The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-09-12
CELEBRATE NEW
 FIRE STATION
Merchants Banquet In Honor Of Wylam
 Improvement
(Ensley Bureau.)

In celebration of the completion or !. the new Wylam fire station, banquet was rendered the city commission and Fire Chief J. l.. Aiken, by the Wylam Merchants association. Thursday night. W. J. Stacey, president, and short ad- dresses were made by the members of the commission Chief Aiken and sev- efal citizens of Wylam.
 Following an increase in rent paid for the old building the city commis- sion authorized the construction of a new building.
 During the course of the evening, several suggestions were made as to new improvements badly needed in Wy lam and it is believed the banquet will lations between the city and the com mission The affair was attended by about 125 members and guests.
 Extend School SessiOns-In order to avoid double sessions, authorities of the Ensley High school will extend the daily sessions from s 80 until 3 p. m., with only fifteen minutes for the assembly period according to an announcement made Thursday by FL mer E. Smith, principal. This plan is said to be far more agreeable to the Instructors than double session and will result in less confusion.
 The opening of the Ensley High Monday is expected to see 1,700 en- rolled for the coming year. The in crease has been expected and will be taken care of in good shape according to Professor Smith. He and members of the staff have worked during the summer getting the statistical infor- nation ready for the opening, showing the probable number to attend and other valuable information.
 Hotel Planned-A hotel in Ensley for transient visitors will be construct ed according to plans of the Ensley realty board which organization has asked B. R. Pegran, Albert W. Smith Jack E. Lindsey, to get all possible information in respect to, such a step and advise the board immediately as to what must be done to secure the building. It is stated that visitors to Ensley are compelled to stop at Birmingham on account of hotel being unavailable here and this situation the realty board is anxious to correct.
 Kiwanians Meet-With Miss Kate Turnipseed as the principal speaker, the Ensley Kiwanis club held its week. ly luncheon Thursday. In introducing his daughter to the Kiwanians Presi- dent Turnipseed explained that as a tiny girl she had expressed the wish to visit Europe and that during the sum- mer she had toured the country. Miss Turnipseed held the Kiwanians absorbed by her stories of the trip.
 The program also consisted of a solo by Miss Ellen Dupuy, and Miss Mckenzie. who gave violin solo. Mrs. Gray Tate played the accompaniment for Miss Dupuy.
 J. B. McClary president of the Yo- landa Coal and Coke company of Bir- mlngham was guest. MT. McClary, who was for many years connected with the Birmingham Railway, Light ana Power company, supervised the con structlon of the street car line from Birmingham through Pratt City to Ems ley.
 Seek Fund-C. o. Johnson, Dr. Her bert Harris and P. H. Tyler, appeared before the Kiwanis club Tuesday and secured the appointment of a committee to assist in soliciting an additional $5,- OOO for the Ensley parks The commit tee will be headed by NJ. H. Mcdowell and will cooperate with q similar realty board and other local organiza- tion. It was said that the campaign would be started at once and the work completed as quickly as possible.
 Paving PetitiOn-Under the direction of the Ensley realty board, work was started Thursday to obtain signatures to a petition to the city commission for paving Seventeenth street from Ave nue c to St. Joseph's church. The pe- tition will be handled rapidly, it is said, and the work will be under way before the end of October. The paving will cost about $50,000 The street will connect present paving in a series of bOulevards which will be of great advantage to this section.