The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1893-08-03
THE TIMES KODAK.
interesting News Items Gath
cred Around Salem.

Inc Salem district school board met
yesterday afternoon in Prof. Stearnes'
office and the following business was
transacted: The board refused the re-
quest Of the residents Ut the Green
Ridge neighborhood asking for school
house on the road from David Deyerle's
to Hanging Rock. A committee was
appointed to have the school houses in
the lower end of the district repaired
according to the recommendations of
Jeremiah Garst and Prof. Stearnes, who
had inspected them. The board decided
to pay for the ensuing year graded
school teachers $40 month; first grade
teachers, S33 per month; second grade.
per month; third grade, SEQ per
month.
Col. G. w. Hansbrough has returned
from short stay at the Roanoke Red.
Sheriff S. z. Barnett, Constable Kirk
wood and the posse who accompanied
them the night Thomas Blankenship
was shot, were before Judge Camper
yesterday for trial. but the comm on
wealth not being ready the case was
postponed until the 18th OF August.
Irving Poindexter, who is in jail hers
for shooting the cattle of another col
orad man, was day before Justice
Camper who, after hearing the evidence,
" 'Ao hAhA Oh w uaC EhuQ Jury.
Miss Kathleen Harrigan by request
sang at concert at the Female Semi.
nary at Fincastle last night.
Superintendent Worden, of the Hol-
stein Wooden Mills, has just returned
from New York State where he reports
business much worse than in the South.
Asking a Republican manufacturer
what the folks down South should do
during these hard times, he was greeted
with the reply, Live on the roosters
they were fourishing SO bravely last
fall"
Constable Blackwell, of Cave Spring,
yesterday brought to Roanoke iail
Douglass Lowry, Of West Roanoke, who
was sent on by Justice Gregory 10 the
grand jury, charged with having out
ragged Mrs. Allie Ferguson, wife of
Moses Ferguson. Lawyer Lyle, re-
presenting Lowry, appeared before
Judge Moffett, of the county court, YES.
terday and applied for bail for the
prisoner, but the Judge declined 10 hear
the motion. 1t is understood that Mr..
Lyle will apply for writ of habeas
corpus to day.
w. e. Ainge returned yesterday from
Youngstown, Ohio, where he accepted
the position of Office manager for the
Ohio Steel Company, mammoth estab.
hshment covering one hundred acres
At recent meeting of Salem En-
campment, No. Sc, 1. O. o. f., the
following officers were elected: j. A.
Thomason, chief patriarch; j, NJ.
White. senior warder; c. C. Oakey,
junior warden; A. II. Magee, high
priest; t. R. Boone, sentinel; w. M.
Barnitz, scribe. Next Tuesday night
after the regular meeting of the u6or-
dinate lodge a number of young lady
relatives OF the members will organizs
and revive the Rebecca Degree Lodge,
which was quite strong here some four
or five years ago.
The remains of Luther Cheatwood.
who was killed by the train Tuesday
morning. were taken early Wednesday
over to Back Creek for burial.
Rev. G. A Miller writes THE TINES
correspondent from Luray that be will
occupy his pulpit here next Sunday
morning and evening, the evening SER
vice at 6:30 o'clock
About thirty young people had
most enjoyable entertainment at the
hospitable residence of Thomas /.
Preston on Tuesday night.
A marrge lie ,nse was issued in the
county clerks Office yestesday to Joel
Braxton Lefcwich, OF Floyd, and Mary
r. Carroll, of Roanoke.