The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1890-11-20
PERSONAL ITEMS.
What People are Doing In and
Out of Roanoke.

Parties brought before the courts here
aftor supplicate the police to withhold
their names from the reporters, and the
| police good accede to their
demands. Defenders should remember
that there is way to avoid the publ
cation of their misdeeds, and that is,
! not to commit them.
Mayor Evans firmness in disposing of
| cases coming before his court from the
| disreputable portions of Railroad avonue
has materially lessened tho number of
cases from that locality, and the police
and citizens report that much better
order is observed there now than form
crly.
| Mr.. o. A. Clough, editor of the South,
was in the city yesterday, and left on
the 10 a. M. train.
| gang of laborers is now engaged in
cutting down the hill between Fourth
and Fifth avenues on First street s. G..
and when the work is completed it will
be finely graded street.
Work on the Terry sevcn-story build
ing has began and will he pushed for
ward to completion rapidly.
1t is pleasing to sec how nicely the
engine room of tho water works is
decorated with pottcd plants, which
make it more home-liltc.
| 1t would be we'll for the authorities
| to compel contractors to fence in the
| building when the work of erection is
| going on, as it will protect passing ped
estrians.
| The chilly weather or the police
! seems to have been instrumental in
| clearing the street between Henry and
Jefferson streets Of the dusky denizens
, who used to sit along that thoroughfare
| The locality is known as "Hell's Half
Acre.
Roanoke was yesterday likened into
/ Cleveland, Ohio, on account of the wind
! and dust. Clevelanders are noted for
bowling their heads every time they
| turn corner on account of the strong
winds that prevail in that section of
the country.
The hill on North jefferson street.
| between Fourth and Fifth avenues. has
| been cut through with the exception of
| few feet, and that will be blasted out
in few days, and the blasted hill will
have disappeared.
There is no need to buy Baltimore
| Philadelphia or New York paper to find
the news. By subscribing for THE TIMES
| you can have it served to you every
morning at your breakfast table twelve
hours in advance of the Northern papers
An Adjourned Meeting of the Association.
The meeting of the Bar Association
yesterday morning to express the scnti-
ments of that organization concerning
the death OF Mr.. Charles r. Luck, a
member thereof, was adjourned until
this morning at 10 o'clock, after com
mittee had been appointed to draft
suitable resolutions of sympathy and
sorrow Messrs. Berkeley, Hart and
| Woods comprise the committee
A handsome upright piano, IN oc-
| taves, full metal frame, with plush
stool and cover, for $3.50 cash or S275 on
easy payments is one of the many bar
gains the Iobbie Music Co., Lynch
burg, Va, offer you. They also have
fine line of Knabe and Kranich e
| Bach pianos. Call and examine their
stock
Blount, proprietor of the Diamond
Front, has been compelled to put on an
extra delivery wagon on account of his
large and increasing business.
a New Concern.
Boone Bros. successors to e. Didier,
|. Ernest Boone, late with f. III. Stew
art Co., but now with the Roanoke
Grocery and Milling Co., and Walter s.
Boone, late with j. Il. Boone, the Com
merce street grocer having purchased
the entire stock of groceries and good
will of Il. Didier, corner jefferson and
Campbell streets, we take the pleas