Che Gazette Advert Rates and Contact Details
The Che Gazette of Lexington Virginia lists editor William R Kennedy and details subscription prices one year nine dollars, three months two dollars and fifty cents, six months five dollars, single copies five cents. It outlines obituary and tribute line charges and business notices at ten cents per line for first insertion and five cents for each additional line. It notes office telephone and long distance metallic connections and advertising rates.
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Congress Begins Short Session With Broad Agenda
The Fifty-ninth Congress opens its short session at noon Monday and will run until March 3. It faces many unfinished measures including parcels post and postal savings banks, free trade for the Philippines with tobacco, sugar, and rice exclusions, and Puerto Rican citizenship. The President’s message urges anti corruption laws, government appeals in criminal cases, reforms in appellate handling, and controls on lynching, while stressing capital and labor disputes and governmental investigation of such issues.
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Philippine Islands
Congress
Senate
House of Representatives
Lexington Stores Deck Out Holiday Goods For Christmas
Lexington merchants display a wide range of goods for the Christmas season urging shoppers to buy early. The ad calls for early purchases to ensure variety, better service, and to ease congestion during the final shopping days.
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Lexington
Court voids Covington local option vote over ward eligibility
Judge George K. Anderton set aside the Covington local option election held September 11 due to no voting in Second Ward where most residents live. He ruled poll taxes not required to vote. temperance advocates plan another election. December 15 is the expected ruling date. The morning News Item in Winchester begins publication.
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George K. Anderton
Alleghany Circuit Court
Bae
Covington
Covington Culoan
Temperance
Anderson
Churchman Act Declared Void by Supreme Court
The Virginia Supreme Court of Appeals upholds the ruling that the Churchman two cent rate bill violates the Fourteenth Amendment. The decision relied on the Michigan case and affirms the State Corporation Commission's view that mileage books at two cents per mile and over are unconstitutional.
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Supreme Court of Appeals
Richmond
Commonwealth of Virginia
Atlantic Coast Line Railway Company
Churchman
Cardwell
State Corportion Commission
United States
Ita
United States Supreme Court
Michigan
Corporation Commission
Commonwealth
Attorney General
Virginia
Marriage of Louis Burger and Merle Fenimore announced
Announcements from Gasette Correspondence report the November 24 1906 marriage of Louis S Burger formerly of Natural Bridge to Merle Fenimore of Thurmond West Virginia where Burger now resides. Mrs M L Leckey ill at home with niece Miss Mary Gibbs of Lexington with Sallie Gilliam returning from Covington after learning of her brother Frank Gilliam s death while hunting Friday.
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Louis 8. Burger
Natural Bridge
Merle Fenimore
Thurmond
W. Va
Burger
M. L. Leckey
A. N. Johnston
Mary Gibbs
Lexington
Sallie Gilliam
Florida
Gertrude Starke
Covington
Jen P. Houston
Vivian
W.va
Clover BiLo
Thanksgiving Gatherings And Neighborhood News
Thanksgiving at the Shorter home featured a large dinner with turkey and cranberry sauce. Relatives and friends from Roaring Run, Moore's Creek, Coldierstown, and Springwood attended, with several local teachers and residents noted for visits and travels. A separate report from Devotue describes Mrs. George S. Greiner hosting a five course Thanksgiving dinner with guests from Shepherdstown, Roanoke, Decatur, and Farmville.
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Geo. Shorter
Earl Shorter
Leo Hanter
Roaring Run
Short Hill Mountains
Mattie Reid
Moore's Creek
Bertha Daniel
Mia
Sizer
Sallie
Coldierstown
Hughes Hacock
Springwood
Nannie Reid
North Buffalo
Devotue
George
Washington and Lee University
Ruth McCormick
Raphine
William Taylor
Karl Taylor
Decatur
Brightwell
Farmville
J. A. Wilson
John Gibson
Hugh .Adams
Rockbridge Baths
Sal He Whitmore
Susie Whitmore
Natural Bridge
W. &. Miller
Alice Miller
Smith
Fairfield
Disastrous Railroad Collision Claims President Spencer
On Thanksgiving morning November 20 near Sawyers ten miles south of Lynchburg a rear end crash killed Southern Railway President Samuel Spencer and seven others. The private car carrying Spencer and guests was destroyed, ten injured, Mrs. Merrill survived with minor injuries. Spencer’s funeral was held at St Johns Church Washington with railroad officials in attendance. Born Columbus Georgia sixty years ago, Spencer rose from rodman to president of a major U S railway system.
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Southern Railway
Thorsday
Sawyers
Lynchburg
Atlanta
Jacksonville
Samuel Spencer
Southern Railway Company
North Carolina
Spencer
E. A. Merrill
St. John’s Episcopal Church
Washington, D. C
Chopin
Southern
Mr. Spencer
Columbus
University of Georgia
Universty of Virginia
Death and church notes from Gilmore's Mills area
Mrs. Cynthia Mary Barks of Gilmore's Mills died November 27 at her sister’s home in Rocky Point. She was 67, survived by one sister and two brothers. Funeral Thursday at High Bridge Presbyterian Church with burial there. The report also notes Rev. S. T. Habel taking charge of the Natural Bridge Baptist church and a Thanksgiving reception at the church. Thanksgiving services were held with a $54 collection for church work. Community roads are improving with calls for better systems.
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Gilmore
Milis
Cynthia Mary Barks
J. P. Rucker
Rocky Point
W. D. Burke
High Bridge Presbyterian Church
EB. C. Lynch
Burke
Mra. Ruoker
Messie
Henry A
Edward D. Ogden
Gilmore's Mills
Baptist Church
Natural Bridge
T. Habel
Habel
John H. Harris
Habbel
Associate Reformed Presbyterian Church
Leon T. Pressly
T. R. Cox
Real estate transfers filed in Rockbridge County deeds
Recorded bargains and sales span two weeks ending December 4 in Rockbridge County. Names include James M. Wilson and wife to Claiborne Bowles. J H Austin. Uriah H Grant. John W Cash. Jas T Freeman. John M Humphries. George M Humphries. W N Humphries. Mrs Phoebe A Brooks. Celina F Faaber. and more. Properties include Brushy Hill tract, Rockbridge Road Glasgow lots, Irish Creek headwaters, South River parcels, Littl Mary Creek, and Volters town area with prices listed.
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Rockbridge County
James M. Wilson
Claiborne Bowles
Brushy Hill
W. H. Ruffoer
J. Houston Leech
J. H. Austin
Rockbridge Road
Glasgow
Frank Reed
Uriah H
Mary M. Grant
Irish Creek
P. Grant
John W. Cash
Joseph R. Campbell
South River
Midway
Samuel Davis
Jas
T. Freeman
John M. Humphries
Littl Mary" Creek
South Mountain
George M. Humphries
Vesuvius
Ww. H. Vesa
Jacob 8. Potter
Volterstown
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William R. Kennedy
Winchester
Star Publishing Company
R. Gray Williams
Harry F. Byrd
Supreme Court
Springfield
Gasette
Rapp’s Mill
Frasette
Gurss
James River
Gawette
Btation O
Newark
Deo
Curtis
Goshen
Wexington
G. D. Leteher
Irginia
Circuit Court
Hugh O
Campbell
Chas
B. Campbell
Jos
KR. Campbell
Dee
Jobe 8
Humphries
Wn. P. Koogler
Joseph KK. Campbell
Alexander Campbell
G. Campbell
Alexander Campball
RK. R. Witt
Fitzhugh Elder
Dav
Joan W. Kenley
Joan W. Kelley
J. W. Kelley
Frank T. Glasgow
Aald
Frank Moore
Chancery
Glaagow & While
P.q. Deo
Sit
Lyons Tailoring Co
R. S. Anderson
Montgomery & Black
Mississippi
West 42d Street
New York
Graham
Graham & CO
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Holiday Suggestedon
J. ED. Deaver
Main Street
Oppo
Court House
Lexington, Va
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Tomer Water
American Surety Company OF
J. W. McClung
American Bankers’ Association
Samuel B. Walker
Tue Rockpridgee Liman Srong Co
Rockbridge Lime & Stone Co
CA. Lacy & Son
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