Salem Public Schools Close
Salem public schools closed after commencement exercises at the Tabernacle on the Boulevard. Alice Evelyn Burks won the gold medal in the recitation contest. diplomas were awarded to graduates including Ethel Carter and Pearl Bennett, with honors for several pupils and a list of promotions across classes.
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Salem Graded and High Schools
Tabernacle
Boulegvard
Forrest Miller
Francesco
Cora Carper
Ethel Rose
Alice Evelyn Burks
The
Woods
Pearl True
Lenna Watters
Louise Pulliam
Jennie McNeal
Nacquittes
LeRoy Gresham
Presbyterian Church
Ethel Carter
Hallowed Ground
May Constance Stearnes
Happy Valley
Alfreda Marion Peel
Cook
P. Grady Garrett
Minnie Lines, Brown
Elsie Brown Denit
Mary Mildred Deverle
Claudie Griffin
Elizabeth Nelson Hood
Alfred
Marion Peel
Sarah Kathleen’ S Shelor
Miss Pearl Bennett
T. H. Cooper
Lucy T. Jones
Morehead
Irene Foutz
C. L. Corbitt
Times-Register and Sentinels
Charleton Wood
Gresham
J. A. Thomason
Clara Armstrong
G. G. Peery
J. R. Woods
Frances Wade
Prof. Peery
Supt. Cook
Virgie Goodwin
Essie Hawkins
Addie Leighton
Melanie Linkenhaker
Mary Musser
John Logan
Carleton Penn
Charlie Switzer
Roberta Andrew
Lois Agnew
Lula Bradley
Lulu Brown
Alice Burks
Sadie Galloway
Leo Donit
Stuart Johnson
Howard Lambert
Brooks Lambert
Lou Carlisle
Doraliaga
Berta McConkey
Betsey McConkey
Sarah Moffett
Grace
Ethel Whitescarver
Lizzie Lowman
Hgh
Hazel Brown
Annie Calloway
Lois Pedizo
Margaret Penn
Lily Wilson
India Killian
Frances Killian
Marion Thomason
Bernice Agnew
Kathrine Yance
Dorcas Martin
Fitzhugh Shelor
Nancy Shelor
Mary Moore
Lawrence Duncan
Karl Johnston
Miller Bushnell
Rives Gravely
Ernest Haley
Clarence Hartless
Edward Kutler
George Moyer
David Plaine
Howard Starkey
Effie Bradley
Susie Calloway
Virginia Martin
Nellie Gwynne
Julia Price
Annie Robinson
Mamie Williams
Aminee Woods
Francis Flanagan
Russell Graham
Jas. Griffin
Walter Mairslip
Rush Lambert
David McClung
Harry Phiegar
William Pretzman
Wallace Walker
Charlton Wood
Ivan Vance
Max Bowers
Andrew Chapman
Aurelius Cochran
Walter Ehrman
Bernard Hartless
Charlie LeFew
Paul Oakey
Henry Powell
Byron Wilson
Russell Yarbrough
Marion Brand
Margaretta Bushnell
Maude Butler
Fdna Coon
Elizabeth Cooper
Georgie Deverle
Ruth Garrett
Gay Goodwin
Amelia Harveycutter
Lucile Linkenhaker
May Townes
Beatrice Woods
Dorothy Whitescarver
Paul Day
Guy Fields
Allen Haley
Robah Kerner
Terry Martin
Crawford Sheppard
Annie Austin
Elizabeth Goldsmith
Ada Jlash
Virgie James
Florence Kniple
Bunah LeFew
Annie Lewis
Alice Magee
Christine McChing
Irene Mee- Reynolds
Nellie Reid
Lucy Rice
Irene Frier
Ruth Gravely
Constance Goodwin
Margaret Tenderson
Mary McConkey
Mabel Mitchell
Lottie Webber
Jessie Martin
William Garrett
Seward Allen
Irvine Beard
Courtney Carter
James Goodwin
Victor Habel
Maurice Moss
Everette Rice
Rob Hurt
Walter Echols
Luther Cronk
Leonard Shank
May Garst
Clara Moore
Helen Martin
Lena Goldsmith
Clara Taliferro
Armand Hundley
Joe Logan
Willie Fads
James Rusmissel
Marvin Beard
Churchill Robinson
Harry Johnston
George Peel
Monument Unveiling for Roanoke County Confederate Soldiers
Roanoke County to unveil a 28 foot Barre granite memorial to Confederate soldiers with a Friday arrival by Governor Claude A Swanson. Southern Cross Chapter Daughters of the Confederacy and Salem groups coordinate a program including music, prayers, speeches by Major W W Ballard and Hon Claude Swanson, and a Dixie finale. Ladies provide lunch for veterans and raise funds via Tag Day to cover the balance and unveiling expenses.
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Roanoke County
Claude A. Swanson
Southern Cross Chapter
U. D.C
William Watts
Roanoke
Daughters of the Confederacy
Roanoke Light Infantry Blues
Salem Band
LeRoy Gresham
W. W. Ballard
Roanoke College
W. Griffin
Deaend
Virginia Division of Daughters of the Confederacy
Daughters of the Confederacy of
Salem
Puck observes post office overload with pictur' postcards
The drummer stares in astonishment at Splashville post office where men groan over the flood of pictur' postcards. The postmaster mutters that ten assistants are needed to read them before matting time.
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Splashville
John Paul Jones
Puck
Southern Cross Chapters Meet at Courthouse and Lunch
The Southern Cross Chapters call a 6 30 p m Thursday courthouse meeting for all members with a Friday luncheon for veterans from 11 to 1 Serving in Mrs Al Huff's Main street storeroom, merchants asked to close Friday during exercises. Rosalynd Roberts Evans presides.
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Southern Cross
Camden Iron Works Lands Large Jail Contract
Mr. O D Oakey has returned from Wentworth North Carolina where he won the contract for erecting a large jail at a price of $20000. He faced stiff competition from leading jail builders of the north and is to be congratulated on securing the contract.
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O. D. Oakey
Wentworth
N. C
Oakey
North
Mr H Cooper to Head Large Roanoke Bank
Roanoke financiers and T H Cooper of Salem consolidate the American Savings Bank of Roanoke into a national bank with 500 000 capital. Cooper to serve as president as Washington and West Virginia investors back the deal. The plan remains confidential pending final maturation. The note ends with a sharp editorial jab about widows over 30 cent men.
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Mr. H. Cooper
Roanoke Bank
Roanoke
Washington
West Virginia
T. H. Cooper
Salem
American Savings Bank
Southwest
Cooper
A Tribute To Our Hero Dead
Poem venerates fallen heroes with floral imagery and reverent lines. It urges laying flowers, honoring mothers, spouses, siblings, and lovers, while recalling distant graves and silent fields where freedom’s patriots rest. The piece laments loss and keeps memory alive through imagery of roses, lilies, and violets.
Smooth Sailing for Insurgents in Roosevelt Return Era
New York May 80 Insurgent members of Congress see fair weather ahead for Republicans in the House and Senate as Theodore Roosevelt plans two speeches after a two month quiet period. Gifford Pinchot arrives upbeat in New York signaling shifting mood, while Roosevelt remains well informed and poised to address the intra party clash with measured remarks.
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New York
Congress
Theodore Roosevelt
United States
Gifford Pinchot
House
Senate
Pinchot
White Star
Colonel Roosevelt
Roosevelt
Constantinople
Taft
Conservation Congress
St. Paul
Minn
Kansas
Victor Murdock
William Allen White
Col. Roosevelt
Europe
Absent Sons of Roanoke County feature request
Roanoke County editorial invites readers who left the area in the last 45 years to respond for a feature. The piece reprints notes from the Baltimore Sun about Pastor J. William McCauley and the Madison Avenue Evangelical Lutheran reception, plus rosters of Roanoke natives abroad. It lists L. G. Toney in Northfork W Va, Captain Griffin aboard the Rhode Island, J. O. B. Palmer in El Paso, W. H. Shuff in Coopers West Virginia, Major D. C. Shanks at Ft. Logan, and Marshall F. Gravely in South Carolina, ending with an ad for Salem’s local paper.
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Roanoke County
Baltimore Sun
Evangelical Lutheran Church of the Incarnation
Madison Avenue
North Avenue
J. William McCauley
McCauley
Salem
Roanoke College
St. Paul's Church
Cumberland
L. G. Toney
Duncans & Compston
Northfork
Wingfield Griffin
Rhode Island
Brooklyn Navy Yard
Hampton Roads
J. O. B. Palmer
J. W. Palmer
el Paso
Texas
W. H. Shuff
Mill Creek Coal and Coke Co
Coopers
W. Va
D. C. Shanks
United States Army
Ft. Logan
Colorado
Marshall F. Gravely
American Tobacco Company
South Carolina
Columbia
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