The daily morning journal and courier., 1895-11-28
THANKSGIVING DAY TO-DAY
H0W TT WILL BE OBSERVED IN THIS
 CITY.

HOW IT WILL BE OBSERVED IN THIS
 CITY.
 United Services of Various Denomination -Good Dinners for Prisoners and Others at Public Institutions-High School Do- nation for Needy ones-other Events To- day.
 Union services will be held In Center church to-day att Il o'clock, and Rev, I. c. Meserve will preach.
 The Baptist churches will hold union services to-day at il a. m. and the ser- mon will be preached at Calvary Bap- tist church by Rev, F. W. c. Meyer.
 Union services will be held in the Second Congregational church of Fair Haven to-day at Il a. m,, and the ser mon win be preached by Rev. Dr. Phil lips of the Church of the Redeemer,
 At St, Paul's this morning service will be held at 10:30 with regular morn- ing prayer. The sermon will be by the rector.
 Union Thanksgiving service for the Methodist churches of this city will be held at Trinity M. E. church at 10:45 a, m. The sermon will be de- livered by Rev. c. P. Masden, D. D., of the First M. F. church.
 There will be full service, with ser mon by the rector, in St. Thomas nI +o 5o,y 40 .,1ye ,;Syi,,p ha ginning at 10:30 a. m. In accordance with the custom in this church a col- lection will be taken up at this ser vice for the fund for aged and infirm clergy and widows and orphans of clergymen. The full vested choir will sing.
 There will be services at Temperance hall in West Haven to-day. The meelt- ings will be addressed by Rev, Frank Brown and Rev. George Shields of New York
 At the Springside home, the New Haven and Grace hospitals, Seamen's Bethel, Home for the Friendless and the orphan asylums, the inmates will be treated to special dinners to-day.
 The scholars of the high school col lected $104 yesterday morning for Thanksgiving dinners for poor and needy families of the city. Commit tees were appointed from the rooms and were delegated to buy the neces- sary articles In some cases coal and wood will be bought beside a dinner.
 Thanksgiving day will be observed at Calvary Industrial home, 679 Chapel gJi present. members an invitation to par take of a hot turkey dinner with all the fiXings at 1:30 p. m. At 7:30 p. m. a Thanksgiving service will be held in the chapel, where President Rev. E. M. Poteat and other members of the board will speak, followed by the mem- bers of the home. The public is cor dially invited by Superintendent Law renee to be present at both of these occasions; especially the Kings Daugh- ters, w. c. T. U. and Christian En- deavorers.
 MANY GENEROUS GIFTS OF TUR-
 KEYS MADE.
 R. H. Nesbit & Go, grocers, corner Elm and Church streets, received a Olutl ytSlGIUcty HUH lllS INIChei- poo Indian Medicine company, corner of Chapel and Hamilton streets. The birds were sent to the company's s employees. c. E. Hart & Co. received large orders for turkeys to be sent for dinners to-day at the Home for the FHrien%less and the New Haven hos pital.
 D. M. Welch & Sons sent twenty turkeys to the order of Mrs. Henry F'arnam, twenty to the order of Stod- dard, Kimberly & Co, who donated them to their employees, ten to the or der of Hugh Plunkett, the cartman, who had them sent to his employees, 1 twelve to the order of Samuel Flight to be given away, and many more which were ordered for the dinner at | Welcome hall.
 THANKSGIVING DAY EXERCISES.
 The program for the exercises yester- day in room No 5 of the Dwight Place school was as follows:
 | The Pilgrims Thanksgiving; recita- tion, 1.-The First Thanksgiving, Are tas Saunders; Thankful Thoughts, '' Mary Ritz, Ella Greene, Maud Mans l field, Florence Miller, Charlotte Har- rison, Anna Merrell, Mabel Studley, I Louise Ruth; recitation, "Thanksgiv- l ing" Emma Lord; song, "Thanksgiv- ing Cong" school; recitation, "Thanks- giving Day" Mabel Studley; historical reading; recitation "A Thanksgiving Party" Irrna Dailey; concert recita- tion, Landing of the Pilgrims" school; Thanksgiving Rhymes" twelve chil- dren; recitation, NOW" Edna Smith; Thanksgiving Day Memory Gems, '' | Sidney Dawson, Arthur Mautte, Lewis Jones, Mamie Jefferson, James Baird Arthur Church, Louis Wolf, Marian Sibley, Allie O'Brien, Pearl Brown, 1 Alicia Gamble, Louis Goodman; song Thanks to Thee,'' school; recitation Thanksgiving, Walter M. Pickett recitation, Thanksgiving Time" Meta Weimann; recitation, Thanksgiving ' Eva Burns; recitation, John Whites Error,' Harold Barnes; recitation,