The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1890-05-16
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Going to England-A Good Report
Death OF Mrs. Hobbs-Bepjan EEmb
bard Fast NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.
Mention.
MIR. Peyton L. Terry is in philadel
phia on buiness.
Mr.. d. w. Spencer, of Spencer
Henry County, is in the city pros
pecting.
Miss Fannie White, of Fort Lewis
is visiting Mrs. Reynolds on Thir,
street, s. w.
Mr.. S. w. 'Jamison was in Bedfor'
City yesterday, attending u meetini
of the Greenwood Land Company.
The Third ward school closes it
session today, and the teachers wi
give the pupils q big picnic.
Mr.. w. w. Marston, the First az
enue grocer, has been quite sick II
his residence.
Mr.. Charles Saunders has accepte'
II position with Mr.. Charles Lunsfor
III the insurance business.
The Inter-Urban Land Compan
put two corps of engineers at wor
yesterday to make the contour SUI
veys.
-Four banana trees have been plant
ed in Hotel Roanoke grounds. On
of them will bear fruit this year
the climate is propitious.
Mrs. Mary Harris, of this city
accompanied by her sister, Miss Cal
rie. is visiting her aunt, Mrs. ElIz
Dill, of Jackson, Botetonrt count
Mr.. j. L. Marshall, proprietor of til
cafe, has rented the upper floors
Jennings grocery, which will Civ
him an addition of five rooms.
Mrs. Il. P. Johnson, accompanic
by her son, PURGE, left Yesterday c
the O'Clock train for Glade Spring T
visit her mother.
Mr.. j. NJ. Knight, foreman of Il,
street force, has thirteen men at wor
on Fourth avenue, n f., making val
liable improvements there.
Mr.. n. E. Miller, of Matthew
salesman with the New Englan,
SICliillS OoiAil'i
George II. Wright, baggage aSen
al the Union depot, has been pre-
NOTED to night ticket agent. He
an efficient man, and the promotion
is deserved.
Mr.. James r. Terry, formerly
member OF the coal and lumber firm
of Huff & Co., has been elected secrc
tary of the Home Building and Con
veyance Company.
Our sale of $685. suits will tak'
place Friday and Saturday, May 1911
and 18th. Every suit worth from 81:
to So. JOSEPH Coin
my16 81.
Work will be commenced within
sixty DAYS on the Midway Iron Com
pany's plant, the $4,000 worth o
stock necessary TO guarantee il
erection having been all taken.
Sevenuy-five samples representa-!
400 suits in Joseph COINS show win
dows. Choice OF these only $9.S5
worth from $l3 to SIS. Two day
only, Friday and Saturday, May 1Gtl
and 18th. my1G2t
i
against Charles Otey, for breakin,
the skull of Ben Hubbard, will y
tried before Justice Howerton tn
morning at o'clock. Everett Per
kins, esq, is counsel for defense.
The Virginia baseball club will pla.
the Roanoke College team tomorrow
afternoon. The batteries are Wa
thal and Parrack for Virginias, an.
keedy and Fox for the college team.
Don't forget the special sale of sos,
suits Friday and Saturday, May lot.
and 18th; every suit worth from 81:
to S15. Two days only. JOSEPH
Cohn, the Salem avenue clnthier.
my16 ct.
The mother of Mr.. John O. Hobbs
the First avenue dry goods merchant
died at Covington on Wednesday las
of pneumonia. Mr.. Hobbs and HI.
wife were both at her bedside, whe:
she passed away. The interment toos
place yesterday afternoon.
Benjamin Hubbard, the man who
came so near losing his life, it is allea
ed, at the hands OF Charles Otey, is
improving in a remarkable degree
and, if no violent secondary symp.
toms set in. will recover. He insisted
yesterday on getting out of bed, and
if the doctor would have let him, h
would have gone out doors.
d. w. Harth, principal of the color
ed school was struck on the head b.,
one of his pupils yesterday with Il
baseball bat about II o'clock. FL:
had chastised one of the boys, and thi:
fellow didn't like t,so when his teach
er came out at recess, the boy let hin,
have it. He has been arrested and
lodged in jail.
The Vinton congregation of the
Presb yterian Church held Il meeting
yesterday III the public school build
ing of that place A building commit
tee was appointed consisting of the
following gentlemen: Giles Gum, Will
Muse, George X. Gish, a. W. Vinyard,
and A. III. Venable. Rev. Churchill
Christian, the pastor who will take
charge, was present at the meeting a.
was Mr.. Campbell.
The report of Colonel F. Il. Fries,
president of the Virginia and North
Carolina Construction Company,
which has charge of the building o.
the Roanoke and Southern railroad,
is most encouraging. He was in the
city holding q conference with the
resident members of his company,
and says the road is graded almost to
Martinsville, and that the iron neces-
sary to complete the road to that poinT
has all been received. Work will be
commenced at this end of the line
at once, he says, and completed with
out delay. One hundred and fifty
men have just been added to the
working force.
Nor1cE.-Our special sale of ready