The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1895-06-14
SALEM NEWS.
Special Correspondence to The Times, 4
A. Lovelock. Reporter.


A. Lovelock. Reporter.
DR.. w. S. Robertson and wife, OF
Danville, arrived yesterday and drove
over to the Red sulphur where they
will spend the summer.
Mr.. Thomas Maury, who has been
quite an invalid for some months past,
is now able to be out on the streets
again.
G. w. Kittelle, who recently kept
hotel ct Winston, and whose strange
capers were mentioned in yesterdays
TINES, was manager of Hotel Salem for
quite O time and consequently Salem
people were interested in the paragraph.
The Charlotte Observer published the
following account of the matter:
Private letters from Winston yester.
day brought news regarding MIR. G. w.
KiNelle that will be OF interest. Mr.
kittelle's assignment grew out Of q
great sensation which Winston enjoyed,
but which hot even the Observers cor
respondent seemed to have dropped on
to. Friday night MIR. Kittelle took the
Ice which had been used in preserving
the body OF Mr.. Chas. Johnson and used
1t In the refrigerator, in the Office and
for the iced tea at the table. When the
terrible discovery WAS made the owners
Of the hotel at once demanded Mr.. Kit
telle's resignation, and coul1 not get
him out of the hotel fast enough. The
hotel, the Phoenix. will be temporarily
In charge of Mr.. Roland Harris, for
merly OF the Buford."
Henry T. Hildreth, OF Harvard Uni
versity, who has just been nelected act
ing professor of ancient languages at
Roanoke College, studied a year at the
American School of Classical Studies in
Athens, Greece, and two years at the
University of Berlin. He taught Greek
and Latin successfully in the University
OF Wooster, Ohio, two years, and wss
for one year head Of the Greek depart
ment in Brown University, Rhode
Island. Prof. Rildreth has spent the
las. two years in the Graduate School
OF Harvard, where he is now taking his
examinations for the degree OF Doctor
OF Philosophy, his thesis having been
accepted. Prof. w. @. Collar, head
master OF the Roxbury Latin School in
Boston. and Profs. Goodwin. Allen,
White and Smith, OF Harvard, testify to
his thorough scholarship; Presidents
Scovel, of Wooster, and Andrews, OF
Brown. to his eminent success as an in
structor. and all to his high character
as Christian gentleman.
The full text of a sermon preached by
the Rev. E. w. Hubbard on Sunday last
from the pulpit OF St. James Church,
Petersburg, has been published in the
Richmond Times, and has been a sub.
ject Of complimentary comment. 1t
dwells upon the Holy Spirits power,
and in the words OF the Times, may
we'll be pronounced "masterly."
Miss Janet Sampson. OF Gordonsville,
who for two sessiona taught here in the
family Of Thomas 1. Preston, last week
graduated as trained nurse from the
school connected with the Johns Hop
kins Hospital in Baltimore.
Rev. E. c. Cronk, pastor of the Lu-
theran Church ct Tazewell, and a
former student Of Roanoke College, was
recently married to Miss Katherine
Scheres. daughter Of Rev. ]. j. Scherer,
president of Marion Female College.
At the alumni dinner Wednesday
afternoon Judge Blair delivered witty
post-prandial speech in which among
other good things he said: "Pocahontaa
saved Capt. John Smith, but 1t took
O'Ferrall to save Pocshontas."