The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1891-12-04
Local BREvITiEs.

G. B. Camper, editor Of the Fincastlt
Herald, was in the city yesterday II
the interest OF his excellent journal.
w. j. Branch, Of Richmond, was in
the city yesterday on business.
Ed. Oppenheim, Jr.. left last night
for q trip of several days to New York.
Several families on Seventh avenue
n. Q. are down with grip, and the dis
ease is spreading to nearly every
household on that thoroughfare.
Col. Thomas Lewis has returned from
| New York, where he has been for sew
eral days arranging some insurance
| matters.
J. w. Elliott, who has been confined
to his house for few days, is improv-
ing.
DR.. William NJ. Holiday, of Hampton
Sidney, VINO has been visiting c. c..
Talliaferro for several days, returned
home yesterday.
Mr.. and Mrs. L. Punderson, of Cleve-
land, Ohio, who has been visiting tho
family of George =. Carr, left for their
homo yesterday.
Five persons were baptised at the
Calvary Baptist Church Wednesday
three ladies and two gentlemen. The
services were very interesting and i'm
pressive.
w. $. Braufr. the new superintendent
Of the gas house, has arrived in Roam
oke and assumed his duties. Mr..
Brauff is from Chattanooga and is an
old experienced gas man.
Miss Fannie Hawman, of Everett,
Pa, sister.in-law of Mr. Harry Baugh-
man, of the Gas and Water Company.
arrived in this city yesterday and will
make Roanoke her future home. She
will reside with her sister on Nelson
street.
Ira T. Colman, night clerk in the
trainmasJers office of the Roanoke di-
vision of the Norfolk and Western, has
gone to Lexington, where he hopes to
recover from an attack of the grip.
e. R. Woodward has not yet rented
his new hotel on Commerce street. The
negotiations which were pending with q
gentleman from Piqua. o., have been
declared off.
The sidewalks on Salem avenue have
been in dangerous condition ever since
the freeze. The coat Of mud which
covers the walks is almost as slippery
as ice, and in many places have not
been washed off at all.
night in advance of The Fast Mail"
which will appear next Thursday night.
The Gas and Water Company is laying
new line of water pipe OH Fourth
avenue S. @. and is also replacing the
small pipe on Campbell street with an
eight-inch main.
The foundations for the Mill Mountain
Hotel are completed and work will be
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the house.
Mr.. j. c. Rawns new house on Wal
nut street, across the river, has been
completed and Mr.. Rawn moved into it
on Wednesday.
Passenger traffic on the Norfolk and
Western has greatly increased in the
last few days, and is expected to con.
tinue till the first of the year.
w. w. Coe and General Manager
Sands, of the Norfolk and Western, have
been on the Clinch Valley division for
several days and will return this even
ing.1
MIR. H. II. Boyd, of Martinsyille, is in
the city.
Mr.. Thomas Houston, of Pennsyl-
vania, brother Of George o. Houston, is
in the city.
w. III. Millner, who was station
keeper the night the prisoners escaped
from the station-house, has been re-
lieved of this position and put on out
door work for period of thirty days
Officer Griffin has been detailed to act
as stationkeeper
A new crossing is being laid at Jefrer-
son street and Railroad avenue This
has been one of the worst crossings in
Roanoke, and the repairs were not
made before they were needed.
A gang of men were at work yester-
day scraping the mud off of Campbell
street and filling in tho holes on Salem
avenue with broken stone. The mud
on this street is very deep, and the
crossings are next to impossible.
j. a. Null and Miss Maud E. Curry
were married at the Lutheran parson-
age at s o'clock Wednesday night, Rev.
j. III. Hutfard, the pastor, performing
the ceremony.
Acting Chief of Police Brown went to
Goodies last night. His family is near
this place, and when he returns it is eX-
pecced that he will bring his wife and
children with him. Officer Griffin will
act as chief at the mayors court this
morning.
CIGARS from Sl.00 per box upat Isle
of Cuba" cigar store, 33 Salem avenue
Tuning and Repairing Pianos and Organs
THE llobbie Music Co. desire to say
that they are prepared to do all work OF
this kind, and guarantee In every in.
stance perfect satisfaction. | your in.
strumcnt needs repairs of any charac-
ter, call at 1877 Salem avenue and ycul
order shall have prompt attention
| lodge of SORROW.