Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1894-05-13
HAPPENINGS IN FULTON.
Anxious for a Park-Personal Points an"
Rrief Notes.

Captain George Bailey, superintendent
of the rock work on the James-flVet
announcement. who has been quite SICK
with pneumonia, is very much ithpro'eu'
The funeral of Miss Alma Jordan which
took place from Denny-Street Methodls'
Episcopal church last Monday afternoon
at o'clock, was largely attended She
had been sick for long time.
Mr.. James Fall, who has been SICK Tor
the past month at the residence Oh MS
bro,her-in-law, Mr.. T. J. Enrlght' Is I'M
proving slowly ,,,a
The Notwithstanding Richmond Is laid
IN for repairs. The crew We're trans
ferred TO the dredge Admiral Newport
and are at work near the oiu-Doi''''''o"
dock. 49,,
The Chesapeake and Ohio railway have
nut off all Of the telegraph operators
AZ Fort Lee Station, II is said on ac-
count of the coal-miners' strike on the
western end Of the road.
Mrs. Mccain, OF Baltimore, Md, VINO
has been visiting her mother Mrs. Shee-
han. on Sixth street, returned nome ga
turday.
The crowds that flock to the river-bank
these warm evenings have reason 10
thank Captain John 4. Curtis, contractor
ON lanes river for the tiinberS when
have been placed there. and which have
been improvised into seats. They think,
to the contrary. about the committee on
Grounds and Buildings, who have the
Fulton Park In hand, and who seem to
have forgotten all about us since the
election. The money that was appro-
priated for the other parks would nave
bought us n good site for one and fur
nishcd work also to the unemployed.
The many friends OF Mr.. Peter Marian
will be sorry to learn that he Is quite
sick in the hospital at the Soldiers Home.
Mr.. Marian Is quite old, probably ~
years of age and for many years carried
on n dairy down here He would be glad
70 see any OF his friends. out at the
home.
Miss Annie Bagley has been quite sick
at her residence on Louisiana street
A small boy was run over by wagon
on Louisiana avenue Tuesday and sus-
tained a fracture OF his collar-bOne.
The condition OF Rev. Dr. Whitfield. OF
the Fulton Baptist church, Is less favor
able this week. The revival at his church
under Rev. W. p. Hines continues with
great interest
went ont TO lakewood on Memoral-Day.
Most of the manufactures and shops
gave a half holiday.
Colonel Thomas Mcmahon, whose death
last week was noted in the Dispatch. was
the largest stakeholder in the Virginia
and North Carolina Wheel Company His
many employees and friends down here
greatly deplore his death, and earnestly
hope that the plant will not be removed
from this place.
Mrs. Harvey Stran. OF No. 20S west
Marshall street. is visiting Mrs. Pearl
Myers. on Williamsburg avenue.
Captain John Lamb. OF East Lawn
Fulton. is In Greenville, y. c.. on bust
ness.
Mr.. w. T. Creekmur left Friday for
Washington on business.
Mr.. w. T. Hoover, OF the Peoples
Drugstore, his gone TO jamestown, Va.
on visit
Mr.. ID. c. Kennedy OF Blackstone. Va.
has recently moved just below Fulton.
He Is engaged with Baldwin Brown,
hardware dealers.
The old Philadelphia steamer Ashland,
which has been remodelled and made into
merchandise barge. is at the docks at
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