{"id":3729,"date":"2016-05-21T17:49:28","date_gmt":"2016-05-21T22:49:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ncgenweb-data.com\/histnews\/?p=3729"},"modified":"2016-05-21T17:49:28","modified_gmt":"2016-05-21T22:49:28","slug":"roper-letter-august-19-1890","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ncgenweb-data.com\/histnews\/roper-letter-august-19-1890\/","title":{"rendered":"Roper Letter (August 19, 1890)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Excerpts from the Roper Letter column:<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><strong>Rev. D.D. BAILEY<\/strong> made a flying trip to Washington last week.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><strong>Dr. H. SNELL<\/strong>, of Washington, was in town Monday on professional business.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><strong>Mr. F.D. ELLIS<\/strong>, who has been visiting relatives in this section for the past month, last Thursday for Avon, Dare county.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><strong>Miss Eva HASSELL,<\/strong> one of Roper&#8217;s belles, is visiting <strong>Miss Nellie CHESSON<\/strong> at Chessonsville. \u00a0Two more charming young ladies are hard to find. <\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><strong>Mr. Tom CHESSON&#8217;s<\/strong> family, who have all been sick with typhoid fever, are, we are glad to say, improving. \u00a0Hope they will soon be entirely well. <\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">There were no services in Hebron church last Sunday, owing to the absence of the junior pastor, who is beginning to learn that he needs an assistant, and when he gets her, he will be likely to Hold(h)er. <\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The meeting at Zion&#8217;s Chapel came to close last Sunday night. \u00a0The meeting resulted in several accessions. \u00a0Two were baptized Sunday morning. <\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The picnic at Zion&#8217;s Chapel last Thursday was a grand success.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Source: Roanoke Beacon, 22\u00a0August\u00a01890.\u00a0<em>Available online at\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.digitalnc.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">digitalnc.org<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Excerpts from the Roper Letter column: Rev. D.D. BAILEY made a flying trip to Washington last week. Dr. H. SNELL, of Washington, was in town Monday on professional business. Mr. F.D. ELLIS, who has been visiting relatives in this section for the past month, last Thursday for Avon, Dare county. Miss Eva HASSELL, one of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1025,77],"tags":[3317,1416,3321,3319,3320,3318],"class_list":["post-3729","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-roanoke-beacon","category-washington","tag-bailey-d-d-rev","tag-chesson-nellie","tag-chesson-tom","tag-ellis-f-d","tag-hassell-eva","tag-snell-h-dr"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4CY8G-Y9","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ncgenweb-data.com\/histnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3729","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ncgenweb-data.com\/histnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ncgenweb-data.com\/histnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncgenweb-data.com\/histnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncgenweb-data.com\/histnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3729"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ncgenweb-data.com\/histnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3729\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3731,"href":"https:\/\/ncgenweb-data.com\/histnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3729\/revisions\/3731"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ncgenweb-data.com\/histnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3729"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncgenweb-data.com\/histnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3729"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncgenweb-data.com\/histnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3729"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}