The Roanoke daily times. (Roanoke, Va.) 1895-1897, 1896-10-11
SALEM NEWS
EDWARD JETER, REPORTER.

JACOB Baer has gone to Frederick, Md,
on Il visit
e. c. Thomas, of Singer, was in the city
yesterday.
DR.. Jno Mccarthy left yesterday for
Anderson, W. Va.
Rev. j. W. Hypes has gone to Martins
vile to hol protracted meeting.
a. II. HORNE, of Gadson, Tenn, arrived
last night Oh Il visit to his family.
Miss Minnie Obenchan, of Blacksburg,
is visiting relatives on White street.
Miss Matte Taylor, who is attending
Hoilins, will spend Saturday and Sunday
ut home.
Lee Wright and daughter, of Licking
ton, Va, are visiting Mrs. Chas. Denit on
Virginia avenue.
Mrs. Fisher, who has been living on
Alabama street, left yesterday for her old
home ut Brdgewater.
Rev. DR.. Taylor, who has been conduct
ing n religious meeting in Blacksburg
returned to Salem yesterday.
Mrs. c. o. Bacon will arrive in Salem
Tuesday and will give two lectures in the
Methodist chapel to ladies only.
Major Andrew Lewis, of Roanoke, who
has winter home mt De Funiak Springs,
Florida, was i'll Salem yesterday.
Miss Leila Crawford, of Stockton, Cali
fornia who has been visiting Mrs. w b.
billiard, left yesterday for her home.
Mrs Gertrude Tucker Logan, of Lex
lngton Va, is on visit to the family of
her brother-in law, Col. r. H. Logan.
Miss Blanche f. Brunette, of Allegheny
| Springs, who has been visiting at Jno NJ.
Oakey's, returned yesterday to her home.
Rev. j. w. Stricken, OF Bridgewater, a
former student of Roanoke College, class
of rs, was in Salem yesterday ON bust
ness
Miss Bernice c. Oakley, grand-daugh-
ter of J. b. Karnes, accompanied by her
brother, Hugh, left Friday for Glen Will
ton, Va.
The Moses johnson house on the corner
of Burwell and Water streets, has been
| purchased by the NJ. Il. Church, for the
| sum of $500.
Charlie Black and the Misses Williams
and Mrs Lizzie Black passed through
Salem yesterday Ell route to their homes
in Blacksburg.
Miss Louise Shpman, an accomplished
young lady of Salem, left yesterday for
Eggleston Springs where she goes to
spend the winter
j. p. Houtz, trustee, sold II College
avenue lot yesterday in section II for SO.
VIM. Grissom, of Montgomery county,
was the purchaser.
Mrs. W. II. IIinkle and Mrs. James S.
Waters, who have been stopping ut Mrs.
c. G. Tompkins' left yesterday for their
home in Galveston, Tex
The article spoken of in yesterdays
Times from the pen Of the Rev. ID. G.
Moomaw, will appear in next Thursdays
issue Of the Times Register.
Miss Bessie Bonsecks, young lady
from Bonsacks. Va, who has been visit
I ing Miss Bessie Wiley, on Broad street,
returned yesterday to her home.
Joseph Thomson, of Salem, has rccciv-
ed the honor of the nomination for Con-
gress in the Sixth district of Virginia ut
the hands of the Prohibition party.
Misses Alice and Winnie HOLIDAY, ac-
| companied by their friend, Miss Pearl
Myers, came from Hollins last evening to
spend Saturday and Sunday in Salem.
Jno. II. Wright, of Roanoke, was in
Salem yesterday attending to the sale of
the Feather property on the Salem and
koanoke turnpike The property WAS
purchased by Mrs. Ann III. Stevens.
G. G. Callahan has been appointed by
Judge w. w. Moirett rs register in the
new West Salem precinct. AS the cleo
ton is now close at hand, these books
should he made up without further delay
| Mrs. Phipps Miller arrived in Salem
| yesterday from Marion to join her hus-
| band here, who is the new PRINCIPAL of the
Salem graded school. The Times extends
| welcome to Mr.. and Mrs Miller in their
adopted home.
| The Indies union prayer meeting which
convenes every Friday evening ut $3.50
o'clock, met on Friday at the Presbyte-
| rian chapel and was led by Mrs Hatcher
| The exercises were of an unusually inter
esting character and lasted about two
hours.
! Col. ID. C. Shank brought the aews yes
terday from Craig that Col j. c. MELON
| aid is dangerously i'll at his home in New
castle. Colonel Shanks also states that
free silver is on n boom in Craig and that
county is safe for Bryan and Sewall by
$50 majority.
Mrs j. H. Bridges and children. who
have been summering in Salem, left yes
terday for Hancock, Nd, where they go
on visit to Mrs. Bridges relatives.
From that place they will return to Col
umbia, Mo-, where the Rev. Mr.. Bridges
is IN charge of Presbyterian pastorate.
The latest political joke is that the Re-
publican gas pipes in Roanoke county are
so badly out of order that they have had
to send to New York for II Plumber to fix
them He will begin operations to'mor-
row week court day.. Wonder whether
he will bring any Hanna solder with him?
LADIES' AUXILIARY RECEPTION.
The reception given by The Ladies' Aux
ilia1y of the y. NJ. G. y. Mt the college