The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1894-07-24
THE TIMES KODAK.
interesting News Items Gath
cred Around Salem.

George Logan 10 in Atlanta, Ca, on
business.
Mrs. Newton, mother OF Mrs. p. H.
Clark, has been quito sick for tho past
week.
There will be work to night in the
first and second degrees in the DAD Eel
lows lodge.
Mrs. s. B. Noyes and son, who have
been visiting James Wylie, have rc-
turned to Atlanta.
Mrs. T. w. Spindle WAS summoned to
Tazewell yesterday by the sudden Death
there of her sister.
DR.. Renaids had the misfortune to
sprain his thumb Saturday and was I'M
able to attend to his patients yesterday
on that acc count.
The infant son of John Diuguid died
in Roanoke Sunday after short illness
and was buried Monday afternoon In
East Hill Cemetery here.
An excursion of colored people from
Bedford City was run to Salem yes,er-
day. The visitors amused themselves
quietly and the rain did not deter them
from having a game of baseball, which
resulted in score of to in favor OF
Salem.
The board of supervisors of Roanoke
county met In ANIMAL session yesterday,
and among the principal business
transacted was the following: IssN
1t was ordered that process be issued
sum moning William McCauley to ap-
pear before this board al it's meeting in
August, 1894 first Saturday,. to make
settlement with this board Of all county
levies received by him as the former
clerk OF the county court OF this county
in 10 ~
sold for delinquent taxes.
1t was ordered that the ountv treas
urer be allowed until the first Saturday
in Septem Der TO make his settlement in
full for the fiscal year.
Morgan Smith, superin teudent of the
poor for the county, made his annual
report and settlement, which were &C
cepted, from which it seems that the
poorhouse farm and care OF paupers for
the past year amounted to Si,277.2S, tho
average number of paupers being %,
making cost of about S55 per head per
annum.
1t was ordered that w. d. Campbell,
road surveyor in the Red Hill district,
DC allowed $40 in order to erect q wire
suspension foot bridge across Back
creek in the neigh bornood OF Red Hill
Church.
The following salaries wero allowed
for the year ending Juno 30, 1895. viz:
Sheriff, $3.50; commemorative attorney,
$3.50; county clerk, $3.50; overseer Of the
poor, $3.50.
The supervisors then ad journ to the
first Saturday In August.
Col. d. c. Shanks has in his possession
page of the Patriot, a weekly paper
published In Fincastle in 1893 which
contained a notice of his fathers death
in Salem, Bouetourt county. Among the
names OF people known to those of
past generation one notss those of II
w. Bowyer, county clerk, and +. Wolff,
his deputy, whilst Robert and Ferdinand
Wiley and Henry Kizsr all have IA.
miliar sound, though long since dead.
Among the advertisements are several
of interest from which the following are
culled: Garth Il Watson offered to pay
81 per ton for hauling pig metal from
the Catawba furnace (RossO to their
store at Buchanan. John H. Backinsto
advertised 10: two journeyman tailors,
whilst Charles Aunspaugh wanted two
apprentices to learn the watch repairing
and siiversmith business But these ara
all commonplace even to the present
generation as compared with the follow
ing, which is copied literally: "Will be
hired at Martha Furnace, on the 1st day
Oh January next, Tor the ensuing year,
twenty or thirty likely negroes, consist.
ing of men, women, boys and girls be-
longing to the estate of Robert Harvey,
deceased Bond and approved security
will be required for the hire thereof.
and none of said negroes will be hired
to persons living ont Of the county OF
BotetCurt. Z. III. Hull, agent for John
Moore, administrators of said estate"
From this and other illusions to fur
naces Botetourt county must have, even
at that early day, been largely inter
csted in the smelling OF iron from her
crude ores, and these old charcoal fur
naces seemed to have been scattered
throughout the whole country. How
interesting to the iron master would
true history Of these early furnaces be;
why will not some antiquarian tell us
about them?
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