The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1895-09-13
sALEM NEWS.
Special Correspondence to Tho Times. #.
A. Lovolook, Reporter.

4th day of Septem Der, 1895, exc.
| cuted q deed OF assignments to w. r. B
Layman, trustee, for the purpose o.
securing the payment OF certain debts
| due by the said Lewis Huff to Caleb G.
| Nininger, Salem Loan and Trust Dom
pany and others, aggregating about
$4,000 in the first class. The property
conveyed was tract of land on Tinker
| creek, containing about $50 acres. The
trustee was given power to rent or sell
| according to the wishes Of the majority
of creditors. BY deed o: even date
Herewith. Lewis Huff conveyed to
Alice e. Huff, his wife. eighty acres OF
land, household and kitchen furniture
and other especially named personal
property. The consideration of this con-
veyance wac her relinquishing her right
OF dover in the property conveyed in
the above mentioned deed of assign.
ment.
]. Ernest Walker. formerly resident
of Salem, has, with others, become a
water right agent in the Rio Verde
Canal Company, Of Phmuix, Arizona.
Colonel Byers left yesterday for Salt
Vile. whore he will spend some time.
Eleck Benjamin. Meredith, who at
tended Rosnoke College last session,
arrived in Salem yesterday. He will
leave day for Rocky Mount and re-
turn in time for the opening Of the
college.
j. II. Piper, OF Monticello. Ills, re-
Gently arrived in Salem, and will attend
Roanoke College this coming session.
Col. William Henry Terrell, OF New
York, is registered at Hotel Duval.
The Democratic executive committee
will meet in Salem on Wednesday. Sep
tembe is, at ID N. Business of im-
portance will be transacted, as plans for
the coming campaign will be formu-
lated.
Mr.. j. h. Davis gave lecture on
temperance Wednesday night in the
town hall. His speech is highly COM
piimented by those who were in at
tendance.
Misses Bette and Ella Shields, Of
Greensboro, KY, who have been visiting
their cousin, Miss Matte Hurt in West
Salem, left for their home yesterday.
The following clipping appeared in
the Times Register of yesterday:
There lives about two miles east of Sa.
lem good and worthy citizen who,
however, is benighted old bachelor.
Last Sunday he hauled rails all day,
until late evening, and thinking 1t was
Saturday, he quit work and came to
town to get his mail and his weekly
supply of tobacco His feelings, when he
found 1t WAS Sunday, can better be
imagined than described. The only .xa
cuse he had for lis conduct, tina. we can
see, is that he is blindly in love with a
well-known Salem widow"
Miss Dickerson, of Richmond, is visit
Ing at Mrs. C. C. Tom pkins, on High
street.
The library, society halls and main
building OF Roanoke College will be
open to visitors next Monday evening
from 800 TO 6. A special rate has been
made on the electric car line for 25
cents rate for the convenience OF those
ia Roanoke VINO wish to visit the col
lege.
Tonight in the town hall Mrs. Oton
will give her costume recital. During
the evening she will recite Longfellow's
BRIDGE" This great poet, on hearing
Mrs. Oton render this piece, declared
that he had never before realiz ed the
great beauty Of the lines"
The sermon on temperance recently
preached by Rev. j. b. Taylor has been
reprinted in several newspapers and
has been highly complimented by all
who read 1t,
Workmen IRE now busily engaged in
laying the foundation of DR.. killian's
new residence on Pennsylvsnis avenue.
Il will be handsome addition to that
attractive street when completed.
Rev. Jas. H. Lamb, OF Morristown, n.
j., is registered at Hotel Dnval. Next
week he will enter his son at Roanoke
College.
w. Black Whitescarver WAS united in
marriage to Miss Savella Wortley
Philips Wednesday afternoon in Green
Church, Cumberland county. Rev. st.
George Abrahams, anuncle of the bride,
performed the marriage ceremony The
bride and groom arrived in Salem yes
terdaY evening, and will make their
residence on Academy street.
Wednesday afternoon at 4 o'clock at
Fort Lewis Church, the marriage OF G.,
b. Johnston, of this county, and Miss
Annie Laurie Hatcher, daughter of Il.
Cary Hatcher, OF Montgomery county,
was celebrated. Rev. j. R. Bridges
performed the ceremony. The ushers
were Messrs. j. 5. Baer, Horace Smith,
Jeter johnson and j w. Hannah, while
j. ED. Shipman acted as best man After
the ceremony the happy couple, together
with the ushers and few other friends,
drove to "Green Hill" the groom's
home, where bountitul supper was
served and pleasant evening spent by
all. Mr.. and Mrs. Johnston are spend
ing their honeymoon at the homo OF
II. Z. Hatcher, at Lafayette.
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THERE is more Catarrh in this Sec
tion OF the country than all other dis
eases put together, and until the las.
lew years, was supposed to be incurn-
Die. For great many years doctors