Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1915-01-01
Trade Statistics of Richmond for 1914 o1u No Blackboard 81
named as director Of Federal reserve

named a director Of Federal reserve
bank
OCTOBER.
2-State-wide election certified by
| Governor.
4-George J. seay named AZ gov
ernor OF Fifth Reserve District.
5-Virginia State Fair opens.
REV. T. c. Darst elected Bishop
OF Diocese Of Eastern Carolina.
8-Injunction brought to stop sign
Ing Of paving contract.
edward r. Fuller nominated for
House Of Delegates to succeed D. l.
| Toney.
1o-American bankers arrive for con-
vention.
13-John Kerr Branch mnde director
Of Southern Railway Company.
18-Master Bakers arrive for oon-
vention.
2o-Overbrook Presbyterian Church
| cornerstone laid.
22-Henrico County School Board re-
strained from using funds to pay for
automobile.
23-Virginia cities decide to contest
| rolling stock law.
! IA. o. Bontwright re elected presi-
dent Of Virginia Baseball League.
25-Romantic marriage of Robert
w. Daniel and Mrs. Eloise Smith,
| Titanic survivors.
26-Jury gives Hugh Harrison $4,000
|
Clarisa Sears Ramsay, owner Of West
! over.
27-Bishop CoadJutor Brown conse-
Grated.
29-Telephone Pioneers assemble here
for social meeting.
2S-Fffth District banks s.nd {,
subscriptions in gold.
30-Richmond banks subscribe to
l35.00O.OO0 cotton loan fund
ai-John Clements. colored. charged
| Win Chenault assault acquitted
NOVEMBER.
| Rev. ]. u. Hutson, d. d.. begins
| forty-third consecutive year as pastor
lof Pine Street Baptist Church.
Virginia Railway and Power Com
! pany asks for thirty-year blanket
! franchise.
3-Compulsory education adopted by
| Richmond electorate
4-Major a. Il. Courtney dies.
h-Annexation of sixteen square
miles or territory effective. Richmond
and Henrico Railway sold for 100000.
G-Council adopts bond Issue of
S543.43o for suburban improvements.
baptist churches end campaign
which brought in 1900 converts
.s-Southern Medical Association be-
gins annual convention.
11--Colonel Henry NJ. Boykin mode
state commissioner on Belgian relief.
thames a. Marcuse dies
i5-Rev. III. ID. c. Maclachlan says
poiiCe lOTCe Is Tree from graft
1G-Federal reserve bank begins
. operations
l7-Richmond banks subscribe ST.
100000 additional, completing $l35.-
100000 cotton loan fund
lS-Relief for Pine Camp voted by
Council.
19-Federai Judge Pritchard named
as mediator in railroad cases
20-West Virginia prohibition laws
brought TO United States court for de-
/ 22-Labor unionists want blanket
franchise proposition submitted to vote.
2a-Chamber OF Commerce asks state
corporation Commission to Investigate
| light and power rates
25-Virginia Teachers Association
holds annual conference.
I 26-Cniversity of Virginia again
triumphs over Carolina
2S-Local firm sells horses valued at
100000 to European nations
DECEMBER.
c-Richmond named as postal-savinr
depository.
3-lIuther l.. Schcrcr shot down by
man who ESCAPED
i--Design for new sSo0,0O0 municipal
building selected
G-R!chmond schools declared by ey-
perts to be far behind others in public
support
Council votes to cxpend sl25,0oo
, to give work to unemployed
S-Fedcral Council OF Churches and
National Society for Promotion Of IN
dustrial Education being annual con-
ventions. :,
9-William j. Bryan In speech mere
| says big army will not prevent war.
l0-School convention says Virginia
Mechanics Institute should be part OF
; public system.
ll-Federal Council sends message of
good will TO Japan.
EEK convict confesses that he shot
Sch ercr.
IA. Ruggles Nelson. dies suddenly.
l1-R. /. shelton shoots wife
lT-Suit of |. j. Smith & Co. against
city for $4,000 started
lS-Richmond man killed in South
ern Railway wreck near Jetersvillc.
l9-Dr. J. w. Williams arrested on
cocaine charge.
20-Rcv. II. J. Wiilingham. d. D.. dies
suddenly.
administrative Board puts s97
unemployed men to work.
22-Busincss men advocate better
baseball for Richmond
23-Girl leaps from ten-story build
ing TO instant death.
24-Community Christmas tree cxer-
| ciscs attended by 10000 persons
25-F'irst white Christmas in FIVE
years.
e6--Richmond poor suffer from cold
spell. and Associated Charities is
! swampcd with applications for help
27-Plant of Richmond Forgins Cor
poration burned
2S-Roland II. Childrey and Judson
Cunningham arrested for dispensing
habit-forming drugs.
30-AIunicipal Employment Bureau is
29-NirSinia railroads ask State Cor
poration Commission to grant higher
rates
organized.
al-Chicf Health Omcer Levy reports
lowest annual typhoid rate In history
OF city.