The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1902-03-25
A MODERN Mill
IN PETERSBURG ! !; ), !.
Curator System to Be Installed
in Cockade City Flour Mills.
DR.. BATTLE ON ELECTIONS.
He Went for the Primary candidates Of Last
Week With Gloves Off and Hand OF
lron-st. Patrlck's Society Elects
Officers from Buggy.
Especial Dispatch to The Times

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Especial Dispatch to The Times)
PETERSBURG, VA. March 24.-The
Cockade City Flour Mills will begin this
week to make extensive improvements to
their plant in this city. Work will be
done by the Wolfe Company, Of Cham
bcrsburs, Pa. who Will Install the gyrator
system at these mills. which will then
be able to manufacture the highest quali-
~ Of flour. A corn mill with the capac1-
ty of 1000 bushels a day will also be in
stalled in these mills.
Foundation work for the Country Side
Club house. to be built near Ferndale
Park, in Dinwiddie county, Will begin
this week. The house will be built by
Mr.. c. 7. Williamson, contractor OF LIS
city.
The Misses Jones, in Marshall Street.
will give a reception Saturday after
noon and evening in honor of Miss Be
atr:ce Pickncy ones, Of Baltimore. ana
Miss Minnie B. spillrr, OF NVythe.rille
DIR. BATTLES WARM WORDS.
DR.. Battle at the First Baptist Church
last night delivered one of the most sting
ing sermons ever heard IN this city, Sc
verely arraigning incidents and conditions
which existed last Tuesday in Petersburg.
the day Of the Democratic primary IN THIS
city. His subject was The Sin of Brib-
cry" The sermon was delivered by re-
quest Of many prominent citizens. mem
bers of other denominations and in the
large audience that heard the sermon
nearly all the leading candidates voted
for at this primary were present.
The foundation of DR.. Battles sermon
were the words "a wicked man taketh a
gift out of his bosom to pervert the ways
of Judgment The preacher first dis
cussed bribery from the point OF view or
the Bible and. quoting a large number or
mas sages on this evil, showed that brlb-
cry was sin first against God; second,
against man. and third against govern
ment. He was especially severe in de-
nouncing the use of whiskey as a means.
He declared that money might in the end
accomplish good. but that whislley given
to man capable of being bribed was an
unmitgated evil. His arraignment Of the
church member who far from the scene
Of debauch instructed the saloon-keeper
to let whskey flow like water for all will
ing to vote his ticket, was one of the most
scathng ever heard in Petersburg pull
pit.
Under the head of crime against good
Government, he declared it was essentially
anarchistic and in this connection handled
the late primary with unEloved hands. He
spoke of the danger involved in anything
that lowered the moral tone of a COM
mlrnity and said:
I declare in the presence OF men ana
of angels that the scenes enacted IN TINS
city last Tuesday must not be repeated,
if you would preserve the purity or your
homes or live in the favor CT self-rc-
specting men or a righteous God! when
votes are shamelessly sold. as it is cur
rently reported. by the score; when hui
man being is first made drunk, then put
upon stand at auction and his vote
sold to the highest bidder. it is time, in
the name of things more precious than
marty harmony-in the name of decency,
of morality of religion, to call q haiti!
He referred to the fact that the sale Of
votes is punishable by heavy fine and inn
n,isonment and said that the plea that
the primary was not a leSallzed election
did not diminish the enormlty or the
crime but only served to protect the
criminal.
II solemnly say exclaimed DR.. Battle,
| speaking for my people and speaking
for my God-whom some men seem 10
| have forgotten-that if that is what
| Democratic primary means let us have
no moro Democratic primaries foreVer!
With the politics Of the question, nave
nothing to do but with the morality ana
| religion 1 have much to do
The speaker did not hold the honorable
candidates responsible, and, in tact, ne
was not aLtdclAllS 1HtlF3outil.' 49, ''-o
arraisning a sin because it was sin.
81 am exposing the moral enormity TO
public execration, and because 1t IS new
| in these parts, I am fixing brand upon
the monster so plain and so deep that
hereafter there may be no difficulty III
determining to what species he belongs
and that he may never again outrage the
| morality and the religion of one OF the
fairest, purcst and best-the gem or
| Southern cities"
At the close of the sermon there was
| a. rush OF men to the pulpit, who cor
| graduated the speaker on his forcioie
and eloquent address, which they begged
be published in full.
| The sermon has created a profound I'M
| preston in this city.
ST. PATRICkS OFFICERS.
| st. Patrick C. B. Society has elected
| the following officers: President B. D.
| Akers: vice-Prcsident, Maurice NJ. Finn;
| Treasurer and Chaplain. Rev. James l.
| O'Farrell: Recording Secretary, Charles
| A. Bass; Sergeant-at farms, John MCNaH-
| ara: Trustees, J. Thomas Powell, James
Halligan. P. III. Curtis; Investigating Com
| mittee. \. J. Francis, James L Pear
man, Joel T. Brown.
| Miss Helen Thompson. While out buggy
| riding yesterday afternoon, was thrown
! from the buggy and slightly injuerd
| The Circuit Court of Dinwidde county
vas in session to-day.
EJpST VIRGINIA