The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1907-11-26
NEGRO. CHURCH ROW
NEAR SETTLEMENT
Male Members Qualified to Take
Part in Legally Authorized
Meeting.
OTHER PETERSBURG NEWS
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PETERSBURG, VA, November &c.
Fifty men on the contested list of male
members Of the Harrison Street Hap
list Church, colored, were to-day pres
ent to be in good standing after the
examination of nearly 200 before the
Rev. Or. John M. Pitcher, special com
missioner, appointed by the Hastings
Court to adjust the troubles In the
congregation resulting from the quar-
rel between the friends and opponents
of ELI Tart, the pastor who recently
resigned. 4
DR. Pitcher proposes to hold a con-
gregational meeting at TIE church next
Monday night for the final settlement
of the standing troubles. Only
men will be admitted to the meeting,
and the doctor is attempting to conf
pile a correct list of the male members
from very incomplete records, which
recessitate the proving OF the member
ship of those whose standing IS con-
tested. The membership of about 500
lis admitted. and to-days work finished
the contested list. r. y. Davis and
Paul Petit, counsel for the Tart fac
ition, and Bernard Mann ana j. NJ.
members, took part in the examination
In the Corporation Court room to-day,
which occupied five hours.
Perfect Their Plans.
Major Isaac a. Brown and Colofel
Milton a. Embrick, president and secre.
tary of the Battlefield Association OF
Pennsylvania. who are here to purchase
a site for monument in memory or
General Startrauft's division OF Penn
syivania troops. to-dav concluded ne.o-
Hone. The new r-,mo ial will be erect
ed short distance from the hands me
monument recently nut UP by the For
ty-eighth Pennsylvania volunteers
NJ. tr tDt,a ,.. In 4 Ia q
OF Peter burg have organized Te| h
ers. Club TO work ,%ith, the state Teach.
ers' Associa lon and haTse elect tho
smithey; Vice President, Miss FAY, II.
SaIiie Robertson. Executive Committee
Miss Maud Brack tt Miss Mamie My
Jones MISS NJ. D. HOBBS ard NJ s.
L SOFT were etected deieg gates 10
the Roanoke Cnnvertion.
Rev. Mr.. Edwards. Farewell.
Raw. w. II Eiward who TO. the
Marset Street Methodist Episcopal
Church. and at the recent Gorife enc ~
this city was made presiiif'g elder OF
the Eastern Shore District. preached lis
farewell sermon to a larg congree a.
ton at the Markct SIRE Oh rel 81
evening, taking as his text thu nr-
teenth verse of the Thirteenth chapler
OF Second Corinthians:
..I'he grace of the Lord Jesus Christ
and the,love of God and the communion
of the Holy Ghost be with you ALL
Amen"
Market Street Church has made great
progress under the passionate of Mr..
Edwards. and his departure is sincerely
regretted, not only by his congrega-
ton. but by many friends of other de-
nominations. He will leave with his
family for Salisbury. Md, the head
quarters of the Eastern Shore District.
during the latter part of this week.
Brief Petersburg Items.
Bishop C. B. Galloway, of Mississippi.
who presided at the Methodist Con-
ference, has returned to this city from
Norfolk. and is the guest of Mr..
Street DI Bishop G Ha1 n IS to preach
to- morrow at the opening of Meth
odist Church at Wakefield, and Will
make an address at the Jamestown Ex-
position on Thanksgiving Day.
The annual Thanksgiving service of
the three councils of the Junior Order
United American Mechanics was held at
the West End Baptist Church last night
The councils attended in body and
heard a fine sermon from the Rev A.
r. Love, pastor of the church.
Two Deaths.
Mr.. Wyndham R. Simmons died this
morning a. his resioe..e. at Mato ca.
Rod Of i'll health. Mr.. Simmons is sur
yived by his vie, thpe $ ms and tn ee
VINO ar NJ SIS Charles
Il, and Harvey Sim mons, this
C. ty; Raymond r.. Sim ons, of Matoaca.
an Misses NJ rtl-. nslil an Eva
Mr.. Robert Nathanisi Winston died
yesterday afternoon cat his residencei
on Jones Street. Mr. Winston was
eighty-four years of age, and Is SUR
vivedI,by two sons and two daughters.
He was a we'll known and highly es-
teemed citizen, and a member of a. p.
Hill Camp OF Confederate Veterana