The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-04-25
Bessener NeWs

Bessemer, April 24.-(Special) )-The Mud Creek Baptist church, which Is one of the oldest In the state of Alabama. will cele- brate It's 75th anniversary at the church on Saturday and Sunday, April 27 and 2S. It has been decided to hold the an nual memorial exercises, which hereto fore have usually been held on the Sat- urday before the second Sunday in May, at the time of the 10th anniversary. The exercises will be held at 10 o'clock Sun day morning. A splendid programme has been arranged. Among the speakers at the anniversary exercises. besides the
 pastor, the Rev. J. F. Parker. will De the Rev. A. A. Walker, the Rev. A. White and the Rev. NJ. K. Thornton, pastor of the Bessemer Baptist church. Music will be furnished by Prof. c. w. Riley and the Parson brothers.
 The high school pupils were delightfully."- entertained by pr. A. J. Dickinson of Birmingham at the chapel hour this morn ing, with talk on "Readlng.' The speaker asked the school how many could read and showed that very few have the ability to read with understanding and
 discrimination. He defined book as
 the medium by which one mind stimu-
 lates another to thinking.
 Yesterday nine cases of Etna dynamite
 and two cases of DuPont dynamite were stolen from the store of the Sloss ore fmines. The officers were notified of the 1 robbery and a shortltme after the dyna-
 mite was found, hidden in a brush heap
 near the store. by Mir Bruce Ragsdale,
 manager of the store.
 l P. P Moore and Joseph NJ. Rutledge, who belonged to Company c, Eighteenth Alabama infantry, and who were mess
 mates during the four years of strife. will leave this week to revisit all the
 battlefelds they fought over and take a l week discussing the campaign. First | they will go to Chattanooga. then to Mis- l sionary Ridge. Kennesaw Mountain, Dal- ton and all the battefields to Atlanta during the whole of that hard campaign. 1 Although both men are beyond three score
 and ten years, they are very enthusiastic over their trip and expect 10 enjoy it
 very much.
 l J. B. East, who has been very ill for | the past month of ulcer of the stomach, | died this morning at o'clock at the
 Robinson hospital in Birmingham. where l he had been taken for treatment and i where he underwent an operation few | days ago The deceased was A years | old and is survived by widow and three
 children. The body was brought to Bes- semer this morning and taken to the l home on Second avenue between Four teenth and Fifteenth streets by Kennedy The funeral will take place at the resi- | dence Thursday morning at II o'clock. the | Rev. I. F. Swallow conducting the serv- | ices. Interment will be made at Wood | lawn. The following gentlemen will act as pallbearers: pr. c. D. Waller. M. M
 Barron. pr. J. s. Winters A. c. Mitchell
 MT. Thomas and L. l.. Kennedy. Mrs. NJ. Johnson announces the engage
 ment and approaching marriage of her
 daughter, Louise, to MT. Richard I. La
 nier. the wedding to take place or
 May 15.
 Mrs. James Trotter was delightful hostess this afternoon to the Wednesda y | Music club at her home on Arlington ave nue. A splendid programme was rendered
 after which delightful refreshments were
 served.
 The home of Mrs A. s. Titzpatric's
 was the scene of a pretty affair this i afternoon when she delightfully enter l tained tho members of the Wednesday l Whist club and few guests.