The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-11-03
NEWS 0F ENSlEY

At the regular meeting of the Ems ley club held last night In the inferior courtroom, the club went on record as opposing the amendment to the con stitution of the state giving Birming- ham people. power, to the tax them selves. committee will be appointed by the president of the club in the next few days to draw up resolutions and to see what steps can be taken in fighting this matter. Dr. E. w. ,Averyt brought the matter before the club and stated that he was opposed to a raise in the tax rate. He claims that if the larger corporations were made to pay their just portion of the taxes that no raise was needed and urged that the club go on record as opposing this movement until the taxes of the Bir- mingham district were equalized, Sev- eral other members discussed the ques- tion and were not in favor of the raise until the taxes were equalized. They claim that the citizens have been taxed enough, but that the corporations arc not paying what they should.
 The committee on the proposed War rior river road through Ensley made its report and stated that the board of revenue asked it to wait until it had received estimated figures from the county engineers, as all routes leading to the river had been surveyed The board is waiting for these figures before taking any further steps. It was decided to keep right behind the board of revenue and committee will meet Thursday morning at 10 o'clock to go before the board and see If some 1of fy1ft mn. 1,x ov-rn fael Tt< committee is composed of the follow ing: J. J. Chisholm, I. A. Millar, D. M. Lewis, c. c. Burke, E. w. Averyt, J. A. Dupuy, Henry Keller and several oth-' CTS.
 A movement was brought before the club to change section of the bylaws in regard to members residing outside of the Ensley, district and the matter will be taken up at the next meeting and discussed. The application of c. J. Richard for membership was received and passed. Several other minor mat ters were taken up and the club ad-' journed.
 Yesterday afternoon about 3:3o o'clock an Overland automobile driven by Ernest Walker skidded on the wet street and ran into the Hub Printing company office This caused the car to stop very suddenly and threw Miss Lillie Garrison forward. Her lip was badly cut when she struck the wind shield. The car skidded on the car track and ran into the sidewalk break ing an iron post and smashing the front of the building. The car was not damaged.
 The remains of Mrs. Elizabeth Han nah Smith, aged 80 years, who died Monday night about 1t;s0 o'clock at the late residence. 2309 Eighteenth street, will be carried to Chicago this after noon for burial Funeral services will be conducted this morning at 9:3O o'clock from the residence. The Rev. L. F. Brubaker. pastor of the Ensley Highland Presbyterian church, will off, ficiate.
 pr. A. L.. Gaston gave an interesting address yesterday afternoon at the reg ular meeting of the Ensley High School Improvement association. which was held at the High school. The meeting was well attended
 There will be a meeting of the mem bers of the independent football team of this city Friday night at o'clock on Avenue D and Nineteenth street. The independent team has arranged g game with the Ens1ey High school.