The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1910-08-12
PETERSBURG BOARD.
ELECTS OFFICERS
Teachers for Ettrick Sub-District
Will Be Appointed Sat
urday.
MORE OF CHURCH FIGHT
Nolle Prosequies Entered BY
Commonwealth Attorney
Negro Boy Jailed.
MORE OF CHURCH FIGH

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PETERSBURG. August 1.-THE
school board of the city of Peters
burg has elected the following Off
GERS: j, +. w. Smith, president; w.
L. MCCALL, vice president; j. Nor
ton Townsend secretary
The Ettrick sub district school
board will meet Saturday at O'Clock
in the afternoon. At this meeting
teachers for the ensuing session will
he appointed
A high school Is greatly desired
ia EttricK, many Of the parents
sehdlng their children to the high
school in Petersburg. paying tuition.
Had the town been Incorporated steps
would have been taken to have
school. As 1t liz. the county funds
being distributed through Chesterfield
are not sufficient to prosecute the
work greatly In any one place
Prof. Nathaniel &. Starke is to open
this fall In this city a new military
school, to be known as Petersburg
Military Academy. Prof. Starke was
formerly resident OF Petersburg. but
mas been engaged in school work In
suffolk and Norfolk In recent years
The new institution takes the place
OF the Petersburg Academy which has
IL.
Noiie Prosequics.
In the Hastings Court Thursday,
Judge Mullen presiding, the cases OF
the commonwealth against Eli Tartte
and Joseph White. colored. were call
ed and nolle prosequies were entered.
Before entering nolIe prosequies
commemorative Attorney Mann
stated to the court that he had ex-
hausted every means at his command
10 secure substantial convictions in
these case. He had thought the de-
-tsndants~ guilty and should have been
convicted, but the court had thought
otherwise and had declared that no
CONVICTION except one imposing a
small fine would be allowed to stand.
Mr.. Mann further declared that. in
asmuch is the court had determined
the matter. and as the commonwealth
must finally be bound by such deter
mination, the expense of another trial
was useless
Tartte and his church fractional diff
ficulties have been before the court
Tor several years. He has been the
cause OF disturbance among the mem
bers of Harrison Street church since
he came as pastor OF this large coll
ored congregation.
Boy Arrested.
Thursday morning ben Johnson, a
colored boy. was caught In the act
of breaking into the drug store of Or.
Burton. a colored physician on Hall
fax street He was sent to Jail for
sixty days
Several days ago in Chesterfield
county near Matoaea, two small boys.
Andrews and Grigg. were run over
by horse and painfully injured.
Albert Walker. negro, indicted
for highway robbery. was tried
Thursday in the Hastings Court and
sentenced to sixteen years in the peni-
Tertiary. Walkers victim, John
Goodwin. colored, was robbed of his
watch and a small sum of money.
Personals.
DR.. W. c. Taylor. pastor OF the
First Baptist church. is taking his va
cation in Oregon.
Mr.. John Mes. Buchanan will leave
New York Saturday fer trip to his
old home in Scotland. He will leave
Petersburg Friday night.
DR.. Il. r, Talley returned to Pc
tersburg Saturday after a five weeks
absence Ia West Virginia. during
which time he was taken Ill and I'M
derwent an operation for appendicitis,
tait~y, offiy eretffer OF
Mr.. J. A. Pulley. died Wednesday
night at Person City. y. Y. He was
seventy-four years of age.
Miss Ophelia Percival, who has
been i'll with typhoid fever. is i'm
proving.
Mrs. Charles Ambold. who has been
visiting in Ocean View. has returned
to Petersburg,
The brother of Mr., II. Gordon Fin
ney, secretary of the Chamber OF
Commerce, is i'll at his home in Wash
ington,
A handsome book IL being made by
the Agricultural Fair Association OF
Petersburg. advertising the scope of
the fair and premiums offered in the
exhibit.