The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1890-10-15
PERSONAL ITEMS.
What People are Doing lin and
Out of Roanoke.


d. \. Bell. Esq. of RoclSbridgc
ing after business in the office of the
clerk of the Hastings Court.
Hon. c. Franklin, from Appomattox
county was in the city yesterday at
tending to legal business.
SiXty-sevon wagons paid the curbagc
tax at the Market House yesterday,
contributing thereby $500, to the city
treasury.
Mr.. a. Il. Clayton, an active and en-
crgctic real estate agent of buchanan.
was in the city yesterday.
Graham Clayton, Esq, the Bedford
City author and lawyer. was here yes
terday attending to legal business.
A marriage license was issued ycstcr-
day to Mr.. Nirgic IL. Payne and Miss
Addie Dobyns. The ceremony will be
performed by Rev. J. II. Boyd at Greene
Memorial Church at o'clock this morn
ing
Officer Organ arrested stranger yes
terday for selling cheap iewelry on the
streets. He was carried before the
mayor and on his promise to leave town
at once the complaint against him was
dismissed. His name was not obtained.
Rev. j. S. Moscr, pastor of the First
Lutheran Church, of Richmond, and
Rev. q. q. Scherer, pastor of the Luther
an Church of Grafton, West Va, were
in Roanoke yesterday.
Billing Car No. ., of Forepaugh's cir
Gus, under the management of c. A..
Potter, arrived here yesterday.
Complaint is made by many working
men that the market house is not opened
sooner. In order to get beef or mutton
in time for a 6 o'clock breakfast the
market should be opened by 4:3O o'clock
at latest.
Hon. John w. Daniels passed through
the city yesterday en- route home from
Wytheville.
Mrs. Henry A. Wise and son, Mr.
barton ii. Wise, of Richmond, were
guests at Hotel Roanoke last night.
Mr.. w. II. Martin, wife and child, of
Mobile, Ala, are at Hotel Roanoke.
Mrs. w. II. Felix wife of the pro-
| prictor of Hotel Felix, returned ycstcr-
| day from a visit to relatives in West
Virginia.
c. ~. S. Hopkins, of Alexandria. Va,
is stopping at the Continental Hotel.
The dummy train between here and
| Ninton ran over a horse yesterday and
| injured it SO that the owner, Mir. H.
Brown, had to kill the animal.
A coatlcss individual, evidently much
the worse for liquor, approached the
! police last night about o o'clock in Il
| shivcring condition. He complained
that he went into a place on Railroad
avenue a short time before that and in
! haling the odor of burning clothing he
turned around and saw as he thought
his coat on fire. lie threw the garment
! off. but had no sooner done so than a
negro man snatchcd it up and ran OFF
lie said that the negro had set a rag on
fire and put it behind him to create the
| dclusion.
Ed. Wathcr, a colorcd man on Mel
son street, was struck on the head by an
unknown party last night about o
o'clock. man came by his house and
pulled his gate off the hinges. lie re-
monstratcd, and when he did so was
struck on the head with brick The
party also threw brick at man
standing near Wather.
VIII Foster. colorcd was arrested by
Officer Pctzcl yesterday evening for
stealing bucket from ono of the men
corner of jefferson and Campbell streets.
lie was lodged in the calaboosc.
WANrED-A good reliable boy who
has had experience in feeding presses
and understands something about them.
Apply in person at once to HAMMoND's
Printing Works.
Ask the news stands and newsboys how
\ the people like THE TIMES in its new
form. Three times as many visitors read
THE TIMES as read any other paper
That's q point for real estate advertisers
Clipped from Canada Presbyterian
under signature of C.. BlaclIctt Robin
son, Propr.: | was cured of oft recurring
bilious headaches by Burdock Blood
Bittcrs.
Notice.
special meeting of the charter mem
bers of the Oder of Tonti will he hello
this Wednesday evening at $ p. m. il
the hall on the third floor OF the RcaC
House on jefferson street. A full at
tendance is desired. Il. j. KEMP,
ID. $. u.
OLD exchanges for sale at TIE TINE.
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