The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-05-18
BESSE:MER NEWS

Bessemer, May H-(Special )-The Rev. M. K. Thornton has been selected by the graduating class of the Bessemer High school to deliver the baccalaureate ser
 mon on Sunday, May 30. at the First Baptist church, of which he is pastor. The entire class will go in a body. Last year the Rev. George Stoves, pastor of the First Methodist church. preached the
 baccalaureate sermon.
 The Bessemer city council will meet in regular session tomorrow night in the council chamber, at which time several | matters of importance will be disposed of. Among other things, 1t is expected
 that the committee on the issuing bonds for the purpose of building lighting plant will be ready to report.
 | great deal of interest is being mani fested in the meeting of the Bessemer Culture club which will be held Thurs day afternoon at the public library. at which time Miss Frances Youngblood of
 Ensley will address the club on Play ground Work, preparatory to the es-
 tablshing of paygrounds in this city. | Miss Youngblood is supervisor of the Ensey playgrounds, and is considered an authority on this work. She was formerly
 associated with the playgrounds 9 I Washington, D. C., and was invited
 to speak on this subject at fhe | child conference at Brussels. Belgium. | All members are urged to be present
 as important business will come before the club.
 | rid vii mo attachment last night. Hewitt Laird who l lives at Fourth avenue and Eighteenth street, was thrown from the wheel at the corner of Sixth avenue and Nineteenth street and sustained several Iacreations Of the head and body, as well as havm g several teeth knocked out. The young
 man was carried to his home. where he 1 received medical attention. While his | injuries are not considered serious they | are very painful and 1t will probably be | several days before he will be able to 1 be out.
 l At 10 O clock this morning the fire ce- I partment answered a call to 1Tl3 Eighth | avenue, where there was a small blaze ! on the roof of the house occupied by 1 R. T. Cummins. The fire was extin- 1 guished with chemicals and the damage is l estimated at about s. By the time the truck reached the department another call 1 came rom Inlfu avenue ana tltN Nenln street, where there was small blaze | on the roof of the house of I. A. Merritt. Little if any damage was done Within | three minutes after the last call came | another one came from Third avenue and Third street. but this proved to be 1 a false alarm.
 Frank Trammel, a negro was fined s75 on two charges of stealing and disposing I of stolen clothes. The man was ar I rested by the city detectives on the instigation of Henry Evans of Berkeley avenue and Fourteenth street and Pro- | lessor Cook of Jonesboro, both of whom | claimed that the prisoner had stolen
 clothes from them and pawned them at | several pawnshops, where they were 1 identified.
 The Womans Missionary society of the 1 First Methodist church held an interest," l ing business meeting this afternoon in l the basement of the church, at which l time the president Mrs. G. G. Neal pre- sided. The committee on the carpet re- 1 ported that $20 had been paid this month and that $S0 had recently been paid. Mrs. 1 George Stoves was elected a delegate to attend the annual meeting of the Woman's Missionary societies of the First
 Netbdist church, which will be held in Tuscumbia on June 8, g and 10. Several
 committees were appointed to visit the 1 sick, strangers, etc.
 1 The Baraca class of the First Baptist 1 Sunday school went to Pratt City tonight 1 to attend the district meeting of Baraca l which is held every month. The Besse- mer party made the trip in trucks. l Circle No of the pastors helpers of the First Methodist church will meet l Tuesday afternoon at o'clock with Mrs. Paris at her home on Arlington avenue
 All members are urged to be present,
 as several important matters will come
 before the society
 l Mrs James B. Houston will be hostess
 to the Auction Bridge club Wednesday afternoon at her home on Fifth avenue
 and Seventeenth street All members are
 requested to be present.
 A weighing party will be given Tuesday afternoon and evening from to 10 o'clock at the home of Dr. and Mrs. l.. A. Spen- cer on Third avenue between Sixteenth and Seventeenth streets. The party is bing held under the auspices of the pas
 tors helpers of the First Methodist 1 church.
 | The annual Memorial day will be held at Bucksville cemetery Saturday, May 2.
 instead of May 29. az has been announced. l KATHERINE DUE