The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-08-13
ENSIEY

The new annex of the Ensley | High school is practically completed | with the exception of the painting | and the arranging of the desks. | which will be done this week and | the carpenters have started work | on the new gymnasium. having al- | ready finished the foundation.
 The annex is divided into six | large class rooms, which are modern | in every respect and will accomo- | date over two hundred pupils. It Is | built on the southwest corner of | the school grounds, and is an L-shape | building, with a porch running along | one side.
 Each room has glass door and | four large windows and also a stove. the classes. which were held in the | two rooms at the right of the stairs l on the ground floor. of the main | building. will be transferred to the annex and these two rooms will be | remodeled and made into one for the | high school library.
 During the last session the library l was over in a two-story building | across the street from the high | school building, which was very in- convenient for the pupils, especial ly in indictment weather. Not only i will this change be made in the high | school building. but the auditorium | will undergo a number of repairs, i, including the raising of the roof, which has sagged. and several other | changes.
 Everything will be in readiness for the fall term, which will com- mence about the middle of next | months when over fourteen hundred | pupils are expected to attend the I Ensley High school.
 Japanese wedding
 A Japanese wedding wolI be pre- sented by the members of Aster | chapter, No. 172, Order of Eastern | Star, at the Ensley city hall Friday | evening, August IS at o'clock. Fol | lowing the Japanese wedding very | interesting musical program will be rendered, which will be directed by | Mrs. Gordon Patrick.
 The cast of characters in the we'd | ding will be as follows: Bride, Katie | Brown; groom, MT. Underwood; grooms father, George Looney; | grooms mother, Edna Wicker. brides father, MT. Gregory; brides 1 mother, Eva Pitts; go-between. | Kathleen Pope; first brides maid. | irene Brown: second brides maid, | Louise Miller; third brides maid, | -"OAi IlllSs lOuTIn brides maid. | Mary Sue Fryer; fifth brides maid. | Lutie Lotion; sixth brides maid | Cammille Reynolds.
 Mrs. Mary V. Anderson
 Funeral services over the remains | or Mrs. Mary Virginia Anderson. who l dleu yesterday morning at 1O.30 | o'clock at the family residence. 6lS | seventeenth street, will be conducted | this afternoon at 2:30 o'clock from the Methodist Episcipal church at l Pratt City
 The Rev. B..F. Allen, pastor of the | ehurcn. Will officiate. Interment will | follow at the Fraternal cemeterv She is survived by three sons. George | Anderson. Harry Anderson and John Anderson, all of this city, and 10 | grandchildren, six of whom wil1 net | as pallbearers.
 Mrs. Anderson has lived In Ensley | Ter the past three years but has been | resident of Pratt City for over 3o l years and was we'll known in this | district and had many friends who | VIII regret to learn of her death.
 The pailbearers will be as follows: 1 Dewey Anderson, Charlie Anderson, | Hobson Anderson, Patrick Anderson. | Ebert Whitson and George Liddell.
 
 Funeral services over the remains | of R. D. Finley. who died Thursday morning ht the family residence, were | conducted from the Pike Avenue Bar tist church yesterday morning. The 1 Rev. Theo Harris, pastor of inc church. assisted by Rev. l.. E Bru- baker, pastor of the Ensley High lands Presbyterian church, officiated. l lnterment followed at the Pleasant Ridge cemtery at Hueytown. He ia survived by his wife, seven sons. Oscar, Emmitt. Carl, Will, Tom. Harry and James Finley, and two daughters. Miss Emma and Miss Clara Finley, alsi two brothers and four sisters.
 New Radio Books
 A number of new books have been received at the Ensley public library recently, among which are several 1 new books about the wireless, which I will be of interest to the radio fans of this district. They are: The Home Radio, by Verrill; Radio Telephony for Everyone, by Cockaday; Experi- mental Wireless Stations by Erel- I man, and three books by Sleeper, 1 Construction of Radio and Telegraph Receivers, Design Data for Radio and l Transmitters and Receivers. Four new fiction books were also received which are as follows: Quinn, by Rice Beautiful and Be Damned, by Fitz- | gerald; The Man In Grey. by Thomas Dickson, and Dancers in the Dark 1 by Dorothy Speare.
 All-Day Picnic
 There will be joint meeting of the Stella Columbus and Christopher Columbus Italian societies next Wednesday evening in their hall on Avenue F at 7:3O o'clock, when final | arrangements will be made for the ! all-day picnic to be held at the | State Fair grounds on August 31
 General Chairman Gus Leonard re- | quests all members of the com mittees to be presen< and to make a report as well as to receive some new | instructions. A big parade will be held in the morning starting at Sew enteenth street. when the two so- cieties will march to the St. An thany's Catholic church and have 1 the flags blessed. and from the church they will go In body to the naise bowl and Mrs w. H. Glasgow | was awarded the second prize, a | pretty hanging vase.