The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-04-17
.ENSLEY HITS THE
 LOCKER CLUBS Ordinance Passed Prohibiting
 Public Storage DR. JOSEPH EDWARDS DIES Blooming Mill Resumes Operations With Large Force of Men and
 New Machinery-Negro
 Will Be Tried.
DR. JOSEPH EDWARDS DIES

Ensley, April 16.-(Special l-By a vote of to the council at its meeting to- night passed an ordinance prohibiting the storage of whisky, beer and other malt or vinous beverages in public places. This act is aimed at the locker clubs, and 1t is said will prove a death knell to them. It was drawn up by Judge Weakley and its passage last night caused something of a sensation. Among those who addressed the meeting was Brooks Lawrence It was productive of some warm argument among the aldermen, but the result of the vote speaks for itself.
 The death of pr. Joseph H. Edwards of Wylam yesterday morning removed one of the greatest and best beloved physi- clans in the district. Death came about o'clock yesterday morning, resulting from a stroke of apoplexy sustained by the deceased last Tuesday.
 Funeral services will be held Saturday afternoon at o'clock, services being held at the family residence first, followed by services at the St. Johns Episcopal church. The deceased was a member of 5 organization will have charge of the fu- neral. There will be an escort from the Knights Templars and also from the grand lodge at Birmingham. The Rev. Dr. Crawford, pastor of St. Johns church, will perform the funeral services The deceased was also a member of Zamora Temple, Mobiles of the Mystic Shrine.
 Dr. Edwards was an Englishman by birth, having come to this country more than a score of years ago. He was d graduate of the Birmingham Medical col lege, having entered that institution in 1892 He was a member of the firm of Edwards & Rountree, who conduct the wylam pharmacy, and was also local physician for the Tennessee company at wylam.
 The deceased is survived by his wife and two children, Ronald and Louis, age and years, respectively. Mrs. Edwards was Miss Ethel Thomas prior to her marriage to Dr. Edwards about seven years ago.
 The stroke came upon him last Tuesday and he was removed to the Davis infirm- ary, where every effort was made to save his life. He fought noble battle against death, but the grim reaper was not to be stayed, and he succumbed early yester- day morning.
 Dr. Edwards was a Knight Templar Mason and at one time held the posi- tion of Eastern Star for the grand lodge of Alabama. He was also chair man of the board of education of Wy lam. and a member of the Episcopal church.
 
 The blooming mill in the steel plant resumed operation today and every man of the old force, 1t is expected, will be working again by the next two or three days. The mill had been shut down for a little over two weeks In order that new machinery might be installed and other changes made in it. The starting up of it today caused every one in Ensley to brighten up.
 Neb Wright, a negro who was ar rested last Wednesday night in con- nection with a number of robberies which Ensley merchants have suffered during the past few weeks, will be given a trial before Mayor Sugg to- day. The negro was put through sev- eral degress by the officers in an en- deavor to extract a confession from him. but without results. A search of d variety of articles, which are claimed to have been stolen from different Ems ley merchants.
 At 4 o'clock this afternoon an Easter egg hunt will be given by the Ladies Aid society of the Methodist church on the lawn near the city hall, on Avenue E, between Twentieth and Twenty-first streets.
 J. G. Pricket was arrested here to- day on the charge of attempting to dis pose of stolen watch. The watch in question was stolen Wednesday in Bir- mingham from Burr Blackburn. an Age-Herald reporter. The theft was reported to the Birmingham police de- partment and the pawn shops through out the district advised of the number of the watch Wednesday night. Pricket. it Is charged, offered the watch to an Ensley pawn broker this morning.