Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1902-09-13
WILLIAMSBURG NEWS.

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Public Properties I,en-.d rowr
"hsnes Electric Lichts--An Oil Tank
WILLIAMSBURG, VA, September 12.-
/ topecial)-The Council Of the city of VIII.
1 hafnsburg held special meeting las,
nisht Mayor John l.. Mercer, presiding
Inc OBJECT OF the meeting as stated by
| the Mayor, was to receive applica lions
from citizens wishing to lease property
/ from the city.
Messrs- Bozarth & Warburton for the
! tease OF College Landing and adjacent
lands AS there was opposition to grant
ing this lease, the matter was referred
| to the Street Committee for Investigation
and report.
Bozarth d Warburton, propose erecting
| on this site large saw and planing-mill
| winch Will employ large force of hands.
John Dahn petitioned the Council to ex-
tend Henry street north from Scotland
! street to the track of the Chesapeake and
Ohio railway. The petition was referred
| to a committee.
This petition rerives the rumor Of the
laying out of a new suburb on the estate
! known as Northington and adjoining the
| corporate limits on the northeast Mr.
Oahu oers to donate the land
| and reserves the right ito lay sewer
pipe, water mains, etc.
Inc City Council is anxious to have the
town illuminated by electricity, and ap-
pointed q committee to confer with the
Executive Committee of William and
Mary College. which is going to put in an
electric light plant The object is to
make some arrangement with the COL
Iege authorities to light the town.
City Sergeant f. c. Lawson is again on
active duty. and is being warmly con-
graduated by his friends upon his ac-
quittal yesterday in the County Court of
the killing of negro man.
The Standard Oil Company is preparing
to erect tank near the Chesapeake and
Ohio depot. This will be made a dis
tributing point by the company.
The EXECUTIVE Committee of William
and Mary College was expected to meet
here to-day, but for some reason un-
known here not a single member reached
Williamsburg to-day.
Only few coloTed voters have offered
to register here since the books wer.
opened Wednesday. Seven colored have
been registered to about seventy whites
In the county, where registration is going
on very few negroes have applied for
registratio
Sometime last night negro, name I'M
known. stole SIS from his employer, Cap
tain Bob Wright, who runs sloop on
James river. The robbery took place at
Mulberry Island. The man was pursued
nearly all night but eluded the officers
and boarded westbound passenger train
for Richmond. The police there have
been telegraphed and no doubt caught the
thief.
Mr.. and Mrs. z. II. Cloves well known
in Richmond musical circles. with their
family and q number Of friends from here,
fct, f,.1, 81 ~,
mill pond.
Professor Edward S. Joynes. of Column
bia, S. c., very distinguished southern
scholar and member of William and Mary
Chapter of Phi Beta Kappa, will address
the society at its next reunion in Feb
ruary, 1903. Professor Joynes was pro-
lessor of William and Mary College before
the war. and married Miss Eliza Vest,
of Williamsburg.
Professor Halls new volume s'Judith,
Phoenix, and Other Anglo-SaSon Poems,''
just issued this summer. is being enthu>
siastically received by eminent scholars
and critics Very fattering letters al
ready have been received from Princeton,
Columbia. Dartmouth. where
eminent scholars fill the chairs of Eng
lish The book is to be used in such
to illustrate both ''the spirit
and the form of these ancient poems, so
that the modern reader can read them as
poetry and not as prose
Major ]. r. McMundo Of Richmond,
was here to-day several hours.
Mr.. H. G. Spencer left this morning for
Richmond and thence will go to Staun-
ton to bring Mrs. Spencer home. They
will return next Tuesday.
Miss Sadie Malone has returned from a
visit to friends in Petersburg.
Mr.. R. j. Barlow, assistant cashier OF
the Peninsula Bank, returned last night
from a weeks vacation spent in King
and Queen.
Mrs. Viola Ware and daughter, Alice !
awe returned from a weeks visit in Bal
timore.