The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1910-08-06
CONVENTION WILL
ATTRACTFARMERS
Attendance at State Institute Ex-
pccted to Reach One
Thousand.
INTERESTING ANNOUNCEMENT
Petersburg Police Quell Small
Sized Riot Among
Negroes.
INTERESTING ANNOUNCEMENT
Times Dispatch Bureau.
109 North sycamore Street,

Petersburg, Va. August D.
AT least two Of the formal addresses
to be delivered before the State Farm
ers' Institute to be held In this city
next week will be OF special interest
to Middle and Southslde Virginia. The
first Of these will be devoted to Farm
ing in Middle and Southside virginia
and How 1t Can Be Made Profitable,
and the second will be on GROWING
Hay" in these two sections.
Fully 1000 farmers are expected 20
attend the institute, and the Chamber
OF Commerce is now endeavoring 20
make suitable arrangements for their
accommodation.
A Midday Robbery.
The store Of j. A. Pulley was rob.
bed shortly after noon yesterday. Tho
clerk had closed the store to go to
his dinner, and during his absence en-
drawer robbed OF some s3s or $40.
There is no clue to the thief or to tho
money.
Interesting Announcement.
| Announcement has been made OF the
| engagement OF Mrs. Fannie NJ Taylor,
OF Louisville, Ky, to John D. Bur
| CESS. OF Cincinnati. O. The wedding
Will be solemnized on Tuesday, August
8, at half-past / O'Clock p. NJ at the
home OF the brides daughter, Mrs.
AIonzo r. Love, on West Washington
street, in this city. The ceremony will
be performed by the Rev. Alonzo r.
Love- pastor of West End Baptist
Church Mr.. Burgess Is associate gen
cral agent Of the Connecticut Mutual
| Life Insurance Company. and very
popular insurance man in Cincinnati
To Unveil n Monument.
On Sunday afternoon next at 8
| o'clock at Waverly, monument
erected to the memory Of George Will
/ liams by the woodmen of the World
will be unveiled with appropriate
conducted by the local camp and the
two camps in Petersburg.
| Negro Fighters Arrested.
The police last night auelled small
sized riot which occurred among ne
| groes on Plum Street, and arrested
/ most of those engaged in the disturb
tance. The trouble is said to have
arisen over the division of some fruit
which had been taken from a passing
vendor. When the police arrived they
found men and women engaged in the
melee, and that bricks, tin cans. case
knives, sticks and anything in the
way of offense and defense that came
handy were being used. One woman
Lizzie Williams-was gashed across
the arm and others were slightly in
jured. The rioters all paid the pen
atty in court this morning.
General News Notes.
] Helen Fulton, the eleven-months-o old
daughter of Mr.. and Mrs. w. H. Marks,
of Prince George county, died yester-
day at the home of the parents near
Garysville The burial took place this
afternoon at Brandon.
w. H. Hardy, of Dinwiddie county. .
few miles from this city, has discov.
cred extensive formations of granite
of fine quality on his farm, underly-
Ing. 1t is said, about ten acres.
Protracted meetings will begin at
Ocean NJ. E. Church in Dinwid1ie, and
Mt. Sinai Church in Prince George on
Sunday, to be continued throughout
the week.
j. a. wesson will attend the Ma
tional Convention of Eagles to be held
in st. Louis the latter part of this
month, as the representative of Pc
tersburg Aerie. Several other Peters
burg Eagles are contemplating going
to the convention.
Police Justice Chas. =. Plummer be-
| gan his summer vacation to-day.
"A severe electrical storm is re-
| ported to haye passed over a portion
Eof Dinwiddie county yesterday, doing
some damage in the vicinity of Reams
Several telephone poles were struck
by lightning.
! Mr.. and Mrs. L. B. Hargrave and
daughters, Helen and Fannie, have
gone TO Ocean View for visit of ten
days.