The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1893-02-19
THE TIMES KODAK.
items of News Gathered About
Town.

day at the churches Rev. J. NJ. Luck
will preach morning and night az tho
Baptist Church.
Tho regular Y. NJ. c. A. meeting this
afternoon will be conducted by z. Il.
Stanard.
At night in tho Lutheran Church
Rev. o. C. Miller, OF Roanoke, will de-
liver the anniversary sermon to the
college Y. M. G. A. His pulpit at St.
Marks will be filled by Rev. c. A.
Miller.
Tomorrow tho February term of
county court commences.
About year ago Mr.. Sibe,t was
engaged in law suit regarding the re-
building Of the old Martin mill dam.
After tho court had decided that he
could go ahead he spent several thous.
and dollars in restoring the property.
Friday night tho moderately high water
in Roanoke river found weak place
III the southern bank and washed away
the abutment on that side. Saturday
morning the river was flowing through
gap in the dam forty feet wide.
Arthur Sibert was up to look at it
Saturday morning and says as soon as
tho weather permits the break will DO
repaired.
Commissioner OF agriculture White
head is preparing q hand book Of Vir-
ginia to be distribute at the Worlds
Fair, so as to furnish information to in.
tending settlers. The advantages of
Salem have been very fairly set off in
readable article prepared by Il. S.
Strayer, which, whilst it is interesting
is concise, thore being only 1900 words
in it.
Early Friday morning the vestibule
train came to a stop between the Salem
steam tannery and the Salem electric
light plant, as the engineer had discov-
cred something wrong with the engine.
A porter on tho Pullman, who was
making his second trip on the run, see
ing the lights OF town ali around,
thought Roanoke had been reached and
hurriedly persuaded Mr.. and Mrs H.
Harrington, passengers on the train, to
get off. This they did and so did the
porter, and before they realized where
they were the train pulled out for Roa-
noke, leaving the lady and gentleman
and the stupid porter standing in the
middle of the track, the rain pouring
down and they half mile from Salem
depot. In the dark, rainy night they
walked on until they reached the sc c.
ton house, near the wagon works.
whore they found watchman and
fire. They stood there till five in the
morning and then went over to Hotel
Salem, where they were made com fort
able until noon, at which time they
took tho train for Roanoke. Mr.. and
Mrs. Harrington were elegantly attired
and their feelings can be better mag
ined than expressed. This was doubt
less one occasion when the porter did
not get a tip"
Not only does the Holstein Clothing
factory give employment to fifty or
sixty girls in the building, but TO many
who sew at home. The reporter saw a
gentleman bring several dczcn out
ing shirts to the factory yesterday,
which had been made at home, and as
he drove oil remarked to the reporter,
They mont pay SO very much for that
kind of work but | tell you it mounts
up, and helps these hard time
The Salem Carriage Company have
recently received the diplomas, one
for the best furniture wagon, the other
for the best passenger wagon, exhibited
at the last State exposition in Rich
mond.
Yesterday as the noon train came in
a gentleman got of and ran up to the
mail car to deposit a letter. He then
attempted to get on the step of his car
while the train was in motion, but in
doing 80 struck his hip and was thrown
out on the depot platform. The train
kept on and the would-be passenger,
fortunately not much kurt, rode in the
Hotel Lucerne omnibus up town.
AT tho Southern Carriage Works =
one OF the most novel mechanisms for
Keeping the time OF the employees ever
seen In this town. 1t is known as an
automatic time recorder. Every em-
pioyo is represented by number, which
is in type at the bottom of key The
Keys all hang on n beard near the en-.
trance, and by the side of this is q larpe
CLOCK. just below the clock is kew.
hole. When No. 10 comes In he picks
up MS key puts it in the keyholc, and
gives 1t half turn. A bell sounds, and
he withdraws the key and goes on about
DIS business: when he leaves work he
uses the key in the same way. In the
interior OF tho clock is a long paper
tapo, like that which comes of the
iicker In brokers' Office, and every
tlme key is inscrt' Il it records upon
the paper the exact i.ne. Enough tape
ID tlerc 10 last week, so that at tho
eno oil that time uperintendent Wal
lace takes out the tape, and has tho
time OF every man as recorded by him
self.
onort'horn breeders throughout the
Southwest will regret to hear of the
oeath last November of tho great bull,
second Duke of Kent" aged about
cWeive years. He was purchased in
1884 at the Hamilton's Flat Creek sale
In kentucky by Palmer and Bowman
i0r 80, 100, and was kept at the head of
their Saltvllle herd He was onlv ex.
hlbited at the two Roanoke fairs. being
100 valuable TO carry far. His mate, tho
Eighth Duchess o. Kent, for which 81 500
was paid, is still living at Saltville,