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Newspaper
Salem Times Register
Location
Salem, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Jun 13, 1902
Page
2
The Times-Reoister of Salem Va marks its thirty seventh anniversary on May 30 1902. Local supporters praise its long service to Salem and vicinity noting moral progress and material advancement. Historic congratulations from Harrisonburg and Leesburg press praise its bright, witty and sound reporting and its role in regional growth.
Echoes from our centennial celebration remain as compliments to Salem's hospitality. A visitor praised the town's beauty and kindness, noting the free lunch served to a vast crowd as the finest example of Virginia hospitality. The event was praised as successful and well carried out.
Senator Martin proposes the federal purchase of the Natural Bridge tract to establish a national park. The rugged landscape and the bridge are hailed as among the world’s wonders, promising a premier site for preservation and public enjoyment.
The Petersburg Index Appeal notes Salem Va celebrated its centennial with a luncheon featuring a tree of sandwiches icees and lemonade. Newport News Press prints the item with gibes about Denit, but Salem’s hospitality earns broad praise from visitors. The piece invites Petersburg and Newport News to attend future Salem centennial celebrations.
The piece argues for Col. A. M. Bowman in the Sixth District Congressional nomination, praising his long business and farming background, veteran status, and broad support among merchants laborers and farmers. It frames Bowman as the practical, available choice over rivals Glass Claytor and Lyle amid cautious district voters.
A fire at the St Luke's Society sanitarium on Wabash avenue and Twenty first street destroyed the building once known as Hotel Woodruff. It killed twelve men and one woman and injured about thirty as patients on the fifth floor, many suffering delirium tremens or drug delirium, could not be saved.
The soft coal strike in the Virginia and West Virginia fields has closed most mines and kept workers scarce. Operators and miners refuse concessions, threatening continued business disruption. A campaign to replace strikers is noted, with broad fear over the impact on regional productivity. Bole Agent and paint promotion appear in the text as unrelated advertising.
The convention debated enforcing the new constitution with an oath for Governor, Supreme Court justices, Legislature, and all officers. Judge Berry man Green argued rebellion if officials refuse to recognize it, proposing armed resistance and harsh punishment for dissenters. The body ultimately approved the oath, demanding all officials take it or vacate office.
Last Saturday the Constitutional Convention set up the registration boards for Roanoke County and nearby districts to conduct the first voter registration under the new suffrage clause. Members named include W. G. Wood and G. W. Gish for Big Lick, with others listed for Springs, Balena, and Darnell districts.
The Wytheville Dispatch notes twenty years of Rev Dr Logan’s incumbency at St John’s Episcopal Church Wytheville marked by a parish hall reception. Under his leadership membership grew, the church was enlarged, a rectory bought, a chapel built and a parish house erected, earning townwide esteem.
At a board meeting, Roanoke Bargain House accepted the resignation of manager C Ki Nalls. W R Terrell was elected to fill the vacancy after seventeen years with Watt Hetten and Clay Roanoke department store. Terrell is praised as up to date in dry goods and a popular young man.
In Welch Virginia on June 7 a Republican senatorial convention turned violent with bullets clubs and knives. Col J M Fuller of Wayne county was critically injured at a hotel while about a dozen others suffered serious injuries in the clash between Col J L Caldwell and Hon N B Scott who sought a Senate candidate favorable to their views.
The Salem Vinton Division of the Roanoke Railway and Electric Company announces a fare of ten cents and new weekly weekday and Sunday schedules. Cars leave Roanoke for Salem at 7:20 p m and through to Vinton at listed times, with return trips through Salem and Vinton. Sunday service starts 1:20 p m with reduced cash fare of ten cents between Roanoke, Vinton, and Salem. J. W. Hancock, Gen. Mgr.
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