The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1890-08-05
SHORT STORIES.
PICKED UP BY THE TIMES
REPORTERS.
ODDS and ENDS OF City GOSSIP
The Guests ut the Different Iiofels-a
Child Falls From u InmmOclt-Eni-
grants on Their Way south Other
Items

Items.
L. D. Warrell, of Empora Pa, is in
town.
O. G. Engledove, the brother of AL,
was in the city yesterday.
]. H. Brown, of Marion, is at the
Continental.
c. Frank Peters, of Lynchburg, was
in the city yesterday.
Jas r. Marsh, of the Bedford City
Democrat, is registered at the Hotel
Felix.
Mrs. Mamie G.. Bruce, of Richmond,
is visiting her son, Thomas Bruce, OF
this city.
Mr.. j. Il. Ellis, of the firm of Ellis
Bros, has returned from 4 trip to
Franklin county.
Miss Sadie Garland will leave this
morning for LynchburS on Il visit to
friends and relatives.
Joseph Lawson the wholesale liquor
dealer of Lynchburg and this city, is
registered 1T the Felix.
General Bradley r. Johnson, of
Baltimore is spending the summer AT
Grove Hill, near Fincastle.
Mr.. Charles Fox, of the firm OF FoN
4 Christian, is recuperating ut the
Roanoke Red Sulphur Springs.
Mr.. 7. p. Parrish, late with the
Roanoke Drug Company, has taken u
position with Mr. Charles Lyle.
Mr.. NJ. Beckett, local agent of the
Singer Sewing Machine Company ut
Wytheyille, was in the city yesterday
Mr.. George w. Littlehase, of Wash
ington, D. c., is here on Il visit TO his
brother who is associated with L. w.
Miller, Esq.
Mr.. G. f. French, of Bristol, travel
ing agent for the Norfolk and Western
Railroad Company, was Il guest ut
Hotel Roanoke yesterday
Mr.. William c. Sncad, OF Lynch
burg, is in the city visiting 1T the
home of Rev. DR.. c. +. James, prin
cipal of Allegheny Institute.
Willie James, son OF Mr. J NJ. and
Mrs. j. P. james, died yesterday
morning at 8 o'clock. and will be
buried this morning at . o'clock.
The Ladies Union Benevolent So
ciety will meet ON Tuesday evening
at $50 o'clock at the Y NJ. G. \. hall.
The members are requestcdtoattend
Miss Clara Cunningham. OF Farm
Vile, who has been visiting Miss Me
Kinney, on Diamond Hill, Lynch
burg, is now stopping with friends
here.
Capt. S. S. Brooke and family re
turned home today from Bristol.
where the captain went To meet then
| on their return from Il visit to relatives
at Cedar Rapids. Iowa.
Branscom Bernard returned from
the Lynchburg and Durham railroad
Sunday, where lie had Il position, r.
accept Il place again on the Norfolk
and Western Railroad us fireman.
Miss Fannie V. Bailey left today for
Roanoke, Va, where she will spend
some time visiting friends. Our hes.
wishes are that she may have SooG
time, says the Radford Enterprise.
Mr.. f. T. Brinkley. formerly man
ager of the Roanoke Gas and Water
| Company of this city, but now OF Brls
| tol, Tenn, is here looking after bust
ness interests. He will remain unit!
Wednesday.
The action OF Mr. p. l. Terry in or
| dering the wagons on his farm 70
haul water for the people of this city.
has been strongly commented on anG
always with praise. 1t was indeed a
generous act. -
! Roy Ambrocilli,a three ycarold son
of Mr.. Ambrocilli, an employee OF the
Machine Works, fell out of Il ham
mock, while swinging Sunday after
noon, and broke the upper part oil
his left thigh.
Rev DR.. NJ. j. frey, pastor Of Trin-
ity Lutheran church, Akron, Ohio,
preached a very able sermon III the
First Presbyterian church Sunday
night, using as his subject ''Prohibi
ton and Temperance.
Mr.. Daniel Filter shorthand re
porter and typewriter for Major N.
w. Began, left yesterday on visit
to Crewe, where he was stationed FOL
some time previous to his assignment
to duty in this city.
Mr.. Carl Ruehrmund, of Richmond,
the architect engaged 10 draw the
plans for the new Lutheran church.
left today for Lynchburg. where he
will remain two weeks before return
ing to this city to prosecute work on
the building.
Professor William Harris, formerly
of Allegheny Institute, but now a re-
-, 81 al n Al
friends in this city. Professor Harris
is remembered with love by all the
pupils of the institute who were under
his uutilage.
Thomas c. Blair, prospector in
mineral lands in Southwest Virginia,
left Sunday night for New York to
sail thence to Aberdeen, Scotland.
where be will join his family, who will
| return home with him on the 10th OF
September next.
Mr.. NJ. 7. G. Jordan arrived yester
day morning from Montgomery White
Sulphur Springs, where he and his
wife have been sojourning for some
weeks Mr. Jordan is making extern
sive investments in the coal mines of
Southwest Virginia.
Mr.. George H. Morrow, a large con
tractor of Baltimore, who has been
visiting his brother-in-law, Engineer
Wesley Bailey, of the Shenandoah
Valley railroad, who resides in this
city, left Saturday evening for his
home much pleased with Roanoke
and her prospects.
Two car loads of Italian and French
emigrants from New York, passed,
through the city this morning en-
route for various points in the South.
1t is strange how people of South
ern or Northern climes always keep
as near as possible to their old line Of
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