The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-02-04
BESSEMER MEN ID 60 ID MONTGOMERY Committee Will Appear Be- fore the Public Service
 Commission SUNDAY SCHOOL MEET Bessemer Loses Last Soccer Game of the Season to Fast Vivian
 Team--Other News of
 Marvel City

l Bessemer, February 3.--(Special.) | The citizens of Bessemer are mani festing much interest in the outcome l of the petition of the Southern Rail-
 road company to operate its passenger l trains over the Alabama Great South ern railroad through Bessemer which ! comes up before the public service commission in Montgomery next Mon- 1 day. The Board of Trade committed, l com posed of J. E. Haffner, chairman, i, I. D. Martin, James B. Morton and 1 E. L. Huey, will appear before that
 body on Monday.
 1 The Bessemer rolling mill broke all records for output at the plate and
 bar mill during January.
 l The local Womans Christian Tenn ] perance union will observe national constitutional prohibition day Sunday 1 afternoon at 2:30 o'clock in the Sun l day school rooms of the First Meth odist church. The public is invited. | Among the social affairs planned for 1 Miss Lillian Cahill, bride-elect, will l be a miscellaneous shower Tuesday 1 when Miss Gladys Randall will enter mons will give a linen shower on Fri day afternoon and Miss Kathleen Ca l hill and Miss Ethel Gillen will also l entertain in her honor.
 At the First Methodist church of Bessemer Sunday the pastor, the Rev. I Ira F. Hawkins, will preach at Il t soln ntI H. Vt.xr Seek God Only in Life" A class will
 be received into the church and names of those received by letter will be an- nounced. The subject for Sunday 1 evening will be, Healthy Discontent.'
 or How to Make Today Better Than l Yesterday"
 The first quarterly conference of the | First Methodist church will be held
 Monday night at 7:30 o'clock when the Row. George F. Boyd, presiding elder of the Bessemer district, will preside.
 The Rev. J. c. Hill. pastor of the Jonesboro Baptist church, will fill his pulpit Sunday at both the morning and evening services taking for his theme Rejoicing" At the evening hour the
 series of sermons on the "Prodigal Son" will be continued. The Sunday
 evening subject will be. Looking for Position
 The Rev. Charles. Cole will preach
 at the Brighton school auditorium Sunday afternoon at 8 o'clock, taking as his theme, "The Wages of Sin"
 The regular monthly meeting of the United Charities and the hospital
 board will be held Monday afternoon
 at the home of the president, Mrs. E.
 NJ. Owen.
 The wedding of Miss Lillian Cahill and Mir. Raymond Allen will take place on
 Wednesday afternoon, February 14, at the
 home of the brides parents, MT. and Mrs.
 James Cahill No invitations will be is-
 sued. Miss Cahill will have as her maid of honor her sister, Miss Kathleen Ca- hill, and Miss Elsie Katherine Allen, the sister of the groom, will be the brides maid. Mir. Allen has asked A. H. Richart to act as best man and James Cahill Jr, will be the groomsman. The cere- mony will be performed by the Rev Father M. E. Kittrick of St. Aloysius | Catholic church. Miss Lena Hatcher will play the wedding march and Mrs. F. c Moffatt of Chicago. sister of the bride, will sing.
 l The Sunday School Institute was hela at the First Presbyterian church today and will be continued tomorrow, by Leon c. Palmer, secretary of the Alabama Sunday School association. assisted bv Mrs. Palmer. and Miss Freda Bose sec ondary division superintendent of the Alabama Sunday School association The meetings today are to be held at 10
 m., D. m. and 7:30 p. m.
 Bessemer played her last scheduled soc cer game today on her home grounds, ! losing to the fast Wylam team by a score
 Of to o. The feature of the game for Vivian was the playing of younr
 Brown. son of the league chairman, while
 the only man on the Bessemer team who showed mp to advantage was Ftllib ok
 Myles. who was all over the field from goal to goal and whose fierce chargin-, and clever pass work kept the Wylam forwards guessing throughout the game PERSONALS
 | B. P Harris has returned from a busi- ness trip to Memphis.
 l The Rev. M K. Thornton has returnes l from Carrollton, where he spent the past week.
 William Rruns. who has been worlxin~ 1 for the Alabama Great Southern rail- road, has been transferred to Cincinnati 1 MT. and Mrs. Frank T. Mosley have returned from Florida, where they have I been for several months.