The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1914-11-29
NEWS OF ENSLEY

| All committees appointed by the vari-
! Gus churches. lodges and ladies' societies
| of this city on the municipal Christmas
| tree proposition are requested to meet
Tuesday evening at O'Clock In the in
| ferior courtroom for the purpose of TAX
ing final action in the matter. The gen.
| eral committee is composed of w. r.
Stewart, chairman; r. E. Chadwick and
d. F. Suggs, who were appointed by the
Ensley club. They have taken the mat
ter up with a number of the lodges and
churches in this district who have ap-
proved of the proposition A number oil
donations have already been received
from different merchants and business
men of the city and prospects are bright
for big Christmas tree for the poor
children of the district II the weather
Is favorable the tree will be erected on
one of the business streets of the city
Work is progressing rapidly on the
new fertilizer plant which is being erect
ed by the Tennessee Coal, Iron and Rail-
road company at the Ensley steel plant
The foundation Is nearly completed and
work will commence on the building dur
ing this week. The new plant is S0x20t
feet and is being erected near the open
hearth furnaces. When completed it will
cost over $4,000 and will be one of the
most modern In the south.
1t is stated that the plant will be ready
for operation within the next few months.
The company will make fertilizer out of
the Stag which is produced in abundance
at the Ensley plant and it will be
shipped all over the south. A large num-
Der of men are being employed in con-
structing the new plant and a large force
will be needed to keep it in operation.
Despite the unfavorable weather YES
terday the Ensley committees of the
woman's Belgian relief fund were bus
| lily at work and received large numbe,
of donations. The various committees
worked their assignment yesterday in the
rain and the citizens responded gener-
ously to the cause. The articles donated
may be sent to w. r. Stewards office
at Ensley; Mrs. Stewart the chairman OF
the Ensley committee at 1886 Sixteenth
court, or to the chairman of each dis
trict. Tomorrow will be Belgian day
and all collections that the different com.
mittees have secured will be turned owe,
to the central committee of Birmingham
The Anti-Vice and Crime league of Bir.
mingham will meet this afternoon a,
2:30 o'clock at the Ensley city hall for
the purpose of organizing the western
division. A general invitation has beer
extended to all citizens of Greater Biz.
mingham. Addresses are to be made b,
Judge William e. Fort and C. w. Aus.
tin.
The regular meeting of the Ensley club
Will be held Tuesday evening at O'Clock
In the inferior courtroom. Several ma
tiers OF Importance will be taken I'D in.
| GLIDING the municipal Christmas tree
| proposition and also the complaint of tne
! citizens of Wylam and Fairfield about
| the present transfer places used by the
ends of paper, and puts 'em all together,
| like a jig-saw puzzle later on. BY the
| way, one remembers few American novels
which have pleased readers on this side
of the water more than "Tembarom y
Everybody that one meets appears ia
have read and been delighted by It,
Fortune For Arnold
Few and far between are the folk In
England who have profited by the pres
| ent war. One of them, however, is Ed
ward Arnold, the prominent publisher
who must have made small fortune
out of General Won Bernhardis Ger.
| many and the Next War" The English
| rights of this book, which everybody who
reads serious literature at all either il
reading or has read. were hawked about
| London in vain until it Is said Arnold
| offered f40, or 5000 for them and had
his offer accepted so quick that 1t made
! his head SWIM This, of course, was
many months ago, when the present con-