The Roanoke daily times. (Roanoke, Va.) 1895-1897, 1896-08-30
SALEM NEWS

Col. d. c. Shanks has gone to Lynch
burg on business.
Alfred Brown and friends are visiting
friends in Bedford City.
Miss Ellie Hubert, of Catawba, was
in town yesterday afternoon.
Miss Lula Oakley has gone to Bluefield
| to visit her brother, Robert Oakley.
Mrs. Tbos. j. Anderson has returned
from visit in Montgomery county
The. Salem Brass Band has been en-
gagged to furnish music for the Fincastle
| fair.
Rev. Colloque, wife and son left Salem
| last night for their home in New York
city.
Capt. James McConkey rode into Sa-
lem yesterday on his bicycle from Blacks
burg.
Richard Wight, of Richmond, former
Salem boy, has returned to his old home
for short visit
Hon. ]. l.. Hannah, member of the
house of delegates from this district, was
in town yesterday.
Miss Blanche Barnett. of Eggleston
Springs, is in Salem visiting the family
of John McConkey
Miss lowering, of Baltimore, a niece of
the Prohibition candidate for President,
Is summering at the Roanoke Red.
l.. +. Malicote has returned from n few
days outing ut the Roanoke Red. Mr..
Malicote is looking we'll and says he had
n most enjoyable stay at the popular re-
sort.
c. 7. Campbell, superintendent of the
Southern Express Company, has return
ed to his home in Chattanooga, after
pleasant visit to the family of Frank
Reed.
The musical and literary social given
Friday night by the Epworth League
proved quite n success, and the young
people present seemed to enjoy them
selves very much.
Baxter w. Logan has been elected by
the Salem Presbyterian Church II dele
gate to the Montgomery Presbytery,
which meets on Tuesday, Wednesday
and Thursday of next week at the Roa-
noke Valley Presbyterian Church, near
Blacksburg
DIR. S. c. Wells has returned from
trip in the interest of the college through
Northern and Eastern Virginia DR..
Wells, though not able to get about quite
so actively as he once was, makes an eX-
cellent canvasser for students. His
genial manner and sunny temperament
captivates every one, and it is not any
wonder that so many young men are won
for the college through his influence.
The rules of the bicycle races soon to
he given in Roanoke have been changed
so as to exclude all but Roanoke bows
from entering the five mile race. What
ever excuse may he given, it is well
known that the sole reason for this rule
is the exclusion of Alonzo Il. HORNE,
Salem's crack bicyclist. Why will not
the Roanoke wheelmen show II little fair
ness? 1t would certainly be more cred
liable to them to suffer an honorable de-
feat, than by such means as they have
used to exclude Il competitor they know
to be their superior.
The board of supervisors met at the
county poor house yesterday. They re-
port everything in excellent condition.
There are twelve inmates of the house,
only one of them being able to do any
work at all, and that one n crippled col
ored boy. The paupers, when question
ed unoilicially, said that they were all
being kindly treated, that they were fur
nished good food and plenty of it. Sto-
ries have recently been circulated that
white and colored paupers were all
crowded together in the same house and
even i'll the same room. The investiga-
ton of the supervisors proves the report
entirely untrue, as the colored persons
are assigned wholly separate cabins, and
though treated as we'll in every respect
us the whites, also take their meals sep.
erately, and in fact the two classes asso-
ciate together only as they choose in
loafing around the place and trying to
pass the time away.