The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1895-04-28
SALEM NEWS.
Special Correspondence to.The Times.
A. LOvelook. Reporter. 4

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The following appointments for gre
Hgious services have been made blythe
Salem Laylnen's Union for to day:
Mountain View, Mason's Cove, Oak
Grove, Bend Chapel and Cstawbs at II
a. m, Hanging Rock school house at 4
p. m. D. b. Strouse will conduct the
services at Catawba.
Rev. o. o. Miller is now conducting q
meeting at Lowry's Chapel and will ad
minister the holy communion there this
morning at IL o'clock. He will also
preach at Pine Grove at 1880 p. m.
Rev. R. w. Liley. of Rsdford. will
commence protracted meeting at the
Disciples Church Tomorrow at pm.
P. 8. Bowles, who has been on the
sick list, Is now able to be at work
again.
Over $50 reserved seat tickets have
already been sold for the X. Of p. bene
fit In the town hall May 3. Mr.. and
Mrs. Hobbie and number of ladies and
gentlemen from Roanoke will attend,
and arrangements will be made for the
street car to wait until the performance
is over for it's return to Roanoke.
Albert Saunders, colored, was
fined $3.50 and costs yesterday in
Justice Campers court for throwing
bricks at COW belonging to Robert
Hale.
Attorney w. G. McClung has taken
the agency for the Daugherty Type.
writer, q neat and compact machine
which seems to do as good work as
those OF the older makes, weighs six
teen pounds and sells for SIS.
j. t. Hamblett, who travels in North
Carolina for the Holstein Clothing
Factory, VIII start out for that State
tomorrow with fall samples.
Sheriff zirkle yesterday left for
Morehead Ky, where Thomas Aiiff is
in jail awaiting transportation here to
answer the charge of seduction made
against him by young woman of West
Salem. The sheriff expects to bring
him.
The Roanoke Collegian for April,
which is memorial number to the late
Prof. W. B. Yonce, Phi. D., containing
fine portrait, memorial address, full
sketch of his life, etc, is now out and
may be obtained in Roanoke at Thomp-
son e Meadows, and in Salem at s. A.
Cox &c Co.'s.
A few nights ago while his wife WAS
in Roanoke, the house of John Vert, in
the Back Creek neighborhood. was to-
tally destroyed by fire together with all
the furniture. Mr.. Wertz is q poor
man with seven children. and the loss Is
a heavy afiliction upon him.
J. w. Camb has moved his family to
Salem from Catawba.
Justice Camper attributes the free
dom from theft here last winter to the
fact that several hundred hogs were
raised in pens in the town last year and
every one had enough meat to carry
them through. So impressed is he with
this fact that he is getting up apetition
to be presented to the town council next
meeting asking them not to restrict
citizens to the privilege of only keeping
two hogs to each family, but to put no
limit on the number, only requiring
that the pens shall be kept in sanitary
condition,
The Norfolk and Western baseball
team came up yesterday to play bali on
the college grounds, which, however.
were so yet from the heavy rains that
playing entirely out OF the ques-
tom
THE question debated at the Demos.
'thenian hall last night was, Resolved,
that the United States has exerted a
greater influence upon the nineteenth
century than England" The Cicero
mans discussed the question, Resolved,
that love is more powerful than hatred"
Messrs. Kyle and Preston, the new
managers OF the Duval House, by their
agreeable ways and good fare, are maxi
ing many friends among the travelling
men, all OF whom promise to return.