The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1891-05-08
SOUTHWEST VIRGINIA NOTES.

the same, OF bedford county, are earn
estly requested to meet at the rooms of
the Y. NC A. at Bedford City on the
10th of May, 1891, at IL o'clock, a. M,
for the purpose of electlng delegates to
the annual convention of the Virginia
State Sunday-school Society of all Pro
testant denominations, to be held in
Norfolk, Va, October Z, and o, 1901,
and also to organize the Bedford County
Sunday School Society.
Mr.. j. d. Moler, of Springfield. Ohio,
in November of last year contracted to
make Typographical survey of the
property owned by the Natural Bridge
Park Associate consisting OF about
100 acres recently purchased from
Colonel ii. c. Parsons. He has had
two engineering parties engaged on the
work whenever the weather would
allow, and completed the contract a
fow days ago. The plot is in the hands
of the photographer in Boston, who will
soon have completed an elegant map OF
the property. There have also been
laid off large number of villa sites,
fronting on broad avenues, and from
the natural beauty of location of these,
and tho phenomenallY good prices
obtained at the company's sale of lots
in October last, it is likely that they
will be of easy, and satisfactory sale.
The original Farmville Lithia Springs
Hotel Company has changed hands
and is now owned and controlled by
a company of capitalists who propose to
begin work Monday morning next on a
hotel building to cost not less than
100000. Its position will be upon an
eminence overlooking tho famous
waters. The officers of the new com
pany are: President, c. C. HAZEL. Roa-
noke; vice president, w. z. Venable, of
Farmville; secretary and treasurer,
John r. Martin, of Farmville; business
manages, w. J.. Patterson, of Baltimore.
The James Fisher farm of 21O acres,
near Ivanhoe, was sold on last court
day by Commissioners Bufore and Hol-
brook to Mr.. John T. M. Simmerman at
his upset bid of Sc, 535.
The track of the West Lynchburg
Electric Railway Company has been
completed
A man named Stevens, who killed an
other named Iseburg at Eagle Rock re-
Gently, has been captured and placed in
Jail at Fincastle.
The Democrats of Bath county have
made the following nominations: For
treasurer, William Il. Payne; sheriff, l..
b. Wood; commemorative attorney,
John w. Stephenson.
The engineers are now at work at the
Hot Springs. Bath county, the terminus
of tho Chesapeake and Ohio railway
from Covington, laying out streets and
lots 1t is understood that the Warm
and Healing Springs properties will also
be laid Off into lots and sold, with the
view of inducing many persons to build
summer residences in that beautiful
and picturesque valley. Ground was
brok en at Fincastle Thursday for rail
road from that town to some point on
the Shenandoah Valley railroad to be
decided on hereafter
The South Buena Vista Company was
organized and chartered this week with
the following officers: President, DIR. C..
G. Buck, baltimore; vice-president t.,
John Sheridan, LeXington; secretary,
w. X. Cline, Buena Vista; treasurer, ii .
Moore, Buena Vista.
by actual count made it was found
that there are now fifty houses in course
of construction at Bucna Vista, and still
the demand for houses is great. Every
one of the fifty houses under construc.
ton have already been rented, notwith.
standing that the foundations of some
of them have only been laid.
Mr.. Is. Il. Stems, of Lynchburg, has
in his possession curiously carved VIC
lin, said to have once been the property
of Thomas Jefferson.
At q meeting of the stockholders of
the Chesapeake and Ohio Development
Company at Clifton Forge on the 14th.
Mr.. Az tell, the president of the COM
pany, presented very satisfactory re-
port of the financial condition of the
company. OF the $4,000 in stock sold
by the agents, Eagle, August Il Dono-
van, every cent has been collected, eX-
ceptSS0, and this has not been paid
because the preliminary certificate is
sued for the shares has been lost. a
sixty day advertisement is necessary
before another certificate can be legally
issued, after which the $50 will be paid,
and not single dollar will then be de-
llnquent on tho stock of the COMPANY.
Even the Chesapeake and Ohio Rail.
way Company received from the De.
velopment Company $3.50, 1000, which was
to be expended OR the ground in the
building of shops, hotel, depot. and
other mprovements. 1t was contem-
plated that the new hotel would cost
100000, but the railway officials now see
that it will require fully $50, 900 to build
such house as they wish to throw open
to the public. An elegant depot will be
built, costing $4,000. The amount
already eXpe nded on the shops is $780,
600, and no doubt very much larger
sum will be required to put such shops
at Clifton Forge as the pressing neces-
stiles of the Chesapeake and Ohio rail
way demand.
Alta meeting of tho board of direc-
tors of the Rockbridge Savings Bank
on Thursday the 10th, a dividend of
g per cent was declared on the capital
stock Of the BANK, and 29l per cent.
over 81 ZOO, was passed to the surplus
fund. The whole surplus Of this bank
now amounts to 4 per cent. on the capi.