The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1894-04-27
THE TIMES KODAK.
interesting News Items Gath.
cred Around Salem.

John II. Anderson, of Lynchburg. VINO
has been visiting his neice, Mrs w. D.
E. Duval, has returned bone.
Capt j. @. Langhorne, who has been
in st. Louis the past few weeks on
business, has returned home.
The joint junior debate will take
place to night in the town ball The
Salem orchestra will furnish music.
Mr.. and Mrs. L. Blanton Huff and
their nephew, Clarence Hodges, left
to-day for st. Louis, whore they expect
to reside.
A game of baseball will be played this
evening on the Broad street grounds
between picked mines OF Salem and
Elliston.
marriage license was issued in the
county clerks Office yesterday to VIII
liam George Crotts and Fannie Belle
Jones, both OF Salem.
There will be meeting at Holmes
store at Dry Branch, Saturday night,
May 5, at O'Clock to select two council
men for the first ward.
Mr.. Allemong informed the CORE.
spondent yesterday that the shut
down" at the Salem machine works was
only temporary, and that work had been
resumed
w. B. billiard and s. d. McCommon
have been asked to run as councilman
from the Third ward in the coming
election. R. L. Campbell has agreed to
run for the First ward.
Plans are now being matured to add a
high school department to the Salem
graded school, and Roanoke College is
to be asked to give scholarship an
nually to the best graduate at the graded
school.
Jack Thomson Is raising subscrip-
ton to purchase sprinkler for the
town so as to do away with the horrible
dust which annually spoils the wares OF
the merchants and annoys the eyes and
nostrils of the people generally.
c. M. Weber yesterday received one
OF the first copies of the Daily Citizen,
newspaper in Huntingdon, w. Va,
edited by w. r. Murrell, who many
years ago started the Big Lick News,
the first paper ever published in Roa-
noke city.
Justice Camper went to the county
jail yesterday morning for the purpose
of holding preliminary examination
In the case of Jim Walker, colored,
charged with attempting to outrage Mrs.
John Stotz, but as the prisoner waived
examination the case now goes to the
grand jury.
The Salem Odd Fellows will celebrat to
the seventy fifth anniversary of the In
PRODUCTION OF the order into America by
picnic at Jacks cave to-day. having
postponed the affair one day in kind
consideration of the fact that Thursday
is publication day at the Times Regis
ter office, where four Of the force are
Odd Fellows.
j. P. Saul and wife, r. W. Whites
carver and wife, Q. R. Towson and wife,
James Wiley and wife and Messrs. w.
r. Whitescarver, T. 1. Preston and ]
M. Harlowe are attending the Ministers
and Laymen's Institute at Mill Creek
Church, Botetourt county. Dr. Taylor,
who was to have taken part, was kept
at homo by lame leg.
The arguments in favor OF the az
Erieved stockholders in the case of the
Bank of Salem ct als vs. the South
Salem Land Company ct ais were con-
cluded yesterday morning in Roanoke
county circuit court Judge Blair
entered decree reversing and setting
aside the decree entered in said cause
on the sth day of January, 1894, as
being prematurely and enormously
Outcieu as az hlusI VIZ confronting STOCK
holders, who had failed to enter their
defence at said term, the said decree
having levied q twenty per cent. assess
ment against them and Others The
court allowed these parties to file their
demurrers and answers in this cause,
and said defendants consented to a
hearing on the Sth day of June, 1894, in
vacation, when all matters in contest in
said company will como up for hearing
upon the merits. This case was o holly
contested one, as not only were the
stockholders allowed to como in with
their defences after q final decree, but
many executions in the hands of various
sheriffs all over the State were invalid
ated. Messrs. Gillum & Maury, at.
torneys, of Richmond, represented
themselves and other Richmond stock
holders.