The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1903-11-06

SUST AIMED.
The Action Taken Last, Night
by the Street Committee
Of Manchester.
GOING TO CRATER REUNION
GOING TO CRATER REUNION
Joseph E. Johnston Camp Meet:
and Completes Arrangements.
Personal Mention.

Manchester Bureau Times Dispatch,l
No. HOP Hull Street.
At the meeting OF the Street Commit
tee held last night the action Of the
City Engineer in the matter of the grades
on Seventeenth and Eleventh Streets was
sustained.
The work OF Captain Lipscomb In the
Improvement of the two streets mention
ed, has been subjected to severe criticism
and complaint on the part OF certain OF
tho residents. who are dissatisfied with
the steep grades in front of their houses,
The matter was investigated and was
made the subject of a report from the
City Attorney. This report was presented
to the Street Committee last night. and
was adopted. It sus tanned the City Engi-
neer in every point.
The committee transacted considerable
business OF scattering nature. The City
Engineer was instructed to commune
cate with the Passenger and Power Com
pany to the effect that 1t shall extend
its girder rail- from the Fourth and Hull
Street terminus toward the river. He was
also directed to give relief to the resi-
dents OF Cowardin Avenue from Balm
bridge to Porter Streets, where the quite. 8
have to be opened and other small Inn
provements are necessary.
ATTEND CRATER REUNION.
The Joseph e. Johnston Camp. Con-
federate Veterans. met last night to
complete all arrangements for attending
the Crater reunion at Petersburg to-day.
The entire camp, many OF whose MEM
bers served in Mahonea brigade. will
attend. The party will include perhaps
forty veterans. They will meet at Sew
enth and Perry Streets and leave on the
5 o'clock car for Petersburg. A few OF
those who will be along are Judge Clop-
ton. Squire Fl. A. Jordan. Captain Baker,
Captain ]. "A. Lipscomb. Mr.. J. T. Abbott,
Mr.. w. e. Smith. Judge Gregory. Judge
Hancock and others.
MISSING FROM HOME
The continued absence from home OF
Miss verna c. Bass. a Manchester girl.
leads many OF her friends to suspect
that she has entered the vaudeville stage
or else become the wife of one OF the
members OF the carnival company hero
during the Horse Show Her parents
know nothing OF her whereabouts. She
was last heard OF from Charlotte. N. c.,
where the carnival company gave exhi-
billions last week. It Is said that she
was seen talking with one Of the mem
bers OF the company before he left the
city. The father OF the young woman
declines to discuss the matter beyond
the mere statement that he has no idea
where his daughter Is.
WEDDING CARDS,
Cards are out announcing the marriage
in Washington on yesterday OF Mr..
George Davidson and Miss Florence
Brands. both of Manchester.
Mr.. and Mrs. Davidson will be- home
after November 10th.
THE RIGHT MAN.
A telegram received yesterday by Cap.
tain IIpscomb declares the negro. Joe
Battle, now in Jail, to be the right man.
He was arrested on suspicion Of having
committed a criminal assault upon a wo-
man in Rocky Mount, N. G. The sheriff
OF Edgeconlbe county wires that he will
be here to-day or tomorrow to get him.
The Health Committee and the Build
ings and Lands Committee met last night.
Only routine business was transacted,
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.
A tea and concert was given last night
by the ladies OF Sacred Heart Church In
the school house at Fifteenth and Por-
ter Streets
The Petersburg Telephone Company has
set It's poles along the Centralla road
from the courthouse eastward. and wires
VIII soon ue btEullh' pu'ttHs ~" Soa' -
house in telephone connection with Rich
mond and Petersburg.
Mr.. and Mrs. Harry NJ. Lawder have
returned from their bridal tour. They Will
live in No. 1923 cambridge Street.
Mrs. j. Lowell will give an autumn
tea In her home on Porter Street next
Thursday night for the benefit OF Balm
bridge Street Baptist Church.
A marriage license was issued in Wash
ington TO Robert Fl. Richardson, OF Man
chester, and Miss Mamie Graham, OF ABB
ingdon, Va. The couple will live In this
city. =,
Miss Mabel Cogbill, who has heon III
with typhoid fever, Ia able to be UP again,
Mrs. Mary j. Estis and Mrs, a, Tatum,
who have been III. are improving,
Institute Tonight.
An Institute will be conducted by the
Preahyterfan Sinduy-school Union OF