The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1893-08-16
THE TIMES KODAK.
interesting News Items Gath
cred Around Salem.

Lawyer McClung has returned from
his summer vac alton.
Rev. Joseph Stras is back again from
visit to friends in Tazewell.
Monday night tho vestibule train
struck COW which was peacefully chew.
ing her cud on the track near the Pres
ton Evans cannery, and in few seconds
bad dragged her remains in sausage
meat along the line as far as the cattle
zen, near which it left her hide and
head. The pilot of the engine was re.
ported to have been damaged consider.
ably. The COW belonged TO S. Lizer
and was considered by him quite valu-
able as she was fresh and the main sup.
port of his twin babies. Mr.. L,zer is
Ut blessed with an abundance Of wealth
and the loss is right hard on him.
Mrs. Frank Whitescarver has returned
from stay at the Pulaski Alum
Springs.
Miss Roberta Martin is visiting her
brother, ID. Il. Martin.
Miss Helen Blair left Monday for the
Worlds Fair.
Mrs. Watts billiard and family are at
home again after pleasant sojourn at
the Roanoke Red Sulphur Springs.
William Saunders, of Roanoke, spent
yesterday with his brother, DR.. Il p,
Saunders.
Frank G. Weber, OF the Times. Regis
ter, left this morning with the Salem
delegation for the Richmond conven-
ton.
Mrs. j. w. BruiIey has returned from
visiting friends in Baltimore
Miss Anna Taylor, daughter of Dr.
Taylor, is quite sick.
Mrs. William Terrill is here on
visit
DR.. A. L. Dickinson, of the Religious
Herald, was in town yesterday on bust
ness
The farmers in the neighborhood of
Salem are serious y thinking OF mobbing
Superintendent hitescarver for letting
the Baptist Sunday school picnic break
up yesterday before o'clock Had they
staid out an hour or two later the earth
would have been refreshed with a
copious rain, for, within the memory of
the Oldest inhabitant it has never vet
tailed. until Yesterday to rain during a
Baptist Sunday school picnic. A Kansas
rain maker is nothing to it, so the know
ing ones say.
ID. G. Slower is putting in extra steam
radiators in the public school building,
SO as to render it ore com Portable
next whit ter.
U. S. G. Patterson, the well-known
Salem colored cornetist, has formed a
troupe of really first-class coored must
clans. and is giving concerts throughout
the State, the proceeds OF which are
devoted to the Virginia Seminary at
Lynchburg. The Hill City papers
speak very we'll OF the troupe, which
will give concert tonight at the First
Baptist Church, on Water street. Seats
will be reserved for whites, and the ad-
mission will be but dime.
About fifty teachers are attending the
examination for Roanoke county teach
ers being held in the public school
building by County Superintendent
Stearnes. The examination papers are
prepared by the department of public
instruction and mbrace for the first
day arithme tic, grammar and geography
and for the second, history, physiology
and hygiene. The theory and practice
OF teaching, reading and spelling. To
obtain first grade certificates applicants
must average SIS per cent. second grade
certificates. IS per cent, and third grade
certificates, IS per cent. Professor
Stearnes hopes to be able to let the re.
suits OF the examination to be known
this week.