The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1895-06-16
SALEM NEWS.
Special Correspondence To The Times,
A. Lovslock, Reporter.

Special Correspondence To The Times, +
A. Lovelock. Reporter.
Superintendent Holiday has an article
In this months Baptist Orphsnage
News. in which he reviews the presen,
there, and estimates. the amount OF
money necessary to carry out the plans
ordered to be executed by the trustees
at their meeting last fall in Alexandra.
1t appears that the funds for the cree
tion Of the building now being built are
provided for in the liberal gift OF the
Schmelz Brothers, for whom the build
ing Ia nau ed, but the furnishings, such
as heating, plumbing, beds and furni-.
ture, must be provided for out of the
general fund.
Immediately following the brick work
on this building, work on the industrial
shops will begin, 80 part OF this will be
used temporarily IS dining room.
school room for the boys Of the Schmelz
cottage. It will be substantial brick
shop for boys, q laundry for steam wash
ing, an engine room and the rooms used
in come ction with the Schmelz cottage.
There will be needed for this building,
diniug room and school furniture, q
cook range and utensils, steam washer
and steam engine.
An approximate cost OF these i'm
provements will be: Furnishing
Schmelz cottsge. $1,000; Building in
dustrial shops, 49, 500; Furnishing inr
dustrial shops, $780, making total Of
IS, 600. When these improvements
shall have been accomplished there
will be five substantial brick buildings
we'll adapted, on the orphanage prop.
erty, aud capacity for caring for and
training for LIES work one hundred
and ten orphan children.
j. Sharizer has already commenced
the erection Of the lighthouses in which
he proposes to grow carnations and
violets on large scale next winter,
and which have been mentioned before
in THE TIMES.
From present indications quito large
number Of Salem people vii 20 to Nor.
folk on the excursion which leaves Roa-
noke June 25. The rate of So so is so
remarkably cheap that even those who
want to go to Richmond and Peters
burg will take 1t in. f. Lovelock IS
the Salem agent.
A recent issue of the Southern Pa
triot, the organ of the ]. o. u. A. Nj,
OF Virginia, makes the following men
III,
after four years hard work, council
assure the readers Of the Patriot that Il
was the work Of our State organizer,
Bro. MulliD, who instituted council
there with thirty-nine charter members
present. This council is composed OF
the very best people OF Salem, and the
j Juniors throughout the State can re-
joice with Bro. Muliin. Bro. Ballard,
their councillor, Is commonwealth at
torney OF Roanoke county, and q fine
gentleman. Bro. DENT, postmaster, Is
past councillor and also deputy, and you
will find him whole souled man, we'll
liked by all who come in contact with
him. l was informed during the week
that they had fourteen applications at
the first meeting after the institution"
AT a meeting OF D. G. Shanks' Chap
ter Friday night the following officers
were elected and were afterwards in,
stalled by Most Excellent Past High
Priest D. c. Shanks. High priest, j.
Floyd; king, T. l.. Burwell; scribe, E.
a. Anderson; treasurer, j. B. Frier !
secretary, John Francis; captain OF
host, R. w. Oakley; principal sojourner
j. A. Clevinger; royal arch captain, o.
e. Shipman; grand master of 1st veil,
a. Kslthoff; grand master of end Yell,
Jacob Parrish; grand master Of 3rdfveil,
L. A. Palmer; tyler. John NJ. Thomas
The Blue Lodge will hold it's annual
election Of officers to morrow night.
Fridays Bristol Courier thus gives
the sequel OF recent Salem romance:
The 10 o'clock train last night brought
8 wedding party to town that was
victim OF peculiar circumstances. o.
Ill. Browns, q most excellent young
man of Rogersville, met loved, wooed
and won Miss Kathleen Hsrtigan, a
Rogersville Female College girl from
Salem, Va. They were to have been
married at her home yesterday. But,
the wedding guests were surprised, dis
appointed and discom6tted. The young
lady was o legal minor. Her father