The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-04-27
TO BREAK GROUND FOR NEW CHURCH
$20O, O,OOO Baptist Structure < At Ensley Goes Up Soon (
(Ensley Bureau)

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 q With formal exercises. ground will be broken Monday afternoon at 3 :3O o'clock on the S200,000 Baptist church
 of Ensley, Holley & Davis, contrac,
 tors for the new building, informed .fhe officials of the church Saturday
 that everything was in readiness, to
 begin work and it was decided that
 such an epoch in the life of the Bap-
 tist church of this city should be fit -tingly observed.
 The program will open with q song
 followed, by q prayer by Rev. w. C. 3 Dawson, president of Howard college
 A song will then be sung, after which Rev. David NJ. Gardner will speak q
 few words. and will allot the honor of
 ehoveling the first earth to the Woman S
 Missionary society of his church. Mrs
 Joe Smith, as the, representative of that organiza tion, will perform the task
 and there will follow similar contri-
 button by John W. Minor, the only
 deacon of the church elected for life.
 The Sunday school department will
 be represented by Charles o. Johnson.
 superintendent, and the trustees will be represented by l.. R. Vines. The
 five B. Y. P Us will elect represent l atives Sunday to shovel some of the ! earth from the site.
 : To Wear FlOwers-Every man. wom- s an and child in Ensley will be furnished ! with flower Sunday May II, to wear ' in commemoration of Mothers day 2 Followingthe suggestion of the Ensley ! Highland Presbyterian church, all of ! the Mems Bible classes of Ensley have , perfected arrangements whereby Moth CTS day will be appropriately observed. The classes will furnish all of the ]. firefnen,. policemen. trainmen and steel plant employees with flowers and each 2 person on the streets of EnsIey also
 will be given a blossom to wear. The E members of the various Bible classes I in Ensley will be named on committees {, to carry out this plan and will ask .t the cooperation of Sunday classes in ' Wylam, Pratt City and Fairfield. ], Bank Contest Starts-The second z annual new business contest of the
 employees of the Bank of Ensley. during ; which the men and women expect to increase the deposits of the bank very 2 materially, started Friday. The em- ]. ployes issued a formal announcement that the campaign was in celebration !, Of the 25th anniversary of the Bank of z Ensley which will be on May 10.
 : To Observe Day-Memorial day, a z Confederate holiday, will be officially
 observed in Ensley Sunday faternoon E when services in honor of the Confed- i, crates will be held at the First Metho- | dist church. The hour is 3 30 o'clock.
 Judge William F. Fort will deliver the z memorial address and there will be
 music by members of the high school : band. Later volley will be fired over [ the graves of the old soldiers in Oak t land cemetery. The public is cordially ], invited to the exercises.
 Paving Program OutIined--A paving
 program is being formulated by spe-
 cial committee of the Ensley District
 Realty board which contemplates the [ paving of every street of consequence
 m this part of Birmingham. It was
 disclosed Saturday that the committee {. from the board had made very care , ful survey of this section and would !, ,recommend to the board that several : streets now unpaved be given perma-
 nent pavings. The request will be taken to the city hall.
 The program includes the paving of z Seventeenth street as we'll as Eight
 eenth street and many avenues near the business section of the city as we'll Jas many on Ensley Highland and resi- 2 dential sections.
 Ladies' Night Planned Ensley 7 Kiwanis club will entertain. the wives !, and daughters of it's members at q z ladies night, May 15. This date was
 tentatively agreed upon Saturday by Joe Mitchell, chairman of the house 6 committee.s The Kiwanians have not entertained the ladies since the install s'lati onceremonies last January.
 Business ClOses-Business will be at
 a standstill in Ensley Tuesday from