Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1900-11-28
HATS Off TO TURKEY.
Bird Will Be Given a Wide Berth
i'm Rock Island To-
morrow.
DAY TO BE FITrINGLY OBSERVED
Special Services in the Churches
and ADJUSTMENTS in
Plenty.

Tomorrow is Thanksgiving day
the one day in the year set apart by
our wise and benefcent forefathers
for Americans to rise to a common
plane of gratitude Tor the many bless
ings and privileges that they, as
Americans, enjoy. Thanksgiving
being a distiuctively American insti-
tuition, it is meant that it should be
celebrated in a distinctively American
way. Hence the deserved popularity
on that date of that king of American
birds, the turkey. The peculiar and
pervading magnetism of a we'll
Drowned and juicy gobbler annually
draws together millions of families
and goes far toward maintaining
those home ties which add so much to
our intrinsic value as nation.
In the observance of Thanksgiving
day Rock Island will not be behind
other well regulated American cities
whose citizens boast of strain of the
blue blood of New England. Bigger
and fatter turkeys and finer pumpkins
are not produced than are grown in
Rock Island county. Better cooks
than Rock Island mothers there arc
none. And viewed from higher
standpoint, if there be higher stand
point, no class of people are in n
better position to appreciate the
graces of Omnipotence than the cili-
zens of Rock Island, and nowhere can
we look for deeper and truer spirit
of thankfulness. City and county
offices. banks, most factories, and
some business houses will be closed
all day. More of the latter will be
closed at noon.
The postofiice will close at 10
o o'clock in the morning. There will
be one delivery of mail. All local
railroad freight offices will be closed
for the day.
All drug stores will close at
o'clock in the afternoon and remain
clos ed till g.
AS has been its custom, The ARGUS
will suspend publication Thanksgiv-
ing in order that its forces may
properly observe the day.
Union Services.
Union Thanksgiving services will
be held at the broadway Presbyteri an
church, beginning at 1890. Six
churches, the Broadway, United and
Central Presbyterian, the First Meth
odist, the First Baptist and the Mem
orial Christian churches will unite.
The Thanksgiving sermon will be
preached by Rev. &. b. Simons, of
the First Baptist church, on the sub
ject, The Bright Side and the Dark"
The other numbers of carefully pre-
pared program include choir and Sab
bath school singing, responsive read
ing and Thanksgiving offering for
the Associated Charities.
There will be services at 10 o'clock
at Trinity Episcopal church and at
8 at St. Joseph's, St. Mary's
and Sacred Heart Roman Catholic
churches.
After dinner and jostling it for the
front rank among the important
events of the day, comes the big Iowa
Northwestern football game at the
Twelfth street park. The game will
be called al 2:30 o clock, and those who
cannot get inside the park will he
given the choice of taking a nap to be
ready for the evening or going to the
matinee at the BurtIs in Davenport,
where The Dairy Farm" will be on
the boards afternoon and evening.
Evening Attractions.
At night the contrasting football
elevens will be entertained at the
Rock Island Club rooms with a smok-
er and vaudeville, after which the
Iowa boys have been invited to attend
reception and ball over the river.
Other minor social events in honor
of the visitors and those who come
with them have been arranged in the
tri-cities.
At Harper's theatre the Chicago
Symphony orchestra will appear in
the first of the Y. NJ. &. A. lecture
course entertainments. Thus the
evening will be well calculated to
round out the days program.
But all regardless Of gayety he
leaves behind him and stunning the
beaten path, the incorrigible hunter
will shoulder his trusty gun and be-
take himself to the businesses of the
farms to trudge all day on dis
quest, devourlng his soli-
tary smack on a stump at noon and
returning at night tired and dis
gusted.