The daily Republican., 1902-11-25
THANKSGIVING A
/; FESTIV AL DAY.
Christian People Of the City
Will Worship in Union Ser
vices in the Morning.
SECULAR ADJUSTMENTS.
Youth Will Contest on the
h Gridiron and Theatres
Will Entertain. Poult- u
Try High and Scarce.

n Thanksgiving Day will this year
.be a very busy festival. Apart from
its most popularity known customs
,ite turkey. cranb errv, pumpkln IN
dinners, its thousands OF family
gatherings. its loot ball games and
athletic contests, its matinees and
calls here will be other things 60
lug on almost every hour OF the day.
Iu st Paul's Church. Method'sts
of the Western side of the city will
hold service in the morning, those OF
the Eastern side in Epworlh, and
those beyond the Brandywine Creek
in Brandy
The Baptist Churches will hold
union services in Bethany Church
ut 10. 80 o'clock. The Rev. CHARLES
d. Parker of the North Baptist
Church will preach the sermon
! ,rhe Presbyterian congreg atons
will meet In Rodney Church.
! Union service will be held in Beth.
ell A. M. E. Church and the Eighth
Street Baptist Church. The Rev.
n. G. Waters and the Rev. J. Newell
Will preach the sermons.
The Episcopalian congregations
will meet separately.
A dinner will be given to the poor
OF the city by the Breakfast Mission
III ShipIey street. Three hundred
tickets have been sent out,
1t will he douatiou day at the
Delaware Orphan Home.
The Orange Home at Hatboro, Pa,
near Willow Grove. will be opened
by religious exercises and addresses.
Several Wilmngtonlans will take
part.
The home is for orphan children
of Protestant parentage, regardless
of denomin tion. 1t is an immens.
stone structure and will accommo-
date 45O children. 1t has been built
by the voluntary gifts OF Orangemen
and their friends throughout the
United States and will be sust aimed
bv the assessment of members OF the
Loya Orange Institution aud pub.
lie donations. The Supreme Body
has appointed Thanksgiving as a
donation day. Money may be sent
to the treasurer, James G. McCom b.
Of this city.
The .Christian Endeavor Society Of
West Church, together with the
West Church Cub, will give a
social in the evening. A series OF
tableaux that were given last year
will be repeated with some innova-
tions.
There will be meeting of the
male members of the East Lake
Presby yterian Church on Thursday
evening next, for the purpose OF
forming a mems club Tor mutual
improvement
The East Side Republican Club
will give a ball in the club house in
the evening. There will be plenty
OF secular amusement. At the Grand
Opera House both afternoon and
evening tho stirring melodrama.
"At Cripple Creek will be present
cd. At Dockslader's the us ual: high
class variety performance will be
given.
There will bs numerous foot ball
games. The Wilmington High
School will play the Camden High
School at Front and Union streets
Delaware College will play the
Mary and Agricultural College at
Newark. and the Olympia eleven
will play the Highland eleven at
the Water Tower. The Wilmington
A. A. has not announced a game
for the m orning.
/ POULTRY SCARCE AND HIGH PRICED.
) Persons who intend 10 have tur-
key for their Thanksgiving dinner
will do we'll 10 buy az oncs. The
retail pr ice this morning was from
16 to - cents polnd, which is
two cents higher than it was last
year at this time, but 1t promises
to 60 s till higher. And a sad feat
ure OF the situation is that the prices
on all fowl have gone up commen-
suratcly with the price Of luscious
gobblers. Chickens are bringing
is cents a pound, due ks the same
figures geese are holding their own
with the turkeys and ducks, aud
the game birds are away up.
-, The price Of guinea hens even has
risen, but this may b. explain ed
from the fact that. London Is buying
them in great numbers.
1t is, perhaps, a little unfair to
tell just what London does with
these stout, handsome feathered fowl
which Americans keep chief Y to
look at. But it is a fact that London
poultercrs strip off the feathers,
dress the hens and sell them to Lon
don epicures for English pleas ants.
If they were labelled guinea hens,
they would spoil on the racks. be-
cause English epicures don't like
guinea hens any better than Ameri-
cans do. But as pheasants, they 60
like hot cakes and bring stiff price.
The English demand for these
birds sprang up about two years
ago, and has grown SO extensi vely
that many farmers have given up
other branches Of farming and gone
to raising guinea hens exclusively.
This year the turkey is less grace
full of form than usual. Many of
them are SO scrawny as to be not in
the least tempting. The truth is it
has been a bad year for turkeys,
the worst for decade. Because of
continued wet weather broods of
fifteen little turkeys dwindled to
broods of five and six. They cannot
survive continued wet wealth er.
They take cold just as human be-
ings do and die of pneumonia. ALL
through the West, where most Of
turkeys come from, the summer
WAS almost series of showers, and