The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1891-06-03
SOUTHWEST VIRGINIA NOTES.


Buena Vista Building and improvement
Company. 1t proposes to improve its
property and build substantial houses
for rent or sale. The company is max
ing arrangements for the erection of
number OF houses Immediately.
AT meeting of the stockholders of
the Valley Land and Improvement
Company, held at Luray, a board Of
directors and officers were elected as
follows: President, j. X. Bartlett, Of
baltimore; president, &. C. Mar
shall, of Cniontown, Pa; treasurer,
Levi j. Condor, of Baltimore; secretary,
Thomas f. McCorkle, of Luray.
Track laying is now being pushed on
the Roanoke and Southern road north Of
Martinsville,
The following Tazewell delegates to
the Worlds Fair convention, July Is
next, have been elected: j. S. Moss, a.
j. Steele, j. S. Gillespie; alternates, j.
B. Greever, c. A. Fudge, g. w. Higgin-
botham.
Robert a. Peasants, oYerseer on the
farm of Prof. j. S. White, near LeXing.
ton, was drowned Saturday in narrow
spring while drinking by slipping be-
tween the walls and being unable to ex-
tricate himself.
INC ComlneIlCcmcnC exercises OF
Washington and Lee University will
take place June II to II inclusive The
baccalaureate sermon will be preached
by Bishop Hendrix on the 14th and in
the evening of the same day Hon.
George r. Vending will deliver the
address before the Young Mems Chris
tian Association. The annual regatta
and the final celebration of the literary
societies will take place on the 18th,
and the commensurate exercises proper
on the nth.
MIR. and Mrs. Dulany, tho Virginia
bridal pair who were injured in a wreck
on the Pennsylvania railroad while on
their honeymoon, andaa who spent three
months in hospital in Pittsburg as the
result of the accident, have instituted
suit against the railroad company for
$4,000 damages.
Colonel William IL. Peyton died Sat
urday night at his home in Grccnvillc,
Augusta county. Colonel Peyton, was
brother of e. l.. Peyton, of the Nat
ural Bridge Hotel, and Eugene Peyton,
of the Rockbridge Alum, and, like his
brothers, was widely and favorably
known all over the whole country as a
hotel man, having been connected in
the past with several of Virginia S
famous summer resorts.
The board of directors of the Lex
ington Development Company last
week gave the president, Col. j. ID. ii.
Ross, authority TO proceed with the
belt line railroad. The contract is
with the Chesapeake and Ohio Company
Tor the development company to build
the road and the railway company will
refund the money, paying interest
monthly on the amount after the road
is finished. The road will cost about
$4,000. The development company is
now negotiating for industries contin.
gent upon the building Of the road.
Ihey have already secured from the
Buena Vista furnace a contract for l2s
tons Of limestone daily to be used as
huX, and the same parties will take
the iron ore to be found on the line OF
the road. The authorities are also
making efforts TO secure a large lime
burning establishment and stone cut
ting works.
The iron mines at Troutville, Bote.
tourt county, have been leased to
Messrs. Wincoop, of Maryland. Ore is
being shipped at the rate Of from 80 tc
20 tons daily, so hands being employed
1t is proposed to extend the operations
very considerably in the near future
The industry will, it is said, before the
end OF the year give employment te
some $50 men.
Rev. DR.. II. w. Hooper, of Christians
burg, will preach the baccalaurcatc ser
mon at the commencement exercises OF
| Tazewell Female Seminary, on the Gtf
instant.
Work has been commenced on tho
foundations of the new Catholic conyen,
building at bristol