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Newspaper
Lexington Gazette
Location
Lexington, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Jun 27, 1906
Page
1
The notice runs through subscription pricing for the Che Gazette dated June 27, 1906 with editor William R. Kennedy. It lists annual and short-term rates and advertising charges, including obituaries and tributes priced per line and local notices at ten cents per line.
The article argues for permanent roadways as essential to national progress. It links rural prosperity to easy rail access, equal privileges, and profitable returns, urging country and city alike to invest in roads, schools, churches, and commerce for national happiness.
Delegate W Churchman of Augusta county who sponsored a law requiring railroads to sell 500 mile mileage books at 2 cents a mile has sued Chesapeake and Ohio and Baltimore and Ohio railroads in Staunton Corporation Court. He offered 10 to pay for the books and they reportedly said no such books were on sale on June 15. The case should be heard on the first day of the July term as the railroads appeal through courts to the final decision. Attorneys for the roads are preparing a defense for the suit.
The Supreme Court of Virginia sitting in Wytheville reversed a lower court ruling in Col S V Fulkerson vs city of Bristol. It held the city had no right to levy a special benefit tax on property owners for street paving. The decision settles a long debated issue in Virginia towns and Lexington discussions.
A large Buena Vista and Rockbridge county gathering under the National Good Roads Association completed a local group to push highway improvements and legislative action. Speakers included F. H. Labaume, Colonel W. H. Moore, Captain William Bradburn, and T. P. Rixey with local welcomes from R. H. Wise and F. T. Glasgow.
William A. Glasgow Jr special counsel for the Interstate Commerce Commission, returned from Washington with his assistant A F E Storrs and H B Hartewick. The trio noted relief that the prolonged session ended and praised Thursday's testimony from the heads of bituminous coal carrying railroads.
A list of graduates from Washington and Lee University who passed the state bar examination held at Wytheville last Friday before the Supreme Court includes Mesare, Henry M. Bandy of Salem, J. Sydney Bohannon of Lambert's Point, William H. Moreland of Norfolk, Claude H. Pabst of Tazewell, Alexander W. Rutan of Carrollton Ohio, Bayard B. Shislas of Jacksonville Florida, J. Robert Switzer of Harrisonburg, and John A. Watson of Star.
Mr. C. H. Couch oversees this week the erection of a gallows in the rail yard for the execution of William E. Wilcher on Friday August 8. The scaffold measures 20 feet by 18 feet with a 10 by 10 foot platform. Brown cotton cloth will enclose the gallows to ensure privacy, and only court officials and a few witnesses will attend.
The Virginia Military Institute staged a grand German in the gymnasium Monday night starting at 11 o’clock. Thirty-four couples led the opening figure in white gowns and red and green rose bouquets while cadets and guests filled the floor. Cadet Newman Perry of Natchitoches and Miss Marie Pintard of St. Louis opened the dance, with Schroeder’s Band providing music.
The Rockbridge County Good Roads Convention met June 23 1906 at Lexington County Court House and adopted resolutions praising National Good Roads Association guidance, urging taxes on city property for roads, and advocating a phased macadam plan under the State Highway Commissioner. It also supports forming local friends of good roads and seeks state and county backing for permanent road improvements.
Mrs. E R Funkhouser of White Street praises Doan's Kidney Pills for relief from long standing backache and stomach indigestion. She says the pills strengthened her back, removed pain, and left her feeling like a new woman after using them from B H Gorrell's Drug Store. Doan's Kidney Pills are sold nationwide by Wooster Milburn Co Buffalo NY as sole agents.
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