The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1910-08-04
EXPENSES EXCEED
RECE|P IS OF CITY
July Month OF Light Income
and Heavy Outlay for
Petersburg.
COMMON COUNCIL MEETS
Chamber Of Commerce Receives
Inquiries as to Farming
Lands.
COMMON COUNCIL MEETS
Times-Dispatch Bureau.
100 North Sycamore Street,
Petersburg. Va, August g.

Petersburg, Va, August g.
According to the reports of the City
| Treasurer and Auditor, submitted to
the Common Council last evening, the
cash receipts of the city for the
month of July were $i44o6, while the
months expenditures were s37.25o. 1t
was month Of light income and of
/ heavy expense on account of extended
public improvements in progress.
Very little business of public inter-
| est outside the usual routine and de-
/ partmental appropriations was trans
! acted. In the face of an adverse re-
| port from the Street Committee on
| the petition of the street sweepers for
an increase of 20 cents per day in
their wages, the Council voted the in
crease. necesstatins an annual appro-
priation of 5000 These employees will
now get s1.75 per day.
| The Council granted to the Peters
burg Grays the use OF the upper floor
| OF the old Artillery Clubhouse on
| West Tabb Street for use temporarily
as the company's armory. The large
hall in the Library Building, for years
used as an armory, has soon to be va
| Gated, the property having been re-
Gently purchased by the Virginia rail-
way and Power Company for its own
| purpose. There is a proposition pend
| ing in the Council TO convert the
present Public High School Building
into an armory, as it is contemplated
to make the Anderson School Build
ing on Washington Street the High
School in future.
Two important resolutions were In
troduced In the Council by Mr.. Mat
tox last evening. which were referred
for consideration and report. One Of
these resolutions is to inquire into
the feasibility of establishing and
maintaining a separate city park for
colored people, and the other is to in
quire into the feasibility OF changing
the location of the Peabody (colored)
High School, now located on Fillmore
Street. This school is in a Very de-
sirable residential section, and 1t is
said the site can be disposed of ad-
vantageously.
The resignation of j. G.. Quarlss as |
member of the Council from Fifth
was elected in his place. Mr.. Quarles |
becomes member of the Board of Al
dermen on September 1.
r. d. Budd and NJ. Carter Hall were
elected delegates to represent the city
In the convention of the American
League of Municipalities. which is to
meet this month in ST. Paul, MINI.
New Corporation.
Application Is to be made to the Cor
poration Commission this week for q
charter for the ''E. P. GOODWIN Fire
insurance Company, 1nc.," with the
principal office in Petersburg. The Of
hcers to be named are: Joseph w. Sew
ard. president; DR.. II. G. Leigh. vice
president; Secretary and Treasurer, 3.
2. Goodwin. The purpose Of the COM
pany Is to conduct a general insurance
business The authorized capital is
$4,000
Serious Cutting Affair.
over at her home in Chesterfield
county last night. Maggie Simmons,
colored, was cut and stabbed by John
Parham, also colored. Parham is under
arrest. and the woman is to be brought
to the hospital. She is badly injured
In the abdomen and her condition is |
serious. The cause OF the trouble may
have been jealousy. Parhan was beat
en- by brother of the woman after
the cutting.
Death in Dinwiddie.
Mrs. Amanda v. Jackson, widow of
Lee A. Jackson, died day or two ago
at the residence Of her daughter, Mrs
William Hitchcock. in Dinwiddie coun-
ty. She was in her eighty-second wear.
and Is survived by two daughters and
one son. all Of Dinwiddie-Mrs. VIM.
Hitchcock. Mrs ]. c. Hitchcock and N
]. Jackson.
Personal and Otherwise.
Miss Ophelia Percivall. who is i'll of
typhoid fever at the residence OF her
mother on Washington Street shows
no Improvement in condition to-day.
Miss Dorothy Brooke Peasants left
this afternoon to visit friends in Roa- |
noke and Shawsville.
Second Baseman Guiheen, of the Pc
tersburg Club, is still confined to the.
hospital by fever though his condition
is favorable
most a surfeit OF baseball during the
next few days Danyille plays four
games here this week and Richmond
and Norfolk will each play three games
here next week.
Annie and Gertrude, little daughters
OF Mr.. and Mrs. John N. Pearman, We're
made quite i'll yesterday by eating
something, the nature Of which was
unknown to the parents. They were
relieved by physician and are now
well.
Captain Geo. NJ. Woods. head Of the
Salvation Army In Petersburg, has re-
turned from visit OF two weeks to
the Blue Mountains of Pennsylvania
Miss Eva Mae Crump. OF Washington,
is visiting relatives in this city, her
former home,
Inquiring for Lands.
The Chamber OF Commerce has re-
ceived many requests for information
about farm lands and educational ad-
vantages In this section. These inaul-
ries have come from different points
in the North and West and from Cam
ada The writer's express desire to
locate in n section where the climatic
condition is more agreeable.
CAMP MEETING ENDS.
Holiness Meetings, Near Goshen, ATT
trncted Large Crowds.
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