The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-09-19
NEWS OF ENS[EY

The following telegram was sent yesterday morning to the Jefferson county delegation at Montgomery by a committee of citizens on this dis trict: The Jefferson Delegations
 The citizens of Ensley are unal-
 terably opposed to putting the public | utilities of Greater Birmingham under control of the railroad commi ssioners J. J. Brown, T. A. Huggard, M. H. Me- Dowell, J. s. Hall, K. W. Averyt Charles Hawkins. J. T. Kent, J. l. Bur gin D. P. Knapp, P. A. Eubanks, H
 Keller. ". H. Wynne, J. s. Harris. D. J. Hummer, l. A. Millar, R. L. Daniels,
 F. R. Hurlbert, W. ". McTyiere, J. A. | Dupuy. A. w. Smith, W. T. Cochran, c. F. Camp, Irby Zeigler o. R. Berney and c. c. Burke
 A large number of the citizens of Ensley have expressed their opinion against giving the railroad commits sion this power and have sent resolu- tions passed by the Ensley club and by the Ensley Merchants association to all of the representatives In the state and also number of individual telegrams urging the defeat of the bill. The 1915-16 school term will start tomorrow morning at S:45 o'clock and over 5000 children In the Ensley dis trict will begin another term. The chill dren will go to the schools Monday
 morning to get their book list and to
 be assigned to their respective rooms. Prof. Roy Dimmitt, principal of the Ensley high school. states that he eX-
 poets over 500 children to attend the high school this term and that work will begin in earnest on Tuesday
 morning. The western district is com posed of the Ensley high school, the Moore, Bush, Minor, Vivian, Pratt City and the Fairview schools, which have over 5000 pupils.
 The faculty of the Ensley high school Is as follows Roy L. Dimmitt prin- cipal; Miss Margaret Dewey, German;
 Miss Blair Gordon, German and Eng lish Miss Margaret Ligon. mathe-
 matics; Miss Isabel Moser, expression
 Miss Neill, English Miss Nelson, Latin Miss Murphy, mathematics: Miss Ruby
 Hanlin. literature; Miss Beryl Macau- ley, domestic science; Miss Ruth Rem
 kin, art; Miss Hogan and Miss Minnie McNeill, music; C. s. Vanderhoof, man. athletics; Harry DeLarue, history, and Gregory Brown, mathematics
 Will Banks, negro boy about IS years old, was stabbed in the neck, it is alleged, by Hollie Jones, another
 negro of about the same age. yester- day morning about 10:30 o'clock. The two negroes had been quarreling for sometime and 1t is stated that Banks started at Jones with a brick when 1 the latter sprang at him and stabbed him in the neck. cutting the jugular vein and an artery. The wounded ne- gro was given medical attention at once to n4 ho flayr pp Stn a
 physicians state he has a chance to | recover Jones was locked up In the Ensley Jail on charge of assault and
 intent to murder. He claims self-de- fense.
 Sixty-one cases of whisky were seized by Officers Granger, Brown and | Long of the Ensley police department ! from the residence of V. L. Metts in | Vivian on Friday evening. The goods | were take to the police department in l a two-horse wagon. Metts will be tried 1 tomorrow morning before Judge J. T | Lowry, charged with violating the pro- l hibition law.
 Lonie Glasgow, Howard Parnell. Ar
 mold Leech and Baby" Stewart, all
 negro boys about IS years old, were
 arrested yesterday morning on charges
 of burglary and grand larceny and
 locked up in the Ensley jail. The ne. | groes, it is charged, broke into a bar
 becue stand at Pratt City and stole | a large quantity of meat and bread l They were caught by Officers Granger
 Brown and Long with the food in theii
 possession. They will be tried before
 Judge F. O. Harris in the Ensley h.
 ferior court this week.
 Taylor Span, a negro, was arrested
 yesterday charged with stealing about $50 worth of tools from some carpen'
 ters who were building house or Avenue E and Thirty-fourth street or
 Friday night. At the time of his ar
 rest by Officers Granger and Browr 4 he had some of the tools in his pos T session and told the officers wher' they could find the rest. He will p' tried tomorrow.
 Grading is being done by the Bir
 mingham. Ensley and Bessemer rali
 way near the power house at owen ton making preparations to shorter the line and also to shorten the scneu
 ule. The distance is about three block'
 and is expected to be finished in abou
 three weeks. The company will d away with one of the double curves : in the line. which Is considered th' hardest on the road, and will also saw
 over a thousand feet of distance. A
 
 and the motormen have had to reduce } speed a great edal.
 The regular meeting of the Ensle! } club will be held Tuesday evining the inferior courtroom at O'CLOCK Among the matters to be discussed VII be the public utility bill, which Is De
 fore the legislature, and also the mat
 ter of having several arc lights re ) stored that are very badly needed. Tn club will ask that the city relisht tn arc light on Avenue H and Efghteent' | street in front of the public librar. } and two at grade crossings. The Ems ley white way proposition will taken up. It is stated that the mer I chants have signed the contract TO ! the present year. but owing to an oi } contract not being paid the light com 'pany refuses to turn on the light.