The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1892-07-10
THE TIMES KODAK.
Items of News Gathered Around
Town.

There will be the usual Sunday
services in all the churches to-day ex-
cept the Episcopal.
Prof. j. e. Guy will lead the Y. nj. c..
A. meeting this afternoon. Subject:
The Advantages of Christianity to the
World at Large"
At the communion service at tho Bap-
fist Church last Sunday Row. DR.. Taylor
gave the right hand Of fellowship to
twelve new mem bers.
Jim Williams, of Hollins, who re-
Gently resigned as secretary of the
Chadwick Two. Wheeler Company, has
been employed by them 10 travel for the
concern.
Hotel Lucerne. Lake Spring and Roa-
noke Red Sulphur Springs are now all
| connected by telephone.
The team which came near killing E.
b. Gait in Roanoke last spring again
distinguished itself yesterday. They
were engaged in hauling from the farm
of John Gish, near town, an engine used
in connection with thresher. Some
thing scared them, and in few min
utes the engine was upside down, a heap
of broken iron, while the horses were
galloping "all over creation"
Mrs. A. Il. Powell has returned from
Virginia Beach, not staying as long as
she expected, owing to the cool weather.
The Camden Iron Works arc filling
quite large order for ornamental fence
for Lynchburg firm.
Martin Null, of Hotel Lucerne, has
returned from Oneonta, n. Y, with his
wife and family, who expect to live in
Salem.
Salem Council, Legion of Honor, will
meet next Monday at eight p. m. in Odd
Fellows Hall. Members are requested
to be prompt in attendance,
Maj. Chandler, city engineer, on be-
half of the board of supervisors of Roa.
noke county, is arranging for putting
in place two steel cages in ths upper
rooms of the county Jail.
Amongst the orders received yester-
day at the Chadwick Two. Wheeler was
one from a gentle man in Monterey,
Mexico, for lady's phaeton.
j, c. McConkey, first captain of the
V. M. l., is at home on vacation.
The gentlen an who left Salem some
ago to dig for gold in the reported rich
field in Floyd county, returned recently
very much discouraged. He says he had
to dig through four feet of solid sill yer or
something equally as hard, in order to
reach the gold, and he didn't need the
yellow stuff that bad.
The house that is being built for C.
+. Christian, on the boulevard, has al
ready been rented by Prof. OIL. Stearns.
There are now between seventy and
eighty guests at the Roanoke Sulphur
Springs. and they are still arriving by
every train.
Mr.. and Mrs. Ye Cha Yum, accompa-
MED by their guest, Miss Davis, and DR..
Dreher, president OF Roanoke College,
yesterday afternoon drove to the sum-
NIT of Twelve O'Clock Knob, the lofty
peak which overlooks Salem. The Co.
reans were charmed With the lovely
view, and remarked that it reminded
them Of the scenery of their own uoun
try.
Monday morning Major Chandler, en-
gineer for the Salem Improvement Com
pany, companied by Secretary Fry, of
the Columbian Laud Company, will go
over the route laid out for the proposed
boulevard between Roanoke and Salem.
The Roanoke Development Company
are making. arrangements to have an
iron bridge built across the river at the
West End furnace, and within another
Jear it would not surprise many if the
electric cars, instead of stopping at the
Bridgewater Carriage Works, made
Salem their terminus.
To accommodate the needs Of the
WOODEN nills, clothing factory, Chad
wick two'wheeler building and the SC re
or two Of dwellings on tho south side OF
the river, the Development Company
are arranging TO build fair sized reser-
voir on one of the spurs of Twelve
DC eek Knob. Vest ,rday, in company
with Maj. Chandler, the engineer and
w. w. Harveycutter, the contractor,
THE TIMES reporter visited the spot,
which is fully mile from the building
of the Chadwick Two Wheeler Company
and about 200 feet higher.
The reservoir is to be built imme-
diately Of brick and concrete, 20 by As
feet by 10 feet deep, with capacity Of
100000 gallons. That Salem readers
may form some idea of the relative size
OF this new reservoir, it is we'll to state
that the town reservoir holds 179, 500
gallons This new reservoir will be
fed by the mountain spring from which
pipes are already laid and which now
furnishes limited supply, but numer-
GUS other springs will also be used as
feeders to the Development reservoir,
which, when completed, will be q great
acquisition to that sec ton OF Salem