The Roanoke daily times. (Roanoke, Va.) 1895-1897, 1896-12-16
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EDWARD JETER, REPORTER.


Miss l4ssie Wells left yesterday for Rad
ford, where SHE goes rs the guest of Mrs,
Captain f.al>in.
Miss Morehcad, of Wytheville, sister
of Mrs. Ivan Nonce, is on Il visit TO the
latter ~ her home on High street.
Mrs. leighton and Miss Bette vii.
liams, who hnve been visiting Mrs. VIA.
Barnes, o: West Salem, returned yester-
day to Lynchburg.
Jno. Fitzgerald, of Ra,lforl, ana Oscar
Showalter, of Nicllers, Western Union tel
egraph operator ut the above place,
spent Sunday in Salem.
Charles Ncrmillion. of Pulaski, is Wis
itinG friends and relatives in the city and
is at present the guest of Mr.. and Mrs
Miflin Ballard on Main street.
w. w. Harveycutter has rented room
in the Hartsool building on the market
square in Roanoke and will after. the first
of January open up Il branch leather and
harness establishment. Will is first
class business man and very popular and
we predict success for him in the Magic
City.
!. +. Ghipman on Monday night had
the misfortune to lose his black horse,
the one which he has been using in his
delivery wagon. This is the second horse
that he has lost in the last few months
having lost Il short while ago II fine
bioodcd animal on the farm of Thomas
Beamer.
At the last term of the court an order
was entered to the effect that a general
index be compiled of all wills and judici
airy settlements recorded in the county
clerk s Office from the year 1884 to the
present time. Thomas I. Preston was
appointed by the court To do this work
and he Is now busily engaged on the
same. This arrangement will simplify
matters very much i'll the clerks Office
and be Il great convenience for both law
ycrs and people of the county.
Don't forget, Salem theatre. goers that
Tonight ut the Roanoke Academy OF Mu-
sic the biggest attraction that ever visited
Roanoke I'm Gay New York will he
seen Scores of pretty girls, with lots of
singing and dancing and everything in
the comedy, farce, burlesque and vaude-
willie line. Seventy people in the show
and everyone Il fun-maker Eccure your
seats early, rs there certainly will he a
rush for them. You can send down to-
day at Johnson s Johnson's drug store
ANA get tickets.
Evangelist c. Is. Strouse commenced Il
meeting at Brick Union, near Troutyille,
BotGtourt county, Sunday night y
crowded house greeted him. He made Il
forcible preliminary talk from Elijah
contest with the prophet Of Baal on Mt
Carmel. He accepted for himself Elijah s
proposition, 1.-The God that answcreth by
fire, he is God He said if God was God
and what he spoke was truth, God would
answer by fire. After IL strong scriptural
talk on holiness of life and sanctiiication
as ii second work of grace, he invited the
sinners to accept Jesus and fourteen re-
sponded He then requested those who
believed the truth rs he had spoken it
and wanted the blessing to stand and
forty persons stood. At least three
fDurths of the large congregation were
men. The meeting is being continued by
Mr.. Watkins Of BonSacks, Mr.. Strouse
being physically unable to preach.
The annual report of the South View
Orphan Home, OF the united synod of the
Evangelical Lutheran Church in the
South has been completed and placed be-