The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-01-13
LIBRARY WORK ID
 BEGIN VERY SOON Ladies in Charge of Enterprise Greatly Encouraged A HELPFUL INSTITUTION Ressemer City Court Will Reconvene for Spring Term Monday-erand
 Jury Will Meet Feb
 ruary 5.
HELPFUL INSTITUTION

in the building of Carnegie library in this city will take up the work in earnest, and hope to be able to have the actual work of construction under way in the early spring.
 While several sites have been suggested the ladies in charge of the work have not yet decided upon where the library will be built. though 1t Is very probable that it will be placed in the center of the city park on Fourth avenue. This location Is said to be very popu- lar from the fact that 1t would afford quiet, Is centrally located and would be ideally situated during the heated term | of the year.
 The City Council has pledged 5000 year for the support of the library, the only , requirement. made by the trustees of the Carnegie library fund. Three or four thou sand dollars will be necessary for the fur nishing of the building and for books, but it is thought that this will be raised without difficulty. The Bessemer board of trade has pledged its hearty support to the movement, and 1t Is believed that other local organizations will lend all the assistance necessary.
 In speaking of the value of the library to the community one of the local minis ters a few days ago said: T have often felt the need of public library and feel that it's establishment would be one of the best things that the people of this city could do for the general good of the public.
 Reared and educated in a city where public libraries were accessible to all the people and at all times, feel that can appreciate the great value of these insti- tutions. I have often felt keenly the need of a public library since I came to Bes- semer. None of us are able to keep all the books we have occasion to use, and a | public library would be convenience in valuable to every citizen of the city. Works of a technical character kept in the library would be of inestimabe value to the large army of laboring people em- ployed in our manufacturing plants. The skilled laborer is the master of modern industry and the ambitious working man is turning his attention more and more to the details of his work and Is ambitious to improve his knowledge of his particular trade.
 "The library would be of great value to | the pupils in our schools, the man or l woman of leisure desiring recourse of books as we'll as to the professional men | who daily feel the need of book refer | ence.
 l T am glad the ladies of Bessemer have
 undertaken this work and I believe that l every philosophical citizen of the town sees to it that they have the proper as- l sistance and that the enterprise is an inn mediate success. I think the City Council | ,.f.. ,a.ad ad duty n of the city when it appropriated 5000 a year to the support and maintenance of 1 the library"
 City Court Monday. 1 The Bessemer city court will reconvene for the spring term next Monday and the I case against T. J. Cornwell will be taken l up for trial. Two weeks have been set | apart for the trial of this case. and it ] is believed by the officers of the court 1 that the greater part of the two weeks will be consumed in the investigation.
 The grand jury for the spring term has been drawn, and will meet Monday, Feb ruary 5. This jury will possibly remain in session ten days or two weeks l James Weatherly of Birmingham will preside over the trial of the Cornwell I case next week. Judge Jackson being in- l competent on account of his having been 1 depositor in the Bessemer Trust and Savings bank from which bank 1t is al- l legged that Cornwen embedded certain l funds.
 Notes and Personals. | Invitations are out for piano recital l to be given by Miss Celia Brown of this city at the Elks hall. January IS at 1 8:3O o'clock in the evening. Miss Brown is a pupil of Mrs. Annie Glenn Grove and is becoming quite popular as a l pianist.
 1 Dr. and Mrs. J. s. Winters spent to- | day at Sayre mines with Mrs W. D. l Taylor who preceded them yesterday. | The new office of the chief of policelin the city hall Is about completed, and when 1t is done the old office will be converted into a cell department for fe- l male prisoners. The new office for the chief and city warden is in the large court room, and will be a great conven- | fence as well as provide much needed ad- dtional space in the jail department. | George Ross has been appointed deputy sheriff at this place to succeed Officer Partridge, who recently resigned to accept place on the Bessemer police force. 1 Ex-Deputy Sheriff Henry Ball has re- turned from a trip to Tuscaloosa and will leave In a few days for Hot Springs, where he will spend some time. l Judge J. P. Stiles, candidate for sheriff of Jefferson county, was in the city to- day shaking hands with his many friends | here.
 The barn and stable including a valu- able horse belonging to J. B. Morton, was burned this morning about o'clock. The origin of the fire is unknown. The loss is estimated at $500.
 Schileci Bros, who run the candy kitchen and restaurant on Nineteenth street were robbed tonight of $50. Some l one in the store in the early part of the night took a cigar box containing the money from the safe while no one was 1 looking, and escaped with the booty be- fore 1t was missed. The safe was stand ing open at the time. The police were notified. and it Is believed that the thief will be captured.
 | Mrs. Marguerite Morgan, aged GA years. died at the home of her daughter, Mrs. J. F. Kent at No. 1710 Fourth avenue this evening at o'clock of pneumonia with which she has been suffering for several days. The funeral will be held from the Kent residence Sunday morning l at 1O:3O o'clock and the interment will be in Elmwood cemetery at Birmingham | Sunday afternoon at o'clock. The de- I ceased leaves two sons and five daugh- | ters
 Beaver Dam No. met in regular ses- sion tonight and initiated Will Johnson. bookkeeper for the Bessemer National | bank
 G. M Hines arrived today from his | former home at Riverside, Cal, and has taken a position with the Hines Supply | company in this city
 
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