The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-04-22
CITY ITEMS

Penn Mutual Loan Nan Here--E. C steehle. assistant manager of the real estate loan department of the Penn Mutual Insurance company, was here yesterday on a trip of inspection of the company loans in this district. lie was in conference with Hugo Marx and Leo Keyser of Otto Marx & Co, local agents for the company. The com l,any, it is said. has over $S,000, 900 in real estate loans in this district Mir Steeble has not visited Birmingham be- fore i'll eight years. He was aston ished yesterday to find the city had made such wonderful progress and said that Birmingham was evidently going forward every day. MT. Steebles ex- pressed himself as being very opti- mistic. He said that business cond- tons were improving and that he be- l.eyed the general condition of the country was improving every day. He will be here several days.
 c. M. Williamson Visits Opeliixn--C. M. Williamson, cashier of the Amer ican Trust and Savings bank, is Tn Opelika attending a meeting of group -four of the Alabama State Bankers association. He will return home to-
 
 is stated, attracted large attendance
 Money Is DestrOyed-The folly of hiding money at home was very man- ifest yesterday at the American Trust hen an elderly gentleman applied for the redemption of a roll of charred bills. He explained that he had saved sS7, which was to be applied on his
 
 money in the house and on that account hid the greenbacks in can ip the chicken house. The chicken house anG tarn burned and also the money. The old gentleman left the charred roll at the bank and an effort will be mace to have it redeemed in Washington.
 s. S. FIorsheim Visits Birmingham- g. s. Florsheim of New York with Mrs, Florsheim is visiting Brmins ham. 1hey are registered at the Tutwiler. Mir. Florsheim conferred with J. C. Cummings, local manager of the com pany here. He said yesterday that busi- ness was getting better every day and that he expected a complete revival before very long.
 F. E. st. John in the City-F F. St John, chief engineer for the American Bridge company is visiting Bmining- ham, He is said to be engaged on large steel order which is to be placed here within a few days Mir. St. John said yesterday that business was re viving and that the outlook was very much brighter than it had been in sometime past. He will be here sev- eral days.
 Grceters Tonight at the Lyric-At the Lyric tonight and this afternoon the Greeters association of this city will be in charge of all three per formances. The association has se- cured the house and portion of the proceeds will be used to entertain the Greeters who will pass through here en route to the national convention in Atlanta. Every hotel clerk in Birming- ham is a member of the association and they have been engaged in selling tick cts for the past week. It is expected that a large audience will attend the performances to1ay in order to help on the entertainment fund.
 Mir. Low in the City--R. V. Low of the Pierce Arrow company is in the city He said yesterday that business in the high-prfced automobiles Was 30 Der cent better than the last few months of last year, indicating that business is getting better and that peo- ple are getting more liberal in the mat ter of automobiles. He will be here several days.