The Roanoke daily times. (Roanoke, Va.) 1895-1897, 1896-11-06
SALEM NEWS
EDWARD JETER, REPORTER.

Phil Brown. of the Blue Ridge Springs
Hotel,is visiting his brother, Ben Brown
at Hotel Salem.
There will be Il meeting to-day ut the
Baptist Orphanage of the executive COM
mittee of the institution
Miss Emily Taliaferro has accepted IL
position as steuographer in the Office of
y. b. Pugh, at Washington
Miss Bessie Weber, daughter of +. G.
Weber, of the Register, still continues
very ill at her home in West Salem.
Miss Amelia Landcrdale, who has been
visiting Miss Margic Logan, returned
yesterday to Virginia College ut Roanoke
j. w. Lemon, father of Mrs. j. z. Saul,
from Botetourt county, is visiting his
daughter at her home on the Boulevard
Mr.. and Mrs j. W. +. Allemong, who
have been on IL visit to their old home in
Rockbridge county, returned to Salem
yesterday.
Mrs Houser, wife of the manager of
the Kenny Coffee Company, of Roanoke
is in the city, the guest of Mrs. Richard
Roberts.
Mrs. Ann Mcfarland and son, of Mont
gomery county, arrived heie YESTERDAY,
and are the guests of the Misses Moo
NAV, across the river.
Rev. j. r. Brown will, on Friday even
ing, conduct baptsmal service mt the
Fort Lewis Church. DR.. j. b. Taylor
will preach there again tonight.
Rev. p. r. Nugent. of Richmond, who
is on his way.back to that city from Shen-
andoah, stepped in Salem Yesterday to
visit his cousins, the Misses Nugent
j. II. Weber, after visit to friends
and relatives here, returned yesterday to
the Richmond University College of
Pharmacy, where is attending school.
Mrs. w II. Barksdale, of Charlottes-
vile, Va, who has been visiting her
mother Mrs. James Walters, in West
Salem, returned: yesterday to her home
The JET Davis Rifles will give an en-
joyabe and interesting prize drill mt the
city hall on the night of the 26.h There
will be prizes for the soldiers, and also
for the pretty girls
The Baptist General Association of
Virginia will hold its regular annual
meeting in Richmond next week. Rev.
DR. J. Is. Taylor, of Salem, will conduct
the prelimlnry devotional exercises
The Ballehack correspondent in yester-
days Register pays high tribute to the
musical genius of the 4. W. |. II. Asso-
| citation. He stated that the youngest
member in the aggregation was very
much in love with the lady who played
the daughter in the family row."
Last night at the residence on Market
street, Hiram Bennett Rockhill, OF New
Jersey, was united in marriage ID Mrs
Carrie Willingham Camden. The Rev.
Mr.. Campbell performed the ceremony
Mr.. Rockhill is II popular employee of the
Salem Machine Works, and Mrs. Camden
is well known and has smany friends in
Salem. The Times offers congratula-
tions.
Grand and glorious old Virginia, the
mother OF States and of statesmen
which the Republicans have had the
temerity to claim, has gone Democratic
by 20 600. Ben Hill, of Georgia, said that
he always felt like taking off his hat
whenever his foot came in contact with
Virginia soil. in honor of the great dead
Ben Harrison says that Nirginians are
like sweet potatoes, the best ones are I'M
der the ground. But we take issue with
the eX- President, and point with pride to
Nirginia's great battle and glorious vic
tory against the combined forces of enc.
mics within and enemies without, Repub-
licanism, Doodle and plutocratism While
Virginia has many great men who slum-
Der in the dust, she has other who are
living to-day, actuated by the same prin-
ciplcs that governed the heroes of l71C
and 1850, and whose fair names have
never been tainted with dshonor. Three
cheers Tor dear old Virginia.