The Roanoke times. (Roanoke, Va.) 1897-1977, 1897-05-14
SALEM news
EDWARD JErER, REPORTER.

The horse recently stolen from the sta
BILE OF Judge King, OF Roanoke, and ad-
vertised for in Thursdays Times, was to-
day found by Constable Il, r. Carter in
West Salem, and returned to the owner.
Eppie Moore, of Bradshaw's Creek, in
this county, lost two valuable horses on
Tuesday and has another one very sick at
this time. 1t is supposed that some glass
had been accidentally ground in the chop
at McDonald's mills, of which they ate,
with the above result.
This is the most beautiful time of the
year in the mountains of Southwest Vir-
ginia. The leaves on the trees..are almost
fully grown; the birds are building and
telling their loves in music; the insect
queens of spring are flashing their jeweled
wings in the sunlight; the red clover
blossoms and the bloom on the locust
trees fill the air with delicious and
dreamy fragrance and nature, terminated
and kissed into life by the showers and
warm winds, wears her most beautiful
colors. Fruit will be plentiful this year
and the growing grain gives promise of
bountiful harvest.
Chas. +. Farmer and his attorney, Mr.
Penn, of Saltville, were in the city yester-
day looking after their interests in the
machinery at the Southern Carrage
-
this mouth.
The board Of supervisors of Roanoke
county will meet in extra session Monday.
May II, at 10 O'Clock, in the forenoon
Henry Finke, of Richmond, n brother
of our townsman, j. y. Finkc is on n
visit to the latter at his pleasant home on
Union street.
Il. II. Forsythe has been engaged to
conduct the Ponce de Leon bar in Roa-
noke city, and left yesterday evening to
take charge OF the business. Tom has
many friends in Salem who will no doubt
remember him when they wish any of
the "rosy." al
j. w. Hypes and his singer, Newt.
Fisher, have returned from South Bos-
ton, where Mr.. Hypes has been conduct
ing religious meeting
The engagement of the V. P. l. bows
for Il game of baseball with the Roanoke
College team Friday afternoon has been
cancelled by the former.
Miss Lottie Griffin, of Bedford City,
who has been ON visit to her grand
mother and the family of w. b. Bowles,
returned to her home Wednesday.
The following appeared in Thursdays
Times:
1.-The cast that presented Appropriations
bers of the Roanoke Light Infantry were
invited by the Roanoke College Athletic
Association to attend their performance
of New Market y good many Of the
ladies and gentlemen accepted the invita-
ton, but it appears that some of the stu
dents of that institution so forget the
principles of even primitive propriety as
TO throw water from the upper story
windows on some of the ladies as we'll as
gentlemen who had accepted their invita-
ton ami certainly expected to be courte-
ously treated"
Apropos to the sbove j. w. Jones,
president of the Roanoke College Athletic
Association, makes the following state
ment:
To the Editor of The Times: 1t was
with the deepest regret tha5 we heard of
the "discourteous treatment towards the
"AppomattoX" cast, spoken of in your
paper of the 18th inst. 1t is source of
regret to every college student that such |
acts cannot be eliminated |
from college life, and those who commit |
them hooted out of the institution The |
caste of "New Market" as we'll as the |
students of the college, sincerely regret |
the unsentlemanly act and have done |
their best to find the guilty party that he |
might suffer the Notwithstanding en-
pulsion. The members of the Athletic
Association have rendered an APOLOGY to