The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1903-04-30
PETERSBURG
REAL ESTATE.
Several Storehouses on S!yCa':l /
more StreetIaaye Been Sold
A NEW HOTEL BUILDING
Tho Plans for the Structure to Be Built
at Sycamore and Tabb Streets Are
5t Now In Hands Of Contractors
:s33 Work Soonto Begin.

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PETER URG, VA. April 2o.--Mr. Fl. /
p. Stratton has purchased the store
houses on Sycamore Street at present
occupied by N1cssrs Green and Arlington
and "A. NJ Smith. commission merchants.5
These stores Will DO thoroughly remod-
X lod. s5l b ,$
@ Tho store on Sycamore Street. occupied
By Mr. D. X. Clements, known as THE
Palms" has been sold to Mrs. Lulu
Barhntr Mr.. Clements had a lease for.
several rsars from tho formor owner,
Mr.. Augustus Wright, and, Of course
this lease holds under the sale.
# Plans for the new hotel building to.
occupy tho site ut Sycamore and Iabbt
Streets, in this city, are now In the hands
OF contractors III Petersburg, Richmond
and Norfolk Bids arc expected to be re-
ceived within short time, and It Is
hoped that work on the building can
begin In May. Already considerable has
been done toward excawating for tho
foundation and basement. ,sf.
People III Petersburg are some what IN
tercstGd in the local option election to
take place In Dinwlddic county to-mor-
row. as tho Country Club Is located an
that county, and the sale Of whlssoyt ~
the club should the members dcsirc TO
allow wlIskoy to be sold there, will doubt
less be regulated by the local ption 5ele
gtion result. AT the meeting Of the directors
this afternoon the matter was brought
UP, hut OF course. no definite notion could
be determined upon, rs any action would
/ be entirely dependent upon the result Q Is
q Tomorrow election. s3
THE enter tainment to be given Mt the
Academy Of Music tomorrow night will
he for: tho benefit of old Blandford Church
fund Miss Dunkel, under whose direction
the recent "Old Maids. Convention" In
this city was such n success, has trained
the caste for tho entertainment to-mor-
row evening.
Several silk workers who went to VIII.
Transport, Pa, with tho John n. Stcarns
silk mills have returned to Petersburg
on account of the strike al the silk mills.
Tho employees demand n week OF flfty-
nvo hours with sixty hours pay The
mon from Petersburg were the only ones
who did not Join the strikers.
Mayor w. M. Jones. who has been con-
fined to his room for few days with the
grip Is out again.
rive families Of Bohemians. numbering
twenty-seyen persons, have crrtved In
Dnwiddie county, and will settle there.
Not q member of any OF the families can
understand aaword of English.
A meetlng Of tho stockholders OF the
Seabonrd Air Line Railway was held at
the office Of N1r.slyv. r. AtcI<cnney in this
city yesterday but no business Of i'm.
portance was transacted. E5
Miss Ltty Galbraith, OF spartanburgt
IS. c., has been $SlsltnE Miss Margaret
Collier, in this city. She left to-day to
spend a8few weeks in New York, and re-
turning to Petersburg will be the guest Of
Miss Emily Bartlett Roper. sg
Five new members were received into
the Retail Clerks Association last night
Mr. Fisher Collier. who has been sick
for several days Is much Better. and was
out for short while to-day.
Many have derived much pleasure from
the series Of half hour recitafs which
have been given ut noon on Wednesdays
at the Southern Female College IN this
city. The last recital was held to-day