The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-10-25
Bessen1er News

Bessemer October 24.-(Special. J
Floyd Abernathy, a 14-year-old boy of
McCalla, has sold his corn, amounting
to S2& bushels. which was raised on
one acre of ground. The yield was
carefully measured by men employed
to decide the question of the largest
yield of corn per acre.
The ground was laid out by the bow
who bought his fertilizer, planted his
corn and worked it. the entire cost be-
ing s22.50 for the one acre. The how
then looked out for a purchaser and
as his father didn't have as much corn
as he needed told the bov he would
give him 550-pound bale of cotton
Tor the corn and the boy accepted, sell
ing the cotton for s72.S5, making A
clear profit of over $50 on his acre of
corn. Young Atchison, who raised a
larger quantity of corn last year. fell
behind Abernathy this year
In the Bessemer city court today the
following suits were filed: Ophelia Sud
duth VS.. the Louisville and Nashville
railroad company for $4,000 DANA ees
Tor alleged personal injuries
james Berry VS.. the Birmingham
Railway, Light and Power company for
$4,000 damages for alleged personal in
juries received by his wife.
MIS- Mary Steele, As years of age.
wife of Adams Steele. died last night
at 1880 o'clock at a local infirmarv
after an operation for appendicitis. The
deceased Is survived by her husband,
five sons and a little adopted daugh-
ter years of age. The remains wero
sent this afternoon to Rising Faun.
Ga. by Jacobs & Son, where interment
will be made.
w. %. Harwell 81 years of age. died
this morning at his home at I.ipscomn
after 10 days illness Of pneumonia
The deceased is survived by his widow
and several children The funeral will,
take place tomorrow morning at II
o'clock from the residence with the
rev +. b. Powell, pastor of the Chris
tian church, conducting the services.
terry.
me Bessemer lodge No. 45S. A. F. and
"A. NJ, held special meeting last night
at which time the master mason de-
gree was conferred on George Walton
scott, The master mason lecture was
also given, a large number of visitor,
pelng present. A special communication
mas been called for Monday night at
which time two candidates will he
raised to the master mason degree.
Marjorie, the little daughter of.Judee
and Mrs. j. c. B., Gwin. who for sev.
eral days has been critically i'll at their
nome on Clarendon avenue was report
ed 10 be resting much better today 1t
was thought last night that the child
could not live through Thursday, but
her condition was more favorable this
morning after a few intervals of rest
during the night. The Rev. and Mrs.
Bentley, parents of Mrs. Gwip, arrived
last night.
Several years ago the government in
printing some 1-cent stamps made an
error by having the big steamship ith-
ograph inverted and the sheets with the
misprint were sent to different post
offices One of the sheets came to
Bessemer and U. Schwabacher secured
number of the stamps. They at once
became valuable to stamp collectors
and he sold q number of them at Sly
and SIS. Yesterday he sold another
one to a New York collecting agency
for s25. There are still several stamps
in Bessemer.
r. A. Bull. former resident of Bes-
semer. but now of Granite City, ILL.,
is visiting c. L. Huey for few days
Mr.. Bull Is greatly impressed with the
development of the entire district as
we'll as surprised at the growth Bes
semer has made in the last few years