The Roanoke times. (Roanoke, Va.) 1897-1977, 1897-04-10
SALEM NEWS
EDWARD JErER. REPORTER.

EDWARD JETER, REPORTER.
The noon day prayer meetings are in
| creasing in numbers and interest. There
were seventeen present Yesterday. Evan
| gelist d. B. Strouse was present and en-
couraged those in attendance by report
| of the remarkable meetings ut Bristol and
Gate City recently held by himself and
| Messrs. Oakley and Marshall. a card was
read from Rev. L. H. Watkins requesting
| prayer for a meeting he is holding in Ala
balla. Rev. Mr.. Stiles renewed his re-
| quest for prayer for the Fort Lewis meet.
| ing. There were other requests for prayer
for meetings and individuals, followed by
earnest petitions in their behalf. The IN.
fluence and power OF thus monday prayer
meeting will not be known this side of
eternity. Comeand help us andget.helped.
Lesson to-day, the first half of the fifth
chapter of Johns gospel. Many subscrib-
ers express their appreciation of the pub.
| LEGATION by The Roanoke Times of the
| notices of these noon meetings both in
Roanoke and here.
Fearing lest we may have done some
! one an unintentional injustice in yester-
days paragraph in The Times, concern
| ing the almost impossible condition of the
Salem and Roanoke turnpike, we will
| SCute IfdU HI GIle litSC Ccrln Oh Cue ttOtinOkc
county court the judge appointed two
commissioners, Messrs. NJ. NJ. Rodgers
and w. p. Moomaw, to look after said
road and make necessary alterations for
| the convenience of the public: but owing
to the continued sickness of S. A. viii.
son, the county surveyor. nothing has
been done.
John l.. Glass and Charles Blackboard,
Jr., of Lynchburg, were in the city yes
terday on business.
Thursday afternoon at 4 o'clock Grover
Stephenson Caldwell, tine 4year old son
of M. Fl. Caldwell, died ut his home just
north of Salem, with spasmodic Group.
The funeral will be conducted this morn
ing at 10 o'clock at the Baptist Church,
after which the remains will be inferred
in the family burying ground. ssR-@
The j. r, Crabtree property on Market
street was yesterday sold by D. b.
| Strouse. commissioner, at public auction,
| and was purchased by the Maryland Life
| Insurance Company OF Baltimore, for
81 800 cash.
He Chul Ye, Corean student of Roam
o&e College, left Thursday night for Lon
Ion, England.
News was received here yesterday of the
death of VIM. j.. Brown at his home near
the Harvey Dent farm. Further particn-
lars were not learned
Mr. and Mrs. d. b. Strouse returned
home Thursday night Mr.. Strouse has
been conducting religious meeting ut
Bristol and Mrs. Strouse has been visit
ing her married daughter in Orlando, Fla
r. II. Wright, of Roanoke, represent
ing the Southern Bell Telephone Com
pany, was in the city yesterday. making
necessary arrangements for the placing of
the Bell system.
News was received yesterday morning
by Miss Mollie Lemon that her friend,
Miss Pearl Brugh, of Botetourt, was crit.
ically i'll and she ut once left to attend
her bedside.
Harry Roberts is i'll Mt his home with
pneumonia.
! Thursday OF midday No. of the Nor.
| folk and Western railroad, killed near the
Salem tannery a fine COW belonging to j.
fl. Parrish. She was appraised at $40.
Judge Henry E. Blair yesterday handed
down his decision in the case of L. NJ
Smead VS.. j. III. Palmer, trustee, and the
Mercantile Cooperative Bank. The court
was of the opinion that the contract Ell.
tered into by the plaintiff ..on September
], 1891, by which he promised to pa, to
the Mercantile Co operative Bank. at its
home oiiic. in New York, Il certain SUN
of money upon the terms and conditions
of the saih note or bond, is New York
contract, and under the laws of the State
of New York relating to building assoca-
tions, is not usurious. but that same is
legal and binding on the pla intiif, and
further that by reason of his default, the
trustee, j. II. Palmer, is authorized to
foreclose the deed and in accordance with
the advertisement the court doth there
fore adjudge, order and decree that the
injunction. granted the plaintiff
restraining said decree from making sale
OF the said pr operty he dissolved, etc.
FOR A VIRGINIA MURDER.
Philadelphia, April 0.-John Robinson,
colored, who is also known as William
Buckner, was before Magistrate South al
the Central police station yesterday
morning, charged with the murder OF
Lewis Moore on January - at Pocomoke
City, Va. He WAS arrested "Wednesday
night by Constable W. S. Humphrey nj
the instance of Sheriff Street, Of Middle
sex county, Va. Moore is said to have
been shot to death during Il quarrel.
ABOLISHES THE MAYORS EOARD.
Annapolis, Md, April 9.-The court OF
appeals to day rendered II decision which
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