The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1890-06-17
A DAYS GOSSIP.
PlTHY PERSONALITIES ABOUT
PLEASANT PEOPLE.
WHAT YOUR FRIENDS ARE DOING
Little props of water, little Grains Of
Sand Make u Mighty Ocean in the
The Course ofTimc-same Way with
People ana Towns.

The curbage receipts yesterday were
only $3.50.
Mr.. L. P. Holiday, of Fincastle, is
in the city.
Mr.. II. j. Woodbridge is visiting
friends in Richmond.
Bartlett Boiling, esq, of Albemarle
county, is at Hotel Roanoke.
Archer a, Plllegar, esq, OF Chris
tiansburg, was here yesterday.
Col. John Alexandria, of Warren,
Albermarle county, is in the city.
Colonel a. Pope, of the Norfolk and
Western, has returned from New
York.
Mr. T. W. Walthall, representing
the Lynchburg Advance, is at Hotel
Felix.
Mr.. Charlie Gallaher returned yes
ter,iay from u visit to relatives in
Basic City.
Hon. j. Hoge Tyler Lieutenant
Governor of tile State, was at Hotel
Roanoke yesterday.
Messrs. H. w. Shepherd ard }. D.
Munday, business men of Radford,
were in the city yesterday.
Mr.. James II. Hartwell, prescription
clerk at Charles Lyle's drug store, is
out again after Il severe illness.
Prof. j. Y. Crabtree and Messrs. A :.
N. Bowman and Thomas /. Preston,
Of Salem, were in the city Yesterday
Miss Emma Lucas, who has been
visiting Miss Haseltine Sims, re-
turned so her home in BlacksburS
yesterday,
Mr.. ]. B. Levy, president Of the
Citizens Bank, returned yesterday
evening with his wife from trip
70 Old Point.
a marriage license was issued yes
terday Ivy the clerk OF the court to
Henry Haisston and Uriah Haisston,
a colored couple.
DR.. o. R. Hume left yesterday for
Barboursvlle in response to II tele-
gram announcing the serious illness
of little grandchild.
Hon. a. S. Buford, member Of the
House of Delegates from Richmond,
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companied by his wife.
All the farmers near here are har-
cesting their wheat crop. The yield
this year is very poor, and in most
cases, it will not average half the
usual amount
Mr.. NJ. a. Rowan, of Low Moor, Il
brother of Mr. E. j. Rowan, of Engi-
neer ChurchilFs Office of the Norfolk
and Western railroad died yesterday
morning suddenly.
The shipments of coal by the Poca
hontas Coal Company for the week
ending June 14th amounted to 42,0l0
tons shipments for the month to that
date inclusive, 5000 tons.
at the late commencement of
Hampden-Sidney College the title of
Doctor of Divinity was conferred upon
Kev. w. G. Campbell, of this city.
1t is now w. C. Campbell, ID. D.
Mr. Henry Adams returned yester-
day morning from Atlanta, Ga, where
he represented the Roanoke printers
in the international Typographical
Union, which met there last week.
| Inc SNeuluCtOul Ndliel IdliIOiu
delivered to the Norfolk and Western
Company yesterday seventy-iive
cars loaded with steel rails and ma
chinery. They were for distribution
I to points in the South.
At the meeting of the board of
Hampden- Sidney College Captain Il.
B. Norman, of this city, was elected
as one of the trustees of that college.
Captain Norman is eniinently quail
fled to fill the position.
Harry Smythe, of the Pocahontas
Headlight, passed through the city
yesterday en- route for New York,
where he will invest in a plant. His
paper will soon be removed TO Graham
and enlarged.
The infant son of Mr. C. c. Jackson
was quite seriously injured on Sun
day by a fall down the steps. DE-.
Harrison rendered the necessary
medical aid and at last accounts the
child was doing well.
Nlr. Charles Ct. Kizer, of the Norfolk
Virginian, stopped here Yesterday to
visit his father, Colonel Thos. E.
kizer, while en- route home from the
international Typographical Union,
which was in session at Atlanta, Ga,
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