The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-12-08
MERCHANTS READY FOR HOLIDAY TRADE Bessemer Merchants Look ing Forward to Big
 Holiday Trade
TWO WOMEN ARE SHOT
Bessemer Culture Club Host to Fed erated Clubs of the City and a Delightful Meeting Was Held.
 Football Team Entertained

Bessemer, December 7.-CSpecial) 1.-The merchants of this city are preparing for the Christmas business, which promises district. Practically all of the merchants have put out their Christmas goods and the windows and stores are taking on decided holiday appearance. Saturday will be a big pay day and large amounts of money will be distributed among the employees of the various corporations and
 the merchants expect busy time. Funeral services over the remains of
 Miss Ada Roberts, who died yesterday following an illness of tuberculosis, were held this morning from the Oak Grove church, the services being conducted by the Rev. Mir Nickols. IntermerIt followed at the Oak Grove cemetery with Jacobs 1 In charge The deceased was the daugn- ter of MT. and Mrs. F. NJ. Roberts and ! was g years of age. She was reared at 1 Oak Grove, where she was well known and loved by large circle of acquaint- ances. She is survived by her parents, three brothers and three sisters as we'll as a number of other relatives in this city.
 The intermediate department of the | First Methodist Sunday school is hold ing bazar today and Friday at the Lewis-Read Drug store and large num- Der of pretty handmade articles are on | sale.
 Sallie Barron, negro woman, shot and wounded Leila Petty and Stella McKin- ney, negroes, this morning, at her home I in South Bessemer. It is alleged that ] the women had quarrel and the Bar | ron woman got a gun and fired, one bull l let taking effect in the shoulder of the l Petty woman and the other in the foot l of the Mckinney woman. The shoot | ing was done with a .3s-calibre special. l Dr. George D. Waller was called and the | wounds of the women were dressed. De- | tectve Ross Thomas arrested Sallie Bar l ron and placed her in the city jail, where | she is being held pending results of the injuries of the wounded.
 1 Tyler Kent, a negro, was arrested last night by a special officer of the Alabama | 1 he had broken the locks on three box cars. It appears that the man broke the | locks on three box cars, one after the ! other, but did not find anything to suit 1 him. The officer was watching the ne- 1 gro and placed him under arrest.
 There will be special meeting of Bes-
 semer lodge No. 45s, Ancient, Free and | Accepted Masons, Friday night, when
 there will be work in the master Mason degree. A full attendance is urged. 1 One of the most delightful affairs of 1 the season was the reciprocity meeting
 which was held this afternoon at the 1 home of Mrs. A. A. Persons on Clar- l endon avenue and Twenty-first street
 by the Bessemer Culture club, when they
 entertained the two other federated clubs | In this city, the Civic Improvement league I and the Music club. The reception rooms | were beautifully arranged in ferns and 1 cut flowers and the meeting was opened ] with the welcome address by Mrs. F. L.. 1 Huey. Mrs. Tom Johnson rendered . | vocal solo, Mrs. McCollum gave an in- 1 teresting reading on Shakespeare as a | Dramatic Artist" Mrs. Cecil Cowan ren- 1 dered a solo and Mrs. GA B. Hollings- 1 worth a beautiful piano selection. The 1 address of the occasion was made by l Miss Rose Striplin on "The Vital Issues | of the Day" Miss Strplin spoke most l Interestingly for 40 minutes, holding the i undivided attention of her hearers. The l programme was closed with a piano duet | by Miss Lena Hatcher and Beryl Primer, l after which French pastry and coffee were served. The meeting was attended l by large number of club members from
 each club and was greatly enjoyed by
 all present.
 l Tba md fny-t ha tho | l team of the Bessemer High school will | entertain the members of the team on | Friday evening at the home of Miss Vert 1 ma Randall on Dartmouth avenue and l Twenty-f1rst street
 | Miss Emma c. Haley will entertain q I number of friends Friday night at her 1 home on Eighteenth street, in celebra- | ton of her eighteenth birthday. large | number of invitations have been issued.
 The district stewards conference of the First Methodist church will be held at the church Friday afternoon at o'clock.
 This will be the first meeting of the ] stewards since conference and many mat 1 ters of interest will be gone over. The
 meeting will be presided over by the
 Rev. G. E. Boyd, presiding elder of the Bessemer district.
 The Bessemer Hatikwah club enter | tained last night at a tacky party at | the club rooms Second avenue be- tween Nineteenth and Twentieth streets. l The hall was prettily decorated for the
 occasion and the ladies prize was cap
 tured by Miss Dora Weinstein, while the gentleman's prize fell to Sam Lefkovits. Dancing was enjoyed until a late hour and delicious refreshments were served. Among the out-of-town guests present