The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1890-07-19
THOSE you KNOW
WHO WAS in THE CITY YES
TERDAY.
ODDS AMI ENDS OF GIqY GOSSIP
These Items are short, Rat they are
the Cream OF The News of'tho cits
YcstcrdaS, Boiled Down Into shor,
Paragraph

issThe Mis- Bingham are at Blue
Ridge Springs.
Mr.. ID. |. Bach,nan, of Pulaski, is
guest at Hotel Roanoke.
Mr.. o. s. Engledove, of Lynchburg
was ia the city yesterday.
This mo ming the dog days begin
Now keep IL eye on the CANNES.
Mrs. Lara Pollard has returned
] from Il plei SAINT visit to Bedford City
Captain ". NJ. Rogers got back yes
terday froll Il trip to his former homr
in Loudon county.
Mr. W s. Boon has returned to tn
city again Utter a short visit to hi
home in tie country.
mir. Williams, Carnegie and II. e
Smith, of Crimora, Va, are guests a
the Contin entail.
Miss Sallie Jones,o Buckingham, i
! visiting the Misses Camden OF
Fourth av nue..
General Juble B. Early passed
through the city yesterday enrout
from New Orleans to Lynchburg.
a car load of immigrants from NeN
York enroute for the West, passeo
through tie city yesterday morning
DR.. George S. Luck, president G
the board ii health returned vestel
day from visit to relatives in BIZ
louisville.
Yesterday, ground was broken for
large furni ce at Radford. Work OF
the electrj; light plant is steadil
proceeding.
Miss Ida Wright, of Red Plain
franklin county, who has been visi'
ing frienCs here, left yesterday &c
Bedford CITY.
Misses Fannie and Ella Paris, Ct
Staunton. IRE III the city visiting t,ei
brother, l,r. q. f. Paris, and ar
stopping &c Hotel Felix.
Mrs. w. 9. Morrison, of Washing
ton, who as been stopping with Mr.
A. q. Chul for the past ten days, he
returned home.
Mr.. J. Frank Hass, the bright
Ncung edit or of the Flat-Top Mon
tor, is in tle city. Mr.. Hass is tn
son of Colonel Hass, the well KNOW
mineralog st.
The Young Peoples Society Of IL
Presbyterian Church held an erjo'
able social aI the Manse last nigh
Short talks, songs and prayer wer
its princip Al features.
The ma y friends of Dr. Gordo
Simmons ill regret to learn that /
has a rela, Sc, and is seriously i'll q
Blue RidG Springs. DR.. Koiner III
been after ding him.
DR.. Hen y Morgan, former resi-
dent of Sa EN-, who has beer living
Abingdon for the past two wears. b
returned ID his old home in this plaC
where lie viii reside in the future.
Railroad builders in this section q
the country are experiencing trodb
in the mai ter OF hiring laborers. I'll;
supply OF aborers is running short
account OF So much public work goir
on.
Just as We 90 to press we learn rhs
there was a terrific storm last nlSi
in the Catawba neighborhood, az
companied with violent and heav
rain Of perhaps two hours duration
| The creek is represented TO have bee
greatly swollen and consideIab
damage cone TO the crops with
reach OF ii
Shifting engines 143 and 133 wei
taken from the shops yesterday an
assigned t, duty on the Norfolk an
Western y lrds here, and engine Il
which is also just out of the shop
was sent Crewe. Engine III wi
take the place of 80. and The latte
sent to \ ortolk TO shift passenge
cars.
Yesterday morning, Sam Brooks
colored, vas .carelessly handling
revolver il the Jail yard, when th
weapon WIS accidentIy exploded, th
ball goin: through one of the ja
windows. The ball barely missed I'd
head of or of the prisoners, and ha
the effect If creating a big stir il tha
usually quit community, unJiI it Wa:
ascertaine TO be an accident.