The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-04-10
FORCEFUL SERMON
 BY BISHOP K|LGO
Fund for College Raised at
 Bessemer Methodist
HOLY WEEK BEGINS
No Evening Services Will Be Held at Catholic and Episcopal Churches. The Police Department Is
 Kept Very Busy

Bessemer. April 9.-(Special) l)-SundaN morning was the time appointed for the special reference to the April campaign for the Owenton college fund at the First Methodist church of Bessemer, and Bish- op J. c. Kilgo preached to congregation that overfowed the auditorium of the high school, which is being used dur ing the erection of the new house of worship. His text. This mind be in you, which was also in Christ Jesus" was the foundation of one of the most elo- ouent sermons ever delivered to the Methodists here and prolonged the serv- ices past the usual hour of dismissal
 Bishop Kilgo spoke, after his discourse. of the S625, the amount expected from this church towards the college. and sug- gested that 5000 be forthcoming. Two collections were taken and, while the bishops suggestion was not carried out to the letter. the 1925 was almost collect ed in actual money and pledges. There are 625 members of the local church and each member has been requested to con- tribute S1 towards the raising of the SS5.- 000 for the college
 Bishop Kigo left Sunday night for Bir- ningham, and will leave Monday for his home He has made friends among every
 
 in the district conference here on three occasions his return will be eagerly looked forward to-
 Holy Week Begins
 Palm Sunday was duly celebrated at St. Aoysius' Catholic and Trinity Epis- copal churches The congre cations of both faiths were presented with small palln crosses at the church entrance and the altars were decorated with palm branche. and spring blossoms.
 Monday begins holy week and nigh; services at both churches will be dis pensed with for this period.
 The Rev. l. A Adams of Trinity church read an invitation from the Brotherhood of St. Andrew to the noon services to he conducted at the Church of the Ad- vent in Birmingham during the weeH and announced that these were for men only The first service Easter Sunday will be held at sunrise.
 Father Kitrick reminded the Catholics of the total abstinence days, Wednesday y and Friday, which is the black fest day. the mass of the pre-sanctifed and procession of the blessed sacrament or Thursday and the stations of the cross on Friday afternoon at 3 o'clock, thr hour Christ died. The Saturday exercise; will be the regular holy day devotions.
 Police Busy
 Saturday and Sunday were busy day. at the police department and Mayor Lew is will find 36 cases of drunkenness, as Sault and battery larceny ana disorder 1y conduct on the docket Monday morn ing. Considerable excitement was occa stoned Saturday night by a shooting af fray between Ed Hodges and Nose Col 1ns, negroes. Hodges is in the Robinsol hospital with a fractured limb as result Lang Robinson was arrested for stealth; pair of silk sox for a pair of nev shoes in a Nineteenth street store Sat urday night.
 Detective Lynch caught W. D. Tone. in the act of buying whisky at the bacl door of the home of Mrs. Eliza Sullivan on the corner of Fifth avenue and Twer tieth street. Toney refused to admit tn purchase there. in spite of the evidenc against him and is being held in tn city jail pending trial.
 Ira Justice an elderly man from Dolo mite. was carried to the insGn asylur spending a few days of the past wee at the city jail. He is dangerously in sane and was sent there for safelseep ing by his brothers, who went with hin to Tuscaloosa.
 Conduct Cooking School
 Professor Michaels, noted cooking ex pert. and French chef. will arrive Mon day to conduct a cooking school in tn exhibition rooms of the LongLewis Hard ware companys store. on Second avenu and Twenty-first street. These room