The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-09-16
bESSEMER NEWS

Bessemer, September 15.--(Special) )
 It Is stated that the largest number
 of ore miners are at work in the mines
 of the Tennessee Coal, Iron and Rail- 1 road company on Red mountain at present than at any other time since l they were started, and more men are | being employed daily. The demand for
 ore has been very heavy with the oper- ating of all the furnaces of the com pany in the district with the exception | of two at Bessemer, and one at Oxmoor. and even with the heavy output at the l many mines on the mountain the com- pany is drawing from the stock piled | many months ago at the different
 mines. In all probability the two fur | naces, which have been closed down
 for sometime. will be blown in and the demand will be much heavier. It was , stated that the last pay day on Red | mountain was the heaviest since 1907,
 and the prospects are very bright for
 much heavier pay roll the latter part
 of September.
 Oliver Turner, a negro, was arrested this morning by Special Officer Tom erlin on a charge of larceny of brass. At the time he was arrested the ne-
 gro had over 100 pounds of brass,
 which it is alleged was stolen from the Tennessee Coal, Iron and Railroad company. The man came to the scrap iron yard on Eighth avenue this morn ing for the purpose of selling his brass, but found 1t had not yet been opened, so he hid the brass in the bushes nearby and decided to wait for 1t to open. MT. Tomerlin saw him when he hid the brass and immediately arrested him. He will be given a hearing before 1 Judge I. A. Lewis in recorders court The baseball team of Red mountain will meet the team from the by-product plant Thursday afternoon at 3 o'clock | on the Feeders diamond, and an in 1 teresting contest is anticipated.
 Preparations are being made for the opening of the city schools Monday morning at S;45 o'clock, and three new teachers have been elected to fill the vacancies in the faculty as follows:
 Miss Lena Terry of Bessemer, Miss Jeanette Record of Tennessee and Miss Marguerite Todd of Birmingham. Elk animation for those entering school and those who have conditions to remove will be held at the high school building Friday morning at o'clock, and all teachers not attending insti- l tute in Birmingham are requested to meet at the high school promptly at 2 o'clock to assist in giving the ex- | aminations.
 Miss Hattie Pennington entertained | the members of the Jollyette club this l afternoon at the home of her parents on Nineteenth street Ferns and cut l flowers were attractively used through out the reception room. Rock was the afternoons amusement and four tables were used for the games at the con- clusion of which the first prize, crepe de chine handkerchiefs, was won by | Miss Marguerite Phillips, while the second prize, a box of stationery, fell to Miss Gladys Randle. Tempting re- treatments were served Those pres ent were: Miss Lillian Cahill, Miss Blanche Smithson, Miss Marjorie Will l Hams, Miss Gladys Randall, Miss vertna Randall, Miss Marguerite Phil | lips, Miss May Shaw, Miss Aleene Scott, Miss Lizzie Scott, Miss Mildred l Brannon, Mrs. Ed Deshazo and others. The home of MT. and Mrs Conner Reese was the scene of a pretty hos pitality this afternoon when their lit tie daughter, Katie Lee Week, enter