The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1892-07-12
THE TIMES KODAK.
Items of News Gathered Around
Town.

The handsome Chadwick Two-Wheeler
pb;cton which was ordered by Rev. Sam
Jones when he WAS here in the spring
was shipped Monday to his home in
| Georgia
| A. II. Whitesell has the contract for
| putting in number of large ventilators
N the roofs over the lodge rooms of The
| MasonS and Odd Fellows. None but
members of a degree team can realize
now badly these improvements were
| needed.
Thieves broke in the fowlhouse at the
rear of the residence OF c. h. Bowers,
on the Boulevard, last Saturday night,
and made Off with sixteen frying-size
chickens and five full grown fowls.
The Corean minister and wife attend
| ed the Presbyterian church last SUNDAY
morning and after service were in
troduced to the members. At night they
| attended the Lutheran church. Monday
they spent very quietly at the hotel,
taking short walk in the morning aud
in the afternoon making visit or two.
IheY seem to be enjoying their visit in
Salem very much.
The Salvation Army have recently
moved their barracks from the Brown
building, on.East Main street, TO the
storehouse at Dry branch, in West
Salem.
Mrs. II. ID. Laferty, of Roanoke. is
visiting Mrs. R. C. Stcarnes. on Devotion.
ment Heights.
A marriage license was issued in the
county clerks office yesterday to r.
g. Brand, of Catawta, and Miss
Mary E. Thomas, daughter of j. b.
Ihomas- of Botetourt county. The
marriage will take place this afternoon
at the residence of Capt. w. w. Brand.
Mrs. w. Lee brand and Ed Brand will
attend from Salem.
Charles D. Denit and Frank q. Web
Der, of the Salem Times Register. ac-
companied by their wives. left yester.
day to attend the annual meeting of the
Virginia Press Association at Ports-
mouth, and will not return before Sat
urday These gentlemen have worked
hard and continuously for some months
past and week at the seashore will be
a very pleasant rest.
Sunday night after service at the Bap-
list Church Rev. DR.. Taylor baptised
Misses Agnew and Souder.
Jonn M. Oakley. furniture dealer, has
one OF the most com fortab BILE homes. on
Burwell street. Salem, with fully an acre
OF fruit, flower and vegetable garden
surrounding his house. Scattered around
among the fruit trees are sixty hives.
each containing a working colony of
oees, whose breeding is cross between
the Italian and common black. Mr..
oakey says that he has been keeping
bees for twenty years, and annually
sells between $40 and $50 worth Of
honey, besides having plenty for home
consumption. One year he saved one
hundred gallons of liquid honey. This
year 1T is doubtful If he vill haye any
to spare, az 1t is "a oil season. In good |
years he often saves crops OF honey from
the different classes Of blooms. com.
mencing with the peach, then the apple,
the locust. the clover and the persim
mon, each crop having it's own distinct
i've flavor, that OF white clover being the
best, while honey made from the laurel
bloom Ia poisonous. His experience in
the buckwhoat Is that it fails in this
sec ton to supply the bees with the
reproducing ele ments.
G.. w. Kittelle, Of Charlotte, N. C, is
at Hotel I.ucerne, and will possihl-: con.
clude arrangements to open Hotel Salem
before long.
AS the dummy started to make it's
PAS trip yesterday from Roanoke, it
broke down and was compelled to lay up
for repairs. ED Langhorne who hal to
count ties from Roanoke TO Salem in
consequence of this break down. en-
phatically says, D tie dummy
Walter Oakley Yesterday afternoon
shot 81 our OF - clay pigeons as they
left the tray, keystone rules, AND he is
now anxious to arrange a match with
any amateur in Roanoke or Salem.