The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1894-01-26
TIRE TIMES KODAK.
Interesting News Items Gath
cred Around Salem.

Gerc.
Rev. o. Miller, OF Roanoke, will
conduct services at tho Lowery chapel
next Sunday at p M.
Rev j. R. Bridges will preach to his
congregation next Sunday morning on
the subject, (Which is the Apostolic
church,"
Judge Moffett, president of tho asso-
ciated charities, has requested the exec
utive committee and the collectors to
meat at his office to morrow at 3 p. m.
The personal property OF E. Is. Gait
was sold at auction at Ballahack We'd
nesday by NJ. f. Huff. aNctioneer, who
reports large crowd in attendance and
good prices.
At the S3rd annual celebration of the
literary society of Washington and Leo
University at Lexington on the 9th in
slant, Glasgow Armstrong, of Salem,
was one of the declaimers.
In his annual report President Allie
mong, Of the Salem improvement Com
pany, says: Negotiations are now
pending looking to an immediate lease
OF the furnace at a profit to the Furnace
Company"
In the legislature the bill has been
placed on the calendar offered py
Colonel Logan, ITO authorize the coun-
Gil Of the town Of Salem to order an
election to taken to take the sense of
tho qualified voters of said town as to
the subscription by said town OF money
to the summer school OF methods, and
to authorize said council to make said
subscription, if Same be authorized by
the vote in said election
We think that we are safe in saying
that the proprie tor of the College Ave
nue. Dry Goods Store has the sympathy
of our entire community in his business
embarrassment, but at the same time it
is all nonsense to talk about undersell-
ing, and not much use OF other mer-
chants talking about selling goods at
all as long as that immense stock is
being forced on the market. We like
to hear a man talk when he has some
thing to say.
At the recent State convention Of the
Christian Endeavor Societies, held in
Lynch burg last week, the society OF the
Salem Lutheran Church had the largest
delegation of any single organization
Prof. G. b. Cannaday, of Roanoke Col
lege, was elected second vice. president
OF the convention and presided at the
mass meeting on Friday evening when
Rev. DR.. Francis E. Clark, father of the
The Endeavor Society OF the Lutheran
Church will hold meetings every even
ing next week, beginning with Sunday
evening.
While with mis- uncle, who was haul
ing wood Wednesday afternoon near
Washington Heights, Charlie, the six
year.old son Of W. a. Chockley, OF
Roanoke, strayed of and was lost.
Failing TO return home that night his
parents became thoroughly alarmed and
his father with mum Der of friends
secured this section ali the morning
About noon ne was found at the house
Of a Mr.. Mitchell, near the wooden
mills. where he had strsyed after pass.
ing the night in fodder shock on the
Jack farm. The boy was in seemingly
GOOD spirits and unhurt.
Clerk McCauley's Affairs in a MIDDLE.
Judges Moffett, of Roanoke county
court, recently appointed James Green,
deputy clerk of the hustings court of
Radford, and William Simpson, OF the
Salem bar, commission to examine
into the condition Of the clerks Office OF
the county, and these gentlemen We'd
nesday evening submitted to his honor
report, which shows that the papers Of
the Office and affairs generally were left
in sad muddle by William McCauley,
who was clerk for over twenty years. II
will be remem bered that McCauley was
defeated last spring for re- election by
Judge w. Griffin, whose supporters
claimed that change was needed for
tho public welfare, which McCauley's
friends Indignantly denied.
The report commences thus: "We
find, and with regret have to report
hat hs nnrAu "a
arc in an unsatisfactory condition, and
it will take considerable time and at
tention to bring the affairs OF the office
into such condition of system and order
as should characterize we'll kept
clerk S Office so that matters Of interest
to lawyers and litigants may be easily
arrived at, and the rights OF all parties
preserved, and so far as we have been
able to arrive at a conclusion in this
matter, we are constrained to saw that
the present condition of tho office is due
10 the accumulation Of work during the
terms of the clerks prior to tho present
incum bent, who took possession of the
office on tho LIST day of July, 1893.
Tho different details OF the office
which have been neglected arc fully
enumerated, and it Will DO well for the
legal fraternity of Roanoke city to So
cure copy OF tho report, whilst tho
land companies will regret to hear that
whilst "a large number of maps of land
companies have been filed for record in
the Office and book provided in which
10 put them, but very few have been
placed upon record, and some of those
recorded without being acknowledged
or certified The report concludes as
follows:
in conclusion we would say that al.
together we lind chat the records of
the Office are most woefully in
arrears and confusion, and whilst