The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1893-12-13

Streets by Times Keporters-Points
Ing Yesterday.
what's Going on To day.
IiUsTINGs CoURT-Civil suits.
CoURTHOUsE-Mass meeting.
ACADEMY OF MusIo-"Jane."
.GREESE-MEMoRIALC HUncm-Reviyal.
UNITED BRETHREN CHURCH-Rcvival.
103 SOUTH JEFFERSON STREET-Fcstival
RED MEMS HALL-Mccttng Hiawatha Tribe,
/. o. II. M,
MECHANICS HALI.-Mecting Reliance Council,
Jr. o. U. A. W.
Drill of the Machine Works Guards.
The Roanoke Machine Works Guards
held their weekly drill last night in
their armory on Salem avenue.
Bought Out the establishments.
Engleby IL Bro. have purchased the
stock and business of the Sanitary
Plumbing Company on Jefferson street,
and will conduct the business at the old
stand.
Mrs. Ginger Again.
Mrs. Ginger, VINO has bsen in the
station house for lunacy on several oc-
easions, was again locked up Sunday.
She will probably be sent to an asylum
as soon as the proper arrangements can
be made.
Directors of the Y. NJ. e. "A. Meet.
Tho directors OF tho Young Mons
Christian Association mot yesterday
afternoon in the association parlor, but
as no quorum was present, the meeting
adjourned until Thursday afternoon at
o'clock.
Finishing Work on the Drains and
Sewers.
! All the brick work on the Railroad
avenue drain will be finished to-day,
and If the good weather continues all
the sewer work under contract in this
city will be completed.
Keep Your Hall Doors Locked.
Monday night thief entered the hall.
way OF John Anderson, on Ninth avenue
S. W., and stole q handsome silk UNI
brella. Some time during othe same
afternoon thief entered the hall of ].
o. Badton, on Third avenue, and stole
new pair of rubber boots.
Rev. II. c. Garrison preached last
night in the chapel of the Virginia
College for Young Ladies. this being a
series OF meetings that are in progress
at the college this week for the benefit
OF the students. Rev. DR.. w. c. Camp
bell will preach tonight.
Funeral of Mrs. Carlyle.
The funeral of Mrs. Addie C. CARLYLE,
who died Monday afternoon at her home
on Shenandoah avenue, will be conducted
Baptist Church by Rev. DR.. l.. G.
Broughton and the remains will after
wards be inferred in Fairview Cemetery.
A.False Alarm.
An alarm of fre was sent over the
telephone at $40 o'clock last night to
tho VigilaDt Fire Company from tho
corner of Commerce. street and Twelfth
avenue S. W., which was promptly
answered by the "Vigies," who on
arriving on the spot found the alarm to
be false one.
The Local Option Contest Still Pending.
The mandamus of George K Moore
to compel the excise board to grant him
liquor and bar room license was called
in the Hastings Court Yesterday and
continued until Thursday morning at
10 o'clock, when it is thought the case
will be tried. The decision in this
case will virtually decide the legality
OF the local option election.
The Aler.s Will Not Disband,
meeting Of the Alert Fire COMPANY
was held last night, with Vice Presi.
dent Gelsen in the chair. After a
lengthy discussion the company decided
not to disband, but on the other hand
special inducements will be held ont To
get new members, and it is estimated
that the membership will be Increased
by at least fifty at the next meeting.
News From the Infected Districts.
Mayor Trout received letters yester-
day from Pulaski and the other infected
spots in Southwest Virginia, stating
that the old cases of smallpox had
about recovered, and that there we're
no now cases. Dispatches from Shenan-
doah yesterday state that the public
schools were reopened, and there were
no new cases at that place.
A Bursted Water Main.
The water main on Campbell avenue
in front of the mayors Office, bursted
last night about o'clock, and an enor-
NOUS stream Of water was thrown a
hundred feet in the air, high above the
courthouse and Jail. For half on hour
until the water was cut of Campbell
avenue was flooded and it was impossi-
BILE for the street cars to pass that point
Men were at once put to work TO repair
the damage and in few hours the
bursted pipe had been removed and a
new section put in.
Festival and Entertainment.
The young ladies of the First Baptist
Church will hold festival and FANCY
work sale on Wednesday. Thursday and
Friday nights OF this week, at l.. II.
Brugh's old stand on Jefferson street.
In connection with it there will be
given on Thursday night musical en-