The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-03-17
YORK STARTED
 ON NEW CHURCH
Hnndsome Catholic Structure To
 Be Erected At Cost Of E ssOxer $75, 900
(BEssE,rER BUREAU

BESSEMER, Ala, March 16- Wnrk has been started on the erection of. the new Catholic church on Fifth .veuue and Seventeenth street. Trees en tIle Lots have been cleared, and foun- slsffcus are now being excavated. The s<sntrsetor. w. l.. Coston, states that she work win be rushed to an early eenpletion.
 The new church is to cost in ex- cexs of S75. 900, practica1ly all of which has been raised among the member skfp. The new structure will ad1oin the old church building. which was one ef the first erected in the city. It will be handsomely furnished and equipped, the structure to be of brick and stone.
 afsthodises Raise Funds-The con erxration at the First Methodist church suSscribed S175 to the Birmingham Southern commons building. funds for w&ieh are being raised by the students ef fhat institution. Miss Helen Hasty, representing the students. addressed the esnwregnticu, and at the conclusion of Der talk tho pledges were made.
 4ae sfudents are interested in the o<.etion of the building, which is the firsf building project they have fi- nanced- 1t will house the Y. M. O. A. n1zd the T. W. 0. A. and will be used = headquarters for athletics and recre- e<7Snal features of the school.
 T.exKsfk Announces-J. W. Leggett, prtui0enk jeWeler of Bessemer, has an- nonuced his candidacy for the county board of education. Mir. Leggett has been in close connection with the schools for the past several years. He 3 m active supporter of the schools ef the district and his connections have Become SO close with the rural schools, raxtienlariy, that in the past few years q eunsiaexshle portion of his time has heen devoted ts improvements and well fare work there.
 For more than a year he has been eha{rnian of the rural affairs commit tee of the Chamber of Commerce, and ia this connection has been officially iz &azeh with every school in the Bes- sezzer distxicf
 rrizez to proficient school children, in- ness courses. For two years he also eave loving cups to those persons who he'd contributed most to the uplift of the community.
 1xr. Leggett states that he will favor eA Immediate raise in salary for county szheal teachers and will insist that they ha paid in keeping with the other eaunfy employees.
 Hsee&3a Show Monday-L.ack of in- aaxest in the proposed egg and poultry EhQw has prompted . called meeting of tho poultry division at the Chamber. of Genmerce on Monday evening. A. D.. Ansman, the secretary, states that the rzemhers of the divisiOn either do not rsnIize the importance of the show or thew are not interested, and that on MQaday esening this will be put square V up to them, and the show will be put aa on laHge scale, or cancelled.
 Knigh1B ElBeE OffieerS-A largely at tended meeting of the Knights Templar was held last week at the Masonic tenn FlR. when effceRs for the ensuing year wsze selected as follows:
 ss.E E. West, commander l.. '. Lips eanb, eeneRalissimO; l.. M. Harris, cap tain general; T. J. Jones, senior war den, R. E. Donald, junior warden; Dr. F. O. Hellier, prelate; Mac Clay, treas- urer; T. o. lLathem, recorder; H. B. Duffy, standard bearer; V. l.. Summers, sword heaFers Frank Nelson, warden.
 These officials will be installed at q meeting on March 2S, when an after noon session will be held at o'clock, and another later in the evening.