The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1901-11-19
GOOD BUSINESS
IN PETERSBURG.
Done BY Dr.. N. W. Tracy for the
Temperance League.
LARGE CROWDS HEAR HIM
An Admission Fee Charged on Sunday
for the First Time in th: History OF
the city-hie!hodist suaday.sehoo!s'
QuarterIy siectins.
LARGE CROWDS HEAR HIM
Especial Dispatch to The rinc,.)

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PETERSBURG, VA. Nov. 1S.--Dr. N.
". Tracy, Of Kentucky. who has been
delivering q series of lectures In Peers
burg in the interest of the Temperance
League, closed his ten-days' engage
ulenI at the Academy last night. Crowds
have attended his lectures throughout
the week. Many evenings scores have
been turned away from The academy.
where stanclng-room was fully taxed
DR.. Tracy has done q profitable business
in Petersburg. The door receipts last
night amounted 10 more than S9u0, ana
this is the fIrst time in the history OF Pc
tersburg that an admission fee has ever
been charged to any service, entertain
ment, lecture or anything on sunday.
In the afternoon DR.. Tracy sold sixty
two of his books for 81 each. Thus from
his meeting yesterday lie received s262.
Whether DR.. Tracy has done any good
In Petersburg remains to DE seen. ana
can doubtless be better known after
few weeks have passed.
METHODIST SUNDAY-SCHOOLS
The Methodist Sunday-scnoo,s held
their quarterly meeting a Hign-Street
L.lurch yesterday afternoon. After an
interesting programme, consisting of mu-
sic. recitations and addresses. repu. :.
were reaG, showing the average attend
ance each Sunday to be 1,lS6. a per cent
age of 49, Two hundred and ten dollars
were collected for the Sunday-schooIs
during the quarter.
The Office of the Blue Ridge Cotton
Mill was slightly damaged by fire yester-
day afternoon.
Captain Antrobus Bond who su-.ered a
stroke of paralysis last Saturday,. Is bet
ter, though he is still critically I'll.
Mr.. R. T. Stone, Sr., IS III at his home,
on Wythe Street.
The Red Men of Petersburg. have ar
ranged for an enjoyable time at a smoker
tomorrow night.
FREQUENT OFFENDER.
Hessis Walker, a negro. stole q pocket
book containing 50. from James ftose.
another negro. Saturday night. Walker
has been sent on to the Hastings Court
for trial. He has served already several
terms of Imprisonment.
William Be xnan (colore6) will be tried
wednesday for cutting his wife yester-
day afternoon.
The Richmond High School football
team will play the Petersburg Athletic
team in this city next Thursday after
noon.
The funeral Of the late Rev. W. t.
White took place yesterday afternoon
from his residence on Jefferson Street.
Misses Fannie and Julia Budd. Mrs.
Nirgie Campbell, Mrs w. +. SPotSWooU
and daughter, Miss Katherine Spots
wood; Lieut.. Harvey Plummer and.
Messrs James Cuthbert. S. W. Budd. r.
a Martin. Jr, W. l. thinner. Jr., and
Bartlett Roper. Jr.. left this moring for
New Castle Del. to attend the wedding
of Mr.. William Budd and Miss Virginia
Cooper. which will take place tomorrow
evening.
FINGER MASHED.
One Of the workmen on the new build
ing being erected for MI. John Hanra ham
on Sycamore Street had one of the fing-
gers on his left hand badly mashed this
morning.
The annual meeting of the medical So
cety of the city will be held this week.
and arrangements are now being made
for the banquet.
Mrs. E. Q. Patterson will entertain
her friends tomorrow evening.
Mr.. Brooks Rogers has returned to the
city. after a very successful business
trip to the South.
Miss Mamie Collins. who has beer
studying at Bellevue Hospital New York
is home for a few days. She viii; finish
her course next spring.