The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-12-01
PROPOSE NEW CITY HALL


 Following the visit of the city commissioners to Ensley Wednesday when it was stated that it was the hope Of the commission that the EnNiey city hall be sold and proper huiiding be erected elsewhere in its place. there has developed negotia- tions for such a deal. it was stated Friday.
 Commissioner W. B. Cloe, in charge of the fire station and the police de- pertinent, has suggested to local real estate men that the building could ba converted into office spaces for physicians or others and the down. stairs used for stores and shops. The statement was made that the build ing at this time was not only un- slightly, but that it was extremely dangerous. l is assumed here that the latter proposition is due to the exits from the building of the fire trucks onto one of the most con gested streets here. It is stated that the fire wagons are often in perilous places when leaving the city hall and that the commissioner is anxious to correct that outstanding menace.
 Local real estate men have in mind renovating the building, ac- auiring a long lease and subletting the space. It is the general opinion Chat the commissioners would look with special favor upon such plan or an outright sale.
 GRID STARS TO RETURN
 Following their defeat in Little Rock Thank sgiving Day the Ensley High school football team visited Hot Springs Friday and will return home Saturday night. The season
 just closed has been one of satis-
 factory work and while it is true
 that the team has not won as many
 battles as formerly, yet their ad- versaries have in every case been of
 great weight and wider experience. Coact Bryan in n message to Ensley
 Friday expressed his belief that the
 material used this season would be available next year and that a cham pionship aggregation would be moulded.
 It was stated Friday that the high
 school would take up other athletics
 at once. now that the football season had ended
 DAY RESIGNS
 Al Day. who has been for years chief clerk to the general superln- tendent of the Ensley steel works, has been granted a leave of absence for three months which will be spent in Arizona. Since Charles J. Barr served here as general superinten- dent and later W. G. Matthias and now Carl Landgrebe. Al Day has been the chief clerk to the general super intendent and knows the steel plants perhaps as well as any man who was ever employed there. He was born ir Ensley and has been here l knows him. Therefore there is wide i interest in his slight indisposition which takes him to a more health ful climate and the best wishes of countless friends go with him.
 MAIL PACKAGES EARLY Postmaster R. s. Hickman. called attention Friday to. the fact that the customary holiday increase in postal work is gradually showing in the local volume and urges patrons to attend to their Christmas mailing carly. He is especially anxious to l impress that all mail destined for Europe should be in the mails at the earliest possible moment to insure delivery befare santa Claus is due to make his rounds. Domestic packages, he said should be mailed early also and if one wishes them to remain unopened until Christmas 1 day a placard to that effect is ad- visable.
 1 OBSERVE THANKSGIVING , Thanksgiving was observed by the | students ana nurses or the EmplOyeS i hospital in Fairfield Friday night ] with a dance in the administration l building. The dance was attended | by the young ladies and their friends, l mem bers of the hospital staff ana l their wives, ushering in the holiday i season. Officials of the hospital
 will, it is believed, arrange the an nual Christmas tree for the students
 and graduate nurses attached to the hospital.
 1 PERSONALS
 Dr. Lloyd Noland superintendent I of health for the Tennessee Coal, l Iron and Railroad company, re- 1 turned Friday from St. Paul, Minne-
 apolis, Chicago, New York and other | cities, where he has been visiting during the past few weeks. | Seymour Hall, McGruder Thomp- 1 son and Dr. c. W. Shackelford left | Thursday night for Tuskegee to spend a few days with Mir. and Mrs. l J. O. Thompson. They wilf hunt l over the farms of MT. Thompson in | that section and expect a success full outing. They will return Tues day.
 Mayor Melford w. Pratt has re- turned from Montgomery, where he has been for several days on busi- ness. It is understood that as result of the trip special meeting of the council will be held during the early