The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1890-06-19
GOSSIP OF A DAY.
SHORT ITEMS OF INTEREST
TO ONE AND ALL.
YOUR FRIENDS AND THEIR FRIENDS,
The MarLe ct Tax-strucls by lightning
Monday-It Will be Hotter Today,
80 Says General GrecIy-DIed Yes
terday.

General Passenger Agent Bevill is
in Norfolk.
Mr.. Oscar d. Derr is in Richmond
on business.
The market tax amounted to $685.
yesterday morning.
Herbert w. White, OF Roanoke
Island, n. c.. is in town.
Howard Murphy, chief engineer OF
the water works, is in town.
Colonel John III. Guy, prominent
lawyer of Richmond, is dead.
Mr.. Il. o. NJ. Davis, after pleasant
trip abroad, has returned home.
G.. A. Dunklee, a prominent citizen
of Christiansburg, is in the city.
Miss Lena Baer returned to her
home in Charlottesville yesterday.
DR.. r. P. Lake. of Albemarle county,
is in the city, stopping at Hotel Roam
oke.
Messrs r. A. Scott and ]. A. Dupuy
are attending the court OF appeals, at
Wytheville.
Mr.. Edwin Bouldin has returned
from brief visit to his old home in
Danville, Va.
Major NJ. w. Bryan left for the
North yesterday and will be absent
about a week.
Captain Henry Felix father OF the
proprietor of the Hotel Felix, is
visiting the city.
Miss Matte Cooke, daughter of the
Il 70 10 CT
ing friends in the city.
The flag staff of the Virginia Brew
cry was struck by lightning during
the storm Monday evening.
Mr. Walter Chatham, the brother Of
DR.. Chatham, of this city, will, il
future, make Roanoke his home.
Messrs. James S. Simmons s. Co.,
real estate agents, sold YESTERDAY
property aggregating over 100000.
Colonel ]. A. Haas, the geologist OF
the West End furnace, has returned
from visit to his family at Shamo-
kin, Pa.
DR.. George B. Luck's family leave
for their summer residence at RuiordS
today. The doctor will remain in
Roanoke.
At 8 O'Clock yesterday the thermom-
eter registered eighty degrees liz the
shade. General Greedy telegraphs
that it will he still hotter today.
The Misses Anderson, who have
made so many friends in Roanoke dur
ing their visit to Mrs. Judge Gooch
leave for their home in Louisa county
today.
Ethel Pearl, the youngest daughte''
of MIR. j NJ. and A. NJ. Place, died a
noon Tuesday and was buried at the
city cemetery yesterday afternoon "a
) o'clock.
Mr.. B. r. Younger, of this place, is
authorized agent for the Danv1llc
Nursery and Green House Company
All orders intrusted to him will receive
prompt attention.
Business men on Jefferson street are
complaining because of the delay il
removing the stone and refuse build
ing material from the street in FROM
OF the building recently erected by c..
O'Leary. The matter should be at
tended to.
superintendent Haupt, of the Ma
chine Works, has returned from &
visit to Old Point Comfort, much i'm
proved in health. While there he at
tended meeting of the Master Ca
Builders Association of which he is &
member.
Mr.. George L. Colgate, OF Bedford
City, is at Hotel Roanoke. Bedford,
City, he says, will vote on Tuesday OF
the proposition to subscribe $4,000
to the railroad to run from Glasgow
to that city. The town is making 6.
great deal of progress and the people
quite naturally are very much inter
ested in securing additional railroad
facilities opening up new fields o.
trade.
Professor w. H. Graybill left yes
terday afternoon for Salem where he
will join his family and thence pro
coed to Rogersville, Tenn, where he
is to take charge of the SynodicaI
College at that place. Professor Gray
bill has filled the position of princi-
pal of the First Ward School of this
city most acceptably for many years:
and his host of friends here wish him
the highest success in his new posi-
ton. Professor Graybill has had
charge of one of the State Normal In
stitutes for several years, and was Of
fered one this year, but was compelled
to decline it, as his duties at Rogers
vile will commence on the 18th OF
July,