Lexington gazette. [volume] (Lexington, Va.) 1871-1962, 1910-06-01
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has resigned to accept a similar po-
sition at Radford, where he will sue
coed Professor w. A. Anderson, w no
goes to Bristol Y
President Taft has spent more
money by $1,000 in junketing over
the country this year than any pre-
sident of the United States ever re.
ceived as his whole salary for one
year prior to 1865.
Dover, Delaware, has passed a
law an ordinance refusing permits
sion and making it a violation OF
law to publicly circulate hand bills,
programs and dodgers or paper ad-
vertisement Of any description.
New York has passed bill pro.
hibiting gambling on race tracks.
The New York Stock Exchange,
the greatest gambling ESTABLISHING nj
in the world, will still run wide
open. These distinctions are not
easily understood.
Justice John Crutchfield in Rich
mond, yesterday sentenced John
Lacy, a colored youth, who beat a
mule with board, to be soundly
spanked with the same piece OF
plank. The negro's mother carried
out the sentence.
The Spirit of Jefferson. a Demo.
cratic organ Of Charles Town, w.
Va, Is launching a boom for Will
lam II. Wilson of Charles Town, for
Congress from the Second district
of West Virginia. Mr.. Wilson s a
son of the late Congressman Will
lam L. Wilson, father of the Wilson
tariff bill.
Petitions urging William J Bryan
TO be candidate for the Senate from
Nebraska have made their appear
ance in practically every county Of
the State and are being circulated
by admirers OF Mr.. Bryan. c. w,
Bryan, Mr.. Bryan's brother, says
the petitions are not authorized by
the family.
Now is the time to take sanitary
precautions against the fly, the
greatest OF disease spreading in.
sects. Our progressiveness will be
measured in way, by our advance
ment along sanitary lines. The
danger lurking in the housefy is
one of the greatest menaces against
health. the day will come when an
unscreened house will be an excep-
tion, for a warfare is being waged
against the fly, and people are be-
coming aroused to the danger.
p. f. St. Clair OF Giles county, A,
NJ. Bowman Sale and B. F. Kirk
patrick OF Lynchburg, and Micaiah
WoOdssof Charlottesville, have been
appointed on the Virginia Polytech-
mic Board of Visitors by Governor
Mann. ST. Clair succeeds himself;
the three others succeed G. G.. Kizer
of Norfolk, H M Smith, Richmond.
and j. S. Musgrave,o of Southampton
county. Some politicians believe that
the new personnel of the board fore
shadows the retirement of Presi-
dent Barringer, who was recently
investigated and vindicated.
Several score immense power
breaking outfits are at work in west
ern South Dakota, and at points in
the Missouri Valley eastof the river
breaking the prairie at an astonish-
ing rate, which means that many
thousands of acres of heretofore raw
prairie land in those sections will
this year for the first time be de-
voted to crops. Some of outfits have
been provided with day and night
crews and With immense search
lights which Ell BILE them to be oper-
ated in the night as well as in the
day, they being kept in operation
continuously throughout the twenty
four hours.
The Grand Lodge OF Pythians
which held it's annual session in
Lvnchburg last week, elected the
following officers: Grand chancel-
lor, H. M. Lewis OF Staunton; grand
vice chancellor, John V. Boone of
Erankli GRAND nrolata Row T. Il