The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1894-05-17
THE TIMES KODAK.
interesting News Items Gath
cred Around Salem.

w. M. Nelson, Of st. Louis, is here on
visit to his family.
S. A. Wilkon has returned from q ten
days visit to Rockbridge county.
Miss Della Kindred, OF Roanoke, is
visiting her uncle, w. Ii. Tinsley.
Judge Blair Is at Christiansburg pre-
siding over Montgomery county circuit
court.
marriage license was issued In the
county clerks office yesterday to Francis
Foley Lowry, of Roanoke city and Miss
Ida Bayliss, Of the county
The much discussed brick kiln be-
longing to j. G. Dyerle, on Academy
street, was fired up" Tuesday morning,
and when the correspondent saw 1t was
smoking away like a "house afire."
The members of the new Methodist
Church at Hollins gave supper Tues
day night at Grange Hall, which was
patronized not only by their members
but also by the Masonic lodge which
was present. Over fifty dollars was
realized which will be devoted to pay
ing for the organ.
Tuesday afternoon the executive COM
mittee OF the Baptist orphanage met at
that institu ton to consider the bids for
W
been done and, finding the bids higher
than expected, they appointed Rev. G.
j. Holiday, Judge Moffett Ind W. R.
Whitescarver, committee in whose
hands the matter will be- left in abey.
aLce, but with power to act when they
shall see fit
The Kings Daughters entertain uent
will occur at the town hall this evening
and promises to be very pleasant aifsir.
The programme will consist Of literary
and musical features, which cannot fail
to please. Refreshments are to be
served on the courthouse green imme-
diately after the entertainment. The
proceeds are to be devoted to charitable
purposes. Tickets arc on sale at Smead
Il Saunders drug store.
j. A Campbell, whose sanity was to
have been examined yesterday by
commission of three Justices, skipped
the county Tuesday evening, leaving
an incoherent note for the constable, in
which, among other things. he asks him
to write and tell him when this cruel
war is over" 1t is the opinion of some
that Campbell has gone to Marion to
get certificate from DR.. Pres ton that
he was discharged as cured from that
institution last fall II he secures that
~ 10 oAOuH HO Will CuuoHVOr TO S6Ltlo
the commission with it. There is much
method In his madness, so his friends
claim.
THE TINES correspondent desires to
acknowledge the receipt Of the interest
ing newspapers from Adrian Riddich,
who left here few weeks ago for Lima,
Peru, where he will represent the Comas
cigarette machine. One is The 7Tele-
gram, a daily published at Colon Repub-
lie, of Colum bia, at $40 per year, with
patent inside evidently printed in the
United States. On one page is the time
table Of the Panama Railroad Com pany,
with A. L. Rives name to it as superin-
tendent. Mr.. Rives is a native of Abe
marie county, Va, and father Of the
talented Amelie. The ether paper is
the Star and Herald" published at
Panama daily by j. Gabriel Duque at
SIS year. The reading matter, OF
which there is little, is in English,
French and Spanish, whilst the pages
are full OF advertising from all parts of
the world. The Star and Herald is OF
date Of April 2s, and contains a list of
the passengers just arrived on the
steamship Columbia, from New York,
Mr.. Riddich's nAme being among the
rest.