The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-11-15
NEWS OF ENSLEY

1 It is understood work will commence
 next Monday morning on the excava-
 tion for the foundation of the new fer
 tilizer plant to be built by the Tennessee
 Coal, Iron and Railway company near
 the steel plant at Ensley. The new plant
 when completed, it is stated. will cost
 over $250,000 and will be one of the most
 modern and up-to-date fertilizer plants l In the south. The building will be St | by 200 feet and located near the open hearth furnaces at the steel plant. Al. l though the plans of the building are not quite completed they are expected tc
 be finished by the time the excavations
 are made and the new plant will bt
 rushed to completion. The company will
 make fertilizer from the slag which i.
 abundant at the Ensley plant Build.
 ing the new plant will give employment | to a large number of men and a large
 force will be needed to keep 1t in oper.
 ation.
 1 The regular meeting of the Ensley clut
 will be held next Tuesday night in the 1 inferior court room on Avenue k, at 7:3t l o'clock. Among the important matters tc
 be taken up will be the report from
 the street light committee. This com
 mittee was appointed recently upon the l complaint from the citizens of Ensley
 Highlands that more arc lights are needed
 in that locality. The committee took
 tho matter up with the city commissions CTS and will report the result. The water
 works committee will also make a report as to what has been done by the city 1 in regards to the excess water rates. Sew l eral other important matters will be taken I up and all members are requested to be present.
 Steel City lodge No 156 together with I the Palmetto camp No. 52 Woodmen of the World. will hold a joint unveiling al the Oakland cemetery this afternoon al | 3:30 o'clock. The monument of Sovereign | w. R. Hornsby will be unveiled with the 1 usual ceremony which will be conducted ] by the officers of Palmetto camp at Pratt l City, of which he was a member. The | uniform rank of a number of the Wood l men lodges in the Birmingham district will attend. The regiments will form at Steel City camp at o'clock in the afternoon and the ceremonies will begir at the cemetery at 3:30 o'clock. A large crowd is expected to attend.
 l Officers Pope and Griffis Of the Ensley 1 police department arrested two negro boys-George Nelham and Russell Jones' about IS years old, on a charge of bur- garly and grand larceny and locked them up in the Ensley Jail. The two negroes are charged with robbing the Ensiey hardware store on Friday night of three pistols, five razors and a large number
 of pocket knives all of which the officers recovered. George Nelham works at the hardware store, and Friday night it is | claimed that he hid in the rear of the store and was locked up inside. A little | later he unlocked the rear door of the | store and admitted the other negro. About o'clock when the officers were making their rounds they discovered the rear door open and began an inyestiga- I tion. In few hours they had the two | negroes in jail and the goods recovered which were turned over to the manage
 ment of the store.
 1 Michal Conway, aged 77, well known
 moulder of this city, dtsd at his residence yesterday morning about o'clock. MT Conway avs unmarried and his only rela- 1 tives live in Baltimore Md, who havs been notified of his death. His friends are l waiting word from them as to the funera | arrangements, which will be announced later. The deceased has lived in the city nearly 10 years and was a prominent l member of the mouders' union of Bir- mingham, He has many friends who will regret to learn of his death.
 Dr. J. r. Studervant, presiding eldel
 of the Bessemer district, will conduc