The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-05-16
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Bessenler News

Bessemer, May 15.-( Special )=Wade e Billingsley, an 1S-year- old negro, was arrested today by officers E. Ross and A. D. Maddox on charge of dynamit- ing Blue Lake for fish At police head quarters it was stated that a man com ing to Bessemer on the North Besse- mer car had heard the report of the dynamite near the car line and on reaching the city reported it to the officers They hurried to the scene and caught the negro as he was pre- pairing his third charge, it is stated.
 The two charges which had been ex-
 ploded killed a number of small fish. Blue Lake is in the northern part of town and is in the city limits | The Tennessee Coal, Iron and Rail ] road company has received an order Tor 2000 tons of pig iron to be ex- l ported to Melbourne, Australia. The | shipment which consists of about so
 cars will leave Bessemer over the l Illinois Central for Birmingham where 1 it is transferred to the Central of
 Georgia, which will take it to Savan-
 nah, where 1t will be loaded on a yes- sel and carried to it's destination. The
 shipment is going from the Robertson and DeBardeleben furnaces of the com 1 pany.
 | The auditorium of the new Meth 1 odist church was crowded this even | ing with the music lovers of Besse-
 mer, when an organ recital was given under the auspices of the Pastors Helpers, an organization of the church. Mrs. Harry Tucker Smith rendered the | following selections which were thor oughly enjoyed by those preesnt: Or 1 gan sonata, Our Father Who Art in
 Heaven" (Mendelssohn); organ, (aJ "Venetia Love Song" (Nevin), (b)
 'Narcissus," tNevin); organ solo,
 'Toccata In D Minor," CFederlein) organ solo, ''Scherzo Symphonique, ?
 William Tell' arranged by Dudley Buck. Mrs. Ike Marks rendered the fol lowing on the violin: "Cavantina,' '' | (Bohm); violin solo, (a) "Humor- , esque," (Dvorak); (b) "Tranmerei, ' ' (Schumann). The vocalist for the oc-
 casion was D. c. Davis, who possesses l a splendid voice. The songs he rendered
 were enjoyed by the appreciative au-
 dience and were as follows: "A Per
 feet Day" Anchored" and Tosti's l Good by"
 l A party from Bessemer motored to ] Tuscaloosa this morning to attend the lCOnNeHllOu or the onlleu Daughters Of
 the Confederacy, which has been in
 session there for the past three days. | An invitation to meet in Bessemer next year was extended to the convention
 as was an invitation from Mobile and | one from Selma.
 1 Mrs. E. L. Huey, president of the
 local chapter, United Daughters of the Confederacy. made excellent talk after which the other invitations were withdrawn in favor of Bessemer. | Those in the party making the trip were: E. l.. Huey, who had Mrs. c. | E. Ray, Mrs. T. D. Lewis and Mrs. Lucy
 Armstrong in his car; T. T. Huey had Mrs. Huey Mrs Rose Huey and Mrs W. L. Rush in his car, while MT. and
 Mrs. George Ross were In their car 1 Officer Ellis Houston has been given 1 the assignment of "speed cop" since the city recently purchased a motor
 cycle for the purpose of putting a stop to the automobile speeders In Besse- mer. The machine is of the latest
 make and MT. Houston has already made several arrests