Palestine daily herald. [volume] (Palestine, Tex.) 1902-1949, 1908-11-21
NEWS OF COMING WEEK
Celebration of the Great American
Holiday of Thanksgiving to oc-
cupy Attention of People.
Sneclal to the Herald.

Special to the Herald.
Washington, D. c., Nov. PA va
zriety of events will occupy the atteh-
ton of newspaper readers in this
country during the coming week, and
near the TOP of the list will be the
celebration of the great American hol-
iday of Thanksgiving. with the indls-
pensable dinner of turkey and cram
berry sauce.
OF the three men who have been
most in the public eye recently. Presl-
dent Roosevelt will eat his Thanks
giving dinner at the White House,
President-elect Taft, according to pres
ent plans. will be at Hot Springs, and
William J. Bryan will pass the holl-
day in Mexico, where he has gone to
recuperate from the fatigues of the
late campaign.
On the afternoon of Thanksgiving
day the president will attend the lay
ing of the corner stone of the negro
Y. M. c. A building that is being
erected in this city. On the day pre-
yious he will attend the unwilling of
the statue of Gen. Phil Sheridan
that has been erected at the inter
section of Massachusetts avenue and
Twenty-third street The unwilling is
TO be great occasion. The president
will speak and there will be a consid-
cradle military display.
The Indiana monument erected in
the Andersonville National Cemetery
will be dedicated Thursday with inter-
esting ceremony. Governor Hanly and
other representatives of the state of
indiana will be present.
he eyes of the automobile world
be turned toward Savannah,
re the international four hundred
'mies event, known as the grand
prize. race, will be run on Thanks
giving day, preceded on the day be-
fore by race for small cars. The
big race will be a contest of speed
and skill between the foremost drivers
in the world operating cars of all the
leading makes of America and Eu-
rope.
The general assembly of Iowa will
convene Tuesday for session of one
day to elect a United States senator
for the uneXpired term of the late
Senator Allison. There will be no OPP
position among the republican major
fty to the election of Governor Albert
A. Cummins to fill the place.
What promises to be one of the
most notable gatherings of farmers
ever held in the south will convene
Tuesday at Natchez, Miss, for a ses-
sion of three days. The chief pur-
pose of the meeting is to prepare the
farmers of the cotton belt east of the
Mississippi river to battle with the
boil weevn and to acquaint them with
the ways and means of minimizing
the ravages of the pest.
At Austin, Texas, on Wednesday
and Thursday the celebration of the
twenty-fifth anniversary of the found
ing of the University of Texas wifi be
made an occasion for a notable gath
ering of educators and alumni.
The annual International Live
Stock Show will open in Chicago Sat
urday and will continue through the
following week
The fourth trial of Herr Macmillan
Harden on charge of libeling Count
Kuno Won Moltke will begin in Berlin
Monday. New and amazing revela-
tons are expected.
The Duke of Oporto, the heir appar-
ent to the crown of Portugal, will
leave Lisbon Tuesday on a mission of
state to England in order to formally
notify King Edward of King Manuel's
ascent to the Portuguese throne.