Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1888-06-01

| WHO THEY ARE AND WHAT IhE1 AMI
I DoING-A LIST CONTAINING MANY FA-
MILIAR NAMEs-ALL DOING WELL
sTAUNToN MEN MAKING PROFITABLE
| INVESTMENTS THERE.
| &C, &C., sc.
Reported for the STAUNToN VINDICAToR]
ROANOKE, May 30th.-You and every
one else have heard SO much about the
growth and enterprise of this magic
| city," that I will not repeat the accounts
| Of her immense machine shops covering
Is acres, giving employment to about l20o
| PERSONS, her busy iron furnace, great fruit
canneries, rolling mill, ice factory, mat
! tress factory, Touring mills, and other en-
| terprses, nor enter into particulars as TO
the boom here in rea, estate and the many
| fortunes that have been made here.
FORMER RESIDENTS OF STANTON L1V-
ING IN ROANOKE.
But it will interest the readers OF the
VINDICAToR to get at the bottom of all
this enterprise and prosperity. which L
could not satisfactorily account for until
l got here and found upon careful IN
| quiry that about rs citizens OF Staun-
| ton and Augusta and SO from Lex
ington and Rockbridge have settled
here and have determined to make place
of it, So I consider that Staunton may
claim Roanoke as one of her daughters.
] I have found so many of our folks here
who L had missed and did not know what
had become of them, that I conclude it
will be entertaining for me to give the
names of some Of them with what they
; are doing:-J. M. Harris, dry goods mer-
chant, large establishment; Robert A.
Buckner, (who married Miss Belle Har-
ris) Supt. Adams Express, and City CouI-
Gilman; J. F. Christian, Jour Flemming),
druggist; J. o. Hobbs, (who married Miss
Baylor), merchant; Alex. Nelson, hard
ware; Capt. R. X. Rice, livery and Judge
of election; J. II. Earman, brickwork
contractor; B. b. Dull, stone cutter; DIR.
A. z. koiner, physician; j. NJ. Henkle,
fence manufacturer; Sam Woodward, r.
r. book-keeper; Geo. Surber, r. r. CLERK;
Geo. A. Rhodes. dairyman; Sam Basklns,
Jr., and Willie Baskins. r. r. clerks; Mrs.
| Wm Forbes, Mrs. Kate Hilbert and Mrs.
| S. &. Baskins, boarding houses; IL. ).
Shomo, Elias Mahoney, ST., Elias Maho-
ney, Jr., Alonzo Grove, Hugh Wiley,
| VIM. Drumbeller, and A. A. Curd, car
penters; H. T. Earman, Chris Lavell and
Ed Parker, butchers; M. Lavell, Tom
| Newman, Bob Shehan, Sam Taylor, Ben
Mahoney, painters; Bob Saith, Chas. Lee
and Ben Bagby, Jr., bricklayers; John
Riley, William Riley and Geo Murray,
plasterers; Neil Swink, John Hunt, Jack
Llvick, Peter Livick, VIM. Baylor, Chas.
Gibson, W. W. Weaver and B. F. Houff,
carpenters; Alex. Hays and Harry Hays,
brlckmakers; l.. Rosenbaum, Eugene
Rosenbaum and Chas. Crawford, liquor
dealers; Frank Crawford, policeman; j.
J. Dixon, sewing machine agent; VIM.
Garrison, blacksmith; Chas. Riley, plas-
terer; Michael Forbes, machinist; Sam
Hutchins, green grocer; T. j. Teaford
! from West View, merchant; Mrs. Chas.
Lee, dress maker; Dave Lee and Frank
Parrack from Greenville, shoemakers;
Elijah Carichoff from Mcdowell. carpen-
ter; Rufus Paxton, Augusta, groceries;
Geo. Hilbert, machinist.
| RESIDENTS FROM ROCKBRIDGE.
From Rockbridge county, note Chas.
B. Bell, son of Jack Bell. from near Mid
way, book keeper for PocahonGas Coal
Co.; J. G. f. Bell, grocer; Dunlap q
Priddy, stoves and tin ware; Stewart Pat
terson. N. s. W. R. R.; Chas. Patterson,
Layne, contractors; F. B. Poague, ma
chinist; John Crawford x Sons. contrac-
tors; F. A. Campbell. mail agent; 5. r.
Patterson, planning mill; VIM. M. Dunlap,
civil engineer; E. J. Leyburn, contractor;
W. H. Horton and ] ohm Roberts, livery
machinist.
WHAT sTAUNToN MEN ARE DOING.
Nearly all of these we'll known citizens
of Stanton and adjacent country are do
ing we'll and many of them making money
fast. In addition to these, there are sew
eral citizens of our city who have Invested
successfully in real estate. Maj. B. L.
Bagby has built and sold to advantage a
number of houses and is now finishing nine
dwelling houses which he will soon put on
the market. Mr.. VIM. WholeY owns some
valuable property which Is bringing him
remunerative rents. and I saw MIR. 5. M.
Wilkes here to day who had just sold sew
eral pieces of real estate at handsome
profit, which he has owned about year.
BOSS" Shomo has just made a contract
with Jas. S. SIMMONS Il Co., of the
Real Estate Exchange for building 10
houses. 1 could give you very many in
teresting results from investments here
which have yielded 100 per cent. in year
and often in less time, but time and space
fail me at this writing, and after you have
read the above list of brain and Drawn
which our section has exported to Roa-
noke, 1 know you will fad no more diff
Guilty than I have IN understanding Its
magic growth.
DR.. A. z. Koiner, formerly of Augusta
and now of Roanoke. with his bride of
four months, nee Miss Lizzie Simmons of
Salem, left New York Saturday on an
European tour. He will be absent three
months and visit Vienna, where he will
revise his medical education. They sailed
on the steamer Furnesia for Scotland, and
were accompanied by Miss Mary Trout OF
Roanoke.
Mai. Jed. Hotchkiss Of Staunton adj
dressed the Y. M. G. Association of koa.
noke last Sunday week. The Association
has purchased lot and proposes to erect
its building this year. The Staunton AS
ISOLATION will have to hurry to keep u[
with it in building matters.
T. e. M.