The Roanoke daily times. (Roanoke, Va.) 1895-1897, 1896-12-11
SALEM NEWS
EDWARD JETER, REPORTER.

The manager of the Roanoke Academy
of Music has booked one of the strongest
attractions that ever visited Roanoke,
"In Gay New York This company car
ries seventy people and every member II
star. Salem people will miss something
which appears next "Wednesday night,
December l6 Seats are now on sale at
johnson & Johnson's drug store.
Oscar Owens and Miss Bette Giles
were married at the Baptist parsonage
yesterday afternoon ut ) O'Clock by Dir.
j. b. Taylor.
While Miss Jennie Shipman was mt.
tempting to mount her horse Yesterday
morning the animal became frightened.
THROWN. ner violently to the ground and
ran away. The horse was soon captured
and Miss Shipman was not injured.
II. W. Kline and Col. Thos. Kasey,
after two days trip to Lynchburg,
have returned t, The city.
Dir. Thos. Il. billiard has closed the
trade for II fertile and splcndidly located
farm in Campbell county. The farm is
we'll stocked and well provided with
modern farming utensils. The Doctor
bought the whole outfit, lock, stock and
barrel, and got bargain.
y young white man by the name of Joe
Carroll was arrested by Officer johnson
yesterday and locked up. Too much
"family disturbance was the cause of
the trouble. Before the trouble is over
section 10 of the city ordinance will have
to be vindicated. Section 10 is even
more merciless than Police Justie Mott
of Sussex Square fame, New York.
Allen Garst, who has been sick mt his
home in the Green Ridge neighborhood
fOr. nhp1t IN x.-i.h
passed away yesterday afternoon at 3
o'clock.
Mrs. Laudcrtlae has returned to the
home of b. w Logan, after IL short visit
to her daughter at the Virginia College,
Roanoke.
Attorney James Simmons, Of Fircas.
tie, is on II visit to the family of Mrs. b.
W. Logan, in West Salem.
Mr.. and Mrs Chas. Chapman. of the
Bend, were shopping in the city yester-
day.
Sam Parrish says that Just about the
time Il man begins to feel that he is of
considerable Importance, he meets some
acquaintance who has forgotten his
name.-Times- Register.
The yearly exercises OF the Woman's
| Foreign Missionary Society of the Meth
odist Church were held last Sunday
night, and presided over Ivy the presi-
| dent, Mrs. j. b. Camden. There were
! several hymns sung, also instrumental
music, with an address by Mrs. G. f.
| kudcr, former missionary to India
| Mrs. T.. Boon was made alife member OF
| the organization.
The prize offered by j. A. Thomson,
| the Main street icweler, to the scholar OF
| the Salem graded school who would
write fer him the best christmas advcr-
| tisrment, was awarded by the judges to
Miss Rachel I. Morrow.
1t is said that H. T. Moomaw, OF Sa.
{ lem, has invented an extension table
which is very useful and unique. lie
has already had an offer from manu-.
facturer To make them on II royalty.
Large crowds attend nightly the re.
| vival services ut the Baptist Church and
listen To the sermons preached by the
| Rev. j. T. Shipman. Considerable in
| tercst is being manifested, and the crowds
who 90 cannot get seats in the church
"Wednesday night there were five CONVEX
| sions.
The Pine Bluff Commercial has the
| following to say of sermon recently
preached in the Episcopal Church Of
| that place by the Rev CT. G.. Smeadc, of
Pulaski, and brother of l.. NJ. Smcade,
| of Salem. He has been called to the rec
| torship of the church ut Pine Bluff, but
has not as yet accepted the call: "Thc
large audience of Trinity (Episcopal
| Church yesterday where Rev g. Gordon
! Smcade, of Pulaski, Va. conducted ser
vices, was certainly repaid Ivy attending
| Mr. Smeadc is IL gentleman of most
| pleasing and prcposScssing manner and
because of his scholarly attainments was
listened to with rnpt attention by all
present The basis of his discourse
| Faith-;lboundcd with the purcst moral
reflections, sound. touching and convinc.
ing, and, added to this. the spirit with
which the divine entered into and con.
| tinued throughout his most excellent ser
mon, gave rise to higE appreciation by
| his earnest congregation. There lis,
| therefore, no mistake in affirming that
| Mr. Smeadc possesses rich mind, that
| he is II painstaking student,a and IL learned
| theologian. We know we but express the
| thoughts of very many of the parish
when we declare that it will be Il real
| pleasure to listen often to him. The
| music was superb, Profess or Luce, of the
| Mozart ConserN atory, presided at the
organ, and the choir consisted of some
| fifteen voices selected from the Glee
| Club and the Ladies' Beethoven Club,
and the music was the sweetest and
grandest heard i'll Pine Bluff in many
days.