The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1894-05-31

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mt OF the church The public is cordially
invited to be present.
Fined for vagranoy.
n the police court yesterday morning
Ben Anderson and Bob Brackett, both
colored, were fined $40 each for va
grancy. Brice Hayes, also colored, was
fined So for swearing
Festival Tonight on Commonwealth Ave.
The ladies of the Lee Street M. e.
Church will hold strawberry festiyol
tonight and tomorrow night in the En-
gieby building, opposite the Bee Hive,
on Commonwealth avenue
The "vigies" to Meet Tonight.
The Vigilant Fire Company will hold
an important business meeting in their
hall on Jefferson street tonight. The
question OF attending the State fire.
mems convention will be considered.
Chewninr at 1T Again.
Harvey Graham, young colored man,
was arrested last night by Deputy
United States Marshal j. r Chewniug
for selling liquor without license He
was locked up and will have hearing
before Commissioner Rhodes to-day.
ouhnouihR u cpectaA Grand Jury.
City Sergeant Tillett yesterday, by
order OF Judge Woods OF the Hastings
Court, began to sum mon special grand
jury which will consider the case Of
Fred Hairston. charged with committing
an outrage on Blanche Littrell.
Summoned to Police Court for the scrap.
Col. j. Hampton Hoge and Charles 1.
stewart, who had personal encounter
on Campbell avenue Saturday afternoon,
were summoned to appear in the police
court yesterday morning to answer
cha ge of fighting On account of the
absence OF witnesses the case was con-
tinued until this morning.
Bad Sidewalks on Franklin Road.
The people who live along franklin
road complain of the bad condition of
the board walk between Tenth and
Eleventh avenues which has not been
in good condition since the sewer WAS
put In. The authorities. they say,
should remedy the matter at once.
Showing Property to Prospective Buyers.
o. E. Whitehurst, OF the firm of
Whitehurst g. Smith, passed through
the city yesterday with syndicate
from Washington to close deal on the
purchase CT three mica mines in North
Carolina. j. s. Smith, Of the same firm,
is in Botetourt county with q timber
buyer from Pennsylvania.
The Stuart w. @. T. U. Festival
The strawberry festival at the old
TIMES building last night, given under
the auspices OF the Stuart Woman's
Christian Temperance Union, was fairly
we'll attended and on whole was sue
of nj "a Inn
served by the young ladies was OF ex-
oellent quality and readily purchased.
The Belmont Church Festival.
The festival of the Ladies' Aid Society
Of the Belmont Methodist Church, which
began last Monday night, and which
was postponed on Tuesday night owing
to the address OF the Japanese mission.
airy at Grace Church, was continued last
night and was quite literally patronized.
The proceeds are being devoted to
liquidating the church debt.
Death OF John Shepherd.
John Shepherd, well.known citizen
Of Northwest Roanoke, died Yesterday
morning at the residence of his daugh-
ter, Mrs. John Poe, at Ala Gilmer ave-
nue. n. W. The deceased was n years
old and died from general debility and
old age. The inter ment will take place
to-day at Buchanan. Mr.. Shepherd was
Mason and q member OF the Baptist
Church and moved to this city from
Buchanan three years ago.
Meeting of the Lawyers In July.
The programmes to be carried out at
the sixth annual meeting Of the Virginia
State Bar Association have been re-
ceived in this city and much interest is
being manifested in the approaching
reunion of the legal lights of the State.
The meeting is to be held at the Prin-
cess Anne Hotel, at Virginia Beach, on
Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday,
July 10, II and IL. The address of the
president, Hon. Waller R. Staples, will
be one OF the important features of the
occasion. The annual dinner will be
given on Thursday night.
Rev. Masac Calls Upon the Chinese
Rev. T. Masao, who will return to
Japan, his native country, in few
weeks as missionary of the Methodist
Episcopal Church, South, visited the
Chinese in Roanoke yesterday in com
pany with Rev. w. f. Hammer, and
conversed very pleasantly with several
of them. He writes and speaks
Chinese with ease and fuency and was
welcome visitor to the members of
the Flowery Kingdom here. He found
that one was member OF the Methodist
Church, having joined in New York, and
that two had copies of the New Tesla
ment and Methodist hymn book printed
in the Cantonese dialect.