The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-03-27
MASS MEETING ID
 BE HELD TOMORROW
Citizens of Bessemer Will Dis-
 cuSS the College
THE TOWN IS INTERESTED
Everyone In the Marvel City Is Work ing Hard for the. Synodical College. Merchants Will Organize a
 New Insurance Company.

Bessemer, March 26.-(Special.) )-Monday afternoon at o'clock the people of Bes- semer will meet at Rebie hall in mass meeting to hear the final report of the several committees appointed to canvass in the interest of the synodieal college. This will be the last meeting to be held before the city files it's bid with the board of trustees of the proposed institution. April is the date set for opening the bids and all bids must be in on or before that date.
 The central committee. consisting of George H. Stevenson. chairman; R. F.. Smith, " H. Dennis, Sam Lefkovits, w. F. Nolan, Dr E. P Lacy J. J. Sullivan and W P. Gum, secretary, is especially eager that all the citizens of Bessemer who can attend to do so. All the ladies are cordially invited to be present. George H. Stevenson will probably call the meet ing to order and read the report of the committee. At this meeting all who wish to do so will be given an opportu- nifty to subscribe to the fund The sum to be raised is $25,OOO and the citizens feel confident of their ability to get the amount.
 Everyone in the Marvel City seems to be interested in the city securing the col- lege and is putting in some hard work for it. The local newspapers are also very much interested in the movement and have come out editorially urging the people to come to the mass meeting Monday afternoon and work with the committee in raising the necessary amount. Bessemerites are eontending that this city is the logical site for the institute and Jefferson county is support ing them in their contentious.
 Merchants Organize Company.
 William T. Kennedy, William A. Sim mons, E. A. Little, o. ". Wilson, Samuel Lefkovits. Julius Jaffee and acob Marks have filed an application for charter for the Merchants Insurance and Loan company. The capital stock of the company is $1O,O0O, fully paid up. and it will open for business on April 1. The stock is made up of POO shares at $50 each. The incorporators are some of the lead ing business men of the city and have been uniformly successful in all their af- fairs. The new firm will conduct its bus mess in the old Bank of Commerce, made vacant recently by the removal of the Bessemer National bank into its new QudflefS.
 Will Organize Ice Plant.
 It is understod that a number of the city's leading business men are eontem- plating the erection of a large cooper ative ice plant The cost of the proposed plant will be $20,000, and it will have an output of twenty tons of ice per day. It is the purpose of the promoters of the plant to put the price of Ice down as cheap as 1t can be manufactured.
 MT. West Died.
 William R. West. a prominent citizen of this place, died late yesterday afternoon at his residence on Nineteenth street, af- ter a prolonged illness. The deceased was in his forty-sixth year and the oldest son of General F, H. West. formerly prominent democratic politician of Mil waukee, Wis. MT. West came to this city twelve years ago and accepted an im- portant position with the Central Foun- dry company. He leaves a wife, two chil dren, widowed mother, one brother and several sisters, who live at Milwaukee. The funeral will not take place until his Milwaukee relatives arrive.