Roanoke daily times. (Roanoke, Va) 1886-1890, 1890-04-29
ABOUT ROANOKE
YESTERDAYS NEWS IN SH0R {
PARAGRAPHS.
CAUGF ON TIE FLY BY A REPORT: /
Major Pitzer Does not Withdraw. La
Excursion of NOrtherners PA
Through the City. Tho BOsebu1 5
PractIcing for Concert.

terday on business for his firm.
Work ON the knights of Pythii >
temple will be commenced about t 9
first of next week.
Mr.. James 3. Snead, manager If
Wright's hotel at Danville, visit d
friends in the city Sunday.
Mr.. Charles d. DENT, editor of I e
Salem Times-Register, was in the CT Y
yesterday.
Colonel Frank Huger accompa J.
led by Mrs. Huger, are visiting Il
Lynchburg.
Mr.. w. r. Whitescaver, the Sale II
real estate hustler, was in the city II
business yesterday.
Messrs. J. II. Hartigan and w. II.
Nelson, one of Salem's live real esta e
agents, were in the city yesterday.
Mr.. j. W. Carson returned yestt r
day from n brief visit to friends II
Petersburg.
Mr.. w. H. Horton, the First sire It
liveryman, is having an additi
built to his stables. 1t will double g
size Of the present building.
A number of new buildings Il
going up ia Vinton, and every in i
cation is that this will he the bigge It
year the town has ever had.
President McQuade, of the TurL V
Gap coal and coke company, wi II
headquarters at Ennis, West Virgin L,
is in the city.
Mr.. w. II. Thomas, of Coopers. We st
Va, general manager Of the Coopt rs
coal and coke company, was in 1 ie
city yesterday.
Mr.. Charles B. Harris, who has be, II
visiting relatives in Ninton for seve; ii
weeks, returned to his home in AL =
marie county yesterday.
Mr.. NJ. +. Normoyle, of the contra t.
ing firm of O'Brien & Normoyle, il II
Pulaski City experimenting so e
work that they have there.
Maxey & Company yesterday aft! r
noon took a photograph of the She l.
andoah Valley Offices, Gale Bloc :,
with all the officers and clerks stan l.
ing in front.
Mrs. r. a. Hill, of vinton, left y,:-
terday for Scottsville. Albemal
county, in response to telegram !, l.
nouncing the illness of her daught' +,
who is visiting there.
Mr.. w. l.. Tennyson, of this ci. :,
has accepted Il position as Pulln n
car conductor between this city a, /
Memphis and made his first Il p
Sunday.
The shipments of coal of the Pc, l.
hontas Coal company for the we <
ending Saturday the 26th, were 40. G
tons; for the month to date, 155, Z; t;
for the year to date, $50, 434 tons.
Messrs. Wingate & Hacnkel, le
well-known civil engineers OF Il is
city, have just closed the contract o
lay off the property of the W. It
LynchburS and Wytheville Devel: J.
ment companies, and will begin wo K
at an early date.
Messrs. J. T. Brown & Co., hi .
purchased the entire stock of goo Is
belonging TO Mr.. J. G. f. Bell, L e
Second street grocer, and will CO l.
tinue the business at the same pla. :.
The new management will tt. e
charge May 1st.
Jailer Traynham left yestcr6 y
morning for Richmond, having II
charge Isaac Jones, colored, who W 5
sentenced to two years confluence
| in the State penltentiary at the In It
term of the Hastings court. Jones IS
sent up for housebreaking
At meeting of the city republic. 1
committee of Richmond last night
was agreed that the party should 81 y
port in the coming municipal electi:
j. G. Smith, the Independent cane =
date for city sergeant. Mr.. Smith Sill J.
ported Malone for governor last yen
In Danville, Wednesday night, IS
Mrs. Emma Raines started to Wa <
across her room she said to her hi
band that unless she could get /
breath she would die. Before he cou
reach her she fell to the floor in hel p
and instantly expired.
The Rosebud Society, of Greer
Memorial church, is practicing da
for sacred concert to be give /
Sunday night in the lecture room
the church. Mrs. Buchanan, wife I
the assistant pastor, has the societ
in training and a musical treat III;
be expected.
An excursion party containing fifi
persons passed through the city yc
terday morning en- route to the Soutl
They were in special train viii,
was due at the Union depot at g.
o'clock, but owing to an accident {,
the Shenandoah Valley railroad thu
did not arrive till 1880. The part
was made up mostly of Bostonial 5
and New Workers.
Mr.. Herbert Barbee, the Virgin:
sculptor, has just completed ne
conception of his in ideal art entitl l
"Twilight,' which is much admired
Mr. Barbee expects to common:
work at an early day upon til
statue of the Confederate soldier /
be placed on the monume.
to the memory of the Confe
crate soldiers of Page county, pr
posed to be erected in Luray.
The Sunday school of st. Mari:
Lutheran church held its annuf
election of officers Sunday morninl
The following gentlemen will tai
charge of the schools for the comm
year: Hon. H. s. Trout, superinteI
dent; E. H. Kohn, first assista:
superintendent; 7. W. Miller, secol
assistant superintendent; Llewel,J
Lookabill, secretary and treasure
George D. Howbert, librarian, all
John T. Trout, assistant librarian.
The work of laying the Belgis
block on Jefferson street, north, WI
commenced yesterday morning, al
it is making a fine paving materie.
These blocks are just about til
proper size, and horses are enabled :
obtain firm footing, whereas if tho
were larger the shoe would slip c;
and throw the horse down. The Gil
could not spend thousand dollars
better advantage than by paving he
principal business thoroughfares wit
some material of this nature.
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