The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1910-06-26
DOCTORS TO meet
IN PETERSBURG.
southside Virginia Medical AS
ISOLATION Will Hold
Session.
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FIRE IN DlNWlDDIE COUNTY
Prospects for Wheat and Fruit
Crops Are Very Satis4
factory.
Times-Dispatch Bureau,
1903 North Sycamore Street,
Petersburg, va, June rs

Petersburg, Va, June 70.
The twenty-nlnth session Of the
Southside Virginia Medical Associa-
ton will be held in A. r. Fill Camp
Hall, in this city, next Tuesday. There
will be three sittings. Carefully pre-
pared papers on subjects of great In
terest to the medical profession Will
he read and discussed. After the ad-
dress of the president at the first
sitting, DR.. Landon D. Walker VIII
present paper for general discussion
on Typhoid Fever--Diagnosis and
The association comprises the coun-
ties of Surry, Sussex, Brunswick.
Prince George. Greenesville. Dinwiddie.
Southampton and the city. OF Peters,
burg. Its Off GERS are; President. Dr.
r. L. Raiford. of sedley; yice-Presi-
dents, DR.. J. B. Halligan, of Bruins
wick: DR. e. NJ. Parker, of Emporia;
Dr.. w. T. Moore, OF Valentine; Or. r.
B. Jarratt, of Central, S. c.; Secretary
and Treasurer. DR.. q. Il. Reese. OF
Courtland.
The physicians who are TO read
papers are: Drs. ]. D. Osborne. F. w.
Haines, j. Boiling Jones, DR.. H. A,
of Petersburg; Drs. Edward Field, M.
G. Horton F H. Hancock. of Norfolk;
DR.. z. r. Hart, of Suffolk. DR.. Bernard
Barrow, Of Barrow's Store, Drs. E. H
Terrell A. 9. Brown. Jr-> H. Stuart
MacLean, G. c. Coleman, r. G. Bryan
and j. Shelton Horsley. of Richmond;
DR.. o. G. Wright, of Sussex.
The papers of DR.. Wright on "obli-
cations of Doctors to Society and
Some Things the Public Should Know
and of DR. Horsley on Responsibility
Resting Upon the Friends and Rela-
tives of Patients" will be read at a
public meeting at night. After the
night session the members of the as
ISOLATION will be banqueted by the Ph-
tersburg faculty.
To Call Pastor.
A meeting of the congregation OF
Tabb Street PRESBYTERIAN Church will
be held on Sunday after the hour Of
morning worship to consider the call
of pastor, The committee on pulpit
| supply will make report, the nature
of which has not been made public
This church. though regularly sup
piled. has been without a regular pas
| tor since the resignation Of the Rev
J. S. Foster. D. D., in January last.
| Fire In Dinwiddie County.
u Inc 0WeIlLsB IlpusC VI y o'*fN 1'SS''''
! and family on the Apponaattox River,
! anout seven miles west OF Petersburg,
| In DinwIddie county, was destroyed by
| fire last nigh, with its furniture and
| household effects. The house is fine
| old country home. and the loss, only
partially covered by insurance, Will be,
| 1t is stated. several thousand dollars.
/ How the fire originated is not known,
| but IL Is stated that on account OF the
| storage OF some dynamite In the build
| ing II was considered dangerous TO
/ enter in the effort to save the prop
! erty. The dynamite was exploded oS
/ the heat and the frame work was shat-
tered.
New Charter Granted.
4 The Arrowfield Nursery Company mas
been chartered, with w. n. Roper, OF
Petersburg, as president; p. NJ. Hu.s
of Raleigh, NJ c., yice-presldent' anu "
n. HUT, of Raleigh, as secretary anc
treasurer. The capital stock is s2.5O'
/ 70 $4,000, and the purposes are thf
/ cultivation and selling of flowers, frul'
and ornamental trees, etc. The prlnci-
i nal office will be in Petersburg.
Crcp Prospects In the southside.
4 The sales of loose tobacco at the
warehouses; this week amounted &c
onlv 2lss5 pounds The total sale!
Tor the season to date aggregate 7osl,,
$50 pounds. ,,,.
The young tobacco plants are grow
ling off finely, and with favorable sea
son a full crop is predicted in this sec
ton.
) The outlook for peanuts, however
Il rather disheartening. Owing to tn
cool dry weather the seed nuts wef
| damaged, and generally bad stand
| reported
The largest and best wheat Gro
known in this section is being harvest
| ed. The farmers put larger area ina
usual in wheat this season.
Fruits of all kinds, peache< pears