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Newspaper
Lexington Gazette
Location
Lexington, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Dec 23, 1908
Page
3
J E Tinsley announces a moving picture show at the Majestic Theater. Other notices include dividend details for Robert Catlett and a commissioner’s notice from E M Pendleton in The Baltimore Sun.
Advertises 40 aromatic herb cures for female ills including weakness backache and urinary troubles. Claims to regulate and cure, ships samples free from The Mother Gray Co in DeRoy New York. Also promotes Allen’s Foot Ease for new shoes with a 25 cent price and free sample offer.
Jetta Lillian Holmes aged 20 daughter of Henry C Holmes died Tuesday December 12 1908 after a brief illness of pneumonia She had been a student at Hawpton Institute The funeral was held today at Randolph Street Methodist Church conducted by Rev J L Brown
Jesse P. Morris of Skippers Virginia suffered a severe spring attack of ensendia with a dangerous cough. He credits Dr King’s New Discovery for immediate relief after accidental trial and two bottles. The product sold at B H Gorri’s drug store with guarantee and a $100 trial bottle offered.
The officers of Mountai City Lodge No 67 A F and A M have been elected for the ensuing term. W Horace Lackey is WM, N Key is 3W, H M Wallace is JW, W A Adal is treasurer, A T Shields is secretary, Mason C Deaver is senior deacon, E S Shields is junior deacon, R I Fiteh is tyler.
Linseed oil sold from the barrel at 60 cents per gallon. L and M Pure Paint semi mixed sold at 1.75 per gallon. Buy four gallons and mix with three gallons of linseed oil to yield seven gallons of paint at about 1.20 per gallon. McCroan Drug Co Lexington Buena Vista L and M Paint Agents.
Following church custom Trinity Methodist members collected a box of Christmas good things and sent it to the County Farm inmates. The hamper included useful and appetizing seasonal articles for the unfortunates.
A vintage ad touts Jell-O as a dainty economical dessert that sets instantly with boiling water. It promises 7 flavors including lemon orange raspberry strawberry chocolate cherry and peach and notes a 10c package feeds a large family while urging grocers to stock it and to avoid substitutes.
The Riverside Ald Society offers meat, salads, cream and cake at a social to benefit the Chapel. Proceeds fund the chapel’s needs and events. The event is scheduled for Thursday night, December 41, 1908.
Dr M McRaney Prentiss Mississippi writes of three months confined to bed with kidney and bladder trouble. After two doctors failed to help she found relief with Foley's Kidney Remedy. She reports feeling like a new person after two bottles and urges other suffering women to try it.
Very little sleighing and music due to heavy snow. Sleigh bells are barely heard, and such sport has not been indulged in much. No sleighs seen on streets, considered a costly pastime.
The advertisement claims Ely's Cream Balw clears tasal catarri and hay fever without harming mind or body. It cites widespread testimonials and years of success. Distributed by Bly Hror. at 56 Warren Street New York with druggists listed. date noted as December 16, 1904 in Rockbridge town.
David Parker of Favorecl New York, Civil War veteran, credits Electric Bitters with curing stomach trouble and calls them worth more than a hundred dollars. He now uses them as a tonic to stay strong and well. 50 cents at B H Gorrell’s drug store. A Roanoke dispatch reports D W Williams of Floyd County married his mother in law, making his bride both grandmother and stepmother to his two children.
An advertisement extols Foley's Honey and Tar as a proven remedy with forty years of cure history. A Roanoke business league forms to oppose the Anti-saloon League and seeks a local option election in December.
Personal notices list Edwin Sensency visiting his father in Roanoke and Rev G W Staples spending Christmas in Fauquier County. Various families from Lexington to Knoxville, Clifton Forge, Lynchburg and Atlanta are described traveling or hosting holidays with names such as Deaver, Amole, Campbell, Morris, Quisenberry, Engleman, Barclay, Pendleton, Rhodes and Graham.
The Lexington High School holiday program featured songs, declamations, and a public debate between the Athenian and Corinthian Societies. Declammers included Charles Kerr, Charles Proffitt, Fred Wilson, Edward Lyons, Arch White, Stuart Moore, Fred Deavar, and Lloyd Leech. The debate asked if education should be compulsory for ages seven to fourteen in the United States. Jurors Dr. H. D. Campbell, M. W. Paxton, and Charles S. Glasgow awarded Lyons’s declamation, Anderson’s speech, and the negative side of the debate.
The Tbunday schools of Lexington will stage Christmas entertainments for children. The R. E. Lee Memorial Episcopal service will be Thursday afternoon Christmas Eve at 4 31 o clock featuring a tree songs and recitations. The Presbyterian Sunday school will hold its entertainment Tuesday evening December 20 at 7 30 in its building. Trinity Methodist Sunday school sets Tuesday December 29 at 7 80 for a musical program with vocal and orchestra music.
A heavy storm blanketed Lexington and Rockbridge all day and through the night, bringing sixteen inches of snow. Roads were blocked and Christmas business hindered as country folk could not reach town, trains were delayed, and rural mail cars faced major route difficulties.
Miss Mary Lee Lackey and Horace Reed Henry wed at the Lackey home in Timber Ridge on December 19 1908 at 11 o clock. Rev J A Trustle officiated with Mendelasohns march and O Perfect Love sung. Guests from Hagerstown Richmond and Staunton attended as the couple received many gifts and planned a Washington visit.
Mrs. Josefa Bachus Allen Collins died at her Hugo Oklahoma home on December 15 1908 after two months of typhoid fever. Burial took place in Camden Arkansas, home of her sister Mrs H Smead Powell. She leaves husband William Collins and her mother Mrs Elizabeth Preston Allan plus two sisters and two brothers all of whom reside in Charlotte North Carolina.
Monday night members of Trinity Methodist congregation quietly swarmed the pastor and his wife with a social gathering. The gifts included edible provisions for Christmas and many practical articles. Sixty to seventy five attendees joined in presenting a silk quilt crafted by the Ladies' Sewing Society with a formal acknowledgment by Mrs. Joyce Ed Heck and a grateful reply from Mrs. Hammond.
Mrs. Barrington K West lets to contract a new house to Mesera W B Snead Co of Lynchburg as general contractors and places foundations and chimneys with John A Champe of Lexington. The house will be a modified bungalow. Meserse Ridinge Brothers build a frame residence on Jackson Avenue for Dr J R Howerton and another on Edmondon Avenue for Mr Albert S Gillock.
The council lifts the town fireworks ban from six pm Thursday to midnight Friday, allowing limited public display on Christmas Eve and Christmas Night. It also considers street and paving petitions on Jordan Street and Shields Hill, with street committee to investigate. Marriage licenses issued to several couples by the clerk.
Mr. Macon F Varner and Miss Cora B Hughes were married in Salt Lake City Utah on Tuesday December 15 1908 Varner is a son of the late C V Varner of Lexington for years a travelling salesman for the American Tobacco Company with headquarters in St Louis Missouri until recently transferred to Salt Lake City bride from Carthage Missouri
An aged Augusta county resident who was the last man in the community to be the father of a Confederate soldier has died. The piece asks for any Rockbridge men who served in the Confederate forces to report their names for publication.
A Christmas tree treat and musical entertainment are planned at Collierstown Methodist Church on December 31 at 2 80 o clock. The notice mentions no services at Elliott's Hi and Bethel next Sunday December 27 by G W Starrs.
Early Thursday residents learned of the fatal railway accident near Vesuvius. Thomas L McCampbell 26 died in Lexington after being crushed by wheels when he fell between cars aboard a north bound Norfolk and Western freight. Willie F Pierson aided him and summoned help as the pair traveled from Buena Vista. McCampbell, son of William H McCampbell, was educated in Lexington and at Dunemore’s Business College. His funeral was held at St. Paul’s church with interment in Lexington cemetery.
A very quiet home wedding took place Wednesday December 16 at the Alphin thie county residence of Miss Josephine Mabel Goodbar and Mr Grover C Hotinger. Rev G B Hanrahan officiated with maid of honor Sadie Hall and best man John Goodbar. After a wedding breakfast the couple left for Lexington on the Baltimore and Ohio train toward Washington and then Tampa Florida for several weeks.
Christmas is in the air with six inches of snow and lively holidays ahead in Buena Vista. Local events include Methodist and Presbyterian Christmas programs, a Richmond wedding, and several out-of-town visitors spending the season with area families.
Gazet te correspondence lists Mr. and Mrs. Bruce Thompson and child visiting West Branch Iowa relatives of Mr W R Parsons. Mrs David Rule and children arrived from West Virginia to stay with Mr and Mrs Charles Watts. Mrs W E B Arnold returned from Staunton. Willie Leech returns from Dunmore College for holidays. Mrs J W Sizer and Misses Bieneke Matheney Mattie and Mabel Sizer visited Roanoke. Dr Lawcen B Moore, summoned to Berryville for family illness, returned home. Miss Blanche Matheney left for Lexington to spend the holidays.
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