The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-06-22
NEWS QF ENSLEy

There will be a meeting of the Ems
 ley Playground association at the Ems
 ley park this afternoon at o'clock. | Among the matters to be taken up
 will be preparations for the playground
 meet which will be held on July 1, 2
 and at the State Fairgrounds. Mat ters pertaining to new equipment will | also be considered.
 The Ensley park playgrounds have proved quite popular with the chill dren of this district, who go there
 every afternoon. Miss Frances Young blood, supervisor, has already begun work with her track teams which are | to take part in the athletic contest next month and the Ensley boys are expected to make fine showing. Miss Youngblood is at the Minor school playgrounds on the other days. l Yesterday morning about ' o'clock Alston Busby was painfully injured | when he jumped off an automobile in
 which he was riding in the effort to catch a street car. The accident hap pened on Avenue I and Twentieth
 street and according to the account Of l the affair the automobile was overtalS- | ing the street car when Busby jumped out and was thrown to the ground. He suffered a bad gash under the chin,
 besides having his face and arms bad | ly bruised.
 Fifteen members were initiated last night at the regular meeting of the Steel City lodge No. 156, Woodmen of | the World. Final arrangements were
 made for the quarterly social session. | which will be given next Monday
 night An interesting programme has | been arranged which includes a num-
 ber of songs and recitations and sev-
 eral speakers. The socials have proven very popular in the past and the mem
 bers state that this affair will be the
 best that they have ever held.
 l Marion Maddox, a white man. who
 escaped from the Ensley jail on April 1 o6 with another white man by digging l through the brick wall. was rearrest- l ed yesterday and tried before Judge 1 J. T. Lowery. Maddox was fined $100 and 1S0 days at hard labor for carry Ing concealed weapon and $3 for dis 1 orderly conduct The fact that he had not been tried before his escape
 kept him from being given an addi- l tional sentence.
 1 w. S. Routt and Sam Gratel. both white men, were fined $3 each Tor violating sections 679 and 6S1 of the
 city code of Birmingham. Routt was I charged with giving away transler
 and Gratel with receiving it.
 | Dr. J. D. Simpson, the Rev. George 1 Stoves of Bessemer. and Miss Minnie Kennedy of Birmingham will be the principal speakers of the evening at
 the banquet which will be held tonight
 at o'clock at the Ensley Methodist church for the officers of the church and the teachers of the Sunday schools
 An interesting programme has been arranged and all officers are invited to attend
 The Ensley fire department was
 called to the home of Harry Cross
 on Twenty-third street and Apple ave-
 nne, which had caught on fire from an 1 oil stove The alarm came in about 7:1O o'clock yesterday morning and the Ensley and Fairview departments maoe | the run Small damages occurred.
 ODD FELLOWS. ATTENTION All members of Av0ndale lodge No. l 1Oe, I. 0. Q. F., are requested to meet at their hall at 3 ?. n. today to nt- tend funeral Of Brother A. Q. Jones. All odd Fellows Invited. ny order of
 noble grand.