The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-01-18
|BIG ORDER FOR | 7 WEIGHTS FILED
110 Car Loads Are To Be Cast By Etowah Foundy For
 New York City
GADspEM BUREAU 1 ThE AoE-H EhAlO 9AladaN. Ala. I'm. l7


 The Etowah Foundry and Machine company is preparing to put in an ad- ditiOnal cupola and some new equip ment so that it will be able to fill the order for 5000 tons of sash weights recently received from New York. It | is expected the plant will turn out about 15 tons of the weights day, production to begin within 90 days. The order calls for about no carload shipments. a" A l Pettuss Seriously Hurt. NJ. E. Pettus, insurance agent, is in hospital with a. head injury from l which he may die, as, the result of being knockedb down by furniture truck in front of his home on Chest nut street, Wednesday night. It is said Mir. Pettus got out of an autOmO- bile, walked aroHnd~ it and stepped di- rectly in front of the passing truck. Falls Into We'll. | Bob Chappelle,, well known farmer of Coast Bend, is in a hospital with severe body bruises and possibly inter- nal injuries as the result of falling into an 1S-foot well at his home Wednes- day.,
 1 Glencoe Is Selected. Before adjournment, Thursday the Etowah county Masonic conference se- lected Glencoe as the next meeting place and elected the following off cers: WOrshipful master, John k. Weems, Glencoe; senior warden, c. A. Gallant, Gadsden; junior warden, +. T. Smith, Hokes Bluff; secretary, J. A. Gallant, Gadsden; senior deacon, Joe | Hicks, Alabama City; junior deacon, | W. J. Hagler, Attalla; tiler, J. J. Croft, Glencoe. Condition Is Serious. Hospital physicians reported Thurs | day that Superintendent c. II. Brad ley, of the car works, who was hurt by a fall.at the plant Wednesday, was ! in serious condition. The pelvic bone was broken in four places and one hip was fractured in two places. Court Term Advanced. Federal Judge W. I. Grubb has or dered term, of. United States court to be held here, beginning Monday, Jan uary 2S. The term was advanced one week, it is said, because Judge Grubb has engagements elsewhere. l Home Is Destroyed.
 While MT. and Mrs. Perry Ford | WSIC bittiue up Mllu ElCh l their home near Hopewell in St. Clair county was burned to the, ground We'd nesday night, according to reports re- ceived here.
 Serves 20 Years. | After serving as secretary of the vestry of the Episcopal church of the Holy Comforter for 26 years, 0. K. Goldman retired Wednesday night and I w. s. Dill was elected to the office. C. <. Wilkinson was elected senior warden; Joe McCleskey, junior war den; Joseph Balfour, treasurer, and 1 C. w. Vance was named to head the drive for the nationwide campaign for funds in this district.
 Woman Is Sentenced. Mrs. Lillie Snider, in whose home officers claim to have found a quan- | tity of whiskey early in the week, was fined $1OO and sentenced to six months imprisonment by Mayor Burns I in Alabama City police court Thurs. day. The prison sentence was sas- pended on the understanding that she would leave town. F Wife Beating Charged. l Ellis Baker, said to be brother of 1 Talmadge Baker, who is serving life sentence for killing Alderman Charlie Cox in this city several years ago, was locked up in the county jail Thursday on charge of assaulting and beating l his wife