The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1902-05-11
SOUTH BOSTON
GROWING FAST
Business Houses invading a New
Section.
THE PROPOSED NEW ROAD
A Fire Breaks UP Meeting Called to
Consider Route-Citizen Painfully
Injured by Fall of Nozzle on His
Head-Moonshiner BaiIed.
THE PROPOSED NEW ROAD
Especial Dispatch to The Times.)


SOUTH BOSTON. VA, May 10.-Build-
scale here, particularly IN the business
section of the town. From the location
Of the new structures it becomes more
and more apparent that the mercantile
concerns are being crowded out OF the
lower end of the town and are rapidly
moving up the hill. When the elegant
store under the Masonic Temple was oc-
cupied on January 1st 1t was thought to
be probably out of the retail district
hut this seems not to have been the case,
as Mr.. ]. j. Lawson has begun excavat-
ing for a foundation for several stores
on the lots adjoining the Masonic lot
The block Of old frame buildings on the
vest side of Main Street, in almost the
business center of the town, are being
tern down by their owner, Mr.. R. R.
Noblin, who Will replace them with large
b. ck store buildings.
Mr.. W. I. Jordan. whose handsome res
iceDce on upper Main Street was de-
suoyed by fire a few Sundays ago. has
begun the construction Of new resi-
dence at the same place. which will be
much larger and more attractive in ap-
psarance than the old one.
NEW RAILROAD.
Ill. IAcAliiCi Sld"iey WHO IS represent
ing the new railroad proposed to be built
from Breno. on the Chesapeake and Ohio
by way OF Farmvile, Charlotte Court
house and other points. on to Danville.
was here Thursday to look into the ad-
visibility of having the road pass South
Boston. Mayor ). NJ. Darlington called
a meeting of the Town Council. to which
was invited all citizens who were inter
ested in the matter, to hear Mr. lvaw-
leyS views and to consider the matter
Of subscribing to the new road. There
was large attendance at the meeting
and much interest was manifested but
no action was taken. It is proposed to
build the road to pass through this sec
tion at some point between here and
Brookneal, but at what poinl it will cross
the Durham Division Of tie Norfolk and
Western has not yet been decided
The meeting was held in the Bank Of
South Boston, but was interrupted by
the alarm of fire, due to some storage
houses on a siding of the Southern Road
having been set fire to by a passing en-
CINE. The fire department responded
promptly and extinguished the fire with
out any serious results. although Mr. r.
w. Lawson was painfully wounded about
the head and face by a nozzle attached
to line of hose being thrown from a
ladder and falling on him.
Much interest is felt in the election of
a successor to Major Peter r. Otey. State
Senator w. P Barksdale will probab bly,
announce himself candidate. and will
begin his campaign with a strong fol-
lowing.
BABE WHIT BAILED.
babe" Whit. the noted moonshiner,
who has been held IN the county Jail
awaiting trial in the United States Court,
was on Thursday admitted to bail by
Commissioner Kent Morris.
NIesdames A. B. Willingham and W. A.
Gray have gone to spend a few weeks at
the new Mecklenburg Hotel at Chase
City.
Mr.. John P. Lovelace. formerly of
South Boston, but now a prominent to-
bacconist of Wilson. N. c., is visiting his
brother, Mr.. c. T. Lovelace
Miss Mamie Easley left Monday to
spend a month as the guest of her sister,
Mrs. II. L. Edmunds. Of Richmond.
Mrs. P. S. Anderson left last Tuesday
for visit to her father in the Indian
Territory. She and her little son. who
accompanied her, expect to be absent
three months.
Mrs. R. T. Aunspaugh. of Lynchburg,
is visiting her mother. Mrs. Thomas H
Owen.
Miss Eloise Williams, of Nttrell. N
c., is the guest Of Mr.. and Mrs. A. D.
Samuel.
Mr.. D. ]. Nichols and Miss Josepune |
Dalton, Of Halifax county, were married /
in the parlorS of Hotel Garland on ied-
nesday by Rev. ]. W. yVildman, OF the /
Baptist Church.
DR.. s. r. Jordan. a native of Halifax.
recently Of Spotsylvanfa county, has
formed a partnership with DR.. A. Trent
Clarke. and is expected to arrive in South
Boston next week to assume his uuties in
ais new home. He is a graduate of the
Medical College of Virginia. and after
MS graduation was resident physician
1t the Old Dominion Hospital. IN Rich
nond. ;, -