The age-herald., 1898-07-12
PRATT CITY BUDGET.
. interesting Church Services Sunday-Persona
 and Notes of Improvement

snecial Dispatch to The Age-Herald.
 Pratt City. July 1.-The Epworth League of the Methodist church held an interesting and well attended meeting last night. MT. Henry Donaldson conducted the exercises. The league will send quite good delegation to the district conference, which conVenes at Avondale tomorrow morning.
 At the mass meeting held by the miners last Saturday in the city hall it was unan- imously decided that the miners would con- tribute toward the erection of the sisters s hospital in Birmingham and steps were taken to arrange for the collecting of the contributions. The executive committee will have charge of this matter. The ques- tion has also been taken in hand by the citizens of the city and MeSsrs. A. J. Rellly, Job Going and Joseph Salisbury will have the matter of soliciting contributions from the business men of the city in hand It is expected that over thousand dollars will be raised in Pratt City for the pur- pose named an amount which will be quite a help to the promoters of this worthy ob ject.
 The sermon of Father Galland at St. Catherine's church last Sunday attracted unusual comment because of it's character istic nature and forcefulness. The father spoke of the miracle of the loaVes and fishes performed by Christ and of how the people came from afar off to see and near Him preach. He contrasted the readiness and willingness of the people in that day and time to hear the gospel with that of the people of today and expressed the bel1ef that some people here would never be hap py in heaven because of the fact that they could not stand a half hours service of praise to their Maker, when If they did enter heaven they would be continually praising God. The sermon was an unusu- ally good one and affected the hearers to a marked degree.
 Pa, is the guest of MT. and Mrs. A. J. Reillyl. Miss Reilly will remain in the city for several weeks.
 Messrs Atkins and Corput and MT. J. B. Lacey have recently added to the attract iyeness of their business houses by erect ing a long porch in front of them which furnishes shade and very materially adds to the value of the property.
 Rev. H. S. Hamilton, pastor of the Metho- dist church, accompanied by his wife and children, will leave the city today to en- joy two or three weeks vacation in the mountains of Tennessee.
 MT. Frank Corput is able to be out and among his friends again after having been confined to his room for several days with sickness.
 Several arrests were made by the police officers yesterday, most of the cases being of minor nature.
 The alarm of fire in the neighborhood of Ida station caused some excitement and. considerable alarm about o'clock yester- day afternoon. It was found, however, that the blaze was of a very insignificant nature and the roof of a small cabin was all that was damaged.
 Rev U. l.. Ferguson and family from Powderly were in the city yesterday after noon.
 The macadamized road between this place and Second Creek, beyond Sandusky, is being materially benefited by an ap- plication of several inches of cinders and ashes.
 , Misses May Belle Hill and Clay from Bessemer were the guests of Miss Ma gratha Gale yesterday.