The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-04-21
.ENSLEY MAY GET
 4 MACHINE SHOP
Large Lot is Being Graded by
 Tennessee Company
DELEGATES LEAVE TUESDAY
Ensley Sunday School Workers VIII Attend State Convention at Mont gomery-Library Books
 Being cataIogued.

Ensley, April y20.-(Speeial.)-A large force of men are employed in levelng and grading the vacant tract lying between Seventeenth street and Nineteenth street, just south of the furnaces of the Ten nessee Coal, Iron and Railroad company, in this city,
 While no announcement has been made as to what will be done with the prop erty it is currently rumored in Ensley that a large machine shop will be built at once by the Tennesse company.
 It has been understood for some time that the company was considering the erection of a machine shop in connec- ton with their plants at this place and it is believed that the work already begun on this property is but the preliminarles to the building of the mill
 To Sunday School Convention.
 President J. s. Falkner of the Ensley District Sunday School association. is making preparations for the state conven- ton to be held at Montgomery next Tues day and is arranging transportation for the delegates that will attend from this district.
 The delegates from Ensley will join a large delegation at Birmingham from which place they will all go over the Louisville and Nashville railway next Tuesday morning.
 All the delegates appointed from the Ensley district who find that it will be impossible to attend are requested to notify MT. Falkner by Monday noon, so that tickets will not be issued for them
 Cstaloguing Library Books.
 Miss Louise Thompson librarian of the Carnegie library of this city, began the arriving this morning.
 She is being assisted in the work by Miss Lila May Chapman of the Carne- gie library of Atlanta in the work. Miss Chapman arrived yesterday and will re- main until after the work is done and the books installed in the library building which will be within two or three weeks.
 The work of catalogung is being done in the office of the chief of police in the city hall until the library budding is in shape. The books are arriving now rapidly and it is expected that every thing will be in readiness for the open ing when the finishing touches are on the building.
 To Improve Streets. The city authorities of Ensley have awarded contract to Smiley. Son & Co, for delivering 1000 yards of slag per month on the streets of Ensley. The con- tract covers period of ten months and will begin at once.
 This slag will be used for paving and building up the streets and sidewalks of Ensley and is considered as one of the largest street improvement contracts ever begun by municipality of Ensley's age.
 The City Council has also provided that all lots in the city that are below the established grade be filled up and the ex- pense of such work be charged to the property. It is pointed out that this work will be of great benefit to the city from q sanitary point of view as well as being of great intrinsic value to the property so improved
 It will prevent the accumulation of trash and standing water which is al- ways a menace to the health of the peo- pie.
 Commencement Exercises.
 The commencement exercises of the Miles Memorial college at Booker City, two miles from Ensley, on the Frisco rail- road began today and will continue for four days
 This is a progressive and growing negro o5, tod in exclusively inhabited by negroes. It is the second annual affair of the kind in the institution, and the showing made in the two years of the institutions existence is very ereditable.
 Following is the programme of the exer- cises
 Friday night, April 2O-Concert by the Model department.
 Saturday, April -217--Annual picnic. Re- treatments for sale.
 Sunday, April 22-Annual sermon Dr. J. H. Hughes.
 Sunday night April 22-Missonary ad- dress, Mrs. J. A. Williams.
 Monday, April 23, 8 to 11:45-Publfc ex- animation and exhibition of school work.
 Monday afternoon-Conference on pub lie questions. Concert.
 Monday night-Literary societies. Old maids convention.
 Tuesday, April 24-JunlOr eXnlDitlon. Annual address, pr. c. r. Welch, Bir- mingham.
 Tuesday night-Prize rhetoricals. Clos ing address by Dr. V. Washington. North port, Ala. Awarding of prizes. Remarks. The conference on public questions Mon- day afternoon by prominent ministers and educators of the state of the race prom ises to be very interesting feature of the programme.
 Notes and Personals. A bottlings works company from South Alabama has rented part of the ground floor of the city hall and will move it's establishment to this city next week. The concern will be put in operation about May 1.
 H. P. Adams has arranged to report the baseball games of the Southern league teams in detail at the Undine pool rooms, at Seventeenth street and Avenue F.
 The Thread of the Story club was de- lightfully entertained by Mrs. Alex Poss in this city yesterday afternoon.
 The Ladies' Aid society of the First Methodist church have arranged to con duct market for the sale of cake and pastries for the benefit of the church in Krafts market, In the postoffice build- ing, tomorrow. The ladies of the Meth odist church have been very successful in these affairs. Mrs. R. NJ. Cunningham