The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-05-22
LABOR AGENTS MUST GIVE HEAVY BOND
Bessemer Officials to Adopt Drastic Laws Regulating
 Labor Agents

Bessener, May -(special)-rhe ju- dietary committee of the Bessemer city council, to which was referred the ordi- nance regulating labor agents in the city of Bessemer. is considering one Of the most drastic ordinances ever written in the state.
 The ordinance requires a labor agent to furnish bond in the amount of s5ooO to indemnify persons leaving on transporta- ton from misrepresentation, and pro- vides further that an additional s50vo' bond be furnished when the first bond is exhausted by reason of claims. A license of $4OO year is fixed for the business and the applicant for license must ad- vertise his intentions 10 days prior to re- ceiving license. Lists of employees must be filed with the mayor, together with description of labor conditions that ob- tain in localities to which he intends to transport labor. All statements to the mayor must be kept on file at the office of the agent for the benefit of persons leaving on transportation.
 | Everything is in readiness for the sixth annual York Rite reunion, which will open in Bessemer Tuesday morning at 10 o'clock, and will continue through TEturs day of this week. The local Masonic lodges have made extensive arrangements for the entertainment of the delegates and visitors who are expected from all over the state. The first day will be devoted to the Blue lodge, and a selected team will confer the ranks, while the chapter will have charge of the second days work. On Thursday Grand Master Jacob 1 Bley will institute the Samuel Stein coun- cil No. 73 of Royal and Select Masters, and the rest of the day will be given over to the organization of the local council and work. With the organiza-
 ton of this lodge Bessemer will have four Masonic lodges, two of which have been instituted within the past year.
 The members of Trinity Episcopal | church are gratified to learn that the Rev.
 Noble c. Powell will return to Bessemer
 to take charge of the church here dur ing the summer. He will preach his first
 sermon on Sunday, June 10. and will fill
 the pulpit regularly until next fall
 The marriage of Miss Eleanor Brooks and MT. Jake Clayton Halfacre was 1 solemnized yesterday afternoon at the home of the brides parents, MT. and Mrs. l
 ence of a number of relatives and friends.
 Mrs. Halfacre as Miss Brooks was well known in Bessemer, where she spent a great deal of her time with her aunt, Mrs J. M. Barrett. MT. and Mrs Half
 acre arrived in Bessemer last night and are at home for the present with MT.
 and Mrs. J. A. Estes at Jonesboro.
 Beautifully engraved invitations to the commencement exercises of the Bessemer High school have been issued and are as
 follows: "Bessemer High school class
 of 1917. Commencement exercises Thurs day evening, May 3l, at o'clock Class night will be held on Wednesday evening, May 13, and a splendid musical pro-
 gramme has been arranged under the able
 direction of Mrs. Annie Glenn Grove. 3 Mrs. Grover Smith was delightful hos tess this afternoon when she entertained
 the members of circle No. of the Pas
 tors Helpers of the First Methodist
 church. A short business session was held and dues and friendship chain money
 collected amounted to s4S5. Plans were
 completed for entertaining the other three
 circles Tuesday afternoon in the parlors
 of the church. Mrs. I. G. Fritz was
 enrolled as a member, and Mrs A. D.
 Sturdivant and Mrs. DeJarnette were visi-
 tors at the meeting. Delightful refresh- ments were served to the following: Mrs. T R. Copeland Mrs. O. E. farmer, Mrs. Jerome Karr Mrs. Claude Smith, Mrs. R. T. Cummins. Mrs. c. w. Adams, Mrs. M. B. Purdy, Mrs. Robert Childress,
 Mrs L. H. Humphries Mrs Sturdivant, Mrs Fritz and Mrs. DeJarnette.
 The Woman's Christian Temperance
 union will meet Tuesday afternoon at
 o'clock at the home of Mrs. Andrew ! Haffner on Second avenue.