturer on health of the American
Medical Association, has been in
duced to make a return engagement
in Virginia, which will prove a
great qualification to all who heard
DIR. Mccormack on his visit to the
State about year ago, as we'll as
result in increased interest in all
matters pertaining to the public
health. DR.. Mccormack has the
faculty of presenting ordinarily dry
subjects in a most attractive and
interesting garb.
The board of trustees of the Pres
byterian Orphanage, in Lynchburg,
has authorized the executive COM
mittee to expend $50, 900 in new
buildings, to restore the building
burned IN Lynchburg in October
and to enlarge the institution, though
no debt is to be incurred. 1t is
understood the board has $40, 900 in
cash and $40, 900 in pledges available
for the purpose. The executive
committee was also authorized to
sell off some of the property on
Rivermont avenue.
A large gathering of people from
Roanoke county, Roanoke City,
Christians burg, Pulaski and other
points assembled in Salem last Fri
day to attend the dedication of the
new courthouse, which is one OF
the handsomest of it's kind in the
State, and was erected at the cost