The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1906-01-31
NEW ENTERPRISES
FOR PETERSBURG
Trunk and Bag Company to- Apt
ply for Charter of 1n-s
corporation.
AN AUTOMATIC RY. CROSSING
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Company to Start With One
Hundred Thousand Dollars
Capital.
AN AUTOMATIC RY. CROSSING
.tspeelal to INC TImes.plHpateh.1

Especial to Tho Times-DIspatch)
PETERSBURG. VA. January 30-New
business enterprises of no small size
and importance arc being organized and
started here with frequency that would
Indicate remarkable degree OF pros
perity.
The Petersburg Trunk and Bag Com
pany was organized last evening and
will at once apply for a charter of in
corporation. Tho capital stock Is to be
not less than Twenty-Five thousand, nor
moro than one hundred thousand dol
lars, divided into shares OF one hundred
dollars each. This business was con-
dncted for number of years by the late
II. Noltenius. and tho plant stock and
other properties were recently purchased
by N. j. Francis and Morris Levy. two
well known local business men. The Of
fcers OF the new company are: Presi-
dent. ~. j. Francis; vice president. +.
NJ. Dalton; secretary and treasurer, Nor
ris Levy. These officers. with James
Il. cuthbcrt. Joseph Lambert. Leroy
Roper and II. u. Titus, compose the d.
rcctorate. The company will soon begin
the manufacture OF trunks and leather
goods.
AUTOMATIC RAILWAY CROSSING.
The Lancaster Automatic Railway
Crossing Company. incorporated. last Au-
gust. and composed OF Petersburg men.
Is TO be recognized February list. with
five hundred thousand dollars capital,
and shares at fifty dollars each The
company viii Introduce an automatic
railway switch invented By G. ". Lam
caster. young North carolinan. for
some time employed here by the Atlantic
Coast Line Railway Company. The
present charter allows n maximum cap
ital OF one hundred thousand dollars:
minimum seventy-nve thousand. The
original company was organized with the
following officers: President. G. w. Lam
castor; secretary and treasurer, N. a.
Finn. who. with Charles T. Lassiter.
are the electors. A stockholders meet
Ing for the reorganization vii be held
IN Mr.. I-assiters Office next Thursday
afternoon.
Grea. Interest and much speculation as
to the buyers and their purpose has been
aroused by the sale OF Robert Hafrisons
60-foot front property at the southeastern
corner OF Sycamore and Lombard Streets.
which has been sold for $4,000. with two
buildings In the rear. at seoeo. to W. II.
Taley. for parties whose names no one
has yet been able to learn a large
building. containing q clothing store, bar
Der shop and luEch ROOM stands ON the
Harrison property. The two buildings in
the rear. on Lombard Street. were owned
by J. r. Jones. The property Is In the
heart Of the business district. and va
riety OF rufnors are current as TO the plans
OF the unknown purchasers. Stories of
handsome hotel. big wholesale estab-
l!shment and restaurant, have followed
each other IN quick succession The peo-
pie whose names are connected with the
sale are all we'll known business men of
large means The mystery will probably
soon be solved by the recording OF the
deed.
JUDGE oRGAIN's FUNERAL.
:. The burial OF the late Judge George c..
Organ. of Lunenburg county. tool, place
this afternoon at Blandford Cemetery
Claiborne Smitn. young negro. recently
arrested on suspicion OF having stolen
more than forty chickens from w. O..
Newsom. was sent on to the Hastings
Court by the Mayor this morning, on a
charge OF housebreaklng. that being the
offense stated in the warrant