The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-01-02
NE WS OF BESSEMER
MISS BE2NEY GTLLEN, correspondeuG

Bessemer January t.---(special)--At she meeting of the Bessemer city council the office of milk and meat inspector at a salary of s7S per month. pr. Pat ton wisl cooperate with the market committee of the council. No fees arc to oe collected for inspection.
 C. T. Cooke petitioned the council on behalf of the meat dealers in this city asking them to rescind their action allow ing peddling of meat within the cor porate limits by farmers who killed and sold their meat to the public. MT, Cooke stated that the intent Of the ordi- nance was good but that it had been abused by professional peddlers After considerable discussion the matter was referred to the judiciary committee to report at the next meeting.
 An ordinance was introduced requir- ing all coal dealers to give certificates 70 purchasers. A motion was made and passed to pay the telephone bill of plainclothes Detective Ross Thomas who i.as recently promoted. The report of J. l. Reeder chief Of the fire depart- nent, was read and received as informa- tion. Other routine matters were han dled.
 BLOW IN FURNACE
 The work of rebuilding the little Belle furnace has been completed and is now awaiting an order to be blown in. This furnace belongs to the Tennessee Coal, Iron and Railroad company and for the past 15 years 1t has been idle, but Is now remodelled with equipment not possessed by any furnace in this district, and it is thought that when put into action 1t will be able to break all past records in the production of iron.
 CLASSIFICATION BEGINS
 Chairman T. T. Huey of the local ex- emption board expects to begin the classification of registered men on Wednesday. The board will be guided in this work by the answers to the ques- tionnaries which have been returned. Three hundred questionnaires are being sent out daily and number of exten- slons of time have been granted. espe- cially in cases where good causes were shown.
 WENONAH RED CROSS
 The Wenonah ked Cross unit held a most interesting meeting this afternoon at 3 o'clock at their clubhouse. A busi- ness meeting was held, at which time a donation of SS was received from the Woman's club of Wenonah. The presi- dent fo the unit read letter from the ward surgeon at Camp Mcclellan base hospital thanking them for their Christ mas box Another box is being pre- pared which will be sent next week. It was decided that the unit would meet on Tuesday and Friday of each week at p. m. Hospital supplies as well aa many knitted garments were turned 1T at this time.
 RED CROSS THANKED
 The Bessemer Red Cross unit head quarters have been changed to room S14, adjoining the armory hall of the Realty building, and announcement has been made that the unit would con- tinue their meetings at this place on Tuesday and Fridays beginning at a. m., and continuing. throughout the day. The women arc devoting their entire time to this work and large amount of knitting as well as hos pital supplies were sent in to head quarters today. The workers of this unit have received several letters from various camps to which their Christ mas packages were sent thanking them for their kindness. The following is an extract taken from one of the let ters received from a private at Camp Beauregard at Alexandria, La:
 Il happened to be the lucky sot-
 dier who received your Red Cross
 package for Christmas, which was
 indeed very nice Christmas pres-
 ent and I sincerely thank you and
 the Red Cross unit of Bessemer
 for your kindness in rem memhering
 we soldier boys so wonderfully. l
 truly think that the Bessemer
 unit did a great work for it hap
 pened that I saw several pack
 ages which came from your or
 ganization and they were all
 dainty packages. l do not think
 the United States soldiers can
 ever forget the good work of the
 Red Cross in this great war, es- 5 pecially the boys of this camp, for we are all quarantined and
 had it not been for your good
 work Christmas would have been
 very dull. Your certainly should
 have been here to have watched
 the boys when they received their
 packages. They were very much
 like little children opening them
 and showing their presents to one
 another.''
 The local unit feels very much en- couraged to know that their feeble efforts have been so much appreciated. All members are urged to meet on Friday at which time new material may be secured.
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