The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-05-19
COMMENCEMENT
 .sAlSON ! BEGINS
Sermons Start Exercises. 119 Graduate In Bes- semer District
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k H BESSEMER, Ala, May 1S.-Com- mencement exercises for the county schools of the Bessemer district were ushered in Sunday morning, when the baccalaureate sermons were preached at various churches. Large congrega- tions gathered in each instance, and all graduates attended in body. The sermons were preached for all six of the county high schools in the Besse- mer cutoff and were preceded by in teresting musical programs.
 There are. 119 graduates who will bs. delivered diplomas at exercises to be held at the schools Thursday evening. Supervisor ". R. Copeland has pre- pared the programs, with the assist ance of the various principals, and mem bers of the county board of education are to attend or send representatives.
 Dr. H. A. Trexler of Birmingham Southern college. delivered the bac- calaureate sermon to. the Hueytown graduates at the Pleasant Ridge Bap- tist church. There were twenty -four members in this class und Prof. H. K. Gilmore presided. Ire,
 Tie baccalaureate sermon for the McAdory students was delivered by Dr. Hazenby, editor of the Christian Advo- cate at Pleasanh Hill church Sunday morning, the twenty-one graduates at tending in body. The senior class play will be given Friday evening, while class night is to Dc observed at the school Monday evening.
 Sermons were also delivered to the graduates of Johns, Alliance, Oak Grove and Jones Valley Sunday morn- ing. There are 12, B, IS and 21 grad uates, respectively .at each of these schools. Together with the senior class at Bessemer High. lS9 students will receive high school diplomas this week, which is equivalent to the total high school enrolment fifteen years ago.
 E. Q. Cross OieS-E. o. Cross, 45, died Sunday morning at 5 o'clock at the family residence, 1520 North Six teenth street. following a short illness. Funeral services will be held Monday afternoon at 2 o'clock from the resi- dence, with Rev. ". +. Price and Rev. Claude Anderson in charge. Burial will follow at Genery's Gap cemetery, with Jacobs in. charge. The deceased has several survivors here.
 Taylor Is Buried 70. M. Taylor. 46. died Saturday afternoon at a Birming- ham hospital following long illness. The deceased is survvied by q brother. Irving Cross of Tampa, Fla; q sis ter, Mrs. Mamie Honeycutt of St. Louis. Funeral services were held Sunday aft ernoon at 4 o'clock at Cedar Hill cem- etery with Rev. J.. Williams off ciating. Jacobs had charge.
 ! To Hold Picnic-The Industrial Mems Bible class of the First Presbyterian church will hold their annual picinc on Labor Day, tbe first Monday in September. The place for the picnic is 70 be decided later. The families of the sion.
 Hueytown Realty Boorn--Realtv 5 values m the Hueytown neighborhood are booming as result of the exten. 5 sive developments of the Bessmer Coal. Iron and Land company and several in. dividual owners. The chief factor has been the opening of huge tract by the land company, and street work in this section will be g0tten under way there n the next few days Contracts foa ' xoadw0rk were let reaantlv to R { btaggs and the Bfdges Construct tiofl company, calling for the grading of ] about five miles of streets.
 The property is to be centered with . winding driveway to be known as Circle Drive. There is total of 1 1,714 lots in the entire subdivision, covering nearly 400 acres of land. About 50 of these lots face the North Bessemer paved road, 130 lots. face the Huey. town road and 300 face Circle Drive.
 Within the next few months other new streets will be opened, making a total of five miles in the subdivision. . The residents of Hueytown have al- ready made deposits for meters and expect to have lights within the next SO days.
 To Hold ReuniOn-The thirteenth annual York Rite, reunion is to be held by the Bessemer Masonic bodies this week for three days, beginning We'd nesday Hundreds of 1Iasons will be in attendance from the immediate dis trict and over the state.
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