The Roanoke daily times. (Roanoke, Va.) 1895-1897, 1896-09-06
SALEM NEWS.

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Miss Smith, of Harrisburg. Pa. is tho
guest OF Mrs. j. c. Specht, in West Sa-
Prof. J. w. Hypes left Yesterday for
Vinton in order to hold series of meet
ings.
.. l.. Stearnes returned to Salem yes-
terday after three weeks absence ON
business va
j. w. Wood, promising young attor.
ney of Roanoke, was in Salem Yesterday
on business.
Mrs. Daniel Preston and daughter
Miss Ella, have returned from n visit To
Bedford City
Miss Silling, who has been the guest If
the Misses Farrows, of West Salem, left
Salem yesterday.
Miss Ida Watts has returned TO her
home in Lynchburg after pleasant visit
at John Parrish's.
a pleasant party was given at the
home of Miss Munson, on the boulevard
last Friday evening
Mrs Nat Johnson and two children
have returned home from a pleasant visit
to friends in Glasgow
Rev. H. C. " Campbell has returned
from meeting of the ,presbytery Just
held neal Backsburg.
Mrs j. Harvey Chapman passed
through Salem yesterday on her way
from the Roanoke Red to Washington.
Mrs. Hoover has returned to her home
i'll Rockingham county, after visit of
several weeks to her son, Claude Hoover.
Rev. DIR. j. b. Taylor has returned
a n
has recently conducted very successful
evangelistic meeting.
There were more drunken men in Salem
yesterday than have been here for several
months. Where did the liquor come FROM
Here is nut for the enterprsing officers
of the town to crack.
John w Watterson, of Montpomerv
county, was in town yesterday for a short |
time. Mr. Watterson..is a member of the /
incoming senior class of Roanoke Col |!
lege, and will soon return to Salem for
another nine months session.
AN important meeting of the superyi-
sors was held in Salem yesterday and set
Elements made with the commissioners
OF the revenue, the county school board
and the treasurer. The delirqr IL Est
OF the treasurer was also received.
The town council has decided to con-
solidate the electric light plant with the
waterworks, and hands are already Mt
work digging the foundation of the new
electric light plant near the present site
of the waterworks on the south side of |
Main street, near Lake Spring.
a slaughter house some distance west |
of Salem seems to have become offensive
to the citizens of the community. who
have brought the matter up in the circuit |
court aud asked for an injunction to com
pei the removal of the offensive house.
Attorneys Berkeley and Bryan represent
ed the plaintiffs and Glasgow and Cooke |
represented the defendent
The Dunkard meeting Mt Green Ridge |
church, three miles east of Salem, is now
in full blast. All day yesterday vehicles
were passing through Salem with broth
ers and sisters bound for the meeting.
Last night was their love feast, with the
accompanying ceremony of feet-washing,
and to day they will again hold services
both morning and evening.
The town council has resolved to widen
Limestone alley and, under the name of
Virginia avenue, fix it up for first-class
street The enterprise is due almost
solely to the pluck and persistence of NJ
G. McClung and will prove quite an ad.
dltion to the eastern portion of the town,
also rendering property situated on the
new street more valuable.