The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1893-11-16
THE TIMES KODAK.
interesting News Items Gath.
cred Around Salem.


visit to Richmond.
w. w. Ballard Jr.. who has been very
sick at the v. M. L, returned to his
home this week to recuperate.
Policeman Boon pulled" two sus-
picious looking tramps Tuesday night
and gave them free lodging In the
Jail.
Miss Minnie Burke gave very en-
joyable entertainment to o few Of her
friends Tuesday night. The following
couples were present: William john
son and Miss Virginia Burwell, William
Phillip and Miss Tsliaferro. j. h.
Deyerle aud Miss Mary Wiley, R. @.
Craig and Miss Smith, Of Concord, N.
c.; M. G. McClung and Miss Kate Burke,
L. M. Snead and Miss Minnie Burke, D.
e. Brand and Miss Ellen Blair.
football team has been organized at
Roanoke College, and the following stu.
dents compose the team: Day, centre;
Cox, right guard; Warnker, left guard;
Litz, right tackle; Miller, left tackle;
Deyerle, right end; Stringfellow, left
end; Grinnell. quarter back; Dukes,
right half; Woodward, left half; Fergu-
son, full back; substitutes, Whitman,
Hileman and Coffman. This is the
strongest team that Roanoke College
weight will reach 1868. Some arrange
ments have been made to have match
game during Thanksgiving and If so
the college boys will give the opposing
team hard tussle.
Frank A. Lovelock, the Salem cores.
pondent Of The ROANOKE TIMES, left
yesterday for Augusta, Ca, where he
will acc as judge upon the cattle, sheep
and swine at the State fair being held
there in conjunction with the exposi.
ton. THIS year he has served as expert
Judge at the Columbia. s. c., Stair fair
at the Hagerstown, Md, State fair, at
the Raleigh, N. c., State fair, at the
York, Pa, fair and at four held at
baltimore, Md, Upper Marlboro. Md
Frederick, Md, Lewisburg. w. Va, and
Winchester, Va. Mr.. Lovelock was for
many years engaged in the raising of
pure bred stock and poultry on large
scale and has thorough knowledge Of
the standard of excellence for each
bred, and as an expert Judge is rapidly
gaining national reputation.
Rev. DR.. M. H Houston, former secre-
tary of foreign missions, and Rev. W.
ID. Sheppard, colored, missionary to
Africa, will arrive in Salem, November
20, and will deliver lecture in the
Presbyterian Church on the night of the
ed. Mr.. Sheppard was born in Waynes-
boro, Va, was educated at the Presby-
terrain theological school for colored
ministers at Tuscaloosa, Ala. and was
sent as missionary TO the Congo region
about three years ago. He penetrated
into the Bacuba country, a region that
the Belgian officials and traders had for
ten years been trying to enter. This
was a most wonderful exploit and he
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lecture. On his way back to this coun-
try he stopped in London and delivered
a lecture in the Exeter hall and was
made fellow of the Royal Geographical
! Society, the same honor that was con-
| ferred upon Stanley. Mr.. Sheppard is
an orator and actor By nature and is q
very gifted speaker.
DR.. julius D. Dreher, president of
Roanoke College, spent the week before
and the week following the close of tn @
Worlds Fair in Chicago to secure a
collection OF minerals for the college
from the magnificent exhibits OF the
States and Territories and many
foreign countries. DR.. Dreher secured
specimens, mainly in gifts, from more
than twenty States and Territories and
six foreign countries, many Of them
being rare and valuable, and the whole
forming collection of great value.
Under any other circum stances it would
have required far more labor and muc h
greater expenditure of money to bring
together so many valuable specimens
of minerals and ores from so many
different places. The fine, large boxes
in which the specimens we're packed by
Dr. Dreher, William j. Ferguson and
j. T. Naff, two students of Roanoke
College. who remained in Chicago to
aid in this work, were kindly taken in
charge of by DR.. John S. Apperson,
commissioners from Virginia, who will
attend to shipping them to the college.
The college already has large cabinet
of minerals, and now more than ever
needs new building for tho scientific
department and the proper arrange
ment OF its valuable collie ction OF
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