The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-09-30
BESSEMER NEWS

| Rassener September 29.--(Special) Everything is in readiness for the ginning
 of cotton at the MeNeil gin on Sixth ave-
 me and Twentieth street and work will start Wednesday morning. This is one of the most modern and up-to-date m this county and has a battery of three ,o-saw gins with an output Of % bales per day The machinery, presses and suction will be operated by electricity. The cotton will be brought to the saws | from the suction pipes, which are or the latest manufacture. The presses have the 1 automatic revolving process and while one bale is being bound and released from the press the opposite side will be
 under course of packing another bale
 Robert Todd the negro who is being
 held in Birmingham for the murder Of
 I " Alexander, a storeaeeper in that city. is wanted in Bessemer on charge 1 of burglary and grand larceny, which IS Alleged to have been committed here sometime ago. Deputy w. $. Patton
 who is employed by the Tennessee Coal,
 Iron and Railroad company at Feeders,
 has notified the Birmingham authorities and in case the negro should not be convicted of the murder of Mir. Alex ander he will be turned over to the Bes-
 semer officers.
 1 The senior class of the Bessemer High school held meeting this afternoon, at
 which time officers for the year were
 elected as follows: Walter Houston, pres | ident: Miss Gertrude Burnett vice presi- dent: Miss Nellie Vogtle, secretary and l treasurer: Miss Ida Weinstein, poet; Miss Lora Robertson, artist; Miss Nellie Neal, | historian; Miss Annie We've Thornton, prophet Miss Anna Fitzpatrick, histo- rian There are g members of the 1915 graduating class, who are Miss Anna Fitzpatrick, Miss Lola Lyons. Miss Fan nie Mitchell, Miss Nellie Vogtle, Miss Nellie Neal, Miss Bernice Vogtie, Miss | I ora Robertson, Miss Doris Huffman Miss Grace Kennedy Miss Annie We've Thorn | ton, Miss Ida Weinstein, Miss Mamie Simmons, Miss Gertrude Burnett, Miss Jessie Cargile Leslie Cote. Bryan Car pile. Fred Calhoun. Walter Houston, Eu- gene Hawkins. Carl Ross, Virgil liar
 well, Dewerd Fountain and Herbert l Smithson.
 l Mrs Annie Glenn Grove will present
 Mrs A. K Tatum, Paul Allen Miss Wit ' 1 piano recital assisted by D. c. Davis
 baritone, at the high school auditorium or Friday evening, October g.. Mrs. Grove will play the Cleopatra Suite. the poem
 to be read by Miss Corinna Trotter wedding which came as surprise | to the many friends of the contracting Irarties was that of Miss Mary Lee Gib- | son and Mir. Clarence Goode of Lipscomb which was solenmnized yesterday after noon at the home of the brides brother,
 Sam Gibson. The young people are wei known and very popular in this vicinity They will reside in Iipscomb.
 A number of merchants of this city
 have taken up the buy-a-bale movement and no more farmers are allowed to re turn home with their cotton. For time the interest in the movement seemed tt have died down, no storeroom fol the product could be secured but 1t has been revived by several merchants ant
 much cotton has been purchased. Amons the firms and individuals having alread,
 purchased a bale are: Armour Packing
 company, E. l.. Huey Furniture company IF. E. Buck, Crotwell Bros Lumber com pany, William Price, Forst Shoe com
 pany, E. A. veitch. J. D. Powell. th'
 Green Dry Goods company. the Dolla
 Store and others.
 Services were held tonight at Templ
 Eeth-El, on Sixth avenue. by the Jewisl
 congregation of this city. in celebra
 ton of Yom Kippur, or the Day of Atone n.ent, which is considered the most sol emn of all the holidays in the Jewisl calendar. Chester BanH Hman of Blrming r ham conducted the se ce. which wcr