The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1902-07-17
Viva VOC VOTING
PETERSBURG TO-DAY
Will Hardly Be- Moro orc Than Half.
q Vote Pol!ed.
TO SPEND 0 NE MILLION i.
Virginia Passenger g Power Company
Has Big Plans on Foot for the
Enlargement of the Appo-
mattox Water Power.
J SPEND 0 NE MILLION.
Especial Dispatch to The Times.


PETERSBURG. VA, July l6-For the
first time in many years the viva voce
system Of voting will be used in the con-
gressional primary election In Petersburg
tomorrow. Under the usual system Of
voting there would not have been full
vote poiled, but with the viva voce sys-
tenn it is believed that hardly half the
voters will be at the pos. Mr.. southan
wound up his canvass with meeting
at West End Park tonight.
WE'LL CARVED.
L. j. Allen, a colored huckster, was
assaulted, stabbed and cut about mid
night last night by Arthur Palmer (col-.
sored) on their return to Petersburg with
the Oak-Street Church excursion party
from Hampton Allen reprimanded
Palmer for disorderly conduct on the
He is now in. jail awaiting the result OF
Aliens injuries
TO SPEND ONE MILLION.
The Virginia Passenger and Power
Company will spend million dollars in
improvements in this city. The canal
leading from the Appomattox River is
to be made forty feet wide, nearly three
times its present width, and great
deal deeper. A large electric plant will
be built at the locks, where there is a
fall Of nearly one hundred feet, which
will develop almost unlimited power.
The company expects to begin these I'M
sprovements during the year
Dr.. James Everett Booth. who has
been on vacation for the past two
months, was married at the Hot Springs
Of Arkansas, to Miss Nancy Nash Eli
OFT, daughter of Mr.. K. L. Elliott, a
prominent peanut dealer Of Norfolk.
The drug stores in Petersburg will be
closed every Sunday afternoon between
the hours Of two and six O'Clock.
CAR AND TALLY-HO COME TO-
GETHER.
An Old Street electric car collided with
a talIy-ho filled with a picnic party at Old
and Sycamore Streets this morning
Many of the party were thrown out OF
the vehicle and a little son Of Rev. J.
"A Thomas was badly hurt and was I'M
conscious for while. The tally-ho was
broken and a wagon had to be secured
to carry the party on its way. Mr.. w.
A Totty was the owner of the wagon.
Miss Mollie Dean. Of Petersburg, VINO
has been visiting in Franklin, Va. Tor
several weeks, will leave for Suffolk, to
be the guest OF Mrs. Claude Dennis.
Miss Fannie Jones. daughter of Mr..
Freeman w. Jones, is critically Ill.
The messenger boys Of the Postal Tel
egraph Company have new regulation
uniforms.
Dr. n. II. Christian, Of Boston, is Wis
.iting Mr.. P. n. Drewry:
JUDGE MULLEN PRESIDENT.
Mr.. Simon Seward, who declined to accept
Mr.. Simon Seward. who declined to accept
the Office of president Of the National
Battlefield Park Association on the night
OF his election last2sweek, formally ten
dered his resignation last night, and
Judge J. M. Mullen was elected president.
The Executive Committee OF the as
scciation. Charles Hall Davis; RI =
Meade. Mrs. r. B. Davis and Mrs H.
4. L. Bird. with the president an ex-
officio member, has peen authorlzeo 70
receive subscriptions and to appoint
. gents to solicit subscriptions.
Three prizes of 500, SIS and $50 respec-
lively will be awarded the persons bring
ing in the largest number Of snbscrip-
tions on or before the first day OF Sep
TENDER.
General Boiling, Captain Asa Rogers. r.
c. Orr and Daniel A. Taylor have gone
to Fgg's Springs on the Appomattox Riv-
err. on a fishing expedition.
Rev. b. F. Lipsconb is attending the
district conferences in Mecklenburg coun-
Mr.. rsham R. Dyer, who is in charge
Of the High Street Church excursion TO
eBuckroe Beach, has arranged for two
trains to take the crowd that will go to-
morrow. This will probable be the larg-
est excursion party that ever left the
city.
A committee of the Seventh Georgia
Confederate Veterans will visit Peters.
burg the 10th Of this month to arrange
for the coming Of about 125 Georgia vet
erans to this city. They will go to
Richmond and Fredericksburg during
theiryvisit to Virginia. A P. Hill Camp
will take charge of them in Petersburg