The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1895-05-24
FROM ALL AROUND THE CITY.

FROM ALL AROUND The CITY.
Current Local Events Of the Day
Briefly Told.
hits OF Facts and Gossip Gathered on tho
Streets by Times Reporsers-Points
Political, Social and General Happen
Ing Yesterday.
Over Ten Thousand Dollars.
OVER ten thousand dollars worth Of
pianos and organs to select from at Hob
bic Music Co.
Hammer Temperance Union.
The Hammer w. @. T. U. will meet
this afternoon at $3.50 in the mission
hall on Salem avenue, near the market
house. A full attendance Ia desired. NJ
III
MarrIod at Washington Heights.
y James Clayton and Miss Maggie Fuf.
row we're married at Washington
Heights Thursday evening. They wifi
make that place their permanent home.
The baptist Church Festival.
cream and strawberry festival was
given last night at the residence Of
Mrs. Board, at the corner Of Park street
and Ninth avenue southwest. 1t was q
very pleasant Affair and was we'll at
tended
Cheerful Workers Meeting.
The Cheerful Workers." Of the First
Presbyterian Church, gave q very
pleasant entertainment in the lecture
room Of that church last night. About
forty girls and boys took part and their
singing and Rotations were very en-
joyable to tho large audience. Quite q
sum WAS realized for mission work.
Thursday Evening Club.
The Thursday Evening Club held ,
called .n1eting at the residence of Mrs.
B. o. Payne last night, and 1t WAS de-
cided to hold picnic at Cave Spring on
Friday. May 81, after which the club
will disband until September. Tho club
has membership of forty. Mr. G. B..
Bell is president and Miss Mavis Rice
is secretary.
Trinity Church Festival.
The ladies OF Trinity Methodist
Church gave very pleasant festival
last night at the store on Salem avenue,
next door to Watt, Rettew & Clay.
which WAS literally patronizsd. The
room. which is very commodious. was
tastefully decorated and the refresh
ments were delicious. The success OF
last night has CO, ed the ladies to de-
eide to continue the entertainment to-
night and probably to- morrow night.
An Enjoyable Festival.
The festival held by the ladies
auxiliary of the Brotherhood Of Loco
motive Engineers in the EIks' hall last
evening was very largely attended by
the railroad men and others. The ladies
are holding these festivals occasionally
to raise money to fl up the Brotherhood
OF Locomotive Engineers hall. Quite
sum was realized last night. and the
festival will be continued to night. All
are invited to come, and more especially
all friends of the B. L. e.
Lecture on London Charities.
The Young Peoples Society of the
First Presbyterian Church will not hold
their meeting to- night. Mr.. G.. L.
Boyer, founder and director of the Drift
Chlldrens Mission and Home Oripples
Band. of London. England, will lecture
on this particular line Of Christian work
which Is being done In London. This
lecture will be both instructive and in.
terestiRg 70 all who attend. No charge
for admission. Children from all de-
nominations are cordially invited, and
grown people IS we'll Ss children.
Walter Davis Liberated.
A conditional pardon WAS received
yesterday morning by SeYResnt Ttllets
liberatinR WAlter Davis, who was
serving bwo sentences in Jail for parsi-
cipation In the September, 1893. riots.
One sentence wss one year In Jail and
the other was one year liz jail and fns
OF 500. These sentences were ra-
moved by the governor upon condition
that Davis condust himself IS o law
abiding citizen, but sb oula he In any
way violete the penal statutes of the
commonwealth he Is 10 be rearressed
and mado TO aerve out the remainder OF
his time. Davis was released from ISL
at O'Clock yesterday.
a Merited Compliments.
Miss zada X. Wyans, of the Roanoke
High School, is in receipt of letter from
State superintendent Jno. E. Massey,
rendering her position for history and
arithmetic in the Normal Summer
School of Methods, to be held in Farm
vile, Va. Miss WyAnt tsught last
year In the normal school at williams
burg. and by the efficiency Of her work
has made for herself reputation as a
teacher OF methods. That thia position,
sought after by applicants from every
part OF the State, should be voluntarily
rendered her, is high compliment to
the young lady, and at the same time
reflects great credit on our own schools,
since 1t shows that we have corps OF
teachers that is recognized abroad as
competent to take leading positions in
schools for the training of the teachers
of our State.