The Roanoke times. (Roanoke, Va.) 1897-1977, 1897-08-04
SAL T. M
EDWARD JETER. REPORTER.

". w. Patterson, of Charleston, W.
va, stopped for day this week Co see
Mrs. huthrauG and family, he being
nephew OF Mrs Ruthrauff.
Miss Ball, of New. York, who has been
visiting the family OF her uncle, j. NJ.
smith, nc their home on Broad street. left
yesterday for a visit to B,uefield, from
when place she will visit her old home
York.
On Tuesday might thieves ente1ed the
premises Of Judge w. w. Moffett, near
tne baptist Orphanage, and stole there
from forty chickens, twenty of which
were thoroughbred brown leghorns The
Judge, 1t seems, was keeping these chick
ems LOT friends who would visit him dur
Ing the Baptist convention which con-
venes here on the 10th. But some men
propose and other men dispose. Espe-
clally is this true in the summer season
OF excursions and picnics. which cannot be
iun without the favorite fowl. McKin-
ley prosperity may also have something
to DO with the uncertain tenure of the
Irish potato the cabbage head, and the
feathered denizens of the barn yard.
f. Brugh and Miss Fannie Brugh, of
Brugh's Mill, Botetourt county. spent
the day ut the home of j. p. Saul.
Mr.. Fendley Dickinson, of Richmond,
anu Charles Friend, of Manchester, are
stopping at Capt. e. c. Tompkins'.
Yesterday was the first day of the ex-
animation of white teachers at the graded
school building. There are about seventy
five taking the examinations.
Rev. Jno. NJ. Harlowe, of Covington,
Tenn, is visiting old friends and ac-
quaintances here.
Mrs. VIM. f. Brown, of East Main
street, leaves this morning for visit to
her mother Mt Columbia, Tenn.
Rev. A. p. Boude, of Lexington, Va,
who has been stopping at Mrs u. Boon's,
left yesterday MOI ming for district con-
panied by Rev. J. E Armstrong and wife,
his son and wife and Miss Tucker, of
Baltimore, who is religious worker of
note. Before returning they expect to
spend day at the famous Mountain
Lake.
r. +. Cannaday, OF Virginia avenue, re.
turned Saturday from a visit through the
Southwe est.
Mrs. r. +. C2nnaday and her daughter,
Mary, leave this morning for a months
visit to relatives ut Bent Mountain.
Misses Abbey Wright, of Chamblss-
burg, Bedford county, and Mary Willis,
of Floyd Court House, are here taking the
graded school examination. They are
Stopping with the family of j. p. Saul on
the Boulevard.
DIR. Thomas Henry Byron billiard, after
week. visit to friends and acc uaint-
ances here, left yesterday at midday for
his adopted home in Campbell county.
S. N. White, who has for several days
been confined tc his room by sickness, is
rapidly convalescing.
j. II. Baer left to-day for a trip through
Maryland and Pennsylvania in the in
terest of his barrel and stave factory, now
operated at Glenvar
+. VI. Worden, general manager of the
Holster Woolen Mills, returned Mo- day
from an extended trip in the interest of
the mills.
Ernest Whitesell, after a short visit TO
his parents here, will return to-day to
his nome In Bluefield. His brother, j.
+. Whitesell, who has also been on visit
to his Salem home, will return to-mor-
row to Rockville, Indiana, where he has
position.
Carroll st. John, of Rocky Mount, is
visiting his young friend, Frank Wiley,
at the home Of Mayor Younger.
There will be grand favor german at
the Roanoke Red Sulphur Springs Mon.
day night next. 1t will be given by
james w. Chapman in honor of guests and
friends. AS there are now more than
one hundred people ut tho Red Sulphur,
together with couples from Salem and
Roanoke, it will probably be very Ia lgely
attended.
Frank Ninnger and family will on next
Thursday move to Bristol, Tenn, where
they will in the future reside. Mr..
Nininger was recently assigned perma-
nent run from Bristol to Norfolk by the
Southern Express Company, and the
change from Salem to Bristol will enable
him to see more of his family. But for
that fact they VIC uld remain here. The
best wishes of their friends go with them
in their new home