The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-09-02
|BESSEMER BAR MILL
 WILL RESUME TODAY
Audit of Books of City Has Commenced-City Clerk
 to Be Named Tuesday

| Bessemer September 1-(Special) )-The following is the report in part of Chief | of the Fire Department J. I. Reeder, | which will be submitted to the city coun- cil at the next regular meeting, Tues day night:
 The following is my report for the
 month ending July S1. 1916: Fifteen alarms were answered. Value of property
 at risk, building and contents, $19,S00; amount of insurance at risk for month, building and contents, $s725; total loss for
 month, insured and uninsured, $s62 40; to- tai insurance loss, building and contents, $241. .49.
 Causes of fires: Carlessness, 1; care lessness with an electric iron, 1; care lessness with gasoline, 1; boy playing with matches 1; spark on roof, 3; soot burn ling, 2; spontaneous combustion, 1; defec- tive flue, 2; trash burning, I; unneces- sary runs, 2 communicated 1; total num- Der of runs, 15.'
 The work of auditing the city's books has been given to Harry l.. Todd of Bir- mingham, who has been instructed to rush the work and make a report as soon as possible The work of auditing the books was begun this morning and will be completed within the next 30 days. It is expected that the council will name successor for MT. Houston for the rest of the term at the meeting Tuesday aft ernoon. The following men have been spoken of as possible candidates for the place, which, pays $40 a month, and the term for two years; Henry Hurd, John M Eagan, c. M. Brannon, J. H. Reed, C. T. Cooke, William D. Lanier, and be- fore the election, it is expected that oth- CTS will be in the race.
 On Saturday the newly built bar mill at the Bessemer rolling mill will go on full time and will be operated by electric
 motors instead of steam, as formerly.
 With the repairs completed the mill is modern in every respect and will add
 largely to the output of the department
 of the mill.
 A quiet wedding was solemnized last
 night at the Baptist parsonage, when
 MT. Lloyd Shinn and Miss Mera Nicker-
 son of Sylacauga were married by the
 Rev. NJ. K Thornton. The young peo-
 pie left immediately for their home in Sylacauga.
 
 A letter has been received by Presi- dent John w. Brooks of the board of education from John Millican, declining
 the position of teacher of mathematics
 in the High school. The position was offered to MT. Millican at the last meet ing of the board.
 A large number of invitations have been issued by the young men for a
 dance which will be given Tuesday night at West Lake in compliment to their young lady friends. The invitation com mittee is composed of J. Emmett Glenn, Walter Mcdowell and Fred Bailey. This affair is the first of the fall season Myrtle Linton lodge No 13O, Knights of Pythias, held an interesting meeting last night. when plans were perfected for entertaining the Third district con- vention, which will be held in Bessemer on September 2. The local lodge is mak- ing extensive arrangements for this con vention and they expect to have about 300 delegates and visitors. The commit tee on entertainment is composed of J. A. Roberts, E. P. Johnson and A. B. Asbury.
 The Bessemer baseball team will meet
 the By-product plant team on the lat ter's diamond Saturday afternoon. and close game is expected. A large num- Der of fans will accompany the aggrega tion on the trip.
 1 The Red Mountain team will cross bats | with the team from Bayview Saturday afternoon on the formers diamond.