The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1908-02-23
NEWS GATHERED
FROM S0UT.HS|DE
ag-Raising Exercises To-Day
Will Include Big Program
OF Attractions.
ATTACK ON MAYOR MAURICE
Good Word Spoken for Saloon
Keeper Being Used Against
Him-Personals.
ATTACK ON MAYOR MAURIC
Manchester Bureau. Times-p ispatch,

NO 1902 Hull Street.
Great preparations and expectations
have been in progress for the past
week over the flag raising which is to
take place this afternoon upon the
Manchester High School Building.
The exercises will be of an elaborate
character, including street parade. a
salute of twenty-one guns from the
Richmond Howitaers, speaking by Con-
gresham John Lamb and others, and
music by the Richmond Light Infantry
Blues Military Band.
A program composed OF eleven num-
bers has been prepared, and the whole
/ proceedings Will be celebrated under
/ the auspices of the Junior Order OF
| American Mechanics with much i'm
pressiveness.
All who are to participate in the
parade are requested to assemble at
the Lafayette House promptly at 1891
o'clock. The parade will move at l
o'clock sharp.
as follows: From Eighth Street up
Hull Street to Cowardin Avenue, where
| it will be met and Joined by the Liberty
Council of SWansboro; thence out Co
wardin Avenue to Porter Street, down
Porter street to Seventh Street, down
Seventh Street to cambridge Street.
and thence up cambridge Street to the
school. The Ladies' Chapter of Liberty
Council will also joint in the process
sion and move in a body to the school
building.
a. l.. Sampson will be chief marshal of
the day; r. l.. Patram, master of cere-
monies. and w. j. Morrissette, director
of music. The program will be as fol-
lows:
Music by the Richmond Light Infan-
try Blues Band: opening prayer, by the
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dience; presentation of flag and Bible
by commemorative Attorney Charles
l.. Page, member of Lodge No. 8; ac-
ceptance Of gifts on behalf of the city
by Mayor H. A. Maurice. member Of
Lodge No. s; music by the Richmond
Light Infantry Blues Band; acceptance
of flag and Bible on part OF the School
Board by the Hon. D. l. Pulliam; song.
America" by audience; address, Our
Country" by the Hon. John Lamb:
closing ode, by audience; closing pray
er, by the Rev. W. E. Edwards.
Six Months ON the Roads.
Eugene Crawley. former deserter
from the navy. was sentenced In the
Police Court yesterday to six months
labor on the roads for stealing a serge
coat from D. White. The case was
worked up by Police Officer Moore, who
traced the missing garment to pawn
brokers' establishment. On October
2lst of last year the prisoner appeared ,
before Mayor Maurice charged with
being a deserter from the United States
Navy. 1t developed that the naval
authorities did not want him, and he
was released under his promise to
leave the city. Mayor Maurice Incl
dentally remarked to the prisoner as
he sentenced him: Once you could
have left the city. yet did not want to;
to-day you want to, yet cannot do SC"
Crawley had become for some time a
loafer.
Miss Lottie Bowen Dead.
Miss Lottie B. Bowen died at 1890
o'clock Thursday night. at the home
OF her brother. j. Norman Bowen. at
Belle Meade. Chesterfield county. Miss
Bowen was thirty years old.
She leaves three brothers and two
sisters-J. Norman and William G.,
of Chesterfield county. and Thomas f.
Bowen, of Rocky Mount. N. c.; Miss
Lizzie Bowen, of Chesterfield and Mrs
G. P. Hopkins, of Port Norfolk.
The funeral will take place at .
O'Clock this afternoon from the Asbury
M. E. Church.
Mayor Maurice Attacked.
1t is reported that some of the polit-
zeal opponents OF Mayor H. A. Maurice
have seized upon the occasion of his
Endorsement of an ex-Manchester sa-
loonkeeper to Judge s. B. Witt. of the
Hastings Court OF Richmond. to make
capital out of the incident. Mayor
Maurice says he was approached by a
saloonkeeper who had spent his entire
life in his present avocation. He rep
resented to the Mayor that he had an
aged mother and father dependent on
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or family, possessing a wife ard chill
dren He is a man who bears a good
reputation, and was never refused q
license while conducting saloon in
this city.
The Mayor considered that in as
ststing this man to continue in bust
ness he was actuated by the common
laws of humanity. He consequently
wrote letter Of Endorsement to Judge