The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-04-24
BESSEMER NEWS

Bessemer, April Especial While
 at work at crane at the Bessemer
 rolling mill yesterday w. L. Clements was struck on the head and badly in~ jured It appears that MT. Clements
 was busy and in some manner the crane fell, striking him on the head He was
 removed to his home on Twenty-third street, where he received medical at i tention. While his injuries are not
 thought to be serious they are very
 painful He will probably be able to be at work in few days.
 Funeral services over the remains
 of Duffy F. Gray who was drowned at Holt yesterday morning, were held this 1 afternoon at 3 o'clock from the family
 residence at East Brighton. the services being conducted by the Rev. A. c.
 Swindall. Interment followed at the Brighton cemetery. The deceased was
 3s years old and is survived by his
 widow and several children. Myrtle
 Linton lodge No. 13O, Knights of Pyth
 as, of which MT. Gray was a member, had charge of the services at the grave. l H. H. Odum, 35 years of age, died this
 morning after lingering illness at his
 home at Lipscomb, Mir. Odum was well known and highly esteemed in this dis trict where he had scores of friends. 1 He is survived by his widow and two
 brothers The body was prepared for burial by Jacobs and will be sent to Gainesville Ga, tomorrow afternoon, where interemnt will be made.
 The pupils of the Bessemer School of
 Music gave a splendid recital tonight at the high school auditorium. at which 1 time a large gathering of relatives and Interested friends of those taking part were present The programme, which
 was beautifully rendered, was as fol- lows: Freezes of the Night" tFearis),
 Marguerite Porter. "Dream of the Rose
 bud" (Dodds), Helen Veitch "Flowers
 of the Forest (Burns), Bernice Hagler
 Lost Love Waltz (Goerderer), Mag
 gie Johnston. "The Little Major March" | (Evans), Eva Harris. (a) "Salut
 dAmout" arranged from Elgar; lb)
 Melody in F." arranged from Rubin
 stein. Matte Cowen Autumn Idyr (Renard), Orline Randle. "Fortunata
 Tdyr' (schular), Katie Ling. Love
 Fay" (weyts). Katie Maddox May
 Bells Ringing (Siewert), Meddie Rog-
 CTS. My Bonnie Laddie' (Benson) Henry c. Rush. Devotion Reverie' l tBennett), Hattie Coleman. Duet Romeo and Juliet" overture (BellinD Erzne Bouchelle and Virginia Will liamson. Part two. La Zingana" tBohm), Mary Louise Thornton. Rust
 livan. "Minuett'' (Paderewski). Myrtle Thompson "Orfa Grand Polka" Got ltechalk) Doris Lewis. 'Fanfere Mill
 taire'' (Ascher). William c. Baty "Oberon Fantasia Brilliant (Von Web er). Lucille Lytle. "valse Arabesque (Lack), Virginia Williamson. Rustic
 of Spring (Sinding), Helen Rodenberg lie Adams. Duet, "Seniramdi Overs
 ture' (Rossini). Miss Nellie Adams and
 Miss Helen Rodenberg.
 The Sunday School Graded union
 held an interesting meeting yesterday
 afternoon at the First Methodist | church with an enrolment of 20 mem
 bers. Mrs. Gwylym Herbert, the pres ident, resigned and Mrs. J. F. Lee was elected to succeed her, while Mrs. Ce- | ell Cowan was elected secretary to suc-
 ceed Miss Mary Lovett, resigned An excellent talk was made by Mrs F. P. Moore of Birmingham, her subject
 being, Lesson Building" A great deal of interest is being manifested in this
 work and at each meeting new mem-
 ters are enrolled.
 1 John Hagerty of Bessemer who is
 a junior law student at Georgetown
 university, Is pitching great ball this season on the varsity team He has only pitched two games so far, one against Holy Cross which he won by
 q score of to 2, and the other against
 Yale, which resulted in victory of
 to 6. Last season Hagerty pitched eight games and won six and was largely instrumental in winning for his university the college champion l ship in the big games of the east He is 8 relative of Connie Mack of the Athletics.
 One of the prettiest of the spring parties was that given this afternoon | by Mrs w. D. Taylor when she en-| tertained number of friends at bridge in compliment te her house guests,