The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-10-11
NEWSOF ENSLEY

hot eue puTpOSe or discussing the eN-
 cess water bills which the Birming-
 ham wsterworks company has rendered
 a large number of citizens, and to take
 some action on this matter. The Ems ley club has taken this matter up anc
 has invited the citizens residing in tho
 surburbs of this city to attend the mass
 meeting.
 At this meeting the report of thi committee which was composed of pr E. w. Averyt, chairman, D. J. Hummer
 Edgar Keenon, George Higgins and J J. Chisolm will be heard. This commit tee was appointed at the last meeting of the club to investigates the mat
 ter and also to see the city attorney | as to relief measures. It is stated that over half of the citizens residing in
 this district received an excess water i bill ranging from 90 cents to S34
 The Ensley club will appoint a com mittee at this meeting to go before the
 city commissioners and enter a protest | and also to ask the commissioners to appoint a man employed by the city to read the meters. A movement Is also
 on foot to have all of the surburbs of Birmingham hold a joint meeting in
 Birmingham one night this week and | ask the city commissioners to meet with them and discuss this matter
 The ladies of the Ensley Methodist | church are planning baking contest which will be conducted next Friday and
 Saturday at Dupuy-Burke Realty com pany. Prizes will be awarded to the win ners. Each entry must be sent in by l | o'clock Friday afternoon. The bread must be baked double loaf and must
 not be broken apart. After the prizes are
 awarded the cakes and bread will be sold
 and the proceeds will go to the benefit of | the Methodist church. The judges for | the occa sion will be selected from the dif- ferent churches in this city. They are as l follows Mrs. T. P. Hay of the First Presbyterian church, Mrs. Harry Hill- house of the Christian church. Mrs I. B. Simpson of the Grace Presbyterian church, Mrs. J. w, McCarty of the Ems ley Baptist church, Mrs. J. S. McLeroy of the Fairfield Presbyterian church. The following prizes will be awarded First prize for best plain loaf white cake, one barrel of flour; second prize for best cake. any kind, one-half barrel of flour; third prize for best double loaf bread. two sacks of flour; fourth prize for best beaten biscuit, one sack of flour: fifth prize for best lemon pie, one sack of flour.
 Two revival services will be conducted In Ensley during this two weeks. One will be held at the Ensley Baptist church, the other>will be held at the Ensley Meth odist church. At the Baptist church the Rev. A. K. Wright, pastor will be as sisted in the services by the Rev. T. O.. Reese, evangelist of the Baptist home mission board. Mir. Reese will be assisted by w. B. Schofield of Oxford. Miss. who will have charge of the choir. At the Methodist church the pastor, the Rev George l.. Jenkins, will be assisted in these services by the Rev. E. c. Moore of the First Methodist church of. Ope- lika. Two services will be held daily. commencing with today, at 10 o'clock in the morning and 7:30 o'clock in the even ing.
 The condition of Oscar Owens and Jack Stapr, who were both cut by Thomas Bruce Friday night at the Thomas fur mace, is still very serious. They were taken to the South Highland infirmary, where it was stated last night that they were resting well and that they had a chance to recover.
 There will be a meeting of the citizens of Fairview at the Blakemore hall on Tuesday night at o'clock for the purpose of entering a protest against the action of the Birmingham Waterworlks company charging them with excess water rate. After a short business session citizens will go in a body to attend the mass meeting, which will be held in Ensley at the city hall.
 Miss Lillian Lois Henderson and MT. Henry Walker Woodall were quietly mar -ied at the home of the brides parents on Avenue 4 and Twentieth street yes terday afternoon, the Rev George L. Jenkins, pastor of the Ensley Metho- dist church. officiating. The nuptial music was furnished by Mrs, w. s. Sayre. Miss Leona Davis sang Perfect Days" just preceding the ceremony. The ceremony was witnessed by a number of friends and relatives. The young couple departed on their wedding trip for points in Florida.
 Miss Margaret Stowell, domestic sci- ence teacher at the Ensley Wesley House, left yesterday afternoon for Peoria III, owing to the sudden death of her father, which occurred Friday night.
 Dr. l.. C. Branscomb, presiding elder of the Bessemer district of the Metho- dist church, will conduct the evening serv- ices at the Fairview Methodist church today. Dr. Branscomb will conduct the fourth quarterly conference of the church cli Monday evening, October 19, when the annual report of tho board of stewards will be read prior to the submitting uf the same to the North Alabama confer ence. which assemblies at Sylacauga on November 1.
 A marriage which came as a surprisa to their many friends was that of Miss Edith McWilliams and Mir. C. E. Knowles, which was solmenized in Birmingham on Friday night
 Band No. of the Ladies' Aid society of the Plunkett Memorial Presbyterian church of Fairfield will present the Thom- string quartet with Miss Edna Chapman as soloist, on Thursday evening, l October 15 at the chapel on Parkway. l The proceeds will be applied to the fund ! for the building of new Sunday school l rooms.
 There will be a meeting of the members i of the Stonewall chapter, Daughters of | Dupuy, at Fairview Heights, Tuesday | Fields, as formerly announced.
 A special song service will be conducted | afternoon at 80 o'clock An interest 
 The regular monthly meeting of the | will be held at the school building Tues | day afternoon at 2:3O o'clock
 The members of the Highland Circle of the Ensley Methodist church will meet tcr,orro.r oftorpoop n olooLr xr,;t1, Mo-.