The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1892-07-01
LOCAL eREvlTiEs.

The Ladies' Aid Society eof Christ
Church will meet this afternoon at 4
o'clock in the r. r. NJ. c. A. hall, on
Salem avenue.
Miss Rilla Fuquay, an accomplished
young lady Of Petersburg, left yester-
day alter pleasant visit to the family
OF P. Lockett, on Franklin street.
CT. Rowe left yesterday 70: Danville
on business.
Mrs. Jos. w. Coke and children, Mrs.
w. c. Williams and daughter and War
rem Wexford leave today for Virginia
Beach and Ocean View.
J. Kyle Montague, Of Christiansburg,
was in the city yesterday.
Detective Schanck and family will
leave to day for Copper Hong Springs,
in Sussex county, to be absent few
weeks.
J. e. M. Hankel is spending q few
days st the White Sulphur Springs.
Miss Lora, daughter of Giles Conn,
of Vinton, left yesterday for New York
city to be absent for several weeks.
Kent Loving, of Elliston, is in the
| city visiting relatives.
John Barnett, sheriff of Montgomery
| county, passed through the city yester.
day, going to Lynchburg on official bus
| mess.
A. D. Crutchfield, of Richmond, was
in the city yesterday.
John w. Werts, prominent farmer
OF Floyd county, was in the city yester-
day on business.
Cochran Preston, recent graduate Of
mpden- Sydney college, is visiting
the family of E. Ii. Stewart.
Mr.. Chalmers, president of the
Farmers National bank, of Salem, left
yesterday, accompanied by the Misses
Ferguson and Martin, of Salem, for
New York. From there they will 90 to
England, where they will travel extern
sively.
DR.. James, late of Allegheny Insti-
tute, will leave this morning to take
charge Of the Roanoke Female Semi
| nary at Danville, of which he has been
appointed president.
Revs. w. II. Groves an6 C. S. Ander-
son returned yesterday from Christians
burg, where they attended meeting of
the Montgomery Presbytery.
w. a. Gibbons and bride, nee Miss
Moomaw, have returned from their
wedding tour and are stopping with
friends on Campbell street.
Prof. Hugh Rother, OF Baltimore, an
excellent cornet player has located in
Roanoke and joined the Machine Works
Band
There was a runaway on Jefferson
street yesterday. a horse nitched to a
furniture wagon became frightened and
ran off, tumbling into the ditch at the
corner of Jefferson street and Railroad
avenue. The horse was slightly in
jured.
On Saturday morning the Methodist
quarterly meeting will convene at the
church at Boone's Mill. On Sunday
there will be all day services.
Rev. j. R. Kallam, of North Carolina,
preached at Sheridan's hall last night.
G. f. Blount, the Jefferson street
grocer, is on the streets again, after a
severe illness of several days.
Warren l.. Hyde, an attorney of
Buchanan, was in the city yesterday on
professional business.
Marriage licenses were issued yester-
| day to the following: Chas. II. Elliott,
Of Shenandoah, and Mrs. Emma r.
Fellers; William Tuition and Harriet
Eckhart, both of this city.
Mrs. d. M. Howe has gone to Asbury
Park, N. j., in response to a telegram
that her father was dangerously ILL
E. S. Norman and John Kelley, two
well-known railroad contractors of
Lynchburg. were in the city yesterday.
G. w. G. Woolwine returned yester-
day from Elkhorn, where he embalmed
the body Of Joseph II. Baldwin, aged
eighty-four years. Mr.. Baldwin was
the father-in-law Of w. I. Harris, man
ager of the Grocer Coal and Coke Com
pany. The remains were shipped to
Mont Clair, n. j., for interment.
1t cannot lisp papa or mamma yet but
it is bright and pretty and Mack Morris
thinks it is the sweetest little girl in
town. 1t came to brighten his home
several days ago.
w. l. Jones will leave to-day for Wood
Lawn, Henry county, to visit friends.
Prot. William NJ. Graybill will leave
this morning for his home in Rogerville
Tenn.
Mrs. DR.. Lawrence left yesterday to
spend a month at Black Rock Spring, in
Augusta county.
Miss Annie l., daugh er OF b. A..
Jones, left Yesterday for Black Rock
! Spring, where she will remain for sew.
eral weeks.
Hobbie Music Company
PIANOS and organs. Factory prices
and easy payments guaranteed, 1877
| Salem avenue,
PORCH chairs in great variety at the
IL. IL. Stewart Furniture Company.
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