The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-11-14


 district will be asked to heat the diff Terent rooms. The members Of the local Carpenters union have practi. cally agreed to remodel the building and the brickmasons have agreed to do the brick work Work will start on remodeling the old St Johns Epis- copal church about Monday, November 22, and will be rushed to completion. The committee in charge has begun getting the material hauled and as soon as all Is secured will commence to work. The citizens of this district are behind the movement very strong ly, as it is stated that a local hos pital is very badly needed in this sec tion of Birmingham.
 There will be a rehearsal of the members of the Elks' minstrel and the programme committee this afternoon at 3 o'clock at the EllSs' hall and all members are requested to be present as a full rehearsal will be had Final arrangements will>pe made by the pro- gramme committee. Henry Keller is chairman of the committee for the
 Elks and Frank McGowan for the T. C. I.
 The Elks' new home is very near completion and it is expected that the lodge will move the latter part of this week. All of the furniture and fixtures have arrived and as soon as the furnace is installed and the walls papered and several other little jobs finished the building will be com
 pleted A committee composed of Hugh Hill, J. Ellis Brown. T. R. Moxley and Groven Wren has been appointed to
 make arrangements for the reception, which will be held on Thanksgiving, and over 1000 invitations will be is- sued Souy~,irs for the ladies have al Ivy haa rda arations are being made.
 Memorial services will be conducted = the Ensley lodge on the first Sun day in December at their home. Charles H. Woods has been appointed as chair man to arrange programme for the occasion and several addresses will be delivered. At the meeting of the lodge Monday night number of candidates will be initiated and the tickets for the minstrel will be distributed to the I members to sell. Nelson Thomas is chairman of the ticket committee and has everything ready. The members are taking a very active interest in their lodge, which is steadily growing in
 membership, due to the new member
 ship campaign, which will close on Thanksgiving.
 Work is progressing very rapidly on the nursery, which is being built by the Tennessee Coal. Iron and Rail- way company near Rutledge Springs, just below Fairfield. The dam across small creek will be finished in 2 few days and the excavation for the lake is completed. Work has begun on the foundation for the greenhouses and the pits for the flowers are being dug. The dam across a creek is being built of concrete and the creek bed has been graded for some little distance back for the purpose of having small and , attractive lake in which all kinds of water plants will be planted. The nur- sery is being built for the purpose of
 raising all kinds of flowers and shrub
 mery which will be used to decorate the office yards and camping houses of the company throughout the entire Birmingham district.
 All of the churches ir this district will hold a joint Thanksgiving day service at 10 o'clock Thanksgiving at St Johns Episcopal church on Ave
 nue G and Twenty street The
 choirs from each church are request cd to unite for this service. The Rev. L. F. Brubaker, pastor of the Ensley Highland Presbyterian church, will de- liver the sermon on some phase of good citizenship as an expression Of the nation of Gods goodness An offering WILL De CdKeil di tllS .SciNiSc AOI ths Associated Charities and donations of money or provisions will be made. All donations of clothes and food will be gladly received on Wednesday before Thanksgiving at the parish house by the Rev. J. W. Fulford. A special mu- sical programme has been arranged. yt s.ns4l as.s------- ttg sslliu s- is5tts A meeting of the official board of the Ensley Methodist church will be held Tuesday night at 7:30 o'clock at the church and at which time an or ganization for the new year will be
 perfected. At a meeting of the congre- gation of the church held recently the following members were elected on the official board. Trustees, George R. Bly, | rum. H. w. Culpepper, J. P. Shaddick, w. B. Bridge, w. l.. Clarke J. w. Brig man, w. F. Turnipseed, J. D. Winning and H. c. Russell. Stewards, George R. Byrum, J. s. Hall, J. H. Perkins Henry DeBardeleben, H. w. Sparks. F. B.
 Pitts, Ii. w. Culpepper. J. P. ShaddiclS, T NJ Sessions, L. G. Smith, w. T. Coch- ran, F. O.. Harris. T. l.. Barrett. Sam Delaney, M. M. Hughes, C. F. Cooper,
 I. M. Barton, W. B. Bridge, Roy l.. Dim- mitt, R. B. Gardner, H. M. Trotman, w. w. Snow G. L. Nader, J. T. Lowry, w. W. Garrett and Edgar Keenon. The Ensley public library will be open this afternoon at 3 o'clock until 6 o'clock for the patrons of this dis trict. The reopening of the library on Sunday afternoon was due to the efforts of D. M Lewis, vice president
 of the library board, who believes that the working men of this district should be given chance to visit the
 library on Sundays, and that 1t is a great place for the younger set to go and read instead of congregating on the street corners. The announcement of the reopening of the library on Sun day afternoon again was received with
 interest as heretofore on Sunday aft