The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1895-08-30
SALEM NEWS.
Special Correspondence to The Times. f.
A. Lovelook. Reporter.


COW at Roanoke market house this
morning.
Miss Garland, OF Roanoke, is visiting
Mrs. L. w. Overstreet.
jackson Beale. Esq. Of Scottsville,
arrived in Salem yesterday evening,
Rev. A. Pltzer, Of Washington, who
has been visiting his mother since the
death of his father, the late Barnitz
Pitzer, returned home yesterday even~
ing.
Mr.. T. Fl. Forsythe is buying and
shipping damsons from this county to
distant points. He has already shipped
three hundred bushels. It Is estimated
that over thousand bushels of this
fruit will be shipped from this place
this season.
Miss Mary Green. of Radford. is Wis
iting Mrs. O. R. Roberts on the Boule.
ward.
The curbing for the concrete pave
ment which is to be laid coon by Dill
lard & Persinger. is being prepared.
DIR. J. B. Taylor admin !stered the or
dinance of baptism last Wednesday
night. DIR. Taylor will leave to-day for
Culpeper county, where, on tomorrow
he will commence series of religious
services.
Miss Emma Wiley will lesve to-day
for Covington to visit friends.
Mr.. Walter S. Langdon. one of the
owners of the Salem Mineral Fibre
Manufacturing Company, in letter to
Mr.. j. w. T. Allemong o few days ago
from New York, announces that they
have determined to enlarge their plant
here on account of increasing business,
and that work thereon will shortly be
begun. This plant under the manage
ment OF Messrs. Langdon & Roster, has
prospered, and we are glad to know is
growing too. They have an office and
storehouse in New York, and have been
readily selling the product Of their fac
tory. Mr.. VIM. 81. Newsom Is the local
manager, and thoroughly understands
his business Register.
Mr. Claude Day, of Hollins. and
former student Of Roanoke College, who
recently joined the regular army. has
been forwarded to San Francisco, Cal.
Miss Virgie Frantz Is visiting friends
near Hollins.
w. w. McClung and three children are
visiting relatives in West Virginia.
The Sunbeam Missionary Society OF
the Methodist Church. will hold its an
niversary meeting Sunday night st
o'clock.
Messrs. E. II. Marshall. George
kirshner and Jos. Logan LETT yesterday
for Mountain Lake and will return this
evening.
Clara Spurlock, daughter Of Shirley
Spurlock, highly respectable colored
man, died at her fathers house We'd
nesday from consumption.
The Misses Logan will open their
school at their home on Broad street
September is.
j. G. Beam, of Lowry, Va, was in
Salem yesterday. Mr.. Beam will leave
for Florida In few days, where he will
engage in missionary work.
Mrs. @. a. Bull, of Norfolk, is visit
ing her aunt, Mrs. w. w. Ballard, on
Main street.
Capt. w. W. Berkeley, OF Roanoke,
WAS in Salem yesterday.
The reporter learns from J. w. F.
Allemong, president of the Salem Im-
provement Company. that the Salem
furnace will be sold within a short
while, and Immediately thereafter the
furnace Will be put into operation. 1t
will be sold under deed OF trust and
1t is expected that the Improvement
Company and the Virginia Development
Company will be the purchasers.
Miss Fannie Strine, of this place, is
on visit to friends at Red Hill, this
county.
The Camden Iron Works, of this
place, OF which o. D. Oakley is pro-
prietor, has closed contract with one
OF the largest Wholesale hardware
houses in the United States, for the
manufacture of 2, 1000 dozen iron shoe
lasts and stands. This Is the largest
contracs OF its kind ever placed by one
concern, and some idea OF its extent
may BIS gathered from the fact that in
filing 1t one hundred tons of pig iron
will be used and several months re-
quired so complete the contract.