The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-10-22
NEWS OF ENSLEY

| At the meeting of the Steel City lodge
 No. 19o, Knights of Pythias, which was ] held Tuesday night in their hall on Ave nue D, the lodge purchased $10s0 worth 1 of paraphernalia besides new robes for i the officers of the lodge, the equipment including new uniforms for the first and | second drill teams and also for the first degree team. Last night large num- her of members from this lodge attended the glad hand meeting, which was 1 held by the Enoch lodge, No. 57, at Pratt City. At the meeting Supreme Rep resentative Herman Beck was present and
 made an interesting address. Tonight the I Ensley degree team will go to Fairview 1 and put on the rank of knight on a large number of members of that lodge. At the meeting of the Ensley club which was held Tuesday night the report from the committee which went be- fore the city commissioners about the excess water rates charged by the Bir- niinsham Waterworks company was heard. pr. F.. w. Averyt chairman stated that they went before the com
 missloners and that the city attorney advised them not to pay the excess wa ter charges but to offer the waterworks COfnDduN the regular minimum rate. lie also stated that the city attorney ;,d yised that the contract with the wa terworks company states that the me- ters must be read every month and that on every bill the reading should be shown. The committee was con- tinued, pending the action of the city commissioners Another matter which was discussed was the paving of Ems ley avenue al Tuxedo Junction. The committee reported that the city com . missioners had everything ready for the paving and would let \the contract within the next few days. Ninety students entered the night SC hool which opened on Monday nighr at the Ensley high school under the direction of Prof, Roy Dimmitt. This is the largest enrolment since the night school began and a number of other students are expected to enroll within the next few days. The night school opens under the direction of the Bir- mingham board of education and the
 Tennessee company for the benefit of the young men in this city who have work in the daytime and have been
 unable to attend school
 Funeral services over the remains of Mrs. W. A. Ward who died at her home in Woodlawn Tuesday night, following short illness, will be conducted from the Ensley Methodist church tomorrow morning at Il oclock. The Rev. George l.. Jenkins. pastor of the church. will officiate. Interment will follow at the Oakland cemetery. She is survived by her husband. four sons. John Ward of Panama, William Ward of New York, Frank Ward of Woodlawn and Walker Ward: three daughters Mrs. Clarke of this city, Mrs. Helen Johnston of Column bus, Ga, and Miss Anna Ward of Wood T. ard v&1 yv1o- tron of the Cunningham chapter of East ern Star. which will attend the funeral in body and for many years president of the Home Mission society of the Ems lev church. The pallbearers will be as follows: N w. Scott, George Byrum,
 James Donaldson, c. F. Camp, J. S. Hail
 and E. F. Beckham.
 "A bigger basket and better bask ct for the poor was the decision of the special committee of the Ensley lodge of Elks, which met last night to arrange for the annual minstrel show which is given for the benefit of the poor of the city.
 In the past few years the merchants and business men of Ensley have con- ] tributed largely to the success of the annual entertainment by their liberal pat
 ronage of advertising space in the souve- mir programme and by the purchase of
 tickets. The committee decided last night that the time was inopportune Ito at. tempt to put on show at this time. ow- | ing to business conditions. and that il
 would be best to dispense with the min strel this year. but. not the annual of ferng to those in need. and to this end the members of the lodge will go down
 in their pockets and defray the expenses oe the Christmas gifts of food and cheer l It has been the custom of the lodge
 to send to indigent families basket
 containing every necessity for Christ
 mas dinner and fruit and candy for the l children. This year they expect to send l bigger baskets and more of them thar | in previous years.
 | The Rev. Thomas N Lennox. who has | been pastor for seven years of the First Christian church of Pensacola, Fla, has resigned his work at that place and ac- cepted a call to the pastorate of the Ensley Christian church. and will begin
 his work with the congregation Sunday
 morning
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