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Title
[Miscellanea]
Subject
College buildings, Presidential travels, Price's mountain, Coal, Stony Creek Street, Bocock, City Council
Creator
[Unknown]
Source
http://addison.vt.edu/record=b1775388~S1
Publisher
Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University
Date
October 1876
Contributor
Natalie Richoux, Zak Risha
Rights
Permission to publish images from The Gray Jacket must be obtained from Special Collections, Virginia Tech
Format
Text
Language
English
Identifier
LD5655.V8 L4, ser.1, v.2, no.3 (October 1876), p.3-6
Coverage
Virginia Agricultural & Mechanical College, Montgomery Female College, Blacksburg VA, Christiansburg VA
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Pg. 3
Of the new College buildings one is finished and the other will be in a few months, as far as room and comfort are concerned they compare favorably with any college buildings in the State.
Pg. 3
PERSONAL. Our President started to the Centennial on the 5th of October. We wish him a pleasant tip [sic] and hope it may soften his heart so that he may excuse some of us from double duty which is now being inflicted upon us.
Pg. 4
COAL.—There is a new semi-anthracite coal being mined in Price's mountain. It is beyond doubt a most excellent coal, and is nearly equal to the celebrated Egg coal of Pennsylvania. The mine is worked and owned by Roberts and Bruce, Bangs, Va.
Pg. 4
PATENT GATE LATCH.—Mr. Gitt of our town has invertd [sic] a gate latch that is quite a novelty. It is very cheap, simple and durable. Some of our cadets seem to think it a wonderful latch, as they go to see it quite often. Mr. Gitt keeps a bar-room stocked with the finest cigars and other articles too numerous to mention.
Pg. 4
Tom Collins has been found at last in person of Bocock of our College.
Pg. 4
Mr. Will Thomas' house on Stony Creek street is rapidly nearing completion. The contractor Mr. Branson is sparing no pains to make it a pretty house. He is assisted as superintendent by Cadet Blackwell.
Pg. 4
Now that the CITY COUNCIL has been in session, and raised some money we expect they will set the "chain gang" at work paving the streets.
Pg. 5
The wooden tenement on the corner of Main and Lee street is being torn down. We are glad of it, as it will improve the looks of our CITY. How much slower it disappears than the one the cadets pulled down some years ago.
Pg. 6
There has been seventy-eight new matriculats at the V. A. M. C., since the 14th of August. This is more than we have ever had. Still we move onward.
Pg. 6
The Blacksburg Cornet Band turned out on the 27th of September, and serenaded all the sick people. We were not surprised to see them well the nest day.
Pg. 6
Lent. R. N. Howard is in Yorktown Va. We hear that while he was "sporting" a blue furlough at Williamsburg the other day, some one called him a "D--d Yankee Provost Officer." Bob swears he will never wear that suit again. Luck to you old friend.
Of the new College buildings one is finished and the other will be in a few months, as far as room and comfort are concerned they compare favorably with any college buildings in the State.
Pg. 3
PERSONAL. Our President started to the Centennial on the 5th of October. We wish him a pleasant tip [sic] and hope it may soften his heart so that he may excuse some of us from double duty which is now being inflicted upon us.
Pg. 4
COAL.—There is a new semi-anthracite coal being mined in Price's mountain. It is beyond doubt a most excellent coal, and is nearly equal to the celebrated Egg coal of Pennsylvania. The mine is worked and owned by Roberts and Bruce, Bangs, Va.
Pg. 4
PATENT GATE LATCH.—Mr. Gitt of our town has invertd [sic] a gate latch that is quite a novelty. It is very cheap, simple and durable. Some of our cadets seem to think it a wonderful latch, as they go to see it quite often. Mr. Gitt keeps a bar-room stocked with the finest cigars and other articles too numerous to mention.
Pg. 4
Tom Collins has been found at last in person of Bocock of our College.
Pg. 4
Mr. Will Thomas' house on Stony Creek street is rapidly nearing completion. The contractor Mr. Branson is sparing no pains to make it a pretty house. He is assisted as superintendent by Cadet Blackwell.
Pg. 4
Now that the CITY COUNCIL has been in session, and raised some money we expect they will set the "chain gang" at work paving the streets.
Pg. 5
The wooden tenement on the corner of Main and Lee street is being torn down. We are glad of it, as it will improve the looks of our CITY. How much slower it disappears than the one the cadets pulled down some years ago.
Pg. 6
There has been seventy-eight new matriculats at the V. A. M. C., since the 14th of August. This is more than we have ever had. Still we move onward.
Pg. 6
The Blacksburg Cornet Band turned out on the 27th of September, and serenaded all the sick people. We were not surprised to see them well the nest day.
Pg. 6
Lent. R. N. Howard is in Yorktown Va. We hear that while he was "sporting" a blue furlough at Williamsburg the other day, some one called him a "D--d Yankee Provost Officer." Bob swears he will never wear that suit again. Luck to you old friend.