The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1892-02-28
THE TIMES KODAK.
items of Interest Gathered
Around Town.

There will be the usual services to-
day at all the churches. Rev. G. j.
HOLIDAY, having returned, will preach
morning and night at the Baptist
Church. Rev. J. w. Duffy, of Trinity
Church, Roanoke, and Rev. J. S. Hutch
inson, of Salem, will exchange pulpits
this morning.
Stras Brothers e SPOTS are figuring
out an estimate for handsomely fur
nishing the 125 rooms of Hote, Salem,
which, it is now said, will be opened for
guests before the end of April. At
present it is occupied by the Kelley
Institute.
In the absence of the appointed leader
c. r. Towson, the president, will con-
duct the Young Mems Christian Asso-
citation this afternoon.
Lawyer Pugh left last Friday night
for Richmond, where he will endeayor
to get bill through the legislature in
the interest of the Salem Improvement
Company, who claim that they are
enormously taxed by the town of Salem.
A. c. Bear, of Rockingham county, is
on visit to his son, John II. Bear, of
College avenue.
AOt' w. NA' NAoJ Ollls vi hOSCFSNlllG,
Tenn, was in Salem on business yes
terday.
J. Harry Chapman, one of the bright
est young Masons Of Taylor Lodge, is
spending the winter in Portsmouth, and
whilst there has gone through the
Chapter, and is now taking tho knight
Templar degrees. His father, f. j.
Chapman, proprietor Of Hotel Lucerne,
is thirty-second degree Mason.
f. b. Gait & Co., butchers OF Roanoke
and Salem, recently brought from Au-
gusta county sixty fat hogs and sixteen
head of corn-fed two and three year old
steers, of an average weight of thous-
and pounds. This shows that there is
room in this section for farmers who
will fatten cattle for market, and
should sugar beets ever be raised on a
large scale in the Roanoke Valley, the
feeding of beeves with the pulp would
be an important item.
Frank Fleming, of Lynchburg, is reg
istered at Hotel Lucerne.
1t is reported that Will Brown will
again open dry goods business in the
city building very shortly.
Friday night a very successful soiree
musicale was given by the pupils at the
Salem Female Seminary. These rather
informal entertainments are given
monthly for the pleasure Of the patrons
and to give the girls confidence and
self-possession. The large school room
was comfortably filled by eight o'clock,
and shortly after the concert com.
menced, lasting not quite an hour and
half.
James Preston, who returned from
Bristol Friday night a happy bride
groom, reported for work Saturday Just
the same as usual. TIE TIMES reporter
learned from him that the marriage cere-
mony was performed by Rev. Il. s. Will.
Jams, at the Paramount House. and for
the information of other Salemites con-
templating Bristol marriage it may be
of interest to state that $40 will paw all
actual expenses.
Tho dance given by the young
men at the Hotel Lucerne Friday night
was fully as successful as its prede-
cessors, though the dancers were not
quite as numerous, some evidently
having retired from the ball room since
the edict went forth against dancing
by one or two of the churches. However,
about fifty or sixty handsomely dressed
young men and ladies spent some four
OF five hours delightfully."- in the dance
to the music of the Burgess brothers
orchestra, of Lynchburg. The ball room
was handsomely lighted with electric
light for the first time and a substan-
tlal supper was served shortly before
midnight. The dance broke up about
q. m. Saturday.