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Local Notes and Socials from Wise County and Roanoke
Town items include visits by Mrs. Sallie Madison of Wise County and Mrs. Charlotte Epps and a restaurant opening on Main Street run by Mr Moses Spurlock. A 950 pound porker, a Rush Run death, marriages and baptisms, and school program details at the Teachers Reading Circle in Vinton are reported with local names and places.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Woodson Beaver
Broad Street
Sallie Madison
Wise County
Charlotte Epps
Jackson
Lexington
Pollard
Linkfield
Wscal Euhrrop
Moses Spurlock
Main Street
Randall Campbell
Robert Jackson
Benj. Wright
Rush Run
West Va
Salem
Christian Valley
Mt. Measant
John Turner
Alexander
Catawba
Hame
John Henderson
Sallie B. Hale
Robin Hale
Keystone State
Bishop Moore
Bethel Church
Henry Lynch
Reading Circle
Vinton
Calvary Baptist Chuarch
Henry Johnson
Conn
J. BR. Reid
Maggie L. Braxton
Bessie Simme
Burman Patterson
Effie Naylor
James W. Brown
Mattie Freeman
Mary Sue Campbell
Alice Lindsey
Mary Scraggs
Sallie Haynes
John Maynard
Estella Hayden
Toussaint