The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-12-02
BESSEMER ELKS
 HONOR THEIR DEAD Gardner Goodwin Delivers the
 Annual Address
THIEVES GET VERY BUSY
Two Establishments Entered Yester- day Afternoon-North Bessemer Cars Have Trouble Per
 eral and General News.

Bessemer' December 1.-tspeeial. 1.-The annual Elks memorial service was held l at the lodge rooms this afternoon at S:30 o'clock, and was largely attended. ] The service was opened with prayer by ] Rev. Hugh A. O'Bren. after which the roll call of the departed members was read. The members who have died since t.e lodge was organized in this city are as follows:
 D. J. Glunevan, j. $ Land. T. B. Lamp. i J. NJ. Meacham W. G Woods, Ed Max well, J. II. Anderson. Frank Houston. l NJ. Connolly. A. H. Handy. Jerre Foun- tain R. B. Kelly, W. Frank Porter. 1 James I. Crunk and NJ. Tyler Kennedy. l After the reading of the roll call Of l. departed brothers the lodge song, Near CT. My God. to Thee was sung by the l entire lodge. Vocal selections were ren- l dered by Miss Smith aud Miss Caryl Huffman Mrs E. F. HoliasswortlP act , ed as accompanist
 The address on I2lkdom was delivered by Gardner Goodwyn. He pad beau tiful tribute to the far reaching good of tho order. He stated thai an Enk was always known far and near as good fellow and at the same time he was ever generous and charitable He said that a good Elk only remembered the good things of a brother and the unpleasant happenings in life were relegated to the past, as having no place in the, minds ol the men that wanted to see peace on earth and good will toward men. He spoke of the brothers of the order who had been called to their last reward, and he stated that their lives had been lived
 in manner to make any lodge proud to pay silent homage to their memories. Hardware Store Robber. | The store of the Morton Hardware company was broken into this afternoon sortly after 5 o'clock and a shotgun and two pistols were secured by the thief.
 This was one of the nerviest robberes that has taken place in this city in some time, and the police are at loss The store is located on Second avenue, be- tween Nineteenth and Twentieth streets and there are always a great many peo- ple passing along this avenue both day and night
 The thief simply walked up to one of the show windows and showed in one ot the glasses.
 Dry Goods Stolen. Joe Rosenbush, dry goods merchant and trader, had the misfortune to nave his store entered this afternoon. The t,,ieves simply packed up one of the grips that Rosenbush uses to carry his sam l ples around in, and walked out. Ihe place was entered by way of the front door.
 The stolen goods will amount to con siderable. and this is the second tune within the past two weeks that he mas been robbed.
 Short Items.
 An unknown negro who was shot sew oral days ago near Powderly station died this afternoon, and the body was brought into the city by Jacobs x Son. ana pre- pared for burial, and will be shipped to some point in Georgia tomorrow for in- torment.
 King Jenkins, a negro boy about sixteen years old. who was hurt at the rolling mill some time ago, died this afternoon from the effects of lock jaw
 The negro was given medical attention immediately after the accident. but he was so badly hurt 1t was impossible to do anything that would give him relief
 The body was taken in charge by Ken nedy Bros. and prepared for burial.
 A fire which came very near resulting seriously occurred at 1 o'clock this morn ing on the corner of Ninth avenue and Nineteenth streets. It is supposed that the fire started in the dining room and spread from there into the hall. It burned up through the ceiling, and when discovered was coming out at the top or the house. The inmates were awakened bv the smell of smoke and came very near being suffocated before they could get out of the burning building. As 1t was. they were compelled to run out at tired only fin their night robes The fire department responded promptly and to their hard work is due the fact that the house was not completely destroyed.
 The condition of w. A. Simmons, who has been quite sick for the past ten days, is reported to be somewhat better this evening.
 Mrc and Mrs. H. N. Freeman will leave for Hot Springs tomorrow evening Mrs. Freeman has been suffering with rheuma- tism for the past three months and she goes out to take the baths. Ewing Hines, who has been very Ill for the past three weeks, is reported bet