The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1894-07-28
THE TIMES KODAK.
Interesting News Items Gath.
cred Around Salem.

| This afternoon at O'Clock, on the
Broad street grounds, n match gamo of
baseball will be played between the
Salem team and the X. A. C. Jr.'s, of
Roanoke.
w. r WhiteScaryer and r. G. Stearns
have been recently elected delegates,
with James Wylie and w. e Bricker IS
alternates, to represent the Salem Bap-
fist Church at the Valley Baptist Asso.
citation, which will meet in Pulaski the
middle Of next month, and of which
Judge Johnson, Of Blueheld, is mod
orator.
Mr.. M. Harlowe, who for years has
been licensed preacher according to
the rules of the Baptist Church, will
probably be ordained to the work OF the
ministry next week, in which case the
ordination council will consist of Revs.
DR.. Taylor, J. G. Holiday, DR.. Beale, P.
A. Anthony and e. G. Dargan.
Mrs. w. R. Whitescarver is the guest
of her sister-in.law. Mrs. j. w. Berry,
at Cave Spring.
Mrs. R G. Stearnes is visiting her
uncle, Col. B. w. Arnold, near Mont
vale.
Crowds visited Johnson & Days
grocery Yesterday, the attraction being
Hartbarger in Mason's Cove, which
were on exhibition, Gagged in q box
with wire top. One Of She snakes has
twelve rattles, the other shree; neither
have been fed for three months, SO that
they are bright and glossy The snakes
have been sold to Maynard Morgan, of
Hollins, but what he intends 10 do with
them remains to be seen.
PoRTNER's Tivoli bear at G. NJ.
Webber's.
The Virginia Seminary Juvenile Band,
OF Lynchburg, after a very successful
tour through the Elkhorn snd Pocs-
hontas coal region, Is here resting for 8
day or two Next week they will com
mence their trip North, playing at
many OF the towns in the Shenandoah
Valley on their way to Washington.
Mrs. w. W. Coe. of Roanoke, was in
town yesterday.
Eight couples of young people, chap
eroned by Mrs. w. e. Brolen, went for
a hay ride to Fort Lewis Thursday
night When near Mr.. Horgan's one
Of the wheels came off the wagon and
the party had 10 borrow wagon in
order to get home.
A number of members OF Salem
Castle No. 8, went to Radford last
night to attend Mystic Chain banquet
Portner's Tivoli Beer nt C. M.
Webbers.
Miss Lula Whitescarver, OF Cave
Springs, is visiting friends heIe.
Cards are out for the marriage OF Miss
Laura Edmonston Crawford, former
resident of Salem, to Joseph Barlow
Lacy, of Roanoke, to take place Tues
day, August z. at o'clock at the First
Presbyterian Church of Roanoke.
In the recent mention in THE TINES
of those who were engaged in the con.
struction OF the new annex to the Roam.
oke College Library, the names of Messrs.
John Parrish & Son, who furnished
all the gothic windows and much of the
building material, was Internationally
omitted, and as this work is some OF the
most artistic in tho whole building they
naturally think they are entitled to
recognition.
Stuart Beckley, c. w. Goodwin, Jr.
and L. w. Housm an, all athletic young
men, of Fincastle, left that town on
their wheels Friday morning at o'clock
and at took breakfast at tho Huff
House in Salem, shortly after leaving
for the Allegheny Springs, where they
will stay till Sunday to meet the bcy-
clist from Roanoke, who will rendezvous
there.
In that section of the county half way
between Hollins and Roanoke, the
grasshoppers are so numerous that they
are destroying every green thing. M.
L. Fellers, upon whose farm they have
been doing incalculable damage, has
been driving them into piles of straw
and burning them. but even then the
plague is still there. From latest re-
ports they had attacked the the cops
of Emory Frantz and others.