The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-09-08
BESSEMER NEWS

1 Bessemer, September 7.-(SpeciaL 1.-The city council met in regular session to-
 night in the council chamber and was called to order at 8 o'clock by President George Ross. After the reading of the | minutes a report from the street and l light committee to which was referred
 the petition of the Tidewater company
 asking the city to grant franchise, re-
 ported that the franchise be granted if
 the company paid city s50oO. The report was adopted.
 1 Hugh McEniry requested that the
 sewer be extended from Nineteenth street
 down Exter avenue to Eighteenth street.
 He stated that he would do the engineer
 ing and he thought the city prisoners
 could dig the ditch so 1t would cost the
 city very little The matter was re-
 ferred to the sanitary committee and
 mayor with power to act
 | Patrol Driver D. L. Milton. who was
 cut from the force several weeks ago
 when the forces of the city were reduced
 to bring the city within it's revenue, pe- titioned the council for the 10 per cent discount in salary for the past five
 months, which would amount to $33 This | was referred to the finance committee with power to act.
 Alderman Surratt made a motion that the restaurant on Third avenue in the | I ear of Harris Brothers clothing store, | be declared insanitary and the chief of the fire department be authorized to notify MT. Landrum, the proprietor, to vacate tomorrow morning. The motion was adopted.
 Officer Ellis Houston, who was grant l ed a 90-day leave of absence several | weeks ago.. asked to be renstated. The | matter was referred to the police com-l mittee and Chief of Police T. B. Wah lace with power to act. Mayor Lewis stated that one of the horses driven by the detectives was in bad condition and he thought it would be good idea to swap the animal. The matter of swapping the horse was re- ferred to Aldermen Jesse Edwards, J. N. Smthson and Moss Crotwell. Alderman Surratt moved that Chief J. I. Reeder of | the fire department and Mayor I. A. Lewis take up the matter of the leak ing gasoline tank in the rear of the fire department with w. T. Warlick. from whom 1t was purchased. and see if some satisfactory arrangement could not be made. There being no further business, the meeting adjourned
 Sometime after 10 O clock last night the | automobile of Thomas T. Huey was stolen from his garage in the rear of his residence, 1901 Dartmouth avenue, and so far no trace of the missing macnine has been found. Mr. Huey and his fam fly had been riding in the car and put it in the garage about 10 o'clock. That was the last time it was seen by MT. Huey. Tt was not missed until this morn ing when he went to the garage to come downtown. The machine is a Studebaker four and bears license No. 10s0 Police authorities were notified.
 At the Central foundry tennis court this morning the team of Bailey ano Clay defeated Smith and Byars in three straight sets of fast tennis, 60, 6-4, 6-4, taking the championship of this end of the county and the two beautiful Lee racquets offered by Jack and Mack Clay as prizes. The sets were extremely fast and exciting as both teams were on edge for this match. Smith and Byars fea- tured time after time with seemingly impossible returns to their opponents terrific smashes and drives. The second and third sets both ran to A. but at this point Smith and Byars were al- ways forced to yield to the smashing offense of their older opponents, who used mixture of net and baseline ten his which seemed to bewilder the young CT and less experienced players. Bailey and Clay established remarkable rec ord by going through the entire tourna- ment meeting and defeating some of the best racqueteers in the district with out the loss of a single set % any pair of opponents.
 This ends all but the consolation rounds of Bessemer's second annual tourna- ment which has been a grand success in every way. It brought to light sev- eral young stars with bright prospects for the future in the tennis world.
 Rosh Hashhana will be observed by the Jewish citizens of this city beginning Wednesday evening at o'clock and end ing Thursday at 6 o'clock. Those of the orthodox faith will have serices at Tenn pie Beth-El on Sixth avenue and Seven teenth street. All Jewish stores will be closed Thursday.
 Charner Batson, Arthur Green, Luney Ragsdale, Charlie Cargle, John Hagerty Joe Little, Eugene Hawkins. Fred Ross and Fred Smithson expect to leave to- morrow for Tuscaloosa, where they will be students at the University of Ala bama.
 Dr. w. D. Taylor has returned from Colorado Springs, where he has been visiting friends
 Miss Zelna Lefkovits expects to leave next week for Nashville, where she will attend Ward-Belmont this year.
 Mrs. J. Y Coburn has returned from a two weeks visit to relatives in Aber- deen and Tupelo. Miss.
 Chief of Fire Department J. I. Reed CT has returned from Cincinnati. where he attended the convention of fire chiefs which vas held in that city last week.
 John B Bentley and J. Rube Robert son have returned to East Lake to re- sume their studies at Howard college.
 Miss Willie Allen will teach in the Brighton school this year. ~ M
 w. Nj. Winter is improving after an illness at the Elizabeth Duncan hospital.
 Detective; Carl Goodwin is improving after recent illness.