The Birmingham age-herald., 1902-11-27
Special Services VIII Be Held in Most of the CiB's
 Churches.
FOOTBALL GAME ID BE
 PLAYED 1T WEST END
Over 4ooo Turkeys Have Been Sold and Everywhere Elaborate Din ners VIII Be the Rule
 The City Charities.
= HANKsGIvING will be gener-

=. HANKSGIVING will be gener-
 ally observed in Birmingham. \ Many of the churches will be open for service; the schools will all be closed, at Il o'clock and exercises will be held in them; the city offices will be closed the entire day; the courts, banks and many of the stores will have closed doors, and the post office will be open only from 9:30 to 10:30 o'clock.
 Tn the afternoon there will be 0 football game at West End park be- tween the University of Alabama and the Georgia School of Technology at 8 o'clock, and in the evening the teams will go to the Bijou theatre, where they will be the guests of the management. Several large box par ties are arranged for both the the atres.
 The allotted number of turkeys have been sold and the thanksgiving dinners have been arranged and preparations made for the day. At the hotels special menus have been arranged and all guests will be treated to a feast Special offer ings will be made at nearly all the churches for the various charitable or ganizations of the city, including the Mercy Home, several denominational or phans' homes, the united charities and other similar places. Special dinners will be given to the city and county prisoners, and arrangements have been arranged at the charitable organizations to distribute food, clothing and other necessities to the poor
 Liberal Donations.
 All of yesterday the charitable organi- cations were open for donations and sev- eral of them received very liberal amounts and large presents of food and clothing from the people and merchants. These places will all keep open house to- day, and further donations will be gladly received.
 Exercises appropriate to the day will be held in all the class rooms at the schools, and about 10:3o o'clock they will be dis missed in time to attend the services to be held at Ii o'clock at the churches. In
 
 held in the rooms. but at the high school they will be held in the assembly hall. The children have been trained and the rooms decorated.
 Mayor Drennen said yesterday that all the city offices will be closed and that Warden Mack Rittenberry had been in- structed to give the prisoners at the Northside jail special dinner, and Street Commissioner McCartin has the same in- structions in regard to the prisoners at the aputhside jail.
 A large number of turkeys, estimated by a commission merchant at 4OOO, were sold during the past week to be slaugh- tered for today's dinners. These turkeys weigh from ten to twenty-five pounds, and it will require this amount of turkey meat to satisfy the appetites of the Bir- mingham public.
 Social Events.
 The social events for the day include the football game in the afternoon be- tween the University of Alabama and the Georgia School of Technology, the Sigma Nu dance at the Hillman tiotel tonight, a musicale at the First Baptist church at 8 o'clock and numerous private enter tainments.
 The programme for the musical at the Baptist church. which Is given by Miss Alice Fallon, will be as follows: Shout the Glad Tidings. Wagner
 Chorus.
 Lead Kindly Light. .......D. Pune Evans
 Robert D. Armour. (a) Fair Rohtraut... ..... ......... .Radl Co) Parma Waltz Song. .Arditti
 Miss Alice Fallon. The Palms, flute solo)............J. Faure
 Lee J. Marx. Aria, from Robert Le Diavolo. .Meyerbeer
 Miss Fallon.