The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1905-05-24
ENSLEY SCHOOLS
CLOSE NEXT WEEK
Interesting Programme Ar
ranged for Closing Exercises
CUNNINGHAM TO SPEAK
Enrolment This Session Nearly 1900.
Elks Meet Tonieht-Two Miners
Injured at WyIam-Per-
sonal and General.
CUNNINGHAM TO SPEAK

Ensley. May 49, (Special) THE pro-
gramme for the commencement of the
Ensley public schools to be held from
May rs to June ? has been completed.
The annual address before the gradual
ing class will be delivered on the night
of June by Lieutenant Governor r. NJ.
Cunningham
The session just closing has been by
far the most prosperous in the history of
the schools the enrolment having gone
over the 1900 mark. From the standpoints
of attendance and work the year has been
most successful and Superintendent W.
II. Bowen and his corps Of teachers are
being congratulated on their excellent
record.
The various classes are now in the
midst of their final examinations, the
senior class having completed their ex-
| aminations a day or two ago.
The commencement will begin ON Sun
day morning at II o'clock with the annual
commencement sermon by the Rev. J. II.
Longcrier, pastor of the First Baptist
church. Thursday night at o'clock at
the Ensley opera house the Dialectical
and the John B. Gordon Literary societies
will hold a joint meeting.
| Friday, June 2, will be parents day, as
all of the patrons of the schools are in
vited to visit the various classes and see
the pupils at work. on Friday night of
June the graduating exercises will be
held at the opera house, at which time
| the diplomas will be awarded to the
| graduating class, ten in number, and
| Lieutenant Governor Cunningham will
| deliver an address.
On June and 6 the examining board
| of the board of education will examine
| applicants for positions in the public
schools for the ensuing year.
Elks Tomorrow Night.
The new lodge Of Ensley Elks will hold
a meeting tomorrow night at the city
hall for the purpose of taking steps to
perfect a permanent organization. As
soon as the grand lodge acts the char
ter members of the lodge will be officially
installed by a committee from the Biz
mingham lodge
Representative Report.
AT the regular meeting of the steel City
lodge knights of Pythias tonight Post
/ master J. w. Clayton, who attended the
grand lodge, which was in session at
Montgomery last week, made a lengthy
report of the work accomplished by the
/ Montgomery meeting.
The Steel Cit. lodge is in a most -four
ishng condition and the membership Is
rapidly increasing.
Two Miners Injured.
Joe Fisher and John Posey, two miners
were seriously injured at mine No, of
! the Pratt division late yesterday after
noon by being run over by loose car.
! The men were on their way out of the
! I. .Nf
cars which had broken loose and were
running back down the slope. Both of
the men live at Wylam and have large
| families.
Visiting Plants.
A party of Vanderbilt university stu
dents accompanied by DR.. Dudley have
spent the past two days in EnsleY In
speeding the steel plant and the other
| Industries of the city. The young men
expressed themselves as being highly
pleased with the industrial air of the
Steel City, and express amazement at
the proportions of the industrial scope
of this district.
Building Leased.
The new two-story brick building which
is soon to be erected by j. M. Perkins
and associates on Avenue E. near
Eighteenth street. has leased 1t for three
years to the Rouss-M aenza Wholesale
Grocery company. The building will be
5OxSO feet and the first floor will be
used by. the grocery company.
Superintendent j. NJ. Franklin of the
mines for the Tennessee Coal Iron and
Railway company. was in Ensley today
sion
Miss May Wood of Kansas City. who
has been the guest of her brother c.
II. Wood. for several weeks, returned