The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-10-28
ENSLEy |S READY FUR CONF FERENCE
Over 700 Visiting CIergymen Are Expected To
 Attend
ENSLEY BUREAU 1 THE AGE-HERALD {


 The eyes of all Alaabma Methodism will be focused on Ensley Wednesday when the annual conference for North Alabama will convene at the Method st church. Rev. William H. Mansfield is pastor in charge of that church and for week has been molding com mittees together and church organ ization preparatory to the largest conference every held in this part of the state It was stated Saturday that reservations sent to the local com mittee indicated that 700 visiting clergymen would be here not to men tion the laymen who will attend from various churches.
 All plans for the conference have been carefully mapped out and are in the hands of capable committee men. William E. Turnipseed, George R. Byrum, J. Miles Sprague and other chairmen are ready for action when the conference opens Wednes- day morning.
 Delegates and ministers upon ar rival will be enrolled in a double indexed book indicating where they are from and with whom they will remain while at the conference. In this way the committee will be able to locate ministers without the slight est trouble. The delegates and preachers have been assigned to some 800 homes in this section of Birming- l ham. In Fairfield some of the minis ters have been assigned while as- l signments have also been made to other points nearby. Indications were Saturday that every possible detail of the conference would be concluded Monday when the officers of the Methodist church hold 8 meeting prior to the opening.
 breakfast with their hosts or else l xxrIo xvb " be served by the ladies of the church. This task involves the serving of over 5000 meals in the dining hall of the church. The service end of the conference has been organized by the ladies of the church and they are ready for the first luncheon Wednesday.
 The Ensley Associated merchants Saturday placed signs at various points in the city welcoming the dele gates while a rest room and reading room is being fitted up in the offices | of. D. r. Faircloth. The room is di rectly across the street from the post office which will be convenient and I it is also just around the corner of Nineteenth street and Avenue G from the church. The rooms will be sup piled with stationery gratis by the Merchants association.
 It was announced Saturday, in con- nection with the conference, that the various committees would meet in l the Sunday school rooms and in the annex of the church. There will also be committee places provided In the Christian church two blocks away and Tn the Baptist church the same distance.
 The Bank of Ensley will be head quarters for the church treasurer and his assistants all of whom will be stationed there during the five days of the conference. Methodists of Ensley are facing a great task ir entertaining the conference but every denomination is cooperating with them and it is believed Ensley will add to her already good repu- tation by the hospitality extended during the conference.
 BOOST PROPOSED SCHOOL
 The first definite step in plans to bring the Howard College High school to Ensley will be taken Sun day morning by the congregation of the First Baptist church. It was announced Saturday that immedi- ately after the morning services the congre gation would have Its atten- tion invited to the preliminary steps that have been taken and will be asked to approve the plans so far tentatively made. Whether a vote will be taken immediately by the congregation, which is provided in the Baptist laws, remains to be seen. It Is rather to be expected that the congregation will be placed In full possession of the details, of- ficially, and will be granted the op- portunity of later on okeying the proposition.
 The establishment of tho Howard school in Ensley necessitates a pro- gressive and unselfish step by the Baptist congregation here, to which everyone conversant with the facts, expects the congregation to measure up to. The church will give its properties. located in Bnsley, includ- ing the church, two buildings and 8 half block of land within a half