The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1895-11-28
SERVICES FOR THE DAY
Union Meeting Will Be Held In the
Elm Park Church.
Other Union Services That Will BE Held
in the City During the Norning.
Arrangements Made for Feed
ing the Poor and Needy.

There have been no extensive prep
arations among charitable organiza-
tions and churches for distributing
Thanksgiving meals today. St. Luke's
Episcopal church solicited and received
yesterday in the parish rooms. corner
of Linden street and Adams avenue,
sufficient poultry. vegetables and
sauces to provide substantial meals for
forty families. whose adults are MEM
bers or are affiliated with hat church.
The Associated Charities feels itself
sufficiently burdened in looking after
the everyday needs of the moor, and
will not ATTEMPT until Christmas any
elaborate plan for special distribution
OF holiday cheer. What little is being
done is the work of individuals and
parties of young people. who, In sew
eral instances, have provided complete
dinners for from one to twenty fam
lilies.
Union services will be held by
churches of h central city in Elm
Park Methodist church, of the West
Side, In the Washburn Street Presby-
terrain church; Of the North End, in the
North Main Avenue Baptist church;
of Green Ridge, in the Asbury Metho-
dist church, and of Dunmore, in the
Presbyterian church. Rev. DIR. W. H.
Pearce will preach to the central city
gathering, Rev. Thomas Bell on the
West Side. Rev. Newman Matthews in
the North End and Rev. J. c. Leacock
In Dunmore.
Evening Exercises at Elm Park.
In Elm Park church in the evening
a musical programme and brief ad-
dresses by prominent officers of the
church will be heard by an audience of
working boys and girls and adults,
among whom in shops and factories
invitations have been distributed dur
ing the last ten days. In the evening
In the Green Ridge Baptist church the
Young Peoples union will give an en-
tertainment. n of the prominent fea-
lures of which will be Rotations by
Professor Arthur Dorsey, teacher Of
%elocution at Danville, Ill. The admis-
sion Will be Is cents. Other church
services will be as follows:
ST. PETERS CATHEDRAI-Three
ing $50. I. and 5 o'clock. At the Green
Ridge Catholic church there will be two
ST. LURES cHURcH-7.@ a. m.. holy
1880 a. m, sermon and holy
GRACE REFORMED EPISCOPAL
CHURCH-Wyoming avenue, above Lin
inT street SY tSe Services Sery y at 10; 80 a; n; Preach.
PSs oPSSioA SoiECCtlOIl IOT
the Florence mission. All welcome.
HOWARD PLACE A. M. Il. CHURCH
Services at 1890 q. m. Preaching BY the
pa s%GvA hfTi 4 A. A MSnee' BARRACKS
Price street. at 1890. Captain MesIand
vii! conduct. the services. A banquet will
be held In the evening. Everybody is in
ST. MARKS LUTHERAN CHURCH
Corner Of Fourteenth and Washburn
streets. Service at 7.3O p. m. Thanksgiv-
'n Ts ENTITY by t mi Ai L. E ES%sr: gfnssSI;
GHURCH.,The Sunday. school will hold a
Thanksgiving service at 1880 p. m.
At the Second Church.
The following programme of music
will be rendered at the Thanksgiving
service in the Second Presbyterian
church this morning at 1880 o'clock:
Prelude, Selection for Organ and Two
Messrs. Chance, Allen and Kipie.
Short Htro Anthem The Heavens Praise
Jubilate Dec, in i b=ef hTns
Harvest Anthem, S"The Eyes Of All TS'er
Bar Maat s spiu' accme Unto Inn vincent Fssns
Allan q: Robinson.
Chorus Of Mems Voices. Thou wilt
PS Mes.rs. eSrGs; Alien vin M1sndslssohn
CgSi6 llaICC liz AIDIe. SIAnt0n
and Pedrick, the Sabbath school orches-
ira, will assist In the service.
At Z o'clock this morning a Thanks.
giving sunrise meeting will be held in
the Jackson Street Baptist church.
Professor James Hughes will preside.
The services will consist Of song, prayer
and addresses. At 10 o'clock. in the
Washburn Street Presbyterian church,
the annual union Thanksgiving SER
vices of the English churches Of this
side will be held. Rev. J. p.
Moffat, pastor of the church, will, ac-
cording to custom, preside at the meet
ing. Rev. Thomas Bell, Of the Plym-
outh Congregational church, will
preach the Thanksgiving sermon. Spe-
cial music will be rendered by the choir.
A Thanksgiving service will be held in
st. David's Episcopal church. which
w. H. Mill. The Welsh churches Of the
West Side will also celebrate the day in
an appropriate way.
Supplies for Home for the Friendless.
The Home for the Friendless officers
were given a sumptuous surprise yes
terday by several wagOn-loads Of vege-
tables from the pupils Of No. IS and No.
SO schools. Professor Graves. princi-
pie Of No. IS, and Miss Stephenson,
principal Of No. SO school. aided the
was SO unexpected and SO gratefully
received at the Home that the matron
and officers were almost unable to
properly express their gratitude.
From each school came three wagon
loads of groceries and provisions and a
considerable sum Of money.
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