The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-08-07


 A bold, bad robber wandered into the tent of John H. Phelps, superin- tendent of the Central Foundry com pany, who is camping at Glenn Springs last night and then wandered away with MT. Phelps trousers. It so happened that Mir. Phelps had careless ly left in them his watch. a consid- erable sum of money, ring of keys, knife and incidentally number of letters This all happened while MT. Phelps was repairing water pump a short distance away. The robbery was discovered when MT. Phelps came to get his knife.
 Will Driver, a negro. who escaped sometime ago from the city jail while acting as trusty, was tried in po- lice court this morning on a charge of larceny and fined $1250 and costs. The negro will serve his sentence on | the streets.
 Ed Ward, a negro. was fined $7.50 | and costs today for cruelty to anf-
 mals. It was alleged that the negro had beaten a horse to death.
 | Capt. Lacey Edmondson and Lieut.. 1 A. S. Fitzpatrick went to Birmingham
 tonight to meet Adjutant General Hub
 bard at the Tutwiler hotel, where | plans to mobilize the Bessemer Rifles | will be formulated.
 l The Bessemer Rolling Mill baseball
 team will play the Vivian team to- ! morrow afternoon at Wylam. Out of 15 games played this season the Besse-
 mer club has only met defeat once. It survived that.
 The baseball team of the Bessemer
 Soil Pipe company will battle with the Dolomite team tomorrow afternoon on i Underwood field.
 MT. J. P. Dovel, general superintend-
 ent of the furnaces for the Sloss- | Sheffield Steel and Iron company, re- I ceived severe bruise on his head this I afternoon when an automobile in | which he was riding with a party
 of officials of the company collided with a South Bessemer .car at the crossing on Clarendon avenue and Twentieth street. 1t appears that the
 car was coming into town along the
 street while the automobile was com ing on the avenue and attempted to cross when the car struck it. Mir. Dovel
 received a gash on his head while the other occupants, ]. c. Maben Jr., vice president and general manager of the company; J. R. Fullbright, genera
 master mechanic of the company Charles Williams, superintendent ot the North Birmingham furnaces and a chauffer were badly shaken up but not injured. Mir. Dovel was immedi- ately given medical attention ant though the wound is painful it is no
 serious.
 Herman, the 4-year-old son of MT
 and Mrs. A. c. Goodwin of Berkley
 avenue, was thrown from his father,
 motorcycle yesterday afternoon ant
 sustained painful injuries about hi.
 head and face. The machine on whicf
 the little fellow was riding with hii
 father struck a dog and skidded iron
 under the riders.
 Mrs George Abbott was hostess a a delightful lawn party last night il z honor of her niece, Miss Ruth Wikle of Atlanta at her home, 1501 Nine teenth street The lawn was attract ! iyely decorated w n Japanese lantern and numerous & IFS were enjoyed : after which prizes were awarded t l Miss Willie Pitts and Charles Cross we'll. The following enjoyed the party , Miss Ruth wikle of Atlanta, Miss Euli
 Harrison of Bluffton, Ga, Miss Esthe Denis, Miss Lillian Crosswell, Mis-
 Blanche Crosswell. Miss Elizabetl Schwartz. Miss Willie Pitts Miss Ce
 ell Pitts. Miss Francis Pitts, Miss Dor
 othy Hall, Miss Lida Cunningham Mis-
 Carrie scroggins and Ben Hanie, Clau Dill, Glenn Kitchens. Fred Han1e. VII ' lie Dill, Charles scroggins and tn hostess, Mrs. Abbott
 Ell MT. Lundy entertained at surpris Iparty for his son, Ben Lundy. thi
 evening at his home on Twenty-fourt