The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-11-25
SUES FOR CALF IN
 BESSEMER COURT
Was Worth Possibly Ten or
 Twelve Dollars
COURT COSTS ARE S4OO
The Matter Comes Up for Hearing In Bessemer City Court This Morning. The Case Has Been on for
 Nearly Two Years.

Bessemer November 24.-(Special.)-Two years ago Robert McGhee and D. Hen dricks both living in the Bessemer city court jurisdiction. got into a dispute over the possession of a small, inoffensive calf.
 They quarreled and disputed until, Judging from present conditions and sur roundings, the neighbors were involved and the dispute became a neighborhood quarrel.
 The calf was worth possibly s1o, but maybe involved the happiness of several or the families in the particular neighbor- hood. Lovers, perhaps, fell out, quar- reled. wept and made up again over this common dispute between their fathers. and their fathers neighbors. The dispute furnished gossip at quilting bees and candy pullings, and men in the field called across the dividing lines of their farms to discuss the famous question uppermost In the minds of the people.
 Grass and weeds perhaps grew up and choked the struggling crops, while the people of the countryside debated the mo- mentous question of the rightful possess sion of the calf. The neighbors and dis putants in fact failed to settle the ques- ton to the full satisfaction of all con- cerned. and the courts were asked to in vestigate and render decision in the mo- mentous question.
 The matter has been in the courts for some time, and the clogged wheels of jus tice have turned slowly. All this while the calf has very likely grown to COW. It may have died of ennm or chronic dis gust In fact, all parties concerned seem to have forgotten the calf or COW, as the case may be, in the great question of possession at the time the suit was be- gun.
 During all this time, however, while the calf has possibly grown to maturity and the people have worn themselves weary with disputirg, court costs have been growing until at the present time they amount to more than $400 and are still increasing.
 This case will be called for hearing in Bessemer city court tomorrow morning It was called yesterday, but witnesses were absent. perhaps discussing the right full possession of the calf among them- selves, until they forgot that the court was due an inning in the matter.
 It Is not certain that all parties will be ready for a hearing tomorrow, and again the case may be continued as here tofore. All the time the calf, if still alive and thriving, is approaching that inevit- able bourne of her race and tribe, the bone yard and the sausage mill, while the expense of ascertaining her rightful pos session is climbing up into hundreds of dollars.
 Notes and Personals.
 The pupils of the Bessemer High school are making arrangements for an enter tainment to be given at the Elks' hall in this city on the night of November 30. This will be Thanksgiving and inter esting programme is being arranged for the occasion.
 D. L. Sweatman, who has been visiting his daughter, Mrs. James Trotter in this city for several days, returned to his home at Winona Miss. today.
 Alderman J. M. Crook, who has been in South Alabama for some time for his health. Is at home again, and is much improved to the delight of his many friends in this city. He was elected from his ward to the City Council of Bessemer in the last election for city officers, but was i'll at the time, and has never been able to attend meeting of the council.