The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1911-06-20
Common Council Will Wind Up
Financial Matters To
Night
Y. M. C. A. PLANS NEW HOME
George F. Orn1sby TO Be Tried
for Lunacy-Othcr Peters
burg News.
Times Dispatch Bureau.
100 North Sycamore Street.

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wind up all financial matters for the
year. order the payment OF all ac-
counts for June and carry forward TO
the new year beginning July |, all
uneSpended appropriations. 1t is not
expected that any new business Viii
be introduced at this meeting.
Among the appropriations to be
carried forward are $4,000 for fur
nishing and completing the new Lee
and jackson public school buildings
on Washington street for which the
sum Of $4,000 was originally appro-
| priated. and $4,000 for the erection
of necessary buildings on the grounds
of the Fair Association. The city
erects these buildings and retains pos
session of them. They are in course
OF erection now.
4. VI. G. a. Home.
1t is probable that during the com
ing fall or winter. when conditions ars
favorable an active and determined
hurry campaign Will be made here to
raise funds for the building of a home
for the Young Mems Christian Asso-
ciation The association owns fine
site on Washington Street. has the
nucleus of library and has some
thousands of capital at its command
1t has also large pledged member
| ship, conditioned on the building OF
suitable home, The income from
membership Will be more than sum-
Client to meet the current expenses of
! the institution About $4,000 VIII
! be needed to build the home as plan
ned. and to secure this the campaign
Will be made at such time as the
| board of directors may suggest.
Gnla Week for Colorcd People.
This Will be gala week for the
rolored people of Petersburg. me
| colored Grand Lodge OF knights OF
| Pythias of Virginia will meet here IN
the Ebenezer Baptist Church to-mor-
row, and will be In session for four
| days. The occasion will attract a
large gathering OF the members of the
| order and their friends. There are
| TWO regiments OF the Uniform RanA
of the order in the State, embracing
some twenty-five or thirty companies
These regiments Will parade on
| Wednesday. and on Thursday the com
panies will engage in a competitive
Grand Lodge. a banquet is to be
| given the Grand Lodge members.
Fine New Pipe Organ.
/ The congregation OF West End Bap-
list Church yesterday morning decided
to purchase a fine pipe organ for their
church 1T cost of $4,000. The church
will bear the expense of making the
necessary change IN the building for
| the installation of the organ, and VIII
add other improvements at cost OF
| $500. 1t Is announced that the en-
tire amount for organ and improve
| mcnts has been raised BY subscription.
Personal Intelligence.
| Miss Mary It. Patteson and her aunt,
| Mrs. Randolph Barksdale, left for New
| York this morning, whence on W cd
nesday they will sail on the Oceanic,
| of the White Star Line. for Europe.
/ They Will be abroad all summer.
| Mrs. j. NJ. Peasants left yesterday
| for Gwynedd Valley. Montgomery
county. Pa, to visit MIR. and Mrs Irwin
| King.
/ ]. Hampden Slater, well known
merchandise broker of this city, who
has been confined to his home by sick
ness for some days, is gradually I'M
| proving. and is now able TO sit up
James II. Bailey and W. W. Warren,
who represented Post C in the con-
| vention of the National Travellers Pro-
! tective Association in Philadelphia last
| week, have returned home. They
| speak in terms of highest praise OF
| the hospitality and courtesies OF the
/ posts and people OF Philadelphia
| The body OF Mrs. Catherine C. Cham
| berlaine reached here this afternoon
| from Baltimore, and was buried IN
ST. Josephs Catholic Cemetery in
! Blandford. 3
Methodist sundny Schools.
| The monthly meeting of the Meth
| odist Sunday School Association was
! held yesterday afternoon a the church
| in Ettrick. All OF the schools but
| one reported. showing an aggregate
! register of 1870: average attendance.
F; 1887; per cent. of attendance. rs, and
money collected. S1iss1.
| To BE Tried for Lunacy
| George F. Ormsby who has been
prosecuting his wife. from whom he
is separated. in many efforts to secure
/ possession OF their child, is now under
| arrest in Washington. and Is to ne
examined for lunacy. Though he has
| failed in every attempt he has made
In the court to get the custody of the
boy, he has persisted In these efforts
| to an extent TO bring the case under
the head of persecution. He has fg-
nred in the Hastings Court and the
| Police Court in this city, and each
| time met with prompt rebuff In the
! last instance the Commonwealth's At
| torney warned him to leave Peters
burg or he would have him brought
f, before a commission for committal 10
an asylum. Judge Mullen. Clerk Gill
liam, commemorative Attorney Mann
and Chief of Police Ragland have been
summoned to Washington 10 appear
| as witnesses against Ormsby, and the
accused has had subpocnas Issued for
Judge Watson, Judge Barham, ex-G Gov
ernor Montague and others to appear
! in his behalf.
Injured In Auto Accident.
| Fl. P. Harrison and James p. Banks,
; of Petersburg. were painfully injured
| this evening while automobiiing N
/; the turnpike in Chesterfield county.
Mr.. Harrison was driving his own car.
in which were Mr. Banks. and severn!
others. and in attempting to pass Bart
lett Ropers car. in which were Mrs.
Nat Roper. Mrs. Paul Roper and Miss