The Roanoke daily times. (Roanoke, Va.) 1895-1897, 1896-11-28
SA[,En NEWS
EDWARD JETER, REPORTER.

Miss Reta Thomas, of Lafayette, was
shopping in the city yesterday.
Miss Carter, of Hollins, is visiting the
family of Judge w. w. Motif.
Prof. Allen Eskridge, of Blacksburg, is
the guest of Judge Henry +. Blair.
Miss Lottie Stafford, 'ot Giles county,
is visiting Mrs. Lovern on College avenue.
G. II. Ingles, of Pulaski, was in the city
yesterday on his way home from Roa-
noke.
Prof. j. w. Stull, Abe I.inkous and w
w. Miller, all of Blacksburg, were visit.
ing in Salem yesterday.
| Miss Mary Woodiin and Miss Jennie
Beal, of Hollins, spent Thanksgiving with
Miss Lou Abrams, OH Broad street.
The body of Geo. Shanks arrived OH the
4:2G train yesterday evening and will he
buried to-day ut Fort Lewis by the Ma.
sons.
Mrs. Geo II. st. Johnarriyed in Salem
yesterday from Rocky Mount. She cx-
poets to rent property here with the view
of locating.
Robert Cafee, of Pulaski, p former stu
dent OF Roanoke College and II Phi Gam
ma Delta fraternity boy, was visiting his
friends yesterday.
Mr.. and Mrs. Terrell, of Garfield, Ohio.
mother and father of Mrs. Edward Moore,
will arrive in Salem this week on IL visit
to Their daughter.
Mrs Newton. State organizer of the w
Z. T. L., is in the city visiting Mrs. j
ID. Malone. She delivered IL lecture at
the Methodist Church last night.
Albert Ellen Armstead and Price
cambridge, from New Kent county. ar
rived in Salem yesterday and were entered
at the Baptist Orphanage Asylum.
The Jeff Davis Rifles target practice and
the dance ut Hotel Salem, which were TO
have taken place Thursday evening and
Thursday night failed to materiulize.
Miss Matte Taylor and two of her
young friends, Misses Turner and Helm,
from IIollns Institute, spent Thursday
ut her fathers hospitablc home on Broad
street.
Miss Daisy Hester and Miss Bidding,
two charming young lades of the Nir-
ginia College, arrived in Salem Yesterday
afternoon ard are the guests of Mrs I.au-
terdale, III the suburban home of b. w.
Logan
Prof. Alwold, Of the V. p. l.. and Mr..
Sanders and his brother passed through
Salem yesterday on their wheels en- route
4''''AN -ADii iNphiiVhOY Nii'iC bUtN VIII
messed the triumph of the home team
Thursday on the grdiron.
If the civilized powers of the world
would only dispose of Turkey in the same
business like way that Salem people did
the trick on Thanksgiving day, bones
would he all that would be left to tell the
story of the "bloodicst picture in the
book of time"
!. Arthur Peck, the local heavy weight
champion bicycle rider, is ont on new
wheel with knickerbockers, sweater and
cap. He burns the wind like Bela's COR
net, and as he passes the calves of his legs
wrink and blink as did those of old man
Fezzivig the champion dancer, in Dick
ems story of Scrooge and Marley.
There is an old colored woman who
lives in West Salem by the name of
Aunt Isabel, who is 30 years of age She
was one of the old family servants of DR..
Johnston, who has long since passed
away. She is as clipper as many
women half of her age, is but little wrin
Killed. and looks aS if she still held long
lease on life. Her memory is excellent
and we'll stored with scenes and reminis.
censes of slave life in Virginia When
asked by the reporter about her age she
exclaimed "lor', honey, don't say nuthin
bout dat, might take Il notion to mar
ry, and it would slleer de beaux away"