The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-02-03
DESSEMER BOARD OF TRADE ID TAKE PART Will Consider the Commits
 sary Question CLEANUP CAMPAIGN Much Interest Is Being Shown in the Revival Being Conducted at
 South Highlands Bap-
 tist Church

| Bessemer, February 2.-(Special. .)--The new Birmingham Civic association has asked the Bessemer Board of Trade to as- | sist them in their consideration of the
 eommissary question. This matter will
 be discussed at the next called meeting of the board and it is impossible to say ! take as there appears to be a wide diff
 ference of opinion.
 l At the meeting which will be held at an early date, there will be a large
 number of Bessemer merchants present
 to urge the cooperation of the Bessemer body in this matter. It is stated that one argument to be used for the abo.i-
 ton of the commissaries will be the great migration of negroes from south 1 Alabama to Bessemer. These negroes form lrage part of the labor of this section now, and the merchants find it
 hard to get their trade as they came
 here as a rule without funds and as a
 rule trade exclusively with the commis- saries. 1 A judgement for $500 was returned by
 the jury in the case of Laura Johnson
 pro ami vs. the Louisville and Nashville railroad in the Bessemer division of the
 circuit court. The plaintiff was seeking 1 damages for alleged personal injuries
 received when she was struck by a. train. 1 This afternoon the case of Bill Morris l vs. the Woodward Iron company was 1 taken up.
 1 Much progress is being made by Sani-
 tary Inspector George Shaw in cleaning up the city. All merchants as well las
 all residents must buy garbage cans Cf
 provide proper receptacle for their garbage.
 1 Much interest is being manifested in /. the Sunday school institute which will l be held at the First Presbyterian church
 on Saturday and Sunday for Sunday school workers of all dehominations. ] Leon c. Palmer, secretary of the Ala I oama Sunday School association, assist ] ed by Mrs. Palmer and Miss F'reda Bose will conduct the institute. The hours | Tor the classes will be 10 o'clock a. m.,
 and 7S0 o'clock p. m, on both days. he public is invited to attend.
 Interest continues to grow in the re- 1 gival meeting being held at the South l highland Baptist church and large l crowds are attending. There have been 1 a number of conversions, and additions
 to the church. The Rev. T. o. Reese,
 who is doing the preaching, is a splen- | did speaker. On Sunday afternoon at 8 o'clock, there will be a special meeting
 for men only, the subject of which will i be, "The Drummer of Life"
 | Miss Ethel Mobbs of Galesville, was 1 the guest of honor at a delightful dinner last night when Mrs. John Ross enter
 tained in her honor Those present were:
 Miss Laura Apperson, Miss Euna Fer !guson, Miss Fife Fitzpatrick, Miss Myrtle l Croker, Miss Mamie Marks, Miss Nina
 Marks, Miss Fannie Wilbanks, Mrs. An 1 derson, James Fitzpatrick. Rush Ross Kellis Mobbs, George Newsome, Joe
 Newsome. Will Marks, MT. and Mrs. Phillips, MT. and Mrs. J. A. Fitzpatrick
 and MT. and Mrs. John Ross.
 l The local fire department made a run this afternoon at o'clock to 2317 Twelfth avenue, where a house owned by Dr. E. l.. Edmundson was slightly damaged by 1 fire. The blaze originated from a defect i've flue and the damage was very small. 1 At AIS o'clock another call was an- swered to Ninth avenue and Twentieth street, where a house occupied by a ne- gro was damaged. Little damage was done. At o'clock a house on Third ave- nue and Twenty-second street, occupied by negro, was damaged by fire. The damage was estimated at about $75 The Rev. J. c. McQueen will preach at the Fairview Presb yterian church Sun day morning. His subject will be, Called Out" At the evening hour he will fill the pulpit at the Brighton Presbyterian church and will have as his theme "He Cannot Be Denied.'' The Senior Chris tian Endeavor meeting will be held at 1 the Fairview Presbyterian church Sunday evening at 7:3o o'clock with George Key. holds as leader.