The Roanoke daily times. (Roanoke, Va.) 1895-1897, 1896-12-03
SALEM NEWS
EDWARD JETER, REPORTER.

Col. r. II. Logan has returned from
business trip TO Christiansburg.
Geo. w. Logan returned yesterday from
IL several weeks trip to the city OF At
lantl.
VIM. II. Tinsey, of West Salem, is con
fined to his bed with an attack of the
grippe.
John II. Garst OH Tuesday sold large
order of white thoroughbred plymouth
Rock chickens to II. II. Glendy, of Dublin.
Mrs Thomas, wife of Mr.. Thomas of
the Salem Machine Works, left yesterday
for II visit to her mother in Bristol. Tenn.
On Monday w. S. Agner, of West Sa-
lem, killed two of the finest hogs ever
raised in this section. Ore nctted 800
and the other 400
Charles Lttrell was in the city ycstcr-
day and reports that his little daughter,
who is suffering from II malignant type
of diphtheria, is no better.
j. ID. Sler, the father of Mrs II. C. V.
Campbell, after short visit to his daugh-
ter's family here, has returned to his
home at Berkeley Springs.
Mrs Morgan and daughter, of Hollins,
were shopping in Salem yesterday. Her
son, Tollie Morgan, formerly on an ell.
ginecring corps in this State, left for
Chicago, where he has secured business
position.
On Tuesday, December /, the property
lying adjacent to and between Lake
Spring and Mrs. Margaret .Johnsons, in
Guiding the two. story cottage facing on
Main street, was sold by d. b. Strouse,
trustee ana was purchased by Miss Bet
tie Y. Johnson for the sum of $1,000
a delightful social entertainment was
given on Tuesday night by Mr.. and Mrs.
james L. Chapman to their young friends,
at their new home, known rs "Creston.n
The evening was spent in games and dane
ing, after which II bountful collation. WAS
spread consisting of meats and Salads
followed by II course of ices and sweets
\ telegram was received yesterday
morning by S. NJ. White announcing the
death at Waynesboro, Va, of Nora, the
l4-year-old daughter of Mr.. and Mrs.
Dorsey White, of tbs place. Rev. Dor
sey w hite is we'll known here, he bein"
former Salem boy and Il brother of = NJ.
and Alfred White. The body was ship
ped yesterday morning and will be buried
to-day at 1920 o'clock from the Metho-
dist Church, and will be inferred in East
Hill Cemetery
The executive committee of the Luth
eran Orphanage yesterday reported fa-
vorably the application of four more chill
dren for admission to the institution.
This makes the total enrolment 26.
Many people took advantage of the recep
tion rendered the public on Thanksgiving
Day to inspect the orphanage AID ex-
pressed themselves rs well pleased with
its excellent management.
Yesterday morning at $3.50 o'clock the
shadow of A2rac's wing fell on the home
of VIM. p. Marks, he himself being the
victim of the merciless angel of death.
Not twenty-four hours before he was
seemingly in his accustomed health but
was stricken with paralysis on Tuesday
morning, and only lived !, few hours.
Mr.. Marks was go years of age, and
moved to Salem from Botetourt county
after the war. He was millwright by
trade and II fine mechanic, working,
while living among us, rs il carpenter.
He was n soldier in the late war and orig
inally enlisted in the Botetourt Dragons,
Company G. commanded by Major Pitzer
and afterwards by james Breckenridge.
AS II cnvalryman he followed the fortunes
of the brave and fearless Stuart. He
was wounded in the hip while on picket
duty ut Manassas, the wound making
him II cripple for life. AS IL soldier he
was brave and unswerving the in face of
duty; as man he was unassuming, pure
and good, being q member of the Meth
odist Church. lie was member of the
FincasIe Masonic lodge, and afterwards
joined Friendship Lodge, No IS, of ga
lem. While his calling in life is not
what is considered by the world high
or noble one, it is pleasure for this
writer to pay the highest tribute of re.
spect to the dead man He will be bur-
led from the Methodist Church this af-
ternoon at 1870 o'clock. His life was
gentle and the elements so mixed in him
that nature might stand up and say to
all the world Shis was man"