The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1907-12-10
'PH0NE COMPANY
wins ITS FIGHT
Permission to Erect Poles on
High Street Granted by
Council.
NEGRO PREACHER is IN JAIL
-
Evangelist Seeks to .Cceree Six
tcen-Year.s0ld Girl to
Marry Him,

IS PETERSBURG VA. December o.
r. Permission to erect telephone poles OH
s1sauigh Street was granted to-day by the
city street committee 10 the Petersburg
Telephone Company at meeting OF
The committee before which Mr.. Wni
Z McIlwaine. president aud legal rep
tesentatire Of the company, appeared
10 make tho request. This Is the latest
sa development In n long continued tight
sssby some prominent residents on High
Street against the erection Of the poles,
Because of the Disagreement of that
tiioroughfare. An injunction was Sc
putting up the poles. and the case
tsl,nc before the State Corporation
icommission, which recently instructed
Tho telephone people to secure permits
AloI. from the city for the work as
tIeir next move in the contest.
Marrying Pnrson in Jail.
s a UNIQUE case was tried in the May
DIS court this morning when Richard
Moseley Norfoll, negro, who calls
Himself preacher, engaged in mis-
..4sionory work. was fined 500 and sent
to iai for six months for obtaining n
marriage license by inducing another
to swear falsely as to the age of
Sarah Ann Fields. a siSteon-year-old
.negro girl from Dinwiddie county. AZ
ter securing the license Moseley en-
gagged minister, and then proceeded
to the house whore the girl was visit
Ing in this city. and attempted to COM
gpcl her to mary him in spite of her
cri otest. The minister refused to per-
form the ceremony, and a warrant TO-
-Moseley's arrest was. sworn out by the
girls father.
-. DIR. Smith Under Knife.
- DR.. j. e. Smith. who became suddenly
i'll at his residence on High street last
evening, was operated on for appendi-
by Or. Stuart Mcguire, of Richmond, as
Sisted by prs. j. Boliing Jones and
F1'rank W. Hanes. of this city. The OPP
GRAFTON was successful. and DR.. Smith
is now getting on well.
~ The Baptist Sunday School Associa-
3tion Of Petersburg and vicinity held its
I. regular monthly meeting at the First
I. Baptist Church yesterday afternoon,
y with Vice-President j. F. Stephenson
presiding. Good reports from six
schools and irst-rate talk by Captain
l.. l.. Marks were features of the occa-
sion.
Bishop \, n; Randolph visited St :;
Episcopal Churches here yesterday,
( preaching and confirming a class at
each church.
Mrs; Jennie P. Gill. wife. of Mr.. ]. e.
Gill. died about o'clock last night at
y
twenty-six years old and was daugh-
ter of the late Charles II. Shortt of
lttrick. She is survived by her hus-
band. little daughter and one brother,
Mr. Charles Shortt. of Ettrick.
Mr.. Joseph Henry King, a we'll known
citizen of the West End died about
half.past l2 O'clock last night at the
residence OF his brother, Mr. Marion L.
King. on Pearl Street. after a long
ILLNESS. Mr.. King had been in the en-
sploy of the Dunlop Tobacco Company,
In this city, for twenty-five years. He
lis survived by young son and daugl.
ter and by two brothers and one sister,
) who are Messrs. j. William and Mar.
win l. King and Miss Ella Y. King.
-. - John r. Crowder. wcll-known coll
ecred citizen, and one of the leading
members of the anti-Tartt faction OF
tie Harrison Street Baptist Church,
died Yesterday at his residence in
Z Blandford