The Roanoke daily times. (Roanoke, Va.) 1895-1897, 1896-11-26
SALEM NEWS
EDWARD JETER, REPORTER.


Thomas wolfcnden left yesterday on
his wheel for visit to Wytheville
Judge Blair left this morning for Chris
tiansburg, where he went to hold court
Miss Minnie Wiley, who has been visit
ing in Blacksburg, has returned to Sa.
| lem.
Mrs VIM. Lybrook, of Blacksburg. is
in the city, the guest of Mrs. W. II.
Younger.
VIM. II. Terril, of New York, a former
Salem business man, who has many
friends here, is stopping at the Duval
| House.
o. c. Peters, of Blacksburg, who
came here Tuesday evening on business,
is sick ut the home of NJ S. Ballard. on
Main street.
| Union services will be held this morn
| ing at O'Clock at the Lutheran Church.
| The Rev. Mr.. Campbell, of the Presby-
| terrain Church, will preach IL Thanksgiv-
ing sermon.
The Roanoke College football team left
yesterday evening for Washington and
Lee University, where they will to-day
engage in game of football with the
university boys.
Mrs. Bessie Smith, nee Bessie Moon,
| from North Carolina, arrived in Salem
| yesterday to visit her fathers family
! here She is accompanied by IL niece of
/ Mrs. W. A Smith
| Frank Wiley, the head clerk at w. II.
1ounger's drug store, has renovated and
| cleaned up and adorned the back parlor
| in such manner as to make it look like
II drawing room. He wishes it TO be un-
derstood, however, that no political dis
cussions will he allowed. Members of the
"never sweat horney-head club will
please, rs Captain Cutie used to say,
make Il note Of
To-day in Salem the banks and schools
will close, and the postof1ice will observe
| Sunday hours. While no petition has
been circulated, it is to be hoped that the
stores will close, as they have done in the
past, in order that the clerks, as we'll as
their employers, may have an opportunity
to attend church or give thanks in any
way that they may see proper, in observ-
| ing the national holiday.
On Tuesday night Messrs W. H. Har-
veycutter, j. K. c. Brown, Jr, and the
Misses Birch, Oakley and Golf drove to
Southveiw, just below Lowry's Chapel
where the Rev. Mr.. Moser is conducting
n revival. On their return the front axle
of the carriage broke, but no one was
hurt. William Bushong brought one of
the young ladies home in his buggy, and
Marshall Frantz brought the others to
the creek, from which place they had Il
moonlight walk to Salem.
\ telegram received Tuesday evening
at 3 o'clock by Thomas Shanks, stated
that his son, George, was dead, and that
the body would be shipped Tuesday night
for salem. Information concerning his
death is meagre, and it is not known
whether he died in the railroad hospital at
Sedalia, Mo, or whether his death oc-
Cured Ell route to that place. He had
two brothers who worked with him in
Smitlville, Henry and Allan, one of
whom and possibly both will accompany
the body here.
To-day is Thanksgiving day. For
nearly 400 years it has been the custom
i'll America to devote one dayssin the year
to devotional exercises, and in giving
thanks TO the Almighty for His wonder
full kindness and goodness to us as a ma
ton and as individuals. We have many
things for which to be thankful, our
daily bread our raiment, our homes and
our Improbable lives. While the gay
and thoughtless votaries of pleasure are
spending the day in amusements or in
idleness, many prayer will be offered up
to God, that will rise like burning in
ccnse from n holy altar, asking for Divine
help and inspiration, asking for a con-
tlnuance for that mercy which has SUR
rounded and guarded our lives through
so many vicissitudes, guiding our foot
steps, tightening our burdens and max
ing lis feel that there is II divinity that
shapes our ends. rough hcw them how
we WILL