The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-07-10
BESSEMER NEWS

Bessemer, July s.-(Special. )-Dep- uty Sheriffs J. N. Smithson, George Howton and D. N. Wright made an-
 other seizure of liquor this afternoon
 when $50 bottles of whisky were taken
 rom the cellar in the rear of a stor-
 age house at 2O2s Carolina avenue. The
 goods were in half pint and pint bot
 ties and were brought to the city court
 building. where it was stored with
 all the other liquors that have been seized
 At the Central hotel, on Carolina
 avenue and Twentieth street, IA dozen
 bottles of beer were seized from May
 Fisher This is the first beer gotten
 by the local deputies and it was also
 added to the large quantity of liquor | already stored.
 Work on the erection of a benzol plant has been begun by the Wood
 ward Iron company, the plant to be
 adjoining the by-product plant of the company at Woodward. This plant will | have capacity of 5000 gallons. The plant will be rushed to completion and will be in operation early in Sep
 tember With the completion of the benzol plant of the Thomas A. Ed ison company of New Jersey which will have a capacity of 5000 gallons. both plants at Woodward will have
 total capacity of 5000 gallons per day. Bessemer Household No. l9l, South ern Woodmen, met in Woodmen hall on Third avenue between Nineteenth and Twentieth streets. last night at which time the following officers were elect ! cd for the next year: A. s. Bailey, royal consul; Earle A. Spanglcr, royal past consul; Allious Benton, royal vice consul: E. Arthur Tubb. royal coun- cilor; Freeman Powell. royal prelate, w. c. Baty, royal clerk; W. H. Will | ltamson, royal banker; James L. liar 1 ris, royal escort; Henry A Hurd, royal guide. J. C. Schwartz, royal inner sen- tinel Charles H. Nolen, royal outer sentinel; Jasper W Bryant. captain of l patrol. The newly elected officers will | be installed by Exalted Field Marshal | Walter L. Riley on July IA. All quail
 lied Woodmen are urged to be present
 as several talks will be made and re- | treatments will be served.
 Hilda, the little daughter of Mir. and Mrs. l. F. Gray, died last night after a short illness at an infirmary in Bir- | mingham. The body was moved to the | residence. 1902 Fairfax avenue. frCm where it will be sent tomorrow morn
  l Great Southern railroad to Knoxville, Tenn. where interment will be made | by Jacobs.
 | The baseball team of the Bessemer | Soil Pipe company and the nine from McCalla will meet tomorrow afternoon
 at S:30 o'clock at Underwood park on
 Second avenue and Fourteenth street | and the contest promises to be one of | the best seen in Bessemer this sea- son. The batteries for the game will | be: Bessemer Soil Pipe company, Ross and Burnett; McCalla, Abernathy and
 Martin.
 Mir. and Mrs. s. R. Batson and Miss | Linda Batson have gone west to at | tend the Panama exposition. They ex- | pect to be gone several weeks and will | include in their itinerary Denver, Los Angeles, San Diego. San Francisco and many other points of interest. Mrs. Ed Neese of Selma is the guest of her parents. MT. and Mrs. Louis Hoster. Sr., at Jonesboro.
 H. F. White is the guest of his fam | fly for several days.
 | Mrs. James Cahill has gone to Edge water where she will spend a week with relatives.
 l Miss Virginia Robinson has returned from a delightful visit tol Miss Mary 1 Alice Brown at Gadsden
 l Nathan Kartus has gone to St. Louis, l Chicago and other points where he will | be the guest of friends.
 | Mrs T. F. Robinson and children, | Winthrop and Charlotte, left today for l their home in Mobile after spending sometime in this city with relatives. l Mrs Ben l.. Dyer on Seventh ave l nupe has as her guests Mrs. George D. Wallwork and children of Florida