The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1916-11-08
tLkS' COUNTY FAIR
WILL BE BIG Event
All Petersburg Interested In This
Novel Entertainment and Society -
Drama.
VISIT OF ACCA MOBILES.
Richmond Shriners TO BE Given Rig
Tfmc--Isoys Nearly All vote Tor
Wilson---Dr. Htchbcrg Dead.


! Petersburg. Va, Nov. T.--Indica-
lions are that about tho largest crowd
OF the season viii witness the Elks
County Fair at tho Academy of Music
Thursday and Friday evenings OF this
week. The reserved seat sale Will open
tomorrow morning at Morrison's drug
store and "a rush for the paSteboards
| Is expected. Rehearsals are being
held daily and tho entertainment
| PROMISES TO furnish an evening Of real
| pleas sure TO ell who attend. Among
| the characters are: Paul Petit. as
Bass Jones: W. #. Rahfly. as Prof.
| sparatti II, Fl. Kidd, as Uncle Jake;
Mrs Casey, as Aunt Mary: Spider
Webb, as Handy Andy; Loretta
| Powers. us digging Sal, Gladys
Ramey. as the bride; Wilson Pugh. AZ
the groom; W. f. Talbot. as the
w!dower; sam Reinaoh as Madame
Carissi; Pete Baugh, as the Dutch
woman; Mrs w. W. Townes and Mrs
Rahfly. ss lunch women; Louise Tai
bolt, as widow Srnfthers; r. a. Nor
rison. as the wheel-of- fortune man: l.
A. Roeenstociz, as tho lemonade mani
Sidney Green, as the hit-the-coon
man: +. W. Holm, Jr., Eustis Boiling
err Fred Davis. Jr.. and Wexford Fisk,
as aorobats-
About three hundred persons will
take part, among them many OF tho
| leading local talent
Fruit OF His Folly.
While tho Elks County Fair is be-
ing held at the Academy. the society
drama 'erhe Fruit of His Folly" or
CAS- a Man Soweth." will DO presented
on the evenings of the 9Th and 10th,
under the direction of Mr.. James ID.
| McK erney, ut the Stonewall Jackson
| School auditorium, for the benefit Of
the West Bnd Baptist Church. Mr..
! MoKenney has selected his cast with
great care and his reputation for sue
cessfully handling amateur talent
gives assurance of a delightful even
ing's entertainment both Thursday
and Friday. Special scenery and
music have been arranged for the
play and about thirty-dve young peo-
pie will make up the cast.
| Big Majority for Wilson.
| Pupils Of the Petersburg High
School held n regular election today.
balIoting for presidential candidates.
Three hundred and thirteen ballots
were cast. resulting for Wilson. 264;
Hughes, 4s; Benson. l.
Visits of Acca Mobiles.
Aoca Temple, Mobiles OF the Mystic
| Shrine, Of Richmond Will visit Pc
teraburg Thursday evening about three
/
! train and Will be entertained by the
! Cocxade City MOBILES Messrs, Harry
+ \. James. W W. prosson. Richard A.
! Munden, W w. Hines and Charles N
! Romalne, comprising tho entertain
/ rnant committee, have perfected ar
! ran gemeuts for the entert ainment of
/ the visitors. The Richnonders will
detrain at the Washington Street Sta
tion. march through several streets In
the business and residential districts
and assemble Mt Masonic Temple.
where they VIII be welcomed by May
or Robert Gillian. after which "a buffet
luncheon will be served. Following
the luncheon q large class of candi-
dates VIII be initiated at Library Hall
end the Richmonders WIN leave for
home about midnight.
Death of DIR. Ftehberg.
| Dr. Julius H Eighbsrg. a nativs OF
Petersburg, oldest brother OF Emanuel
Eichberg, of this city. died at French
| Lick Springs Wednesday. last. and his
body was crenated in Cincinnati Sun
day. where he had prsoticed his pro-
fssascn for many years. His ashes
will be brought TO Petersburg In n
bronxe tablet and inferred by the side
Of his father In Rodef ehoiem Gem g.
terry,
Clarence Fl. Walthali. tina nineteen
year-old son of j. s. Walthall, of
Chesterfield County. was the victim OF
q peculiar. hut painful accident while
coming from his home to the city this
morning. The young man suddenly
fell from his bicycle Just beyond Bish-
| ops Bridge and was picked up un-
conscious. He was taken to the Pc
| tersbuFs Hospital and 1t Is thought
that he suffered sudden attack of
acute indigestion or VERT go.
Tag Day for Orphans.
The annual tag day for tho benefit
of the Methodist Orphanee of Peters
burg viii be held Saturday, November
Is. The orphanage is one OF the most
worthy institutions in Southside Vir-
ginta and the Petersburg public al
ways responds literally for its main
tsnance.
Mr.. and Mrs. John A. Gill announce
the approaching marriage OF their
daughter. Ida Louise, to Richard Mil
ton Cary, the ceremony to take place
IN this city on Tuesday, November Al
Hall Mcdaniel aged twelve years, q
pupil of the Duncan Brown School
! was struck by an automobile as he
left school yesterday and suffered n
! broken leg. He was taken to the Pc
tersourg Hospital and attended by DR.
BaGby.