The Roanoke daily times. (Roanoke, Va.) 1895-1897, 1896-08-02

During the war Mr.. Hurt served in
Dunn's battalion, General Jenkins bril-
gade, which camped for willie in Lowrys
woods, near Salem.
DR. Wells has made out the weather re
port for the month of July, and it con
tains some interesting features. The
average temperature for the month has
been 76.7--a very high average even for
July. The rainfall for the month has
been 6.53 inches. two and half inches
more than the average for the year.
Mary Cannaday, sister of Prof. c. b.
Cannaday died yesterday afternoon at )
O'Clock ut the residence of her father in
Roanoke, the cause of her death being
blood poisoning Professor Cannadav is
canvassing for the college in Southwest
Virginia, and no one seems to know
exactly where he is, to apprise him of the
death of his sister.
In the circuit court Friday application
was made before Judge Blair for liquor
license by John r. Austin, living on
Back Greek. License was refused on the
grounds that Austin was not Il proper
person nor his establishment Il proper
place for selling liquor The same de-
cision had been made in the county court
and appeal had been taken, but to no
| avail.
a meeting of the board OF supervisors
| of Roanoke county was held yesterday
| morning in the courthouse, there being
present the following members of the
board: L. NJ. 'Starkey, w. ii Barnett
and Geo. W. Lewis. There was little
| business to come before the board: about
! twenty-five accounts were allowed. and
| the ACCESSIBILITY of repairing the bridge
over Mason's creek was discussed, but
not determined upon.
The mail, carrier from Catawba re
| ported mad dog scare in the neighbor-
| hood of hanging Rock as he passed
through on his trip yesterday afternoon.
| Several men We're out with guns looking
| for the dog but had not found it when
! the carrier passed through party Of
| picnickers from Roanoke. who We're
| spending the day in the woods, became
frightened and left for home.
The disused bridge below the Wooden
| Mills is Il serious menace 10 travellers un-
acquainted with the proper river cross
| ing, or Ignorant of the condition of the
| bridge. The boards which fastened up
| the south entrance to the bridge have re
| Gently been Knocked or. and also Il num-
| Der of boards removed from the floor Of
J the bridge, leaving chasm through
! which II horse and rider might easily fall
|
Western railroad, in constructing the
| bridge over Masons creek, erected Il der
rick on the property of Bolivar Webb
| Mr.. Webb has recently had several val
| liable stock killed on the railroad, and
! in rather bad humor ordered the derrick
to be taken down. This not being done
he secured an axe, and with one stroke
cut the heavy twisted iron rope Mr..
| Webb after this was not molested, but
the derrick was erected in another place
The water was cut off Friday night in
order to allow the relaying of about two
hundred feet of pipe on Main street, just
| west of Union street y force, under
Councilman j. b. Camden, worked hard
during the night and succeeded in fin
fishing the work by 4 o'clock Saturday
morning, an hour before the time an
nounced for turning the water on again
The pipe has, in some places, been low
cred rs much as five feet, and is now
fully ten feet below the original surface