The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-07-19
Executive Committee to Meet
 Tuesday Night
VERY FINE PROGRAMME
Superintendent Persons and Family Will Arrive This Week-Wood- ward Company Pays off-Gil-
 lespie's Body Reinterred.
By j. F. LEE.

Bessemer, July 1S.-(Special. )-The ar
 rangemnts for the annual netting of the 1 Alabama Press association, which is to be
 held here next Wednesday, Thursday and
 Friday. have been completed and the pro-
 sramme is q splendid one.
 The executive committee will meet at
 the Grand hotel Tuesday night to outline 1 it's plan for carrying out the programme The convention will be called to order l ny President H. S. Doster. editor of the ' Prattville Progress, on Wednesday morn
 ing at 10 o'clock, when addresses of well 1 come will be made by representative citi-
 zens and responded to by Tom Gardner l Of Tuscaloosa
 The fire department will give an exhi-
 tition after the evening session and from . to Il o'clock a reception will be ten dered them by A1r. and Mrs. W. II. II. Judson.
 On Thursday most of the day will be sIent in sightseeing and in the evening an elaborate banquet will be served a. i the Grand hotel.
 On Friday morning at 5:9O o'clock the special train chartered by the Bessemer -soard of Trade will take the entire dele l gation 10 Brunswick, Ga. -Ae citizens of the town have thrown | open their homes to the visitors and noth- l Ing will be left undone to make their stay an enjoyable one.
 Supt. A. A. Persons.
 Superintendent A. A Persons, the new ly elected superintendent of the city schools, will move his family from Tusca- loosa within few days.
 The Board of Education is to be con- graduated on having secured the services of man so prominent in educational cir cles and the ladies of Bessemer will find Tn Mrs. Persons a woman who will give prestige to any circle with which she be- comes identified She is the daughter of J. B. Knox of Troy, who is one of Pike eounty's most prominent citizens, and being one of the best read women In the state she is very interesting conversa- tlonalist and possessed of many charms always found among the descendants of southern aristocracy.
 Body Renterred. The remains of J. S. Gillespie, father of J. NJ. and John S. Gillespie of Brming- ham, buried in Brerfield in July, 1859. were on yesterday exhumed by Jacobs & Son. undertakers, and reinterred by the side of his wifes remains in Cedar Hill cemetery.
 Mir Gillespie was a brother-in-law of Chambers McAdory, and it was the wish of Mrs. Gillespie that she be buried by the side of her husband, but she died during the Civil War, which made it ir,a,a that time
 The casket was a very handsome, her medically sealed, metallic kind, the like of which, the undertakers state, there are few now made
 Expressions of Appreciation.
 A committee representing the members of the Civic Improvement association called at the Bessemer bureau of The Age-Herald today and requested that it be expressed through these columns their many thanks to the following, who have so kindly helped them in their work of improving the City park Crotwell Bros Edwards Lumber Co.,, Harmon & Kyser, Morton Hardware Co.,. Lewis Hardware
 Co.,, Long Hardware Co.,, Rogers Brick Yard, for material donated for the new pavilion, and alf who have donated money and labor for it's erection; also the Birmingham Railway, Light and Power company, for wiring it for cleo tricity.
 They earnestly solicit the continued CO., operation of the citizens in their work of improving the city school grounds, park and in all other lines of civic i'm provement and especially do they ask the parents of the boys who frequent the park to urge them not to deface or in- jure the swings seats, pavilion, etc. and not to throw trash into the fountain, Er.E, Ttanrr ale crVl To- ful to Mrs. Annie Glenn Grove, for the splendid entertainment given under her direction by her music class, the pro- ceeds of which will be spent in paying for labor used in erecting the pavilion.
 Personal and General.
 Mrs D. B. Barnett has gone on an ex- tended visit to relatives in Ramer and Montgomery.
 pr. G. R. Lewis has gone to spend Sunday with his family at Blount Springs. Mrs. Kate Jones and little daughter have returned after a two weeks visit to friends in Blocton.
 Charles Guy of Quincy, Fla, for sev- eral days the guest of his sisters, Mrs. H. F. White and Miss Alma Guy, has returned home.
 Civic Government Fund. Previously reported .....$32 T. J. DeJarnette .......... i G. P. Martin .............. Total to date ............ $34