The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1910-04-13
Each Southern State Represented
in Old Blandford
Church.
MUNICIPAL PRIMARY DATE
Power Company Gets Option OIL
Valuable Business
Property.
Times Dispatch Bureau.
10o North Sycamore street.
Petersburg. Va, Aprl 1.

erected In 1i3o. It's walls In large
measure covered with ivy. which In
recent years has been given over to
the custody and care Oh the Ladies
Memorial Association, and conSertcd
into a Confederate memorial chapel,
complement OF State memorial win
dows. There is place in the church
for the erection of window by each
OF the states of the South in memory
OF It's heroea buried in Blandford
Cemetery. where rests the dust of
some $4,000 or 10000 Southern sol
dlers.
several Of these windows have al
ready been placed in position, and
yesterday, through i. 5. Beciswith <
Co., others were received by the La
dies Memorial Association. and placed
in the church TO await their places.
These are for the States of South
Carolina, Mississippi. Alabama. Ten
nessee, Maryland and Arkansas. The
only two remaining States 10 furnish
windows are Georgia and Texas, and
1t is expected that these Will soon be
Forthcoming.
Accompanying these is beautiful
window to b. placed over the main
entrance to the church, which bears
the following inscription; ITO the
Everlasting Glory and Honor of the
Ladies Memorial Association OF Pc
tersburg, the First Confederate Me-
mortal Association Organized in the
South" Immediately above this VIII
be erected another beautiful memori-
al In the form OF cross.
All OF these windows were made at
the Tiffany studio in New York, the
cost of the state windows being s4oo
mt IL n ncirr IN
and OF the highest order OF art. Each
window viii bear the fun size figure
of one OF the Apostles, with the coat
of arms Of the State furnishing II
above, and an appropriate inscription
heloy the figure. The Virginia win
dow bears the figure of the beloved
Apostle, St John. 1t is expected that
ali of the newly arrived windows will
be In place and ready for unveiling
by the middle of May.
Date for Municipal Primary.
The Democratic, City Central Com
mittee met last night and adopted
plan for the primary election, at which
candidates for the Board of Aldermen
and Common Council are to be nomi-
nated-one Alderman and two. Coun-
cilmen for each ward. The committee
fixed Thursday. April IS, as the day
fee OF 50 on each person Offering and
required. all applicants to have their
names in the hands of the committee
by O'Clock p. N. on Monday. April
u.s.
This action of the committee will
have the effect of bringing out prompt
announcements from all persons con-
templat!ng offering for seats in the
councils.
Meeting of board of Aldermen.
The regular monthly meeting of the
Board OF Aldermen was held last eve
ming, but the business vas mainly
routine. confined TO consideration OF
measures passed upon by the Common
Council, and concurrence therein. me
license tax ordinance, as adopted by
tile Council, was approved. BY this
ordinance the license for retailing IL
onor is fixed at $500, and for shipping
liquor at $500.
Personal and Otherwise.
Rev. and Mrs William C. Taylor
have issued invitations to the lnarrl-
age OF their daughter, Ruth. to dar-
yey Strachan Gill, on Tuesday evening
April 26. al . o'clock, in the First Bap-
list Church in this city.
The southside realty Company. Inc,
of this city, yesterday sold to T. r.
Griffith, of Ohio. farm OF 53l acres
one mile from Waverly, for $4,000, 1t
is said that Mr.. Griffith VIII estap
lish a dairy farm
Mrs. George s. Jones is i'll of pneu-
monia in her home in Marshall street
The remains of the late Thomas CT
Leath, of Richmond, were brought to
Petersburg this afternoon and the
burial was in Elandfcrd Cemetery.
The election of president of the
Board of Aldermen. TO I'LL the vacancy
caused by the resignation from mat
body of Waiter y. Jones. has been de-
ferred until the May meeting of the
board.
Mrs. W. y Hcrzog was painfully
hurt by a fall last evening on Market
Street. j.,
The people Of Matoaca district IN
Chesterfield county are urslhs 'ie
Virginia Railway and Power company
ia build a line out TO Matoaca. grant
inn the company free right of way.
The company has the htit'ei u0o'
consideration.
r. Gordon Fnney, secretary of the
Petersburg. Chamber of Commerce. has
haen advised by President Harvey Nj
Dickson of his election as one OF inc
Vice Presidents of the Fortiiicatlons
conference, which has for its OBJECT
the fortitlcation of the Virginia capes'
railway Option on Property
1T is understood that the Virginia
Railway and Power Company Is ne
gotiating for the purchase OF the
large building at the corner Of syca-
more and Bollingbrook Streets. know!
as the "Library BUILDING and tha'
the company has an option on the
property. The building has stores
fronting on Bollinghrook Street witt
a high pitched hall and offices on the
second floor, now used as an armorA
for the Petersburg Grays.
Should the purchase be made ths
railway and power company would I'M
prove the property and establish ther'
its offices, and make the building
convenient and central station for IL
lines.
Pretty Marriage Ceremony.
AT O'Clock this afternoon at tbs
residence of the BRIDES mother OF
Grove Avenue, Miss Annie Leigh La
nier, daughter of Mrs VI WI Lanier
was united IN marriage to Eugene
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