The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-07-04

Bessemer, July 3.-(Special )--The unusual drouth has ruined the vege- tables of the farmers of the Besse- mer district and numbers of them are making preparations to plant a second crop.
 Complaints have been made from every section of this end of the coun- ty that the gardens have been com pletely burned up by the excessive heat and drouth.
 The corn crop has been seriously damaged, and from all indications the fruit has been damaged to the extent that the yield will be smaller than in many years.
 The city council will meet Tuesday evening at the regular hour. and a number of important matters will come up for consideration, among them the paving contracts of the city.
 Memorial Day
 The recent memorial services held at Pleasant Hill cemetery near Bes- semer. recalled Interesting historical data, and brought together large assembly of residents of the vicinity and a number of former residents who have become prominent citizens of the county and the state. The principal speakers for the occasion were the Revs. w. F. Faust, presid- ing elder of the Methodist church of Tuscaloosa, and Thomas Jones of Woodlawn. who has an important appointment in the conference, both of whom were reared and began their education at the Pleasant Hill school.
 The church is one of the oldest in the state, it having been built in 1882, and from its location on a of Pleasant Hill. and the members are planning for the celebration of it's one hundredth anniversary.
 In the school which was located ! near this church and was built in 1928, many prominent men of the state received their first lessons. On the occasion of the memorial service. there was a spirit of home coming and happy reunion prevail ling. A picnic dinner was spread un- der the shade of the trees.
 sunbenms' Programme
 The Sunbeam band of the South side Baptist church will give an un- usually interesting programme at their meeting Tuesday evening at & o'clock at the tabernacle on Dart mouth avenue and Seventeenth street. Mrs. I. E. Gray and Miss Susie o,rot well have prepared the programme, in which large number of the mem- bers will participate.
 The public has been invited to at- tend this entertainment.
 Ward PIaygrounds
 The Civic club Is planning to im- prove vacant lot in each ward in Bessemer to be used as playground for the children of the city. Mrs, Lacey Edmundson will arr range for lot on Sixteenth street to be improved for this purpose for the children in that section of the city; Mrs. Lee Mattingly will have l charge of the preparation of one near the business part of the town, and Mrs. John Perry will have one on | Clarendon avenue improved. The | Civic club and the city will make arrangements for the improvements of the lots.
 | Mrs. Sam Erlick of the First ward as chairman of that branch of the | Civic club, has provided splendid playground for the children on Dart mouth avenue and Nineteenth street | Mrs. Gardner F. Goodwin and Mrs R. W. Waldrop have completed the | preparations for a lot in Second l ward to be cleaned and made into a playground. Owing to the fact that l SO many of the children live some distance from the city park, it has been found advisable to provide these ward playgrounds for their benefit. Personals
 | Mrs. George Rutledge is in Green wood. Miss. where she Is the guest i of her daughter, Miss Dorothy Huff laan.
 | Lamar Ray of Atlanta Is the guest of his brother. C. M. Ray.
 Miss Mary Blackmon, who has been with her uncle, c. M. Ray and Mrs. Ray on Fourth avenue, will remove | to Birmingham Tuesday and will be