The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-04-11
Ensley Briefs.

Cunningham chapter Royal Arch Ma sons, will meet Monday evening at the Masonic hall on Nineteenth street. The R. A degree will be conferred. num- Der of members from Birmingham are ex- pected to be present to assist in the work
 The fire department was called to the residence of c. T. Thomson, on Avenue G and Eighteenth street, about o'clock this evening. The department responded promptly and extinguished the flames with small damage. A defective aue was the cause.
 The entertainment committee of the | Ensley Elks Is preparing to give an en- tertainment at an early date The affair | will probably be a Bohemian supper. The egg hunt of the Presbyterian church this afternoon at the grove on Thirty fourth street and Avenue E was much enjoyed by the little folks who attended The children had a big time huntings eggs and playing ball and other games. The Jefferson Male chorus is requested to meet Sunday afternoon at the Baptist church to rehearse the evening song service. Director Alsop requests every member to attend.
 The streets of Ensley presented busy appearance this evening and, judging from the patronage the stores were re- ceiving the confidence is being restored Whil pay day and Easter had some in- fluence, the opinion seems to be that busi-
 
 s. o. Kicks, a popular young man of Ensley. left yesterday for Oklahoma on a combined business and pleasure trip
 The many friends of S. D. Fuller, Sr.. who has been seriously i'll, will be pleased to learn he Is improving.
 Dr. Whitfield Glasgow will preach at the Ensley Highlands Sunday school '"rhe Resurrection"
 Mrs. N. W. Scott will entertain the Ladiesw Aid society of the Methodist church Monday afternoon at 2:30 o'clock at her residence, Ensley Highlands.
 The savings department of the Bank of Ensley in order to stimulate the lit erary activity of the young people offered prizes to the school children of Ensley, Wylam and Pratt City under r years of age for the best original composition on George Washington.
 The contest closed today and the judges had difficult task to select the prize winners out of over a hundred contest ants. The judges were Mrs. J. B. simp- son. Mrs. M. V. Averyt and W. B. Bridges. The prize-winners were: First prize, James Buford; second, Jessie Trucks; third. Lutie Cowan: fourth. Edith McWilliams; fifth Ruth Chiles; sixth, Alice Skinner. The prize-winner, | James Buford, Is a pupil of the Minor school and resides with his parents at | Hilltop. As he is only years of age I his production is remarkable and is pub | lished:
 GEORGE WASHINGTON, SOLDIER AND STATESdAN We have been taught from earliest childhod to reverence the name of George l Washington Americas greatest chieftain. l The history has been read by the fireside | until, as we grow older, we ramsack the | book shelves for bits of history touching | upon his moral life.
 Going back to the story of the cherry | tree, mothers hold him up as an example | for the wayward boy, who Is inclined to | "lie" rather than feel the lash and as the l boy listens he feels the inspiration to do as he did-teu the truth and risk the l consequences.
 l Fame, honor and glory attended Wash l ingtons military career, first as colonel, l later as general of the American army, | forcing Lord Cornwallis to surrender at | Yorktown in October, 17S1, thus ending | the military operations of the revolu- | tionary struggle, securing peace and in- | dependence to his country.
 l Admiration for the American general was expressed throughout the world | Frederick the Great, king of Prussia
 sending Washington a picture of his | majesty, inscribed thereon the words
 From the oldest general in Europe tc
 the greatest general in the world"
 Napoleon in speaking of him to al
 American said "Posterity will talk oi
 him with reverence as the founder of 2
 great empire, when my name shall bt
 lost In the vortex of revolutions" Washington was first President of ths
 United States but had retired to private
 life before his death occurred, December
 IA, 1799. Death was due to acute laryn
 gitis, contracted while experimenting thu
 work on his farm.
 He proved himself as courageous 1T
 death as in battle. Examining his pulse
 he folded his hands and made ready fo
 death, uttering Iris we'll" as he fel
 its approach. He had reached his sixty
 eighth year, and was i'll but one day.