• “An early morning fireplace Sunday induced harm within the hundreds of {dollars} to a constructing on Franklin Highway which homes Woody’s Auto Components, a J.C. Penney Co., Inc. warehouse and three workplace areas. The fireplace apparently began between the ceiling and the roof of Woody’s Auto Components shortly after 1 a.m. Sunday however the reason for the blaze has not been decided.”
• “East Carolina’s shuffle offense combined up Roanoke School’s man-to-man protection and dealt the Maroons an embarrassing 100-68 school basketball loss right here Monday night time.”
• “Declaring that the granting of the request of academics within the metropolis public colleges that they be paid throughout the Christmas holidays or be allowed to proceed instructing via that interval would entail a further expenditure of $12,000 which isn’t out there, the Roanoke College Board at a gathering final night time determined that’s unable to grant the academics’ request, nor does it deem it possible to proceed the college session via the vacations.”
• “With an rising quantity of passenger site visitors, Norfolk and Western passenger trains have begun to imagine a Christmas-like side. Almost all coaches passing via Roanoke yesterday had been crowded with passengers.”
• “The stockholders of the Farmers and Retailers Financial institution, of Blacksburg, just lately chartered with a capital of $50,000, held their first assembly on the public college home Tuesday. The assembly was most enthusiastic and was attended by about eighty farmers, retailers and enterprise males of Blacksburg and Montgomery County.”
