The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1892-07-30
SULPHUR SPRINGS.
Roanoke Red Fast Filling Up
With Visitors.

There are now something like two
| hundred guests at the Roanoke Red
| Sulphur Springs. among whom are the
following from Roanoke and Salem:
Captain r. Il. Norman, wife and son,
C. w. Thomas and family, f. Rorer, Jr.,
and family, Miss .Rorer, w. II. Horton
and wife, Mrs. f. Coffman, Mrs. ii. e.
Jones, Mrs. l.. L. Powell and family,
Miss Yates, Mrs. DR.. j. II. Griffin, Mrs.
| Tip Griffin and family, j. G. Darst, Mrs.
| D. T., Martin and family, Wharton
| Griffin, Mrs. Patsy Logan, Robert
Logan, Mrs. b. w. Logan and family,
Mrs. Il. j. Shickel, W. Fl. Snuff and
wife and many others.
The Roanoke Red Sulphur Springs is
about ten miles from Salem over aver
age roads from which glimpses of the
most picturesque scenery can be OBJ
tanned. The estate consists of 1880
acres mostly at the foot of North Noun
tain, 4 spur of the Alleghanies; it is
high and dry and perfectly drained,
whilst the gravelly nature of the soil
will not allow moisture TO remain long.
Here, in beautiful grounds, shaded by
large oaks, under which are we'll. kept
walks, is the large hotel, whilst scat
tered around at convenient distances
are numbers of pleasant, we'll furnished
cottages, the whole erected at cost of
$50, 900.
The sulphur spring, which is in the
center of the grounds, rises in an octa-
gon-shaped font of rich Italian marble,
this latter weighing nearly two tons
and costing in its present location S70O;
in this the water rises nearly waist high.
Printed circulars, publishing many
"a lie nj, 4
spring. and it is needless to say more
than that it's reputation has been estab-
lished principally by its successful use
in pulmonary troubles and dyspepsia.
Within {. short distance of the sulphur
spring is one which has been pronounced
by so good an authority as Froehling as
the strongest and best pure chalybeate
water in Virginia. Quite recently there
has been discovered in close proximity
supposed alum spring which has not
yet oeen analysed, but which, it is be-
lieved, will prove OF great value.
The fare at the springs is excellent
and at every meal there is an abundance
and pleasing variety of really we'll
cooked dishes, while the water and
mountain air furnish that best of sauce,
hunger.
The resident physician, DR.. W. S.
Robertson, of Danville, is at the springs
for his fourteenth successive year, and
is beloved by all TOR his courteous man
ners and gentle treatment.
Time can be passed very pleasantly
at the springs with billiards, tennis,
tenpins, dancing, music, an occasional
rubber of whist, picnics, or by riding to
the Catawba Grotto, the Flowing Sp, ing,
McAfee's Knob, the Craig Cascades and
the numerous places of interest in the
vicinity. For those who fnd pleasure,
in fishing, the streamS in the neigh or-
hood are we'll supplied with trout, pike
and bass, and as for game there are deer,
bear, wild turkey, quail, rabbits and
squirrels, while il the early morning
you can hear the drumming of pheasants
in the adjoining forests.
Vacation Proceedings In the Circuit Court
An application to disolve an iniunc-
ton granted to H. G. Tinsley and
others against the Philadelphia Brick
and Tile Company, was argued yester-
day morning before Judge Blair. tap.
pears that a creditors suit was insti tu-
ted in March, 1891, by J. Ed. Shipman
IL Co. and others. against DR.. Hunttr
St. John. G. j. Strouse, Il. A. Huffman
and n. j. Tubbs, partners, composing
the firm of Philadelphia Brick and Tile
Company. The object of this suit was
to subject the real estate OF said firm to
The payment of debts due sundry credi-
tors. A sale was decreed authorizing
sale of land situated in West Salem,
belonging to said firm, and on the day
of sale an injunction was granted Mrs.
Tinsley and Others, by Judge Robert
son, (Judge Blair being at that time in
Richmond), restraining the same. After
argument the matter was submit ted fer
decision; Wright e Hoge for Tinsley ct
ais; r. ii. Logan, w. w Berkeley and
w. NJ Montgomery for the creditors.