The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1903-04-10
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Petersburg Chamber Of j 4 Com \ m
sSEiissii1llofce and Business Assn.
/ oFFlC GERS !, ARE RI ELECTED 81 g
Following the Next Business Session q
Banquet Be Held at Which Two A
ID o. y hree Hundred 4 Business
{ Men Will Sc Present. @
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4RS tS 3Ss Especial to Tho Times .Disratch.)
PETERSBURG. VA, April e.---Ths
Chamber OF Commerce and Young Mems
Business Association consolidated tonight
s under the name Of the Petersburg
Il Chamber OF Commerce. Mr.. Carter r..
Bishop was made temporary chairman.
5g Mr.. Simon Seward was elected president,
Robert cataniss, vice-president and R.
Il 81 GILLIAN. secretary. their terms to ex-t
plrsE At meeting to be held IN April at
q which a permanent organization will be
I; erected Following the business session
y At this meeting Q banquet will be held.
" VI at which two or three hundred business
m mon are expected to be present
Iis Interest In foot ball Is being revived In
IL Petersburg. and the club IN this oltys
81 will probably have good support during
4 the coming season. The etersburg Club,
81 81 which Mr.. j. r.. Jones Is manager has
been admitted to the lea que and already
several players have been sgned Char
h ters and Clayton will begin as pitchers
b FOR the team, and surles and Fowlkes.
Il will be behind the bat Half OF the team
will be com posed OF amateurs, but the
81 mana ger will havo the right at any time
Ito replace them with professional play
lGNfftS NV
1; a Messrs George Mason and r. B. Davis
" counsel for the faction which recently
Withdrew from the Harrison Street Bap-
8Stist Church (oolored), have served no-
VI tioe that they will apply to Judge Mullen
38 to dissolve the Injunction issued I, by
X Judge Minor, Of Richmond. restraining M
1.-THE seeding members from interfering
with the pastor, Rev. Watts, and the dea-
cons in# their worship. The division In
3sthe church grew out OF a contention over
Sithe burial Of Deacon Brown by an Gun-
Il ,dertakens who Is mot member or thls
" church. At a meeting, fast ana furious,
u two factions sprang up, each OF which
/ claimed fright to conduct the affairs Of
& The church,. Sunday services were inter-
#rupted till counsel for the pastor and the
y demons got from Judge Minor and In
junction preventing any interference.
THE mat tier will doubtless have to be set
stled by the courts, as there Is ut this
time little evidence OF an cable agree
sment.; g2F,ls
" Messrs. H. v. Parham and A. r. Moody,
sSof this city, are interesting themselves
4 IN the organization of a military COM
#pany In Petersburg. These gentlemen
Conferred With Adjutant-G General Male
IN r Richmond yesterday. and were In
formed by him thatSthe State under the
present law Is entitled to only thrty-six
military companies, rand there are now
thirty in Virginia and several applica--2
tons In hand. II Petersburg Is to have a J
military company It would seem that 1
!: herc ts-little time for consideration and
a that Quick action alone can secure It,
MIR. SCENARIOS LECTURE.
Mr. Simon 4 Seward, the wel-known
manufacturer Of this city will lecture
4 at Churchland Baptist Church at Ports
mouth next Friday evening on his escape
from prison at Point Lookout In 1863
4 This account Of Mr., Stewards thrilling
experience has been published several
"A times ~ by many leading news
X papers, but this wiliSe the first time he
/ has told these experiences from the plat
IA !orn. Il s3ft |
to Miss Annie Morecock in Weldon yes
terday, is we'll known in Petersburg.
n where he lived for several years. His
3EHrst wife was Mrs. Anna Love Of this
city. #
Two hghwaymen. supposed to BIO from
; Petersburg. held up Constable John r.
Wood In Prince George county n few
X evenings ago. At the point OF n pistol
s the men demanded the consta ble's money
{ He told them he had mo money, and
whipping up his horse, drove rapidly on
II his way, lie carried safely home tho S45
he, had stuffed In his boot leg. . j,
Beginning very soon the Country Club
will give dance each week to Its NOM
Il bers, and tlase dances may continue
Throughout .the ,susnnier. Pool tables are
to DO placed In tho building and O. bowl
;,SS' THE NEW HOTEL
The C. II. Marshall Coal Company has
s 5vacate the building ut Sycamore and
@Tabh Streets. occupied by their Offices
Il .or the past five or six years, and the
building Is now being taken down to glve
i way to thetnew hotel that Is soon to rise
n IN It's place. The Marshall Coal Com
pany now has offices in the Shirley Ho-
z lei building on Tabb Street. Consldera-
4 BILE excavating has been done for tho
foundation OF the new hotel, and work
Z on the building Is expected to begin In
May.
A report that cannot be verified was
circulated in Petersburg to-day to the
effect that the Continental Tobacco Com
4 pany. which recently purchased tho r.
&c. Williams tobacco factories In Rich
: mond. are trying to purchase tho Dun
lop factories In this city. A representa-
4 tive OF tho Continental Company recent
ly said that his company desired only
u two factories now In the South. tho T.
&C. Williams factories. OF Richmond. and
Il the Dunlop factories In this oty. Moths
q Ing can be learned to thrown any light
il on tfle report.
Mr. II. n Faison well.known wood
i worker and carpenter, employed Mt the
planning mill OF r. J Jefferson In this
;Ity. had two OF his fingers cut OF yes
4 .erday by a buzz planer. ed
Tho Carpenters Union will have n
lmoker at lied Mems Hall next Thurs
q day night
FOUR TO NOTHING III