The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-10-18
bESSEMER NEWS

bessemer. October I7.-(SpeciaI )-The
 Bessemer Gas company was officially
 taken over by the Birmingham Railway, Light and Power company yesterday and the books and papers have been turned
 over to the local agent for the company l.. W. Allen.
 The deal was practically consummated on August IS by the purchasers and the officials of the gas company, but the sale
 was not approved by the railroad commits sion of the state until October 6, when all the business details were gathered to- gether and everything wound up so thy '
 the transfer might be immediately s,,,a s,,,,,, ,a
 w. W. baltar, Jr., the fCffffIier menarer
 or the gas company, -wiil remain in Bes-
 semer Tor the Jrssent until MT. Alien ia
 1norousnly ,r, familiar with the business
 r,ae ,yany friends of MT. BaItar will be pp..'essoSsed to learn of this as it was hoped ,T them that he would remain in this
 being transferred to another city.
 Whether the offices of the gas company
 Will be with the offices of the Blrming-
 ham, Railway, Light and Power com
 pany IS not known at present but MT.
 Allen has taken charge and in the fu-
 ture Will conduct same.
 As vet there is no clue as to the thief
 or thieves that entered the store of Erlick
 e Lefkovits sometime Friday night, steal
 ing between $6o0 and s70o worth of cloth-
 ing and dry goods, The store occupies
 three buildings on Second avenue se-
 tween Nineteenth and Twentieth streets.
 ana the deed was in all probability per-
 petrated by someone who was concealed
 fnpt- -a |.
 closed Friday afternoon at o'clock. The
 robbery was discovered early yesteroay
 morning just after the store was opened
 when 1t was discovered that the back door
 was open. On investigation a rope made or domestic was found tied on pole In the stockroom and the thieves came down this rope into the shoe store which gave them access to the entire stock A number of ladies' coat suits, cloaks dresses, rain coats. mems suits, pants and large quantity of dry goods was stolen.
 The party or parties then left by the back door, 1t is thought that the goods were hauled away in a wagon as there were fresh wagon tracks in the alley in the rear Of the store. The office was also rnansacked. na but nothing has been missed Police Headquarters were notified and Detectives Maddox and Ross were put to work on the case
 Twenty thousand gallons of benzol and zoo gallons of toloul. one of the in- gredients of the light oil, were shipped from the plant at Woodward yesterday. The toloul went to the DuPont Powder company that uses it for light explosives while the benzol went to the Edison com pany and large shipment of it went to san francisco. The plant has a capacity or 2bO0 gallons of light oil daily and the penzol and toloul are made from this me former IS bringing apout si per gal lon while the latter is bringing about s4
 Funeral services over the remains of John Martin, who was killed vesterdsv while at work at the Bessemer Railing mill, were held this afternoon from the late residence. 2S13 Arlington avenue. the services being conducted by the Rev. Georse stoves. pastor of the First Meth- odist church, and the Rev. NJ K Thorn- ton, pastor of the First Baptist church. interment was made at Cedar Hill ceme- tery with Huey & Spangler in charge. The following gentlemen acted as pall- bearers: Active-Charlie Smith. Mir. Brown, Mr. Maixe. Hugh McEniry, l. E. Harrell and W. c. Baty. Honorary-Grav- CT smith, T. B. Wallace, Will Smith, Joe Eckhoff, Tom Mallett and Albert Pen nington.
 Mir Martin has lived in Bessemer for 10 years. where he was well known and highly esteemed. He was 34 years of age and is survived by his widow, father. mother and two brothers, who reside in 0ainsville. Ga. ,Ttfs mi
 Miss Mamie Joe Reed was a delightful hostess yesterday afternoon when she en- tertained the J. U. G. Rock club at her home on Arlington avenue. The house was very pretty In its decorations of cut flowers and ferns. the color motif of red a vyk H-t
 garet Waller and Miss Carolyn Reed served refreshing punch during the after non. At the conclusion of the games an ice course in which the color scheme was further emphasized was served Those present were: Miss Nellie Adams, Miss Willies J. Hollingswortn, Miss Lenora batists. Miss lmogene Maxwell, Miss Ruth vanclcve. Miss Maybelle Mckinney, Miss Kate Maddox. Miss Evie Craig, Miss Virginia Williamson, Mss Virginia Keith. Miss Verna Laird, Miss Vernon Hayes. Miss Marion Neal and Miss Grace More- land.
 There will be called meeting of the Ladies Aid society of the First Presby- terian church Monday afternoon at al o'clock in the parlOrs of the church at which time plans will be completed for the rummage sale which will be held in 1 lha near future. All members are urged 1 to be present
 Rally day was observed this morn- | Ing at the First Methodist Sunday school at which time a splendid pro- | Rramme was rendered by the small 1 children of the Sunday school as fol- lows: Song, by school; recitation, Alice | Ragsdale; song, by six little girls; rect l tation. by five little boys: song, by | school; recitation. Miss Elizabeth l Grove; . five minutes' talk on the lesson, by the pastor. the Rev. George | Stoves; vocal solo. Mrs Cecil Cowan; l talk by superintendent of Sunday schocl, Fletcher Sturdivant; song, byI gchooi; benediction. Judge B. Clay { Jones.
 Much interest is being manifested in