The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1903-12-22

TO STOVE.
Remarkable Fall Of Clerk III Fur-
niturc Store iii Petersburg,
Causiiig Hin Scrious Injury. ID
SUNDAY SCHOOL OFFICERS {: S
Tic Stockholders Of the Virginia
!, Passenger and Power CO. Will.
Elect Directors III JANUARY.

Especial 10 Tho Times Dlspntch)
PETERSBURG, VA, Dec. 2l.-'rhc Sec
ond Baptist Sunday school has chosen the
following officers: Charles w. Ellington,
s,lperintendent;e Charles II. Ice, hssls-
tnnt;s u. w. Mathews, secretary; George
y. Cubanlss. assistant; Charles II. III.
llngton, treasurer; Ava Beck. lbraran;
u. u. Ellington, assistant; William II.
Beck ana James Il. Harrison, choristcrs;
Misses Florence G. Alley and Grace NJ,
Brunch, orgunlsts; Misses Bertha Beck
and Annie Nugent, asslstants; d. w.
Alley, church clerk; j.. j. Gardner. flnan-
ciul secretary; James Pulley, treasurer;
r. H. Mathews and W. r. Toome, city
mission committee. sH
~ X. Shuckelford, clerk In q furni.
ture store, while standing on a six foot
ladder hanging a mirror, lost his balance
and In falling struck against a stove,
the vase OF which penetrated his throat,
infllctint a serious and painful wound.
CORPORATION COURT.
In the Corporation Court to-day Mrs.
Mary ChIsolm, widow OF Dr.. Julian j.
Ch.solm. qualified as guardian of their
little daughter, Katherine. Rev. Charles
b. Richards. pastor Of Park View Chris
tian Church, qualified to perform tho
inurrlnge ceremony.
Miss Alnlcdil L;lrrabeo, Of National
Park Seminary, Forest Glen, Md, and Ell
mcr Latilncr, Of tho New England Con-
ssrvatory OF Music, who arc visiting Mrs.
Il. a. toblnson, sang yesterday at Mar
kct Street Methodist Church.
The directorate or tho Petersburg Saw
ings and Insurance Company have de-
clared Il quarterly dividend Of three per
cent. on it's capital stock.
STOCKHOLDERS no MEET.
The stockholders Of the Virginia Pas
scnger aud Power Company will meet
In annual session in this city In January,
ut which time tho election Of directors
will be held and other matters OF lmpor-
tancs considered.
Saturday evening Amos Boiling. Of
Prince George county, left his team In
front OF Il Bnndford store while he en-
tered the store. Upon his return. a few
minutes later. hs found himself without
his horse and wagon, and inquiry in the
ncighborhood clicited tho information that
strange man had been seen driving
tho team away at a rapid rate. The
owner has not recovered his property
TWENTY FOURTH NN1VERSARY.
Yesterday was tho twenty-fourth ami
versary, OF the ordination to the priest
hood of the Rev. Father O'Farrall. OF st.
Joseptls Catholic Church, three-fourths
Of tho time being spent as rector of this
church. 5i tl
= Mrs. p. .Janc Jordan died this morning
at her home, on Commerce street, aged
about eighty years She was the mother
Of Mrs. Isaiah Brockwell and James A..
Jordan. The funeral, Tomorrow after
noon, will take place from High Street
Methodist Church. of which she had
been for nearly forty years a consistent
member
Miss Matte L. A1unford, after a long
sickness. died yesterday afternoon at
her residence, corner Of Jones and Hinton
Streets. She was q sister of Kit Mum
ford of Petersburg.
William Davies. an aged and esteemed
citizen of Chesterfield. died yesterday
afternoon at his home near Petersburg.
IIo had been in feeble health some timo,
and his death was not unexpacted.