The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-09-30

morning about l o'clock Clarence De- 1 mont and Henry Uhric, both white boys.
 were arrested by Officers Maddox and Boykn on a charge of holding up Will Carter negro, on Eleventh avenue and Nineteenth street When they were
 searched two black masks, a pistol and
 heavy black jack were found. Both
 men were lodged in jail. Uhric claims to be employed by the Bessemer Machine
 and Foundry company.
 Officers Bishop and McCabe arrested | Vincent Reed negro. last night on q charge of stealing barrel of sugar from an Alabama Great Southern freight car on the local house track. It appears that
 Reed had gotten the sugar out of the car and had placed it on the dray which
 was to carry the stolen goods away and | had gone back in the car for another
 barrel when the officers caught him. He
 was placed in jail as was the drayman, 1 Wash Bird.
 i Things were unusually quiet in police
 circles last night and today as only 19
 arrests were made. The majority of these
 were for the usual Saturday night of- | fenses
 1 John Anthony was arrested at Dolomte Friday by Deputy Sheriff Monroe Parker
 on charge of beating up boy. claiming
 to be but 15 years old The affair oc-
 cured in the mines. The boy is the son of James Parsons, a justice of the peace
 at Do1omite, and according to the story
 told by him, he was running a wheel barrow of muck along the interior of the
 mines and in some manner it overturned,
 so that load was dumped on Anthony $ | feet, bruising them. Ii is alleged that the
 man jumped on the boy and whipped him. The boy went home and made a com plaint, which brought about the arrest of Anthony, who was released on bond. Charles Stitz, who has been foreman of
 the department of moulding at the local plant of the United States Cast Iron Pipe l and, Foundry company has resigned his position to accept one with the Bessemer l Machine and Foundry company, effective l on October 1.
 The employees of the plant, as a test- monal Of their good will towards him,
 and token of the high esteem in which he was held, presented him with
 q pair of solid gold cuff buttons, set with | small diamonds.
 1 Lamar Meeks, who has been employed | by the pipe works for about F or V years, will succeed MT. Stitz as foreman.
 The various committees are being ar | ranged for the Methodist bazaar. which will be held about the first of December | The central committee is composed of | Mrs. M. r. Benton. Mrs C. NJ. Ray and Mrs. A. A. Persons.
 The committee on fancy work is com posed of Mrs. w. D. Lanier, chairman l;
 Mesdames Lacey Edmundson. Jack Clay, l R. w. Waldrop, G. K. Lewis, D. S. Curry | ! H. Downing. J. H. Edwards. Lydia 1 Evans, Jeff Fakner, William Farrell A.
 S Fitzpatrick, Matte Flowers Gamble | Clara B. Gaston. Emma German, G. C. | Gibson, r. J. Gillen, Bertha Goodwin ! l.. B. Gunter. Birdie D. Houston, T. Y.
 Huffman, Edna Ingram, .Pearle Moore, E. | L. Mitchell the Misses Emma Mins and | Erline Moore.
 and dolls is composed of the following . ! Mrs. Percy Benton, chairman; Mesdames l William Waldrop. Eugene Honeycutt, J. l w Brooks, Cecil N. Cowan, E. w. Cope | land. Sadie Craddoclx, J. G. crotwe.l Ellie 1 Davidson, J. T. DeJarnette, W. ]. Dennis | A. c. Kelley, w. T. Kennedy. Minnie | Kennedy. Lester Kennedy, J. E. Moss A W. stlnson, Katie Stubbs, stephen A. Terry, Kate Waller. w. T. Warlich. NJ. A. | Watson, A. w. Warliek l.. L. Whittle, J. | A. Wicker F. G. Williams, James F. l Wright; Misses Alice Wiggs. Mary J. White and Ellie crow The other com
 mittees will be announced later. 1 Yesterday the members of the First Presbyterian church observed Orphans Work Day" it being a national move
 ment for the purpose of giving one days work to the benefit orphans of the church A specially appointed committee will send the proceeds to the orphans home A call has been issued by Manager I Chester Tubb of the basketball team for I all candidates for the team which will
 represent the Bessemer Athletic club this winter to report at the club room Mon day night at o'clock. The boys win in- dulge in a little preliminary practice and arrangements for picking out the reg rlar and substitutes teams will be made l Later In the season the manager expects to arrange for a coach, while he has al-
 ready commenced to arrange a schedule
 of games.
 1 The members of the Forty-two club | were delightfully entertained yesterday afternoon by Mrs. A. l.. Gaston at her nome Tn Ensey. The reception rooms 1 presented garden like appearance in ifs decorations of ferns and cut-flowers. The 1 flower banked punch bowl was eracio,slv v 1 presided over by the hostess, who was 1 further assisted by Miss Erline Moore and Miss Ellen Davis. Score was kept on dainty hand-painted cards designed in flowers. The dub prize, a bottle of toilet water was won by Mrs. John Neal while i the consolation, silk hose fell t, Miss Bessie Mae Lovett Tempting refresh-
 ments were served. Those attending iron, Bessemer were: Mrs. J. B. Moss. Mrs. Tom Benton. Mrs. Percy Benton. Mrs T. l. Conwell, Mrs. r F. Gwin. Mrs. John Neal, Mrs. Jack Clay Mrs Mack | Clay. Mrs. Henry Hurd Misses Lucia Bruns, Ellen Davis. Elise Robinson l Erline Moore. Bessie Mae Lovett, Bessie Neal and Dora Winters.
 1 On Monday morning at 9:3a o'clock there will be an important called meeting of E. NJ. owens on Fifth avenue. The presi- dent urges all members to attend. Mrs. E. l.. Huey will be hostess to the Wednesday Music club Wednesday after noon at her home at Jonesboro. An ex- ccllent programme will be rendered by the n,amh~ss of the club.