The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-09-14
|ENSLEY EXPECTS
 BIG SCHOOL YEAR
Plans Laid For Most Act i've Session Ever
 Held
(Ensley Bureau)


 The most active year, that Ensley schools have ever known is the mark set by the faculties and students who will enter the dozen school buildings of this section Monday. At the high school 1,7OO will be enrolled. The night school wants at least 800, while the School Improvement association will resume it's activities to bring the mem- bership up to the .1,500 mark set last year.
 The Ensley high athletic association has already placed some of its corner stones and from this will be con-. structed an athletic structure which will reflect credit upon the school. The formation of the numberless organiza- tions connected with the school follows directly in the wake of the enrolment scheduled for Monday and Tuesday. The civic club at the high which functioned so efficiently last year will be another feature of school life.
 At Wylam, Prof. W. R. Reagin, prin- cipal of that school, will have large increase, as will Prof. E. O. Sanders at Pratt City, who has during the summer outlined some new activities which will focus attention on the work at Pratt City unrivaled by anything before. The new Bush school, as we'll as the old, will be filled again this year, The Moore school, which is to be replaced. and the Minor school presided over by Professor Charles P. Bowman will also have its limit. At each of these schools improve ment associations will organize under direction of new officials who were elected at the close of last session.
 The Central park school and the Fairview school have been refurnished during the summer.
 The negro school at Ensley. directed by Professor w. k. Wood, will be filled to capacity at the very outset, from all indications. There will not be added the senior eighth grade as many hoped, making the Council school in effect, junior high. but there will be added series of domestic classes which~is the hobby of the well-known negro educa tor.
 Sinclair To Start WorIs-T. F. Sinclair, head of the Sinclair Transfer company announced Saturday that world would commence during the next days on the construction of his build ings on Seventeenth street. He will build two modern buildings, one of them being on the street between Avenue D and Avenue .E, while the more commo- dious building will be located on the corner of Seventeenth street and Ave nue E. The expenditure will involve large sum.
 Postal Inspectors Expected-Postal inspectors and an investigator for the civil service commission are expected in Ensley during the next few days to inquire into the personnel and public life of the men and women applying for the postmastership of Ensley. Infor nation to this effect was received in Ensley Saturday.
 It is stated that the investigators will interview local business men in respect to those applying in an effort to grade the standing of the several applicants in local business circles.
 Pastor Has RecOvered-Rev. W. H. Mansfield, who was seriously injured in an automobile crash Tuesday, has re- covered sufficiently to be out, and it is announced that he will fill his pulpit at the Ensley Methodist church Sun day. His recovery from the accident has been very rapid and most gratifying to a large circle of friends.
 Dr. Brubaker Returns-Rev. L. E. Brubaker. pastor of the Ensley High land Presbyterian church has returned from Camp Wannataska where he looked after fifty boys of high school age on a trip to that place.
 Next year we will have 100 boys of high school age at the camp" said Dr. Brubaker %'The fact that several min isters visited the camp during the re- cent outing indicates that interest is being created in the work and as the information secured is broadcasted there will be added many boys to the camp"
 Gaines Is Back-Dr.. c. D. Gaines, who has been in Buffalo, is returning home Monday according to an announce ment given out Saturday.
 Work On Field-Work was started Saturday on the athletic field for the Ensley- Howard High school. The prop erty to be used adjoins the church. Options have been secured on other lots which will give the school adequate facilities for an athletic field.
 School Body To Meet-The Minor School Improvement association will meet Thursday afternoon at 2:30 o'clock in the school. Mrs. J. J. Gober, president. will preside, and every member is urged to attend. The asso- citation will outline the work for the organization to be handled during the year, and it is hoped that every parent having a child in the school will attend tho uaatinO