The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1920-03-16
Petersburg

Especial to The Richmond virginlan.)
Petersburg. Va. March 15.-MAyor
Robert Gillian has Issued prociania-
ton stating that the week OF March %
will be observed as Marine memorial
week. and during that week free
will Offering win be made by the citi-
Gems of Petersburg. which will be used
to help in erecting colossal statue
on the banks Of the Marine river 70
commemorate the spot where this bat
tie was fought In September, 1914. The
erection of this statue WAS planned ~
the American nation.
walter Bernard Maitland and Miss
Mabel Estelle Tudor were married on
March 10 by Rev. W. 8. Leake. They
will make their home with the brides
mother in Hopeweli.
William NJ Sterne, aged sixty years.
died Sunday at his residence near Din.
widdie county courthouse. He To sur
v!ved by his wife and two children.
The funeral took place this afternoon
from the residence. and interment was
made In the family burying ground.
Information has been received here
OF the death of Duncan strowan Pleas
ants, aged twenty years, which &C.
Cured in the Adirondack mountains.
New York. on March IL. The funeral
took place on last Saturday at River
aide. n. Y. Mr.. Peasants was q grad
ulate of the, Petersburg High school.
and was a son of the late John r.
Peasants and Mrs. Eva Laurie Pleas
ants.
On the charge Of assaulting Phillip
Star. Cross-street merchant with q
pistol, Turner Blrdsong, colored. WAS
arraigned in police court this morning.
He was sentenced to sixty days In jail
and noted an appeal. being allowed his
liberty under a bail bond furnished by
his father.
According to the witnesses against
early last night and pointed 8 pistol
In Stars face. He was chased out of
the place and arrested a short time
later by Detective MCGEE. Birdsong
denied the charge and said he was NJ.
in the store yesterday.
Charles r. Keys. aged sixty -four,
an Main street. Mr.. Keys was twice
married. and by his firps WIN 10 sur
vived by three sons His second wife
survives him with four children. The
funeral took place this afternoon from
the grave in BlAndford cemetery.
Mrs. Minnie Lee EIey. wife Of Rob-
ert III. Eley, disd yesterday morning
at her home on Grove avenue. She ID
survived by her husbad. four chill
dren, and two sisters. The funera
service was held this afternoon from
the residence. Rev. L,eweiyn c. North
ern. pastor Of Grove-Avenue Baptist
church. officiating. Interment was
made In Blandford cemetery.
A colony for the care of feeble.
minded and epfleptics at the Centra'
State hospital. located about three
county. will shortly be established
About $4,000 will be used in this
erection OF three buildings for thu
colony at the hospital. The genera
assembly has appropriated $4,000 fol
the enlargement Of the water filtration
plant at the hospital, and the same
erection OF three buildings for thu
construction OF a modern dairy The
sum OF $4,000 has also been appro
priAted for making several other i'm
Iprovements around the buildings
r. "A Mckinney, commander Of thu
Petersburg Post Of the American
| Legion. has announced that motor
pictures will be shown OF the 18th
END and Soth divisions. which con
| tanned all OF virginia's troops in thu
recent war during the celebration o.
| American Day on May /. Thest
pictures are onicial signal corps dlms
| showing the men in the training camp
IN this country. going overseas. Il
France. at front, in Germany after tn,
armistice. and their return home. Al
| effort will be made to secure the high
school auditorium for this purpose
and the pictures will either be showr
| on the Friday preceding the celebra
ton or on May /.
| DR.. Jeffrey Neese Elder. Of Hope
we'll. and Miss Melville Marine Fagx
| OF Cambria, Va, were married il
| Cambria on March ,. They will max.
their home In Hopeweii after an ex
tended Southern trip.
| One reason the Red Sox let Bill
Lamar out was that he II \ left
handed hitter. as are both Hooper
and Menosky. Another reason VA
that Lamar has been . holdout.