The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1911-10-11
ALDERMEN HOLD
REGULAR MEETING.
Act on Several Appropriations
and Measures Passed by
Council.
ANNUAL SESSION JR. o. u. A. M.
New Motion in Bank Cases.
Other Petersburg
News.
Times-Dispatch Bureau.
100 North Sycamore Street.

| Petersburg, Va, october 10.
! At its regular monthly session last
night the Board of Aldermen concur
red in most of the appropriations and
measures passed by the Council last
week, but refused to concur In others.
| The Board voted non-concurrence IN
! the Councils appropriation of $500 for
the employment of detectives to as
sist the police In main Ia lining order ana
preventing robberies at the Fair
Grounds next week. but agreed to give
$3.50 for that purpose.
The board also voted non concurrence
in the Councils appropriation of 81
900 for oiling the roadways of certain
! unpaved streets. Bills for about SS.-
900 for the School Board for the past
month were ordered to be paid. but not
without some criticism as to their
amount
The resolution from the Council au-
thorizing the public sale of the Poca-
| hontas iron bridge at the head of the
harbor was defeated, or rather laid on
the table indefinitely. This bridge was
some time ago pronounced unsafe. and
was abandoned for traffic. a temper
airy structure is being used In it's place.
Annual Session of Jr. q. u. A. NJ.
| The twentyseventh annual meeting
| of the Virginia State Council, Junior
Order United American Mechanics. will
| DO held next Tuesday and Wednesday
| in Alexandria. and about 200 delegates
are expected to attend. State Council
Secretary Thomas 3. IveY, OF this city,
has been busy for some days in send
| ing of reports of the officers and in
attending to other business of the
order preparatory TO the annual SEES
| sion.
From advance reports to be submit.
| ted to the Council IT is Learned that
| there are 1874 subordinate councils in
the State, with total membership of
l7.4+1. owning property of the value of
| sl54.SS6. During the year now closing
sixteen now councils will organize DR.
| William Evans. of Norfolk, is the pres
! eRt State councillor but at the meeting
next week he will be succeeded by Dr.
! w. A. Gordan OF Elkton. State Secre-
| tary Thomas B. Ivey Is elected for a
term of three years. and his time does
| not expire this year. lie has held the
position for twenty-threc years-a tri-
butte to his efficiency and popularity.
During the past year the order. by
vote of the subordinate councils, de-
feated by decisive majority. the
proposition to establish an orphan
| 1T is said the matter will come up in
n new shape.
Demurrer Argued.
In tho Hastings Court to-day arsu-
| ment was heard on a demurrer TO the
compliments bill In the suit OF the
| Virginia National Bank against the
American Bank and Trust Company,
| involving the forfeiture OF stock of
the old AppomattoX Trust Company
| owned by Charles Hall Davis, alleged
| TO have been forfeited for non-pay-
mcnt. Tho suit Is brought to rein
state the stock
Directors Meeting.
| Tho monthly meeting of the spe-.
cial board of directors of the Central
State Hospital was held at that insti
! tuition to-day. The members OF the
board arc Robot Gillian. of Peters
burg: r. r. Cooke, of Norfolk, and
/ ]. G. Bohannon, OF Surry. Besides
| the usual auditing Of other routine
business the board awarded contracts
| for supplies of various kinds for the
current quarter. The superintcndents
annual report was received. showing
1855 patients In the hospital.
| Funeral OF james Bailey.
| The funeral of the late James Bailey,
for thirty years a well-LSown mer-
chant OF this city, took place at st.
Joscphs Catholic Church al noon to-
| day. with a large ga tn ering of friends