The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1893-04-28
LOCAL BREvITIEs..

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Hon. John e. Massey, superintendent
of public instruction, who has been
visiting the public schools Of this city,
left for Richmond yesterday on the
12.45 train.
P. w. Reynolds, OF Reynolds Bros. s.
Co., Is in Danville on business.
W. N. Wexford, ST., of Lynchburg,
was in the city yesterday.
yesterday for New York on business
trip.
Jesse Martin, the popular clerk at
Virginia for the past ten days, has re-
turned to Roanoke.
Suit for $1,000 damages was fled in
the circuit court clerks Office yesterday
by Laura Hayes against the Norfolk
and Western Railroad Company.
The records in the case of Ned Bow
years in the penitentiary for rape. have
been made up and he will be transferred
to Richmond next week.
Hon. j. Rush Miller, of Pulaski, the
leading Good Templar of Virginia AMI
one of the most prominent temperance
lecturers in the South, is in the city.
j. R Hockaday, the pioneer real estate
man OF Roanoke, came from Richmond
last night.
G. Fl. Leigh, of Southampton county,
is visiting friends on Fifth avenue 8. Q.
Geo. d. Peasants, of Richmond, is in
the city.
Hon. Archer A. Phlegar, of Chris.
tiansburg, arrived in the city last
night.
D. H. Browder, OF Winston, n. c.. is
stopping in town for few days.
J. P. Walton, OF Blue6eld, was in the
city on business yesterday.
Judge William Gordon Robertson left
last night for Richmond on a business
trip.
Thos. L. Kirby, the general agent Of
the Herring Hall Marvin Safe Company,
is in the city.
q. II. Pierce, of Louisville, KY, and
A. w. Pierce, of Danville, Pa are reg
istered at the Lee House.
j. Allen Watts has returned from
Norfolk.
John T. Martin and wife. OF Philadel-
phia, are stopping at Hotel r oanoke for
few days.
j. K. Webster, OF Elmira, N. Y, is in
the city.
David Armstrong and wife, of Bards.
town, Md, who have been visiting Mrs.
Armstrong; brother, los. T. Engleby,
in this city, for several days, returned
home yesterday.
j. D. Hamilton, of Lexington, KY,
arrived in the city last evening
L. III. Koogler, of Stauntop, is stop
ping at the Felix.
a. Dowdell, representing the Gould
car coupler, is in the city endeavoring
to have his coupler used by the Norfolk
and Western he was formerly private
secretary to Col. Tom Scott, pr. sident
of the Pennsylvania railroad.
telegram was received by DR.. ]. ID.
Kirk yesterday morning announcing the
death OF his mother in Worford, Pa.
Coal and coke shipments from the
southwestern mines average $50 cars
daily, with prospects of a steady in.
c-ease.
George S. Jack left yesterday morn
ing for Long Branch, anklin county.
whittier he was summoned to the bed.
side of his uncle. Charles R. Il Williams,
who is critically i'll.
| D. G. Lewis has again leased the
RO;kledge Hotel on Mill Mountain, of
the Roanoke Gas and Water Company.
He will cend let it as a summer resort,
taking possession May l.
Editor Burton S. Highley, of the
Talbot Times, published at Trappc,
Md, is stopping at the Hotel Roanoke,
and is here making arrangements with
the Norfolk and Western for Southern
trip Of the Press Association of Marv-
land and Delaware.
Capt G. Childress, of the Norfolk and
Western, who has been seriously sick
| for some time at his home at Christians.
burg, is now convalescent and will re-.
sumo his duties in few days.
Rev. H. K. Richardson. who for soma
time has been engaged in the dairy
business in East Roanoke, has trans
fer:ed his affairs to other parties and
will leave in few days for West Vir.
ginia, where he will engage in the work
OF an evangelist.