The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1892-04-19
LOCAL sREvlrlEs.

Lewis w. Myers and wife, of Elk Citv,
Kansas. are visiting Mrs. j. b. Snouffer
at 900 Fifth avenue 8. w. Mrs. Myers is
q sister of tho late Mr.. Snouffer, and ia
so we'll pleased with the Magic Citv that
she will probably remain hero through
the spring and summer. Mr.. Myers is a
broker at Elk City.
The lamp at tho corner of Fifth ave-
nue. and Fourth street is out of repair.
Tho glass is broken and the light is
frequently put out by the wind.
John s. Draper, mother and sister, of
Pulaski, were registered at the Ponce
de Leon yesterday.
A. Holte, of the Virginia Brewing
Company, is seriously i'll with fever.
julie Lacy, clerk in the paymaster's
department of the Norfolk ana Western
railroad, left yesterday for the Ohio ex.
tension to pay off the contract tors en-
ployed in grading and ballasting that
division.
Rogers & O'Brien, railroad contrac-
tors of this city, have just completed
the grading of four-mile branch road
from Christiansburg to some ore banks
near there for the Norfolk and Western
rail- DAD.
Thomas U. Walter, the architect, will
return from two weeks visit to West
Virginia to-day.
Miss Rose Routh, who has been spend.
ing Easter with her father in this CITY
at the Ponce de Leon, returned to Roi-
Inns Institute, where she is pupil, yes
terday
j. X. Jacobs, of Pittsburg, was at Ho-
tel Roanoke Sunday.
John Percival, of Washington, and
Hooper Coyne and j. L. LOWE, of New
York, were in the city Sunday.
M. w. Iirkle, of East Radford, was in
Roanoke Sunday.
Percy Foarsh, of Petersburg, was in
the city yesterday.
j. e. McGrath, of Bedford, was in
town yesterday.
Miss Lucy Lewis, of Lynchburg, and
a pupil of Hollins Institute, is spending
her Easter holidays with Miss Mary
Daniel, on South Jefferson street.
Miss Lena Peck, daughter Of Capt.
John Peck, left Yesterday to visit her
friend, Miss Alisha Slicer, daughter of
John Slicer, Of Fincastle.
Capt. j. c. Page has resigned the posi-
ton of freight conductor on the Norfolk
and Western to accept place on the
Iowa Central railroad.
Miss Alice Mundy. of Fourth avenue
n. O.. left yesterday to visit friends at
buchanan, much to tho regret OF many
friends made during her stay in this
city.
Edward Purcell, contractor on the
Ohio extension of the Norfolk and
Western railroad, was in this city yes
terday. He will leave to day for his
work in West Virginia.
John Simmons, of this city, formerly
one of the real estate firm of Simmons
& Nesbit, of Kenova, w. Va, will leave
shortly to take charge of tho Bromide
Arsenic Springs, now owned by syndi-
cate in this city.
James Ferguson, contractor on the
Elkhorn extension of the Norfolk and
Western railroad left for Elkhorn last
night
Clarence Coleman, of tho board of
public works, left yesterday for North
| Carolina to testify as an expert engineer
in railroad case before tho court at
RoXborc.
o. A. Neal and T.. w. Ferris, of Dan
Vile, were at the Ponce de Leon Sud-
day.
John J. Graham, of Radfcrd, spent
Sunday in the city.
Horace N. Killian, manager of the
Western Union telegraph Office at San
ford, Florida, left yesterday for North
Carolina. after pleasant visit OF a few
days to 0. ID. Jenkins, of the paper box
factory.
| Miss Susie Zirkle, daughter of the
sheriff of Roanoke county, returned
home Saturday after a pleasant visit to
her sister, Mrs. j. e. Duiguid, Fourth