The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1911-07-15
New Building Expected to Be
Ready for Occupancy by
September I.
MEMORIAL AT OLD BLANDFORD
Man Arrested on Charge of Being
Fugitive From Justice-Other
Petersburg News.
Times-Dispatch Bureau.
100 North Sycamore Street.
Petersburg, Va Ju1v ,

inc quarterly meeting OF the special
board of directors OF the Central state
Hospital was held at that institution
'o-oay' Besides the usual routine
business. the board opened bids and
awarded contracts for furnishing sun
plies OF all kinds for the quarter begin
ming July /, The bulk of these sup
plies is furnished by Petersburg and
Richmond merchants.
Separation of Criminal Insane
The new building which is being
erected at the Central State Hospital
Tor the confinement and care OF the
criminal insane patients is expected to
be completed by the middle of August
or the first of September 1t will be a
two-story brick structure. with abou,
t"enty-hv rooms and all necessary
FonVeniences. Superin ,endeat Drewry
and the board of directors have long
urgently favored the separation of
INC criminal Insane from the harmless
insane.
Charged With FaIse Pretense.
r. J. Parrish. employed at the cigar
ft'e factory on Perry Street, was ar
rested this morning by Detectives
Games and Heelan. on a warrant sworn
out by OfIicey r. r. Hall of Durham
county n. c., charging him with being
fugitive from Justice Parrish while
bui on bail TO answer a charge OF false
pTe,ense. which Is felony in North
carolina jumped his bond and came
90 petersburg several months ago. and
secured employment He has wife
and several children, and mis- vie
Neeps boarding house on Brown
street. near the factory In which her
husband worked. Parrish volunteered
10 go back TO Durham without re-
auestioH" and was taken back this af-
ternoon
4 Beautiful Memorial.
The Ladies' Memorial Associate is
hoping TO have the two missing State
windows placed In old B,andford
church before the close OF the year
and thus 10 have that unique and
beautiful memorial. the most beauti-
1ul Of It's kind in the country. coIuplet.
Cd Every State In the South has fur
hished window for this church In
memory OF It's soldier dead buried in
Biandford Cemetery. with the eXcep-
non o! Georgia and Texas. and these.
It IL believed, Will have theirs in place
this year.
Rumors OF New Hotel.
Rumors are in the air of big
hotel TO be erected in Petersburg 1t
Is stated that local capitalists may
HNNHA' Oh the three present
hotels. and In their place erect large
modern structure on Tabb Street on
the site Of the presen, Shirley Hotel
Plans have not yet matured. and moth
Ing definite can be obtained.
General News Notes.
Frank Wood, a Lombard Street mer-
chant, has been advised by cablegram
OF the death OF his father in Berlin,
and Will leave for that city next week
TO look after the estate.
j. V. Collins. formerly and for many
years a merchant of this city, now OF
Washington, is here visiting friends.
Mr., Collins Is now in the employment
OF the Seaboard Air Line Company.
The seventeen-yeer locusts have dis
appeared from this aection almost as
suddenly as they appeared. And SO far
as heard from there have been TO
complaints OF any damage done by
them.
Mrs. Damer. of Chesterfield county,
who donated the land near Drewry's
Bluff for fresh camp. Is arrang-
ing TO give a ten days outing TO some
forty or more young women employed
in the retail stores in this city, whom
she will select
Many OF the social organizations an
this city have suspended their meet
ings for the summer months. to re-
sumo them in the fall. Some of the
rcnrd clubs are still keeping up their
social meetings.
The left field fence at the Peters
burg baseball park has been moved
hack g distance of fifty feet. 1t will
not he so easy TO make home runs
now
The recent rains in this section have
been of such local character and so
little has fallen on the city's water
shed that no perfectible increase of the |
supply in the reservoirs
G. a. Tittz of this city. has at his
stables on Lombard Street a great Gu
riostiy In the way of a fowl--half tur- ,
key and half guinea, and perfectly
formed. Mr.. Fittz secured the fowl
from a citizen OF one OF the adjacent
counties, and it has attracted great
attention.