Lexington gazette. [volume] (Lexington, Va.) 1871-1962, 1910-05-25
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Mrs. T. K. Beal, a rural mail car
rier in California, goes over her
twenty-five-mile route in an autamo-
bile which she bought with her own
earnings.
Congress has voted to build a mon
ument at Midway Ga. to the memory
of General Stewart. OF Revolutionary
fame. the great-grandfather OF ex-
President Roosevelt.
A party OF 20 people from Indiana
has arrived at Fredericksburg to
locate on the Louisiana farm on the
Rappahannock river. in Caroline
county, 10 miles below Fredericks-
burg.
OF the 1900 Southern patriots
comprising the Fifteenth Virginia
Infantry, who left Richmond on the
morning of May "a, 1861, for the
front. there are only about 80 now
living, and OF these only about 65
attended the reunion OF the regiment
held at Yorktown May "a.
Staunton Dispatch; 1t was rather
amusing yesterday at the Hotel
Beverly to see Ex-Governor Robert
B. Glenn of North Carolina, the
famous temperance lecturer and Col.
]. h. McCullan. who represents a
whiskey house in Louisville, in close
conversation. They are evidently
great "chums" and left together on
the North bound b. & o. train.
TIL statue OF Mr.. Roosevelt, which
is to be erected in Medora, N. D.,
has been disapproved by him on the
ground that there should be statues
OF nobody except persons q long time
dead-a class to which Mr.. Roose-
welt does not belong. However, he
has consented to pose for this parti-
cular statue because the Medora
people are determined to have it.
The number OF bushels OF apples
ruined annually through codling
moth-iuf es tation-the moth respon-
sible for the apple worms placed
at between 20. 900, 900 and %, 600, 600
bushels, or nearly one-third OF the
total crop marketed during the past
two or three years. Here is leak,
a leak of the biggest kidd, that
orchsrdlsts ought in good consci-
ence to put an end to.
WhiskeY cannot be legally loaned
for the use OF q sick friend, accord
ing to an opinion handed down by
the Supreme Court of Alabama in
the case OF Presley Clarke against
|. the state. Clarke was convicted oil
delivering prohibited liquors and
entered the plea that quart which
which he delivered was loaned to q
neighbor, members OF whose family
were H..
The common council of Dlnvills
which is dominated by opponents OF
liquor license has adopted an ordi
ance which, il concurred in by the
aldermen, will fix the liquor licens,
figures so high that few will be able
to do business probably, and the
number OF license will be greatly
reduced. The figures are as follows
Wholesale liquor business, $4,000
retail, 81, 800; retail with shipping
privileges, $4,000; wholesale mali
license, 81, 008.
An old burial ground was dis
covered in an excavation being mad
at Ninteenth and Moffin street
Philadelphia, recently. Old resi-
dents say that the site was ono
known as the Lebanon wing c
the old Philadelphia cemetery. On
of the bodies exumsd was that Of
man who had evidently been burie
alive. The thumb Of the left han
was fastened between the teeth wit
the bone PARTLY bitten through an
in the right hand was clutched
mass of hair that the man had tor
from his scalp.
Sunday School Times: Keep u
the succession Of crops. II you wan
the fertility of your ground to b
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