The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1897-11-25
People of Raleigh Have Cause
to be Grateful.
AND TAKE A HOLIDAY
SERVICES AT THE CHURCHES
THIS MORNING.
SUMPTUOUS FEASTS FOR THE DAY
The intercollegiate Debate Between the Wake
Forest and Trinity Students This
Evening at the Academy
of Music.
of Music.

IsShthS, a. WV 't~'y
of Music.
To-day is a day of rejoicing, of thanks
giving, and the people of Raleigh will
generally recognize it as a holiday.
Everybody has something to be thank
ful for. 1t may be one thing in one
life, something else in another; but in
every home to-day there is something for
which the family circle can gather
around the firesde and give heartfelt
praise to the Giver of every good and
perfect gift.
And the people of few cities in all
the land have more cause for gratitude
en- this day of National thanksgiving
than have the citizens of Raleigh. In
the midst of droughts and epidemics and
financial crashes they have reasonably
.prospered, while good health and happi
mess have been melted out to them.
No great fires have consumed the pro-
perty of the city, no epidemioS nave
swept away its inha bitants. The health
record Of the city was never better,
and financial failures can be counted on
the fingers of one hand and have some
digits left.
g All this time the city has been building.
have been erected, schools have prosper
ed, hospitals and homes for the unfort-
innate have been enlarged and endowed.
Surely the Lord has blessed us, and
though we have not prospered as we
could wish and as has been the case ia
other years, yet, in spite of all, the people
of Raleigh can look up to-day and find
many things for which to be truly CRATE
full. 80
In recognition of this fact the day will
be generally observed as holiday and
devoted to the purposes for which 1T
has been set apart by the President of
the United States and the Governor of
North Carolina.
:, All the State Offices will be closed and
!. no official business will be transacted
during the day.
The banks and many of the principal
stores of the city will not open. At the
post office Sunday hours will be OBJ
served. The general delivery and the
carriers window viii be open from 2'30
sntn 800 O'Clock. -
The city market will be closed from
1870 until o'clock.
The sheriffs office will be closed from
IL O'Clock a. m. until p. M, and Sheriff
Jones viii celebrate the day by giving
his jail boarders, a, fine Thanksgiving
dinner. Turkey baked potatoes, fruits,
nuts, apples rasins, bread and cake will
!, be served in abundance. In addition he
: win give to each plug of tobacco and
= q bag Of smoking tobacco to gladen
their hearts. Religious services will be
held in the Jail this morning.
Union Thanksgiving services Of the
Presbyterian, Baptist, Methodist and
Christian churches, will be held at the
First Baptist church at II o'clock. The
sermon will be delivered by the Rev. DR..
Daniel, alternate for Rev. j. l.. Foster,
who was appointed but is too unwel to
serve. There will be a collection to be
divided among the orphanages at Thorn
asville, Barium Springs and Oxford.
The colored people win hold their
THANKSGIVING services at Shaw Univer-
sity. The sermon will be preached by
Rev. James Dean, of Florida, now pre-
siding elder of the Newbern district.
In the afternoon there will be game
of football between Shaw University
and st. Augustine school, at Athletic
Park Gate will be opened at O'clock
and the game will be called at 3:3C
o'clock. The st. Augustine team has
been greatly strengthened since its de-
feat Fair week, and close and interest.
ing game is expected.
OF course some elaborate and swell
dinners will be served at the two hotels
the Marlborough House and the Park
Their menus are something wonderful
and the feasts such as they will furnish
to-day will make bright oasis in the
desert of the boarder's life.
But it is not alone in the hotels that
Thanksgiving is gladly welcomed with
sumptuous feasts and the carving of the
typical turkey. The good housewives
Of the City of Oaks also have been max
ing preparations for this event. Fol
days past they have been adding to theil
stock of cakes and pastry, while at TIT
same time keeping a weather eye on the
rotund and beared specimens from COB
blerdom which have been on exhibition
at the markets.
The pantries are teeming with good
things and the small boys Of the house
holds are saving up their appetites sc
they may accommodate unheard of guam
titles of turkey and cranberry sauce and
eat innumerable pieces of pie.
From the time that the first Thanks
giving day was proclaimed until the
present, Epicurus has occupied promi
nent place among the names that are
heard on the occasion and from one END
of the country to the other his praises
will be sounded to-day.
Then tonight, as fitting close for the
days festivities, comes the intercollegiate
debate between Trinity and Wake
Forest colleges, which will be held in the
Academy of Music, beginning promptly
at 8 O'Clock. The query will be:
sought the system Of waters works
lighting and street cars to be operated
by the city for it's people, or by private
individuals"
The Trinity debaters have the affirma.
tive. the debaters being Messrs. Need
ham, North and Stewart. The Wake
Forest dehaters, Messrs. Utley, Johnson
and Canady, will contend that the wa
ter works, etc, ought to be operated by
private individuals.
The debatefs will each speak IL min