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Newspaper
Salem Times Register
Location
Salem, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Jun 29, 1900
Page
2
The piece notes Roanoke’s carnival crowds and vigilant police, mentions the navy naming a battleship Virginia, and comments on Africa Asia and China. It discusses a proposed constitutional convention with Hon. Allen Watts as a potential delegate and critiques Republican history and McKinley. It covers Theodore Roosevelt's Oklahoma trip and praises Mayor J P Woods for his public service.
The first page presents the complete list of premiums offered by Roanoke business leaders as carnival inducements with the securing terms. The carnival runs from next Monday through the week, aiming to boost attendance and local commerce.
Mr. W. P. Gunn former Superintendent of Radford Schools was exonerated by the State Board of Education on charges from months ago. The board found the money received to cover travel and expenses for attending a Richmond hearing and advising on textbooks did not constitute improper payments. Friends in the area express relief at his full exoneration.
Mr Marshall Gregory former chief clerk at the Lexington Hotel in Richmond is held at police headquarters at the request of Mrs Atkinson proprietor to await examination of accounts alleged to be short about three hundred dollars He was discharged from his position on Friday.
The Baltimore Sun reports that at Philadelphia the Republican National Convention nominated McKinley for a second term with Roosevelt as vice president. It argues the process showed Hanna Platt and Quay dictating policy and labels Roosevelt a mere figurehead tied to McKinleyism and Hannaism, warning against Imperialist ties and party bosses.
In Canton Li Hung Chang says he will travel to Pekin on June 27 under orders to suppress the Boxers and seek peace with the powers. He calls the Boxers rabble led astray by fanaticism and anti Christian feeling, faults native Christian leaders, and argues the Empress was misled. He plans to decapitate Boxer leaders and send followers home as a path to peace.
Professor A M Hughblett once head of Randolph Macon Academy Bedford City hid a 10000 shortage in accounts. Now in California after two years, he has taught in San Francisco and may take a Mississippi school post, with wife and child in Petersburg. His father in law covered the shortage.
London reports that in the Commons Sir Ellis Ashmead-Bart lett pressed if Britain would arrange with Japan to send an immediate land force to China. A. J. Balfour said negotiations should not be outlined but welcomed any power capable of rapid action to quell disturbances in China.
At a June 1900 meeting Taylor Lodge No 25 A F and A M adopted resolutions mourning D G Shanks known as the father of Masonry He had reached the thirty second degree and the lodge pledged to honor his memory extend sympathy to his family and request publication of the proceedings
Misses Mamie and Nettie Beamer visit aunt Mrs Elia Givens in Roanoke on their return from Shawsville. Mrs C N Donnahoe returns from East Radford. J Jessie and Georgie Wilson visit their father at East Radford. John Goff, former resident, works at N W in Binefled and visits old friends. J J Mangus of Bluefield visits relatives. Glenna Yeatman returns from Asheville after two years schooling. Major Borden and wife of Bluefield visit Donnahoe. Barney Owens from Haran visits sister Mrs J L Henderson. Mr W A Francis questions, but Jas 3 Yeatman’s census list reveals more. Cedar Grove church freshly painted, contrasting with old log church. Prolonged wet weather risks wheat crop unless dry spells return.
New York report says Kings County will ride Lackawanna trains to Kansas City two hours ahead of Tammany, which will travel via the New York Central line, as the two Democratic delegations head for the national convention.
Seashore trips offered by Norfolk and Western and Pennsylvania railways run via Hagerstown and Harrisburg to Atlantic City Cape May Ocean City Sea Isle City Avalon Anglesea Wildwood and Holly Beach New Jersey. Tickets on sale July 1 and August 2 and 16 for seventeen day validity with a ten day stopover in Philadelphia if tickets and arrival dates are deposited at Broad Street Station. Through Pullman Sleeper from Knoxville via Roanoke to Philadelphia and New York plus a Daylight Shenandoah Valley ride. For rates contact a local agent or W B Bevint G P L A Roanoke Virginia.
The Roanoke World notes the Baltimore Dental Association has opened an office in the Crowle Building. It highlights daily visitors, low prices, and high quality, claiming significant savings and guaranteed satisfaction. Services include 22 karat fold crowns for 5, best sets of teeth for 4 with ten year guarantee, cold fillings from 1, other fillings 50 cents, bridge work 6 per tooth, and vitalized air for painless extraction.
A new threshing machine and engine owner advertises first class threshing services. Jack Johnston of Balem Virginia offers quick wheat threshing to farmers seeking efficient processing.
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