Monday, November 03, 2008
Looking back: Week of Nov. 3
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Photo courtesy of Ralph W. Foster
William Miles was the superintendent of Roanoke's stables for many years. He moved to Roanoke in 1893 from Concord.
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Archive
1998 (10 years ago)
n "A unique store will open Saturday in downtown Roanoke that will benefit a small village in the African country of Ghana. The Binaba Shop [is] a project of the Deliverance Church Ministries and St. John's Episcopal Church. "
n "Advance Auto Parts, which nearly doubled its size with a recent acquisition, is bringing 175 new jobs to its Roanoke headquarters."
n "B.B. King walked on stage, his tuxedo jacket the color of a new penny, his hair like yesterday's snow. Before Lucille, America's best-known guitar, was even resting on his belly, people were standing and cheering. And when King and Lucille started singing, the audience of 2,156 fell to rapt attention."
n "Goaltender Daniel Berthiaume's nickname is 'Bandit,' but his Roanoke Express teammates made out like bandits Saturday night as they stole a 4-3 East Coast Hockey League victory over visiting Johnstown in a shootout."
1983 (25 years ago)
n "A single-engine airplane ... scooted to a belly landing at Woodrum Field after the pilot forgot to lower the landing gear Wednesday."
n "Virginia Tech brought its season-long football dream closer to reality on Saturday afternoon, but Coach Bill Dooley said he wasn't 'concerning myself with bowl games.' "
1958 (50 years ago)
n "A ... telephone designed especially for the blind has been installed in the Times-World classified advertising department. Chesapeake and Potomac Telephone Co. officials say it is the first in Virginia and possibly the first in the nation."
n "The brand new All Star Bowling Lanes observed its grand opening yesterday, officially endowing Roanoke with the most modern plant of its kind in Virginia."
n "Football players often have to wait several years before even partisans begin referring to them as 'all-time greats' of 'the good old days,' but Virginia Tech's Billy Holsclaw and Carroll Dale are taking a shortcut by rewriting the Gobbler record book."
n "Plans for the next stage of the long-range expansion and improvement program at Woodrum Field are on their way to the New York regional office of the Civil Aeronautics Administration."
n "Big Wayne Gibson scored both touchdowns last night in sparking William Fleming's Colonels to a 14-6 victory over stubborn William Byrd and their first city-county football championship."
1933 (75 years ago)
n "Roanoke's curfew has been silent many years, but like some other old-fashioned styles, it is coming back."
n "The first play to be given in the new William Fleming high school, 'The Old-Fashioned Mother,' will be presented tonight ... by the choir of the Huntington Court Methodist church."
n "Addison High's eleven rose up to smite the strong Lynchburg Seminary team, 7 to 0, on Maher Field yesterday afternoon."
n "On the Catawba valley road, about three miles west of Daleville, its wall crumbling and its once powerful water-wheel in decay are the ruins of another of Botetourt county's numerous ancient mills."
n "A Salem man is possessor of the trunk, reputed to have been the property of John Wilkes Boothe, assassin of Lincoln."
n "By a vote of better than two and one-half to one, Roanoke county yesterday rejected the proposal for an executive form of county government."
n "Two dead persons cast ballots in yesterday's election in Roanoke. Both voted by mail earlier in the campaign and expired before election day."
1908 (100 years ago)
n "Probably never before in the history of Roanoke has a national election created so little excitement as that which will be pulled off today."
n "The new male chorus of the Greene Memorial church made its first appearance at that church Sunday night."
n "The largest crowd ever gathered in Roanoke was that in front of The Times office last evening to read the [election] bulletins as they were received over The Times' wire."
n "In the Police Court yesterday morning there were three artists of the bottle up. When they appeared from their gloomy recesses they presented a sight; $2.50 was the fine for each one."
