The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-11-25
LOVING DEEDS ID
 MARK CELEBRATION Birmingham Will Rest from Labors Thanksgiving Day SERVICES ARE ARRANGED Mercy Home and United Charities Mako Final Plea on Behalf of Or
 phans and Poor-GeneraI =
 Holiday for All.
SERVICES ARE ARRANGED

rest from their labors tomorrow and unite with the eighty millions of this great re- public to celebrate Thanksgiving Day in a befitting way. Tomorrow, the last Thursday In November, set aside by the President according to custom as a gem eral holiday, will be one of the day of days" when the whole world is kin. It will be day when the infiaresence of true charity is seen and felt. Birmingham will do its part to make the day an oc- casion of joy in the homes of the poorest and most indigent.
 With that unselfshness which char acterizes the people of this city the de- mand made upon their purses by the Mercy Home and the united charities is meeting with ready response. Money and provisions are being sent to the Mercy Home to enable the ladies who have that worthy institution in charge to give bountiful dinner to their large family" About fifty or more will partake of the ladies' hospitality at the regular Thanks giving diner and it is hoped that more money and more provisions will be do- mated today to insure the best repast ever placed before those who will sit at the Thanksgiving board.
 The Mercy Home will be open all day to visitors who will be received and es- corted through the building by the ladies in charge. large number are expected and the children of the home are es- pecially in joyful anticipation of a pleas ant day.
 The United Charities.
 The United Charities has also been the recipient of money and other things need ful to gladden. the hearts of the poor, but still a request comes that anything in the way of food, fuel or cast off raiment will be thankfully received. All day long to- day this charitable institution expects to be inundated with applicants for baskets, which will be handed out as long as they last, and the ladies who are actively en- gagged in the work of this institution will be at the office of the United Charities in the Mayberry building opposite St. Paurs church on Twenty-second street and Third avenue to receive donations and to arrange the baskets for the poor people who will call for them. The ladies hope that they will not have to disappoint a single applicant today and are relying on receiving more donations to meet the demand whlch. will be- made on them to- day.
 The Churches.
 The Thanksgiving services at the First. Presbyterian church will be at Il a. m. special musical programme has been ar ranged. Dr. John w. Stagg will preach the sermon. The collection will be for the benefit of the Mercy Home in this city and the Presbyterian orphanage in Talla- dega.
 At the new Third Presbyterian church, corner of Avenue G and Twenty-second street, Thanksgiving services will be held at Il a. m. and 7:9O p. m.
 The services at the Cumberland Pres byterian church at the corner of Eigh- teenth street and Fifth avenue will be at B o'clock tomorrow night. There will be music. recltations and sermon. The fol- lowing programme has been arranged: Hymn by choir and congregation.
 Prayer.
 Solo by Miss Dott Roland.
 Anthem by choir.
 Lesson from scripture.
 Solo by Miss Magic Walch.
 Sermon
 Anthem.
 Recitation by little Alba Conner.
 Offering, and solo by Miss Cunningham. The Baptist Thanksgiving services will be held in the Southside Baptist church at 1O3O a. m. This will be union ser vice. all Baptists in the city are expected to participate Dr. A. F. Dickinson will preach the sermon. The ladies and child
  box of canned and unperishable goods to be sent to the Baptist orphans home at Evergreen. Mrs. J. W. Dryer, 1910 Sixth avenue, north, has this matter in charge and goods can be left at the church to- morrow or sent to her residence.
 At the Temple Emanuel, on Fifth ave- nue and Seventeenth street, the services on Friday night will be little out of the order of the regular services, as they will be in the nature of a Thanksgiving day service Professor Powell of the Church of the Advent will be in charge of the musical feature and the Rev. A. J. Dick inson and a number of his congregation will participate in the services at the Temple on Friday night. t
 The services at the Church of the Ad-
 
 ing service with sermon by the rector. the Rev. Quincy Ewing.
 The usual services will take place at the Catholic churches.
 Postoffice and Banks.
 The postoffice will be closed after 10:3O a. m. and no business of any kind will be transacted after that hour. Two deliv- cries of mail to the business portion of the city will be made in the morning and one delivery of mail for the entire city. The stamp registry and general delivery windows will be opened from 8 a. m. till 10;3O a. m, after which time the postof- fee will be entirely closed. The banks will be closed. Most of the stores will be closed all day long, but few of them will be open | until 12 o'clock midday. The railroad offices will be open all | day, although the majority of the em- | ployes will not be at their desks after | F o'clock The coal yards will not deliver any coal |