The Roanoke times. (Roanoke, Va.) 1897-1977, 1897-07-11
- ITHE ROANOKE TIMES SUNDAY. JULY 11
SAL F, NJ
EDWARD JETER, REPORTER.

ho"AkD JETER, REPORTER.
mere Will be regular services to day at
the PresDyteridu and Methodist Churches.
mere WILDE no services at the Eplsco-
pal,as the rector breaches ut Bent Noun
tam. =. IL. Bell will preach In the III orn-
ing ut the Lutheran, and at night mission.
airy services will be held. Rev. Il. J.
ohipman, of Roanoke, will occupy DR..
iayior's pulpit in the morning, DIR. Tay-
ior preaching at the mrrniug hour in the
FIRST baptist Church i'm Roanoke At
night DIR. Taylor will occupy his pulpit
here
Misses Ella and Carrie Preston left
yesterday for visit to friends in Bedford
City.
Mrs. ]. Lee Koiner and little Marie.
VINO nave been visiting the family OF VIM.
.. Moon, ST., left yesterday for their
home at Crimora. Augusta county
Joseph and Clay Chapman are visiting
IN the city, the guests of Mr.. and Mrs.
James Persinger.
Mrs. Minnie Wcodson (nec Oakey) and
two children, Of Norfolk, are the guests
OF Mr.. and Mrs. VIM. S. Oakley, at their
Main street home
Seldom Horner has just returned from
little jaunt to South America. He
shipped in March from the port OF Balti-
more on sailing vessel bound for Rio
Janeiro. 1t took him forty seven days to
make the trip, after which he spent
twenty days III the capital of the new re-
public. enjoying the torrid weather and
gazing on the marble palace OF the guam
dam Dom Pedro. Seldom gives glowing
descriptions of the land of diamonds, but
dlin bring any back with him owing
to the large duty on same. He says that
everything is very cheap over there, es-
pecially "drunks' which ,can he had ut
the moderate price OF one cent. He re.
turned, he said, for the simple reason
that he liked change.
Some excitement was caused Yesterday
by Laura Coleman, colored. who about
~ O'Clock fell heavily TO the floor in
"hitescarver Bros store. 1t was mt first
supposed to he caused by the .heat. but
was afterwards discovered by DR.. WILEY
to be fainting spell, to which she is
subject.
Miss Pearl Gordon, of LAFAYETTE. is Wis.
iting her friend, Miss Myrta Preston.
wag once remarked that Farmers
make corn, corn makes Ticker aad Ticker
makes Democrats" Ii this be true there
VIII he short crop of Democrats around
mere this fall, rs the corn from present
ind 'cations will fail to materialiZc. But
then this is an off year anyway and be-
sides, there are Others
Robert Foutz and Charles Robinson
had n lively scrapping match Friday even
ing near the old freight depot the facts
concerning which are still being investi.
gated by the mayor and his CORPS of AS.
sistants.
The friends of Mrs. Foley, of New Or
leans, will learn with pleasure That she
and her daughter, Miss Gussie, will pass
through Salem Tuesday Ell route TO the
Ronnoke Red Sulphur Springs, where they
will spend the summer.
The following article is n contribution
to the Salem column OF The Times from
the pen of the only original Capt. T.. l..
Abbott, with headquarters near the old
freight depot:
1--WE the citizens inhabiting that por-
ton of the town lying south of the Nor
folk and Western railroad, in convention
assembled in the public street. at 7:l0 ID.
III. July 8, 1897, decided to secede from
the city of Salem, peaceably if possible,
but If not, then we declare war to the
knife-nn eye for IN eye and tooth for n
tooth. The seeded territory commences
ut Dry Branch near the old electric light
plant. running on the south side of the
railroad to the overhead bridge near the
lane to the bridge over Roanoke river
near the Southern carriage factory, thence
along the northern banks of the river in
westerly direction to Dry Branch.
thence along Dry Branch to the starting
point near the light house, to be forever
known rs the Give Points, We pray
the Hon. mayor and his cabinet will allow
us to go out unmolested. We will con.
tinue TO trade with our mother city. Sa-
lem, and sister city, Roanoke, as the
newly passed tariff is so high as TO pre-
vent lis from trading across the water
with the foreign counties of Franklin and
Floyd"
Through Professor Atwood, of the V.
T. l., j. a. Strickler, of this place, has
been appointed deputy inspector of fruit
trees for this section, with the view to
discover, If possible, the location and oper-
atoms of what is known us the San Jose
scale. We learn that IL good many of
these scale insects have been located at
Salen., Big Hill, Bent Mountain, Cave
Spring and Hollins Institute, mt which
latter place one gentleman will loose ten
thousand peach trees. The insect is said
to tie prolific and deadly, having largely
increased since first discovered in this
locality Ii seems that its ravagcs are as
yet unchecked by any application yet dis
covered for its destruction. 1t is I'm
enemy of the growing fruit trees, whose
habits and modes of propagation is IA Sc
riois problem for the farmer and fruit
grower of the future, and unless eradi.
Gated by prompt measures pi omiscs to
destroy the labor"-of many years. Pro-
lessor Atwood will he in Salem on the
10Th and we shall take occasion to secure
facts concerning the deadly insect for
another article which will be published
in The Times.