New Advertisements in Che Gazette June 28 1905
Lexington Virginia marks a June 28 1905 issue listing hot weather specials by J M D Adair sweeping summer sales by Weinbergs opening of Rockbridge Lime and Stone Co store July first farm sod business property for sale by W F Pierson and a House of Delegates announcement by R G Mitchell.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Adair
Paul M. Penick
Weinbergs
Rockbridge Lime & Stone Co
W.F. Pierson
R. G. Mitchell
House of Delegates
Largest Georgia church uses L. M. mixture to save on paint
The Georgia church reports using 82 gallons of L. & M. with 24 gallons oil to produce paint at about 1.20 per gallon. They planned 100 gallons more, saving around 80 dollars, and received a large L. & M. donation. Dealers note strong demand for L. & M. and urge buying oil fresh at 66 cents per gallon to mix with L. & M. for lower costs. Sold by McCrumane Co and H. L. Gilkeson.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Georgia
McCrumane Co
H. L. Gilkeson
Buews
Fire destroys stable on Captain Boude property
Fire alarm rang Sunday night after 11. Flames engulfed the large stable and carriage house on Captain Boude’s property on upper Main street. Firemen arrived quickly and extinguished the blaze. Cause unknown though suspected careless or intentional arson. straw in the stable fueled the fire. Insurance on the dwelling listed at 875 dollars.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Upper Main Street
Captain Boude
Dr King's New Discovery Promises Quick Cough Relief
Fragmentary ad copy cites a testimonial from Wearfoss Maryland about consumption and long illness. It touts Dr King’s New Discovery as a fast remedy for coughs colds sore throat and bronchitis claiming it prevents pneumonia with a money back guarantee and trial bottle offer from Barrell's drug store priced 50 cents and one dollar.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Win
Myer
Wearfoss
King
St B. Arrell’s
Virginia scenes inspire new hope in Dr Dixton book
Dr Thomas Dixton Jr author of The Clansman and The Leopard Spots presents a rural memoir of escape from urban life. The volume depicts Old Virginia’s green fields and smiling waters, with 32 illustrations, published by Doubleday Page & Co in New York for $1.20.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Thomas Dixton,Jr
Snd
Virginia
Doubleday, Page & Co
New York
Cure for kidney disease with Electric Bitters
A testimonial from C F Coller of Cherokee Indiana praising Electric Bitters for curing severe kidney disease and related ailments. He states prior suffering from backache headache and low mood and credits the tonic with restoration to health. Endorsed by B H Gorrells druggist at 50 cents.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
C. F. Coller
Cherokee
B. H. Gorrell
Baltimore Fence Mf Church Sun School Convention Dates
The 8th annual Sun School Convention of the Baltimore conference will be held in Clifton Forge on Wednesday Thursday and Friday July 12 13 and 14 The opening sermon will be delivered Tuesday evening July 11 at 8 o clock Speakers include notable workers from the Baltimore Conference.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sun- School
Baltimore Fence
Mf. Church
Clifton Forge
Baltimore
Allen's Foot-Ease powder promises instant foot relief
Allen's Foot-Ease cures painful feet and ingrown nails, relieves corns and bunions, and makes tight shoes feel easy. It fights sweating, callous, and tired feet. trial package is free. Sold by druggists and shoe stores for 25 cents. Address Allen S. Olmated, LeRoy, New York.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Allen
Allen S. Olmated
LeRoy
N. Y
22nd International Christian Endeavour Convention Heads to Baltimore
The convention comes to Baltimore Maryland July 5 to 10 with speakers including Dr. Jos Lewis Howe of Lexington. The program is among the strongest in years aided by railroads offering special reduced rates and visitors promised cheap entertainment. A few Lexington and Rockbridge residents plan to attend.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
International Christian Endeavour
Baltimore
Jos. Lewis Howe
Lexington
Rockbridge
Piles Pain Relief Promise by PAZO Ointment
Itching bleeding or protruding piles can be eased by PAZO Ointment with first application providing relief and rest. If it fails to cure any case in 6 days, money refund offered. send 500 stamps to Paris Medicine Co. St. Louis Missouri for postpaid refund details.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Paris Medicine Co
St. Louis
Unclear message about unclaimed letters and names
Fragmentary note lists Lexington pesos and unclaimed letters for a week ending Jane They. Mentions Mrs Gussie Frank Mootuwe P Pattos and several initials, unclear purpose and details.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Gussie
Frank
Pattos
Personal news and travels across Lexington area
Mr. W. G. McDowell travels to St. James Maryland on business. Misses Lilly and Bessie Catlett head to Charlotte county for summer. Col H C Ford leaves for Rosnoke for vacation. Mrs H Barclay returns from Chicago to Spottewood. Mrs Ella M Lilley marries William Zombre of Covington Virginia in Washington. Various clergy assignments and relocations noted. W D Gresham re elected principal of Rocky Mount NC High School.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
W. G. McDowell
St. James
Lilly
Bessie Catlett
Charlotte County
H.C. Ford
Rosnoke
H. Barclay
Chicago
Carson
Spottewood
Ella M. Lilley
Washington, D. C
William 8. Zombre
Covington
James E. Armstrong
Salem
Trinity Methodist Church
M. B. Porter
Crescent Hill
Lexington Presbyterian Church
Margaret
Lucy Withrow
Virginia
Charlottesville
G. A.wilson
New Providence’ Presbyterian Church
W. D. Gresham
Lexington High School
Rocky Mt. High School
North Carolina
H. P. Howard
Virginia Military Institute
General Scott Shipp
Alexander Hamilton
John F. Hatton
Denmark
Williamsport
William C. Hatton
Western Maryland Railroad
Effinger Named Rockbridge Schools Superintendent
The State Board of Education elected G. W. Effinger as Rockbridge County Schools superintendent to succeed Colonel Robert Catlett. Effinger, former clerk for the Natural Bridge School Board, has served as acting superintendent since Colonel Catlett resigned in May. Two other applicants, Colonel John D. Letcher and Howard W. Barclay, were considered.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
State Board of Education
Richmond
G. W. Effinger
Rockbridge
Col
Robert Catlett
Colonel Catlett
Joseph W. Southall
Effinger
State Board
Natural Bridge School Board
A. Nash Johnson
John D. Letcher
Howard W. Barclay
Willis to Return as Head of Washington and Lee Economics
Dr. H Parker Willis, who resigned as economics department head, has reconsidered and will be re-elected to lead the department. An adjoined professorship will be created to be filled by the committee. Willis plans to be abroad for several months on an engagement with the New York Journal of Commerce.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
H. Parker Willis
Washington and Lee University
Willis
New York Journal of Commerce
Washington and Lee
Lexington School Board Elects Six Teachers
The Lexington School Board chaired by Robert E Hutton elected six teachers for Lexington Graded School. Elected were Miss Myrtle Moore Miss Maggie Shanks Miss Eleanor White Miss M Kate Warner Miss Mary L Smith and Miss Mary Stuart Preston, all previously at Lexington except Miss Preston from Abingdon. Miss Shanks did not teach last year.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lexington School Board
Robert E. Hutton
D., C .Humphreye
Frank T. Glasgow
Lexington Graded School
Myrtle Moore
Maggie Shanks
Eleanor White
M. Kate Warner
Mary JL. Smith
Mary Stuart Preston
Lexington School
Preston
Abingdon
Shanke
Tragedy near Kerr's Creek ends in double shooting
Jealousy and liquor sparked a fatal shooting near Kerr's Creek church. Grover Ford killed Charles Cash and wounded Lydia Enteminger, 14, as they walked home after services. Cash died Monday morning. Enteminger remains critical. Ford, about 20, fled into the hills. authorities searched Mill Mountain and Lexington for him.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Upper
Kerr's Creek
Denmark
Lexington
Kerr’s Creek
Grover Ford
Charles Cash
Mies Lydia Enteminger
Charles Enteminger
Ford
Cain
Young Cash
Miss Entsminger
P. H. Cowherd
Collierstown
Cash
C. P. Obenschain
Miss Enteminger
Mill Mountain
Longdale
Mise
Sterrett
Hazlewood
W. W. Dunlap
Notary, naturalization, penalties and officials listed
Mrss M. Pearle Dixon qualified as notary public. Mr. Solomon Lyons formerly of Kovno Russia took out naturalization papers and was admitted a citizen of the United States. Licenses to manufacture brandy issued T F Senenbaugh near Rockbridge Baths and T T Day near Decatur. John Henry Jones found guilty of house breaking and sentenced to three and one half years in the penitentiary. Joseph A East and W J Stafford qualified as special policemen for Chapman Iron Coal & Coke Co at Goshen. Road commissioners named C A Brady W A Tribbett J T McGuffin A M Anderson J W Wallace. In the matter of T A Jennings of Lynchburg v Glass Bros of Buena Vista over flour delivery, judgment for Glass Bros. Demurrer to evidence in Elliott administrator of Risque v Chesapeake & Ohio railroad for 10000 damages over killing J W Risque enjoined and appeal to Supreme Court. Former trial verdict was 5714. Pension board allowances listed: Sally E Brown and Nancy V Heague 25 dollars. D A Crigler and J P Link 30 dollars. Andrew P Henkle 15 dollars. Re-ratings increased from 16 to 30 for Samuel H Miller J L Rogers Frank Bennington J W Campbell J A Entsminger J W Ferguson J J Johnson J P Lewis J M Plogger Solowon Pennington W P Plogger B F Rapp J Wood.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
M. Pearle Dixon
Solomon Lyons
Kovno
Russia
United States
T. F. Senenbaugh
Rockbridge Baths
T. T. Day
Decatur
John Henry Jones
Joseph A. East
W.j.stafford
Chapman
H. G. Elliott
J. W. Risque
Chesapeake & Ohio Railroad
J.W. Risque
Supreme Court
Pension Board
Sally E. Brown
Nancy V. Heague
Solowon Pennington
W. P. Plogger
B. F. Rapp
J. Wood
Berkley Fire Dispatch Injures Town Engineer
Berkley Virginia dispatch reports Town Engineer W. C. Varner injured when a wheel struck his leg while en route to a fire on Liberty and Second streets. He was treated by Dr. W. K. Wood and will remain confined to his room for about a fortnight.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Berkley
W. C. Varner
Liberty
Second Streets
Mr. Varner
Varner Weds Miss Watte in Quiet Glasgow Home Ceremony
At noon yesterday, John Augustus Gardiner Varner and Margaret Elisabeth Watte wed at the bride’s parents near Glasgow. Rev. A. G. Buckner officiated with Catherine Taylor at the organ. post ceremony, the couple planned to reside in Welch, West Virginia, where Varner works for Norfolk and Western.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
John Augustus Gardiner Varner
Margaret Elisabeth Watte
L. M. Watts
Glasgow
A. G. Buckner
Falling Springs Presbyterian Church
Catherine Taylor
Bedford
Mendelesohn
Mind Cornelia Watts
Mies M. Kate Varner
Lexington
Marr Considered for Dean Post at Virginia Tech
Colonel Robert A. Marr, longtime head of the engineering department at the Virginia Military Institute, has received an offer to become dean of engineering at Virginia Polytechnic Institute in Blacksburg. He will consider the proposition, with a decision to be announced later, as friends at VMI and Lexington express regret at a potential departure.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Robert A. Marr
Virginia Militay Institute
Virginia Polytechnic Institute At
Blacksburg
W.m.patton
J. M. McBryde
Virginia Polytechnic Institute
Marr
Lexington
Virginia Military Institute
New Sub Professors Named at Virginia Military Institute
The Virginia Military Institute appoints new sub professors for the next session with the rank of captain. Appointments include I. B. Johnson R. Ragland J. W. Newman P. Noland and Er. Caldwell from the class of 1904. Captains Peague and LaPrade return for the next session while Sincisirgeen is sent to a military school in Little Rock Ark and Roby, Pearson and Adkisson pursue studies at Yale Rosewell Institute and Boston Tech.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Virginia Military Institute
I. B. Johnson
R. Ragland
J. W. Newman
P. Noland
Er. C. Caldwell
R. B. Peague
W. W. LaPrade
J. B. Sincisir Geen
Little Rock
Ark
T. W. Roby
Boston Institute of Technology
D. C. Pearson
Rosewell
N. M
J. 8, Adkisson
Yale University
Independence Day Events At Clif Ton Forge To Honor Virginia
Planners in Clif ton Forge prepare a July 4 program with Hon. Leslie M. Shaw as orator on the subject Business Possibilities of Virginia. A military and civil parade will march, a cornerstone at a new Masonic temple will be laid, and eminent speakers will take part in services. Rockbridge residents are specially invited.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Clifton Forge
Leslie M. Shaw
United States Treasury
Virginis
Masonic Temple
Rockbridge
Memorial Window for Stonewall Jackson in Roanoke Church
The Fifth Avenue Presbyterian Church Roanoke plans a memorial stained glass window to Confederate general Thomas J. Jackson known as Stonewall. The church, led by colored pastor Rev L L Downing, aims to honor his late service to the community and his past as a VMI professor and superintendent of a local colored Sunday school.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
H. A. Young
Pearl Teter
Jean Cameron
Goshen
Mise Ella Leech
Buffalo
Ella Firebaugh
Flumen
Edith Lamof
Timber Ridge
Toronto
Canada
James P. Smith
Oxford Presbyterian Church
Richmond
The
Central Presbyterian
Oxford
Staunton
Thomas Jonathan Jackson
Stonewall Jackson
Virginia Military Institute
Lexington
Charlottesville
Fifth Avenue Presbyterian Church
Roanoke
L. L Downing
Ancient Meeting House Erected on Collier's Creek
A historical notice recounts proposals in 1888 for Sip Rock Meeting House on Collier's Creek with payments in three installments and detailed stone and brick work. It notes no church meeting for that plan, later Collierstown Presbyterian church built 1855–6, and an earlier Old Shed or Ship Rock Meeting House dating to c.1833 along Collier's Creek.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Collier's Creek
Gasette Corvertendence Lexinetox
Sip Rock
Lexmaron Gazette
Collierstown
C. J. Brawley
Ben McNutt
Pope County
West Virginia
Grover
Ray Hottinger
Thomas Ayres
Old Shed
Ship Rock
Andrew Davidson
Old Oxford
Stuart Taylor
Tragedy in Waterloo and local notes update
Community mourning a Sunday Waterloo tragedy with news slayer capture. Weather harms wheat while corn, oats, and grass prosper. Mrs. Tribbett returns from Roanoke delighted with trip. Mr. Knick improves slightly. Mrs. Hartman joins husband from North Carolina. talk of Gilmore Leech leaving for Clifton Forge. C. T. Rogers held a sale and plans to move to St. Louis for a medical practice.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Waterloo
J. W. Tribbett
Roanoke
Herbert Knick
Hartman
G. Hartman
Petersburg
North Carolina
Husb
Gilmore Leech
Clifton Forge
Leech
A. W. Morrison
C. T. Rogers
St. Louis
X. Raves
W. Scott Johnson Injured At North Buffalo Mill
Mr. W Scott Johnson was badly hurt when a lumber slab struck him in the stomach at a saw mill on North Buffalo He is improving slowly but remains in critical condition Harvesting is under way locally Cora shows well after recent heavy rains Miss Lillian Moore of East Virginia visits her sister Mrs R J Reid M
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
W. Scott Johnson
Steau
North Buffalo
Cora
Lillian Moore
Fast Virginia
R. J. Reid
Doan's Kidney Pills Featured in Local Notice
A Lexington reader endorses Doan's Kidney Pills for persistent back pain likely from the kidneys. The note states relief after using a box bought at B. H. Gorrell's drug store and urges others to try the remedy sold by Fostear-Milburn Co. in Buffalo New York.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lexington
St. Miss
Patton
Main Bt
Dean
B. H. Gorrell
Priva
Fostear-Milburn Co
Muffalo
New York
United States
Rememe
Doan
Ely Brothers Liquid Cream Balm Ad Patent Cure Claim
An old advertisement promotes Ely Brothers Liquid Cream Balm for nasal catarrh. It claims immediate relief and a cure with non drying effects, sold in large 50 cent and trial 10 cent sizes by druggists or mail order from Warren Street New York.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Draggista
ELY Brothers
Warren
New York
Ely
Ely Bros
Warren St
N. Y
Lexington Market Prices and Household Goods Listing 1905
A Lexington Virginia market page from June 28 1905 lists prices for flour wheat corn and foods like lard and straw with miscellaneous items and a Dean's Ointment advertisement claiming a remedy for skin itchiness. The commodity prices include flour six dollars forty seven cents per bushel and corn around ninety four cents per bushel with various farm goods priced alongside.
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Lexington
Butte
Ccosvucecapess
Snes
Biden
Aes
Hbysssererveevevensanne
Ovis den Paean
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Che
Methodist
Convention
T. BE
Hebekahe’ Sociable
Rebekah
Dr. King
Frank A. Bayliss
Chesapeake and Ohio
Cincinnati
Ohio
E. B. Bayliss
H. R. Mills
Buena Vista
W. G. McDowell, Jr
St James School
Maryland
Camp Choconut
Mr. Effinger
Dr. Willis
W.L.U
Circuit Court News
W.C. Varner
Nettie Stuart
Mrs. H. 8. Preston
Dr. Fowler
Natire
Varner
Watts
Vv. P. I. Wante
Joan Taisser
Pare Hutt
Jonn Enrs Mincer
William B. Wilson
Thomas Scott
Trustees
Rapp’s Mill
Ayers
Ayer
Ayre OO
Lowell
Mane
Strauzera
Kly
New Orleans
Evy Bros
Wm Lamberton
Delachaise St
W. McDurr
Lexington Hotel
Lexington, VA
Trumps
W.S. Kniseley & Co
Court House
Hopris
Stuart
S. O. Cawppett
Andrew P. Wane
Teller
the Bank of
Lexington Produce Market
D. L. Gregory
Hope
Tex
ROYAL
Scva
Sam
Freyeuiely
J. Mc D. Adair
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