The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1902-08-10
NEEDED MORE ROOM
FOR ITS BUSINESS
Plant Of Petersburg Dry Goods
Company Doubled.
OTHER NEWS OF cGCKADE CITY
John c. Pegram Assigned as Second
Lieutenant Of the First Cavalry.
Must Keep Closed on
Sunday.
OTHER NEWS OF cGCKADE CITY
Especial Dispatch to The Times.


| PETERSBURG, VA, August 9.-The
Petersburg Dry Goods Company now oc-
cupies one OF the largest and most con-
veniently arranged buildings in Peters
Eourg The increase IN the company's
business demanded additional space. and
The store adjoining their store on Syca-
more Street was fitted up for their use
and the two stores made into one, front
ng sixty feet on Sycamore Street and
running back more than a hundred feet
The building is three stories high with
b basement. The Petersburg Dry Goods
company is a young corporation, having
been chartered December IL. 1899, and the
officers and owners are young men, The
business done by this concern the first
pear exceeded the expectations of its
owners, and the increase has been re-
fnarkable. The business of the past year
vas five times what 1t was the year the
business was established. although the first
PEARS trade was exceedingly large. The
&iuccess of the business Is due largely TO
he fitness and energy Of its owners, ana
O the admirable facilities offered by Re
ersburE. With the low rate of taxation
moderate rents and salaries, business men
n Petersburg can successfully compete
with the largest concerns in the country.
The Peterhurg Dry Goods Company Goes
trictly jobbine business, and is repre-
ented throughout Virginia and North
Carolina and other Of the Southern States.
{rhis company is the only wholesale dry
foods house doing business in Peterspurs,
PLANT TO BE SOLD.
The plant and goodwill Of the Mitchell
Manufacturing Company in this city Will
,e sold at public auction next TUESDAY.
his is one of the best established print
ng and binding businesses in the South.
/. was esta blished twenty years ago by
r. O.
,acconists in this city, and has been in
continuous operation since that time.
Among the assignments by the War
Department to corps and regiments of
adets recently graduated from West
POINT Military Academy is John c. Pc
Gram. of Petersburg, who was assigned
be second lieutenant TO First Cavalry.
MUST CLOSE ON SUNDAY.
Mayor Jones. Of Petersburg. has in
tructed the police department to enforce
n ordinance, beginning tomorrow, pro-
tibiting any shop, store, eating saloon,
estaurant or barber shop doing busine
'etween the hours of m dnigh: on SAT-
,rday and midnight on Sunday. A fine
&f $50 will be imposed for each efense
his ordinance was passed in the Com
non Council the first of July, 1892. The
dayor announced that the ordinance will
pc strictly enforced until repealed. The
III oICc1neUL Oh The VIII IjI oS Z
hardship upon cook-shop keepers and
heir patrons who depend upon these
hops for their Sunday meals.
PERSONAL NOTES.
Mrs James T. Tosh has announced the
Engagement of her daughter Miss Made
tne Richards Tosb. to Mr.. George w.
Woodwork, of Texas. The marriage will
AXE place September 18th.
The funeral of the late Miss Edith
Pitcher, daughter Of Rev. DR.. j. NJ
Pitcher, of this city, took place at half
last five o'clock this afternoon from the
FIRST Baptist Church.
Rev Z. p. Parham, pastor of Bland
bird Methodist Church, will leave Monday
lar Jarratt's to assist Rev. H. j. Brown.
Ef Surry Circuit. in protracted meeting
Lebanon Church.
Miss Susan Jordan. of st. Louis, Is
listing Mrs. +. r. Hill on Sycamore
treet.
Miss Hart Briggs is visiting Miss
rcher in Chesterfield.