The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-03-29
OWLS ID ORGANIZE A BESSEMER NEST Lodge Will Be Started on
 April IF BAD BOYS CORRECTED Leaders of Gang of Young Marauders Sent to East Lake Reformatory. Other Interesting News of
 BeSsemer
BAD BOYS CORRECTED

Bessemer, March -(Special.) )-The order of Owls will organize local nest April IT and number of Bessemer "Hoos Hoos" will be initiated. Two dep uty organizers, Samuel Ambrose and II. C. Todhaunter spent busy day Tuesday in this city soliciting member ships.
 The Order of Owls was founded 1T. November, 1904, at South Bend, Ind, and now has nests in Canada, South Africa Porto Rico, Philippines, Sand wich Islands. Mexico, Cuba. New Zea- land. Australia and all the United States. The motto, very good one. is:
 There's so much bad in the best of us And so much good in the worst of us It hardly behooves any of us
 To speak i'll of the rest of us
 The main ature of this organization seems to be the inducements offered as health and life insurance and the free services of a physician, selected by
 the home nest, for every Owl and his
 family.
 The social side of the fraternity is not neglected as a dance or some oth-
 CT form of entertainment is customarily given every fortnight.
 Bad Boys Dispersed Tuesday morning the gang of young | thieves who have been committing d | series of robberies in and around Bes- semer, were disposed of in the mayors l court. They have made no effort to elude but have scattered out to vari- | ous mining camps as most of them are | members of miners families living near l here Several weeks ago the motor | lSnnnlVint t tho fpr ba a l the Trinity Episcopal church was l stolen and no trace of the thief could l Ire found. Not long afterward the cash 1 register of the Lewis Drug company and Sam Dunn's soft drink stand were robbed and numerous other minor | thefts occurred.
 John Glenn and Robinson Bell, the | leaders, were sent to reform school at l East Lake, and Frank Fredenburger, | anoth CT principal was released on bond
 to appear before the grand jury as he
 was too young to be eligible for the re- form school.
 From a detective standpoint the case was very interesting as the disposition
 made of the stolen articles were, in
 some instances, original. The motor
 was found in the possession of a mer- | chant at Blocton, Ala, who had been the innocent purchaser of, as he | thought, bargain. A valuable pin of Sam Dunn's stolen from his store was discovered by Detective McCab be
 at local pawnshop.
 Local Items Deputy Sheriffs Newt Curl and N. F. Parker raided only one soft drink stand at Brighton Tuesday and secured a wagon load of whisky, beer and wine which was carried to the Bessemer of | fee and stored away.
 E. c. Hines announced a baseball | practice of the local team at the City | League park Wednesday afternoon | The case of Sam Bell, who was charged with violating the prohibition
 law, was appealed from the Jonesboro city court to the Bessemer city court | and Is now sent to the supreme court. | The verdict rendered at Joneshoro was guilty and was affirmed in the Bes- semer court
 of Bessemer, was fined $25 in the city l court for violation of the pure food | law. He was convicted of selling meat | that was not edible
 | The many friends of Mir. and Mrs. M. | P. Woods extend their deepest sym pathy to them because of the death of | their infant son, Clark. The child was only i'll a few days and his death, which occurred early Tuesday morning, was rather sudden. The funeral ser | vices will be held Wednesday morning at 10 o'clock at the family residence, on Sixth avenue, and the interment will | be made at Oakland cemetery, near | Ensley. Jacobs & Sons are in charge l of the arrangements.