The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1910-11-23
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10 LOAD EXPRESS
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NaLWAxs COMPLAIN THAT TRAINS
No NOT sroP LONG ENoIeH
TO LOAD TT.
lfxNUAL ASSESSMENTS
@Dm. GEORGE z. HOOKER ASSUMES
biz DUTIES OF NEW
PAsTORATE.
ANNUAL. ASSESSMENTS

PETERSBURG. VA. November IS.
sr-&ecretary X. Gordon Finney. of the
tshamher OF Commerce. has telc-
EswfAphed Mr. Walter Ruckner. super
81 lntendent OF the Southern Express
fEpmpany, complaining that the Attain
~ Coast Line railway and the Sea-
beard Air Line do not allow the mer-
S#AchAnts and shippers but ten minuses
~ load on the trains their express
4 matter
sss This Is realized 10 he serious
htndrance to business when the enor-
4 mouse amount OF express matter from
Petersburg liz considered
K afr4 Rucker has been asked 10 ocme
q m Petersburg and investigate thc
n matter before the Christmas trade
AeEins. 50 that these conditions may
& he taken up with the railway com
II panies, and the situation relieved
s There being some difficulty In unit
ing upon a design for the Iassa-
ss.chMsetts monument by the commits
4 eton, II is doubted that the statue can
" ~ unveiled In the spring as hereto
\ fore stated
The design already submitted to A.
x ~. Hill Camp as the proposed naosfu-
4 naent was so entirely satisfactory that
u tbs site for its erection was donated
ITO the State of Massachusetts,
Fowl Ordinance Unsatisfactory.
There is an ordinance in Petersburg
f7pfohibiting the sale ~ nndrawn
Fowls and this is creating some dis
R}A041afacfion among th., commission
MErchants, one of whom recently
~ 1Md consignment OF LOCO turkeys
Tered him to be placed on this mar
EkSG but this ordinance prohibited his
cEeptance for sale in Petersburg
the fowls were taken to
cnmond The people. however, are
OF the opinion that undra~n
eNls should not be marketed here.
gssKs ANNUAL Assessments
ne assessed valuation of the DIFF
FNnt railroad. telegraph. telephone
~ other public corporations for
44NFaburR a. given for the year 1910
~ follows:
orfoik ana Western railway
Eld. etc. $h24.s4s. Virginia hallway
1A Power Company, land. s13i.5lo:
etsonal. tss.1so
pper Appomattox companp--Land
E41f.fp0. City Point branch of. the
k0TYOtk and Western railway, land.
Na01.
|Ss American Telephone Company per
v AenAl, &2.355. Petersburg Telephone
BoAnpan. personal. s66. zoe, shilIIps
eeamboat Line personal. $e7 400.
oushern Express Company personal.
g3Ae145; Western Union Telegraph, 60.
slgAfSnnaL $685.: Petersburg Gas Co.
#&Nk,27Q. Postal Telegraph Company
NHWFA0nai. 1855. The aggregate in
rfeAxe over last year IL $l.1a0.i3
New Pastor Welcomed
E@ Key. George +. Booker, the new
Ra3M4tOr 81 Washington Street Methodist
S4urch. has arrived in Petersburg and
needay night was rendered II recep-
n nm At the parsonage on Washington
SetrHet.
Al the "Wednesday evening exercises
&NnA services VIII he conducted by the
%Iresfding elder. Rev j. X. Joiiin.
Il However. Dir. Booker win be present.
is Observe Thanksgiving Day.
Ssa The observance Of Thanksgiving
DAY in Petersburg will be character
Y LED by quietness. A number of peo-
PIE Will so to Richmond TO The foot
baH game and the aviation meet
The banks ana postofiice will he
ssSSMtQsed and many merchants have de-
FsM&4ed To give "a holiday Ia their etn-
pacyes a portion Of the day. Services
4 Mstti be held In several churches, the
resbytcrians at Tabb Street. the
II 1efhotiists ut Wesley services to be
konducted by Rev. W. r. A. Haynes.
Nnsrylces at 81. PauIts Episcopal and
#14 81. Jossph's Catholic.
Trimming school Opens.
%SyAs The training school for Sunday
1chool workers opened "Wednesday af-
A<rnocn at First Baptist church De-
%xoftunal exercises We're conducted by
WAX. TAYLOR. Subjects discussed were:
@MNtJur True Prospection." by Miss Mar
lsrAt Frost; '.Fiilipg the sunday
\ School" by Arthur Flake. Wednes-
10y evening at 7 O'clock services will
EShe continued.