The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-12-16
HOLIDAY BUSINESS
 OPENS IN ENSLEY
Santa Claus Making Ready To Visit Boys And Girls
 Of City
ENSLEY BUREAU l THE AGE-HERALD ! Enelax- Alb neC tH

EnSiey, All, DtCs ID
 Holiday business in Ensley has opened with gratifying volume, ac- cording to opinions Saturday from some of the leading business men of the city.
 During the past few days local merchants have been engaged in beautifying their stores preparatory to the opening of the expected Christ mas trade. GoldsteinN & Cohen, the largest store in Ensley, has remod- eled its upstairs to take care of Santa Claus and his assistants and has pro- vided a department for little folks. The stores of Byrum Hardware com pany, Tyler the ieweler, Smith Jew elry company, Goodwin Mckee, City Shoe company, Bennett the jeweler, and others are prepared for an excep- tionaily large volume of Christmas trade.
 It is stated that the real buying movement here will be during the coming week, on account of pay days at all of the various operations in the Ensley district. The plants will pay their employees during Wednesday, Thursday and Friday, and the influx of traders is expected to begin about that time. It is expected the pay rolls for the forthcoming week will be among the largest here during the past several months.
 Santa Claus is making plans to visit all of the Tennessee company schools during the next few days to see the children there. The annual custom that Santa shall remem Der the boys and girls attached to the Tennessee company sschools will be observed this year in all of its usual details, and it is expected that the visit with great cal gsrness and an ticipation.
 Among the Christmas festivities in this section will be a Christmas play Wednesday night at Bayview. Chill dren as well as adults will take part in the play. At other schools of the company festivals will be arranged, as is the custom, and a general merry making week is promised.
 In Ensley there is being planned in all the churches special Christmas holidays will be fittingly observed, with special programs wherein the boys and girls of various grades will participate.
 ARRANGE FOR BOYS
 The Kiwanis club committee in charge of inviting at least 50 boys of Ensley to the club luncheon Thurs day will meet Monday prepared to assign to every member the name of the boy that will be his guest. The committee headed by Elmer E. Smith, has been advised already by several individual members of the club that they would bring boys of their selec- tion while others have sent in sug- gestions as to boys that should be asked to the party. It was stated that the committee had also been advised that the club as a whole would take care of 10 or 15 boys provided the boys outnumbered the members of the club by that number. It is stated that the Kiwanians are anxious to enter tain the youngsters of Ensley that are making efforts to forge ahead and want to encourage and let them know in a practical demonstration that the men of this section are standing by them. The luncheon to be served by the ladies of the Ensley Highlands Methodist church will be an elaborate Christmas dinner, with turkey and all the trimmings and this is expected not only to please the little boys but the big ones as well. The committee will suggest to the individual mem- bers suitable presents that should be brought for the boys.