The Roanoke times. (Roanoke, Va.) 1897-1977, 1897-06-11
SAL Z. vi.
EDWARD JErER. REPORTER.

Miss Lizzie Hal, who has been visiting
Miss Essie Wells, left--yesterday for her
home ut Blacksburg
Misses Nora Bigler and Ethel Oben-
chain, of Richmond. are visiting in che
city, the guests of the Misses Shipman ut
their home on Broad street.
Miss Gordon Bransford, who has been
quite sick at her home on Maine street
Tor several days, is slowly conyalescing
j. S. Hall and Charles Renick. of Gallo.
way Franklin county, were in Salem
Wednesday on business.
Robert b. Wilson was in the city yes
terday ell route to the Yellow Sulphur
| Springs, where he goes to assume the du-
ties Of his former.position as clerk at this
hosiery.
Jno. C. HefIiin, formerly in the employ
of Enock Bros, Roanoke, Va, has been
rendered the position of superinte ntleut
of the pant factory. an adjunct of the
Holstein wooden mills, in the place of
Leon A. Palmer, resigned. Mr.. Hefflin
is now at the mill and will take charge
permanently about the first of July. at
which time Mr.. Palmer will leave for his
future home in Lynchburg.
There will be meeting this afternoon
building ut 2:30 o'clock to consider the
election OF teachers for the coming school
| year.
The ladies' of the Methodist Church will
| sell ice cream aud cake ut the chapel
Monday and Tuesday nights, the proceeds
| to be devoted to the church. 1t is TO be
hoped that they will be literally patron.
lied.
| a delightful, dance was given Wedncs-
day night at the elegant home of Mr.. and
Mrs. Geo. W.. Logan in West Salem in
honor of the return of their daughter,
Miss Louise, who for the past session has
been attending Mrs. Stuart's school at
Staunton. Sweets were handed and
charming evening spent by all. The fol.
lowing young ladies and gentlemen were
present: Misses Turner, Taylor. NJ. Lo
gan, l.. Logan, S. Logan, McRae, Cabell
Armstrong, Greer, NJ. Wiley, G. Wiley,
HUBBARD, Wherry, Cannon, Anderson,
Evans, Margie Logan, NJ. White, J.
White. j. .Campell, Bonsell, II. Hender-
son and r. Henderson. Messrs Sturde-
want, Taylor, Purnell, R. Altizer, NJ. AL
tizer, j. Logan, Cabell, Ayres, Hawkins,
Crowle, Robinson, Deyerle, Mayo, Smith,
Oliver, G. Armstrong, W. Arms trong,
Penick, Evans and j. White.
w. II. Bundick, State temperance lee
| Suh-ts ueliNeISU Il lOrClDle dQureSS w eu-
nesday night in the Ammen '6s Hawkins
store room on Main street. "a fairly good
crowd attended. it goes without saying
that an enormous quantity of alcoholic
beverage is yearly consumed by the peo-
pie of the United States, in many in
stances to their ruin. But there is
another evil which of late has assumed
gigantic proportions in this country.
namely, the use of the cigarette, against
which no orators lift their silver tongues;
a habit which is alarmingly on the in
crease, and which is doing more to inca
pacitate and kill American youths than
strong drink. Why is it that while tenn
perance sorators are damning the use and
sale of liquor that no voice is ever raised
to check the sale and use of the insidious
cigarette. Nearly every paper we pick
up contains accounts of deaths from the
deadly cigarette, or, what is worse, lives
wrecked and memory and reason de-
throned from their constant use. Yet in
this so-called phIlanthropic and Christian
age men and women stand idly by and
daily gaze at half-nude and voluptuous
pictures that adorn- the walls of nearly
every store; pictures intended to advertise
the poison, against the law of luorals and
against the laws of the State. 1t is high
time that Virginia lawmakers, like those
of Tennessee, put stop to the importa-
ton and sale of these deadly things
known as "coffin nails" out of which the
American Tobacco Company and other
large combinations are making millions
ut the. expense of Americas brightest
Young men, many Of whom before they
are 30 years of age are shriyelled and half
imbecile.