Roanoke daily times. (Roanoke, Va) 1886-1890, 1890-04-13
BRIEF MENTION
YESTERDAYS NEWS In SHORT
PARAGRAPHS.
BALTIMORE And OHIO LAND co
Street Cleaners at Work. Prospecting
for n Steel Plant. A Painful Wound
Keep IN Ego OH Your Chickens.
wanted Mt Rocky Mount.

Ex-State Senator Glasgow, of Bote
bourt county, is in the city.
Mr. George w. Conrad of Philadel
phia is IN the city prospecting.
Mr.. Daniel Shafer, OF Loudon coun
ty, is visiting his brother, Mr.. S. s
Shafer.
The curbagc collections of the mat
ket-house for the week ending las
night were $3.50.
Mr. A. A. Carpenter a prospector o
Port Chester, N. Y, is in the cit.
prospecting.
Mr., G. A. Sullivan, of the Mont
gomery Democrat, published ut Rad
ford, was in the city yesterday.
Officer p. N. Bowers and wife a.
visiting relatives in Botetout county
Mr.. NJ Fl. Clayton and wife hav
returned from two weeks visit t
Florida.
Mr.. j. p. Walton, OF Lynchburg, ha
accepted Il position at the Bosto''
Shoe Store
MSS n Buckner, of Bufords is Wis
ting Miss Mamie Trent. at No. 81
West, Salem avenue.
Mr.. f. r. Rarlsdale and wife lei
yesterday for Marion to visit rela
tives.
DR.. Joseph A. Gale will leave tn;
evening for New York on importan
business and will be absent severa
days.
Mrs. Z. NJ. Pollard, mother OF off
Ger L. a. Pollard, is very i'll at he
residence No. 35i on Clark Street.
Mr.. j. w. Apperson, an e1tensiv'
boot and shoe dealer of Lynchburg
was in the city yesterday and regis
tered at Hotel Roanoke.
Mr.. w. G.. Evans, president of IL,
council left yesterday morning fo
will be absent several days.
w. J. Blair, Jr., started work yea
terday OH two groom fran dwelling
On Day street, between Henry ant
Jefferson streets.
The members of st. Andrews Liter
airy and Benvolence Society will NEE
at their hall this afternoon at
o'clock,
The family of Mr.. j. II. Edward
arrived here yesterday from SuffolI
on short visit TO him Mr. Edward
is engaged in business ut the markc
house.
Mr.. Thomas Kennedy, has sold se'rr
eral thousand acres of mineral land liz
Franklin, Henry, and Patrick, coun
ties, both in the past three weeks.
MIR. w. A. Griffith. formerly new.
paper man of Salem. Va, bu
now living in Tallahassee Florida.
arrived here yesterday, and is a cues
of his brother law, Mr.. w. p Camp
No 116 4th avenue.
About a hundred negroes from
Lvnchburg passed through the cit,
Yesterday en- route west TO work OF
the Ohio extension of the Norfolk anC
Western Railroad.
C. B. Bell, book keeper of the Poe;
hontas Coal Company, left yesterday
evening for Vesuvius, Rockbridp,
county, to visit his father, Mr.. G. (.
Bell. He will be absent week.
Mr.. S. Milford Schmdel, of the HI.
gerstown United Silk Manufacturing:
Company was here yesterday call
wasting the prospects for establishin.
a like industry here.
Mr.. L. Campbell Tabb, the new
land agent of the Virginia Compans
at Bluefield, w. Va, left yesterday
for that city. He reports great activ
ity in Bluetield.
Walker & Blackwell, the Jeffersoi
street grocers, have torn down the
frame building lately occupied BY
them and will erect in its stead
handsome iron front three story brici
building, 10 by % feet in dimensions.
Major w. F. NJ. McCarty, inventoi
OF McCarty's steel process, was hers
yesterday looking after the prospects
OF starting q steel plant here, as there
is room enough, and iron enough i
this section for plant of that kind il
both Salem and Roanoke.
Mr.. w. Sargent, Jr, agent of Sher.
wins Paint company of ClevelanC.
Ohio, left yesterday morning after !
short stay in the city. He was SUI
prised and delighted with the prog
ress of Roanoke and Southwest Vir-
ginia, and will return here in Il few
weeks to make investments.
The Baltimore and Ohio Land Com
pany will apply on Monday to Judge
Blair for charter. The capital stoci
of the company is $125, 900 and Roam
oke is the principal Office. The con-
pany have purchased the Synder
farm of 227 acres and other proper
ties north of Roanoke College AMI
will place the lots on the market at an
early date.
Sanitary Inspector Metals had the
street force out yesterday cleanini,
the cutters on Jefferson street, be-
tween Salem and Norfolk avenues.
He says he will have the gutter i'll
front of the market-house, on Salem
avenue, readjusted rs soon as ths
street committee has filled up all the
holes in the same. 1t is hoped the
committee will look into the matter
at once.
Wanted Mt Rocky Mount.
Joseph Varella who escaped from
the jail at Rocky Mount while con-
EpoI +Inro on tho charge Of Detit lar