The Roanoke times. (Roanoke, Va.) 1897-1977, 1897-08-27
SAL E. NJ
EDWARD JETER. REPORTER.

c. C.. Minor and wife, of Bristol, Tenn,
who have been visiting ut Captain Brand
on Catawba, spent the day yesterday at
w. Lee Brands, en- route home.
Mrs VIM. Peel returned yesterday to
Elliston.
The young people of Grace Methodist
Church. of Roanoke, enjoyed themselves
at a picnic yesterday on the Lake Spring
grounds. There is no more beautiful
spot in Virginia for a picnic than this
site of the old Lake Spring Hotel, and it
is strange that N ore gatherings of a sim
liar kind are not held beneath the
friendly shade of these old trees and by
the lovely lakes.
Lewis Langhorne left yesterday to visit
"Black HILL the hospitable home of Mr..
Feter Saunders in Franklin county.
Attorney VIM. Montgomery and father
have returned from Washington Pa,
and are registered at Hotel Duval. We
learn that they will make Salem their
future home They have many friends
here who welcome them back.
Mrs. Zoll, of Norfolk, is visiting the
Misses jamie and Jennie Johnston.
J. P. Saul and family have closed their
home for the present, and gone on Il
camping expedition to the Cool Alum
Springs.
l.. f. Ballard, of Baltimore, and Mrs.
A. S. Martin, of Norfolk, are visiting at
the home of Maj. w. w. Ballard.
Michael E. Ridgeway, of Piney Grove,
near Cave Spring, the 0year- old son of
Basil Rdgeway. who recently shot James
Smthers, n full account of which was
given to the readers of The Times, was
on Tuesday adjudged to be insane by
Justices Richardson, Leslie and Haley,
and. is at present confined in the county
jail from which place me will he taken
to the asylum at Marion. After the
Smithers- Ridgeway shooting affair he
became violent and dangerous and his
case ct first puzzled the authorities IL
was discovered by the commission that
his mind was unbalanced. Father and
son are now in the same jail, one waiting
the result of the injury of Smithers. the
other awaiting the transportation to Il
1unatic asylum and all on account OF
dispute over n little spring CT mountain
water.
S. D. McCommon, former secretary and
treasurer of the Salem Improvement
Company, has accepted the position of
secretary and treasurer of the Peel Spint
Coal Company with headquarters at
Charleston, w. Va.
L. F. Hawkins and Walter Humphreys
have gone to Craig county to attend the
Allegheny district conference of the
Christian Church, now in session.
The third annual conference of the Ep-
worth Leagues of this (Roanoke) district,
will be held in the Methodist Church at
Vinton next Thursday and Friday, Sep
TENDER . and 3. The Salem League on
Monday night elected the following to
represent it: Observation-Disclosures. J L.
Stevens, +. II. Chalmers, E. S. Barnitz,
f. M. Fitzgerald and Misses Maggie Ball,
Emma Armstrong and Emma Boon.
observation-disclosures. j. G. Fitzgerald, w.
NJ. Barnitz, and Misses Janet Ferguson,
ELLA Francis, Eta DENT, Mary Lieon and
Jennie Barnitz. The secretary of the
NiEton Epworth League requests the
Times to publish the following notice:
"LeaGues expecting to send delegates to
the Epworth League district conference,
which convenes at Vinton, Va, Septem-
Der and 3. will please notify us as soon
as possible. Miss Mamie Hunter, Secre-
tary Vinton pworth League, Vinton,
Va"