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TOR RENT.

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s26 Salem avenue, 10 rooms, bath. .$so o.
new houses near Lock Works, rooms. 16 Of
rooms. -. s - IS oc
new houses, West End, 3 rooms ..... II &C
new houses, West End, rooms. .......... 500
new houses, Belmont, 6roons. ........... ~ OC
2cottagcs, E. Roanoke near Machine Works 8 Ot
w. /. WATTS q CO.,
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d 1 TO SIS SAVED ON RAILROAD
up L tickets bought at No Jefferson
street, Roanoke, Va. Member of A. T.
b. A. Cut rates. 79tf
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POARDERS WISHING FIRST
- class accommodations can be &C
com modated at 10 Seventh avenue 8. W.
rs 1w
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TRUSTEES SALE OF A CERTAIN PARCEJ.
q OF land situated in tho city OF Roanoke and
described as follows: Beginning at 6 point an the
north side OF Patton street l74 feet wet OF First
street; theSce With Patton street north IS de
grees west q feet TO point; thence north 81 de-
latter south SO degrees f6 minutes east % feet to
point; thence touth - degrees west 1870 feet to
beginning, designated as part OF lot No g. i'm acc.
ton. - E'1HT3i'- ii ''~. ~ e"i-
BY virtue OLA certain decd of trust from IT. 4.
Bandy S Sons to the undersigned trustees. dated
the Path day OF November. 1850, and recorded In
the clerks Office OF the city OF Roanoke in deed
DOCK OF, page SSk default having been made In the
payment OF portion OF the debt secured Thereby
ana, hsvng been directed go to do by the board ~
directors OF the Old Dominion Building and Loan
Association, we shall proceed to SELL by public
auction, ut the front door OF the courthouee in
Inc city OF Roanoke ON THR STH DAY OF DC
IOBER, 1892, AT 1890 p. NJ, the described
property. eu
TERMS OF SALE: Cash as to the expenses Of
safe and to pay on the sum OF $40 and as to the
sum OF Sl11 upon credit Of 90 monthly install.
ments OF $3.50 each without interest. the frat Of
said instruments to become due on the 95th Sep-
temDer lss2, and tho second 25th October. 1892
and 10 on until the SO payments arc made. The
res oss,oue OF the purchase money upon credit OF
Que ahd TWO year, from day of sale. purchaser to
give mis- negotiable n0tee, secured by deed of
trust ON the property for the deferred payments.
LuCIEN Ii. COOKE,
o-., w. SHIELDS,
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TOR RENT LARGE COMMUNICA.
l. ting rooms on first floor. No. "a
Sixth avenue 8. W. O2O1m
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by consent OF all parties the above sale has
and place. j r. LEVY
II tos Trustee.
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SPECIAL NOTICES.

In this column will repay
perusal.
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AJ ONEY TO LOAN-BY CONSULT.
1sA ing Hartsook, tho renter, les Jeffer-
son street, he will tell you how you can
secure money on anything like good So
curity.
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POARDERS WANTED AT NO. 81
- Seventh avenue s. W.; rooms fur
nished or unfurnished; terms moderate;
first class board; all modern conven-
enCeS. "a I'm
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DROF. BELLEZZA, FORMERLY OF
Coynor's, will open dancing
school in the frey Building, opposite
thu ptstoffice, Wednesday,. Septem Der
20. For all information call at Ponce
d. Leon Hotel 02l1w
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TRUSTEES. SALES.

by VIRTUE OF A DERD OF TRUST RXF.
y cutod to me on the 2Srd day OF Auyuft fSS7
ny william D. front and Louisa, his Wife. and
duly recorded In the clerks office of the Unai
ings Court for the city OF Roanoke, va. In deed
book &, page $40. in trust to secure To Jniins
oliver the sum of $l65.6a, with interest thereon
from the 18th day OF August, 1887 until paid and
default having been made In the payne nt of the
SAID sum, and having been required 20 to do by
me inc said Jqlius Oliver, Will on the 1STHsDAY
OE OCTOBER, 1872. ofrer for sale to tho Ihsphest
Didder In front OF the courthouse in the ofty Of
ROANOKE, Va, all OF that certain lot or parcel Of
lan4 situated In the city Of Roanoke Va, and de,
scr,pou as ioiloWe: 81 .SfsiuSs1s
Being lot number on franklin street from. Ing
on SAID street fortytw feet aud running back to
an alley IA feet and running on game thirty eight
ieot, Adjoining the lots sold William Early and
James wright, and being the same lot co nveyeS
TO the said William d. Trent by III. s. front and
a. b. Trout, his wife, by deed bearing date on tho
Sno DAY OF October, 1881, and recorded In the
clerRs oihce OF the county court of Roanoke
TERMS: Cash as to so much OF the proceeds
MS may De necessary to defray the cxpenecs of
OK cutting this trust, Including a trustee's COM
mission OF pcr cent. and to pay on and dis
charge the said sum of $h5 go. With interest from
tnc l!th day OF August, 1887. and Tho residue. IN
any 70 be made payable In two equal instailments
In pix and twelve months from date Of sale
Deferred peymcnts ITO be evidenced by notea
secured by a deed OF trust upon the property and
10 Dear interest 1t the rate OF per cent Nor
annum. i ALLEN w A TufS r,. ~. pe'
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W ANTED-R ROOM AND TABLE
w boarders at 3ls Church street.
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OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES.

ENTLEMAN AND WIFE DESIRE
~ room and board; convenient to- N
81 w offices. Address PERMANENT,
care TIMES office. e34 Ct
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wv ANTED-ROOM AND TABLE
w boarders at 400 Church street.
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DOARDERS WANTED AT OILS
I'D Henry street 8. W. 9234t
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THE STUDEBAKER FARM WAC
Il ON. For sale by HUGHES &
CAMP. decs-tf
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1892-06-09

fore the very eyes OF the watchers on
the bridges. Some OF the slighter
ones were picked from their posts and
tossed, contents and all, on the sur
face of the water. Others made
stout resistance, but were crushed or
rent as IL happened, and sent on the
same course. In less than an hour
and half the homes OF $500 people
had been either borne down toward
the Missouri as driftwood or were
standing dismantled In the middle OF
the food. From the bridges the peo-
pie. who had fed at the first warning
watched the dreadful scene. They saw
men and women clinging to the roofs
OF houses and screaming for help. The
waves climbed, and soon, before the
eyes. of the watchers, these human
creatures were dashed from. their
places and sent whirling down the
river, driftyood themselves. Above
the Milwaukee and St. Paul bridge
whole family chung to the roof of
frame house. Among them was
little girl. Suddenly she let go her
hold and slipped into the flood. Later
she was found alive lying on pile of
driftwood half. mile below. Her
father and the rest Of the family
went away with the house, which sue
cumbed to the waves shortly after the
child fell. The father was drowned,
but the other members Of the family
escaped. The mother was rescued by
an engineer who had himself been let
down from the railroad bridge to the
plank to which she chung.
Facing Dreadful Fate.
Houses disappeared completely and
the families clinging to the roofs
were seen next hundreds of yards
down stream wildly striking out for
support from the drift. Some were
thrown unconscious into masses of
wood piled against the bridge piers.
Still more were seen fighting for life,
tossed in the middle current OF the
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1892-06-09

fall, and when day broke Wednesday
morning the Floyd was tearing at its
bank. In the middle of the night a
wild gale began, and that, with the
rain, did the business OF death.
The Floyd runs east of the thick
of the city into the Missouri River,
which bondS at this nnint. nnd
is almost directly north. 1t comes
from the hills, and is an inconsidera-
BILE stream for the most Of its course
till it reaches Sioux City, where 1t
broadens somewhat. In dry weather
the numberless streams that feed 1T
it are mere bitches, but under such
storms as we have had lately they
grow wild. They gorged the Floyd.
The rising Of the wind forced the
water in the Floyd down through its
banks, and finally pitched a volume
into the course through Sioux City
that would have strained the capac-
ity of a great river. 1t reached the
town at o'clock in wave about two
feet high, which roared over the
Floyd course and tossed spray up
about the piers Of the railroad
bridges. Preparations have already
been made for clearing out families
and personal property in the district
sure to he flooded, and under the in
structions of the police chief, mount.
ed men had been sent from house to
house with warming based on reports
from up the river. The first wave
rolled TO the knees of the horses OF
the patrolmen, but they kept about
their duty pushing through the flood
and driving families from the houses.
In cases this was a difficult matter.
The Floyd had never shown anger
before, and even when the first rush
came many persons chung to their
little property and refused to leave
their homes. The mounted men
worked till the spray was dashing
over their horses TANKS and then
took to the high places with the hun
dreds of workingmen who had seen the
tide coming and had left the factories,
the packing-houses and the round
houses and scrambled for safety.
After the Lun the Storm.
There was a lull after the first
burst, and the people standing on the
bridges and looking up the river said
that what had come before was mere
petnlapce tn the greater force behind
Up among the hills the waters OF the
Floyd were seen leaping into the air,
but charging down always between
the steep banks, with the trunks Of
trees above them frantically tossed
like the clubs of some barbarian
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1892-06-09

ing rope was lowered and in waiting.
Just before he reached it, however,
the box turned, and Mills all but
missed the rope. He succeeded in
grasping the rope, and was quickly
hauled up onto the level track.
Many incidents Of the flood were
thrilling. Chief Hawman rescued
Robert Cockrans family and Victor
Grillet's family from the roofs of their
houses. Louis Krumann, a milkman,
saw two men go out in boat, chop a
hole in "a roof, and draw out fam
lily who were shivering in the water,
that roaohod to their chins in tho
back room of the top floor. The two
men started out on a second trip,
capsized, and were drowned.
The most pathetic incident con-
nected with the disaster was the
drowning Of Andrew G.. Anderson,
who had saved twenty-seyen lives.
Anderson wassexhausted by his peril
Gus work and his friends had forced
him to desist, but later, when fam
lily was discovered in a building likely
to float away any moment, he took a
boat and went to its rescue. Being
capsized, he was too weak to save
himself, although an expert swim
mer. -Four years ago Anderson swan
out into the Missouri River and saved
two lives. A handsome monument
will be erected by the knights Of
Pythias lodge to which he belonged.
Scenes OF Woe and Desoiation
The scene when the flood, having
receded, left the marks OF its deadly
hand on the city were most distress
ing. Piled up on all sides were seen
huge banks of wood and iron, paving
blocks, the roofs of houses, telegraph
poles and big trees dragged from the
hills. In the places where high
streets had been were mere boys, into
which the workmen sank to their
knees. Low expanses in the Floyd
Valley were hip deep in water.
Looking up and down from the bridge
one saw spaces which were recently
dotted with little frame houses abso-
lutely bare OF structures of any kind.
In the places where tenants had been
thickest one only saw shattered skel-
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1892-06-09

thing to another. with the feeling tina
nothing 10 well done. This is misfor
tune that cannot well be rcmedied Q,
long as schools exist. All that you car
do Is to learn by constant experience.
how to condense, both In time, energy,
and special effort. Remember that ten
minutes of effective teaching Is more
telling than half an hour OF languld
effort.
Visit. other schools as often as allowed,
and be especially active In culling the
various little economic methods to be
found In noticing.
You are lonely, isolated, therefore you
must all the more come out Of yourself.
Do not scorn educational papers and
teachers conventions; above all, do not
conclude that the good things that pro-
coed from both sources apply only to
graded schools.-South Dakota Edu.
Gator. \.
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1892-06-09

stream. Some of these were thrown
by side currents to the shore; some
went straight to the Missouri. 1t
was desperate task to face the fury
OF the flood, but many brave men
ventured out in small boats and
picked up the drowning men and
height many of these were saved by
ropes held by men in safe
places. Some were armed with ropes
and long poles, and large number
Of lives were saved in consequence.
One of those thus rescued was Will
lam Mills. He came sailing down
with the tide in a common dry-goods
box. Long before he reached the
trestle-work he had attracted the
peoples attention, and the life-sav-
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1892-06-09
The Old Chest.

The children found it one morning
when they went down to the beach;
it must have been washed up by the
last tide, for it had not been there
the night before.
at may be full Of gold," said
Charlie, "and that would be very
fortunate thing, for then we could
buy all the peanuts on old Jim's stand
when we go home"
Il don't believe that it is gold. ,"
said Alice, cor we would see 1T shin
ing through the cracks"
"Well, whatever it is, it is mine,"
said Archie, peering in at a hole in
the side; Il saw it first, so of course
1t is mine!" ~
"Of course it's nothing of the kindw
protested Harry, Indignantly; at be-
longs just as much to me as to you,
and more, for I'm the Oldest"
Il call that meant" said Archie,
half crying; "when a fellow finds a
chest, then to say it isn't his.
will have whatever Is in it, so there!"
. "I'll ask papa If you need have ii
ALL" said Harry; "there he is on the
cliff now. Papa! papa!" he cried,
waving his cap, come down here" y
ooh, papa!" cried Archie, when his
father was near enough to hear, Il
found this chest, and now Harry says
/ can't have what's in it; may not,
papa?"
II said he could not have 1t all,
papa; l think we ought to share it, -
said Harry, land ought to have the
most, because I'p tho, nldNat.fI, s",u
not a word, only stood and looked at
them, then, turning to Alice, asked;
"And you, Alice, what is your share
to be?"
-Oh, 1 don't mind, papa; let the
boys have it, they want 1t so much. !"
"Very WE'LL" said her father, look
ing sadly at the selfish boys, "they
may. have it all, unless any one OF
them will give his share to Alice and
go for a row with me instead; IL not,
Alice will go with me. What do
you say?"
The boys thought for a moment,
then shook their heads and said they
thought "Alice had better go;" and
Alice, with little sigh and glance
at the now fascinating chest, said,
"All right"
Their father turned the chest on its
side, and behold there was a great
hole in the bottom, and it was quite
empty!
"Papa!" exclaimed Harry, did you
know it?"
No, Harry, / did not know it, but
am going over for the mail, and we
must hurry to be in time for the
tide" And, taking Alice by the hand,
he walked away, leaving them look
ing dismally at the empty chest.
1t was hard lesson, but think
the boys learned something from it.
If nothing else, they learned GER
tainly to love Alice better, and per-
haps through her to see the beauty of
unselflshness. Christian Observer.
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1892-06-09

kitchens were organized. The coun-
Gil voted. 81, 900 TO the relief fund.
When Gov. Boies telegraphed the
Mayor an offer of assistance that
official pluckily responded that Sioux
City could take care Of herself. This,
however, was reconsidered when the
Known, and how tenef IS t1thnfg '4a
from all parts of Iowa.
The most gratifying features Of the
visitation were the warm-heartedness
of the wealthy. One burly Irlshman,
who had lost heavily by the flood
stood in his Office door after the
waters had subsidized and distributed
So and $40 bills to homeless people.
At the Stock Yards.
The destruction wrought at the
stock yards was Undesirable and the
loss amounts to over half million.
Blocks Of hog pens were flOated away
and the noise of the breaking tim
bers sounded like the crack of artil-
lery. Scale houses, slaughter houses,
barrels and tubs, cattle sheds, chutes,
etc., were swept by the flood and
piled ten to fifteen feet high in one
Undesirable confusion. Hundreds
of hogs and cattle persisted.
Toward Leech street, where the
strongest current ran, the force OF
the water was so great as to scoop out
channel six feet deep. The heavy
stone curbing was swept away and
telegraph, telephone and electric
light poles and wires were contorted
into tangled masses.
A Perilous Railroad Trip.
From the eve of the flood until
Thursday no train entered the city.
Then a train was pushed through on
the Chicago, Minneapolis and Omaha
line, from Manila, and the trip was
one OF the most perilous ever under
taken. A repair train was sent
ahead and the road was practically
built up ahead of the passenger
coaches. At every mile washouts
were encountered, and when Maple
ton was reached the train ran
through lakes bigger than those on
which clubmen sail in their yachts
in the summer time. The Maple
River had oyerfiowed its banks
and for miles around the farms
lay under from three to ten feet. OF
water. When the Little Sioux was
reached the situation was found to
be extremely dangerous. The road
here runs over a long trestle across
the bottoms that adjoin the Little
Sioux. The trestle is six feet above
the bottoms, but there the water was
rushing unanimously against the
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1892-06-09
APretty Incident.

A newsboy took the Sixth avenue
elevated railroad cars at Park place,
New York, and sliding into one of
the cross seats fell asleep. At Grand
street two young women got on and
took seats opposite to the lad. His
feet were bare, and his hat had fallen
of. Presently the young girl leaned
over and placed her muff under the
little fellows dirty check. An old
the act, and, without saying any
thing, held out quarter, with a nod
toward the boy. The girl hesitated
a moment, and then reached for it,
The next man just as silently
offered a dime, woman across the
aisle held out some pennies, and, be-
fore she knew it, the girl with fam
ing cheeks had taken money from
every passenger in that end of the
car. She quietly slid the amount
into the sleeping lads pocket, re-
moved her muff gently from under
his head without rousing him, and
got off at Twenty-third street, in
Guiding all the passengers in pretty
little inclination of the head that
seemed full of thanks and common
secret.-The Parish News.
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1892-06-09
spelling Matches.

II the interest in spelling words Is at
a low ebb and carelessness is fast be-
coming habit, good. plan to restore
enthusiasm Is to have an occasional
spelling match. Every teacher will re-
call how spelling matches were con-
Quoted in the days when the spelling
book had an honored position In the
school-room. Appoint two leaders, one
each side, and let them choose sides.
Let all the children In the class be
selected and let them arrange them
selves on opposite sides OF the room.
The teacher gives out the words, having
previously selected them from proceed
ing lessons in spelling. Let every child
have two chances at O word and In case
OF failure on the second trial, to sit
down. Spell down all and announce
another match. the words OF which are
to be chosen from those used In the
daily lessons. The teacher will find
that this old-fashioned method will do
much in revivlng interests in spelling
and will go far towards correcting habits
OF inaccuracy in writing words.
ers' World.
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1892-06-09

tracks. A gale of fifty miles an
hour was blowing, and when it swept
over a lake made by the food for FIVE
miles on either side it tossed up
breakers like those that rush across
Lake Michigan. Half way out
the engineer halted. The con-
ductor got out and signaled
him ahead. He went on through the
flood. The passengers, in fear and
many of them white-faced, stood upon
the platforms and clutched at the
handrails. The waters sprayed around
them and they could feel the trestle
quaklng. The trestlc passed, the
next danger point was the bridge over
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1892-06-09


Though bright 70 my heart arc some scenes
In my lad time.
view.
one thing remember that brought me no
glad time.
But lent TO my childhood an indigo hue.
How awful when sneaking away from my
mother.
As down 70 the creek with my tackle 4
fed,
To hear fathers voice. 4one good turn
needs another;
Come. turn at the grindstone that hangs
by the shed.n
The old crooked grindstone.
The webbing old grindstone.
The old squeaking grindstone that hung by
the she'd.
All, msny's the hour I've turned It and
grunted,
For It was the mill stone that hardened
While nuts were to gether and, squirrels 10
be hunted
There was always an ak or scythe 10 be
ground.
q never was oiled and was hard In the
turning.
@oniy grease OF the elbows it needs"
father said;
And the handle would often slip OF without
warning
And Instantly tumble me heels over head
The old dented grindstone,
That worBaway grindstone.
gathered no moss as 1t hung by the she'd
This stone.n father said, alike earth, turns
on its axis,
But comparison fails on the matter Of
force.n
said. although the speed of the earth ne'er
relaxes,
I am sure It would stop meath those axes
OF yours"
rhe hicks they were deep in the AK or the
Ratchet,
And father bore on till sweat dropped
from his head.
n I'd pause TO put water on, then would
catch IL;
swatch the crank and keep on with the
notion he said.
Oh. that old shaky grindstone,
That slow-grinding grindstone,
That hard-running grindstone that hung
by the shed!
Yes, dear to my heart are some scenes OF
my childhood
The orchard. the cider, the neighbors'
peach trees,
The school hours 1 pleasantly passed In
the wild wood.
And the honey 1 stole unbeknownst to
the bees.
But that circular horror. whose motion
To-day makes my anger all fly TO my
head.
And I'm willing TO go and make oath to
the notary,
That was ground dull by that stone by
the shed.
That lopsided grindstone.
That old hated grindstone,
That confounded grindstone that hung
by the shed.
"A. W. Bellaw