The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-11-24
Topeka Has Good Reason to CeIe-
brate National Thanksgiving.
Union Services Will Be Held in
the Churches.
DIR. HAYES TO PREACH
VIII Deliver Sermon for the
Central District.
Poor Well Provided for by
Charitable Organizations.

tomorrow is Thanksgiving, the day
When father, with small napkin
spread about over a portion of the front
OF his vest. and with the invited guests
present. will mangle the carcass of a
turkey. ruin the table linen and dam
age his wearing apparel. For aIthoug.,
the price of turkey Is high and there is.
as usual, a lot of kicking about the
price Topeka people are prosperous AMI
chicken will not fill the bill-or thu
platter.
Ihe day will be generally observed in
Topeka. Stores will be closed and the
city and county offices will not be omen
because the officials will be at home
with their families and people generall-
Will be so busy being thankful that
there will be no occasion to transact
business. In the morning church SER
vices will be held in various parts of
the city and the people will gather in
union meetings to return thanks TO-:
their prosperity.
In the Churches.
These union meetings will be held in
the districts into which the city was
divided several years ago during the
Chapman revival. In the southwest
district the meeting will be held at th,.
Central Congregational church. Rev.
w. {. Wheeler of the Seabrook church
will preach. The service will be held at
10:30 o'clock.
In the central district, which includes
the down town district the services
will be held at IL o'clock at the First
Methodist church and Rev Francis l..
Hayes will deliver the sermon.
In the North side district the servic,
Christian church. Rev. w. 1. Cole. the
pastor of the North Side Baptist
church. will preach.
In the East side district the services
will be held at the East Side Methodist
church. Rev. W. H. Scrivner officiatin.-.
The service will begin at 10:30 o'clock.
At O'Clock tomorrow morning a pray-
er meeting will be held in the church
by the members of that congregation.
Bishop Mi1lspaugh today announce,.
that the holy communion would be ad-
n1tnistered tomorrow morning at 1880
o'clock at the College of the Sisters of
Bethany and at Grace cathedral at
O'Clock The Thanksgiving service and
sermon will begin at 10 O'clock In the
cathedral
The First Church of Christ Scientists
Will hold the regular Thanksgiving ser
vices ats o'clock tomorrow night at the
church at the corner of Huntoon and
Polk streets.
Football Game i'm Afternoon.
In the afternoon. after the battle
with the turkey is ended and he is at
last beginning his work of causing
indigestion and unrest, there is the
football game at the Washburn
Athletic field. The theaters will dish
out amusement to those so inclined
both afternoon and evening.
Food for the Poor
The few poor people in Topeka will
be well taken care of tomorrow. The
Provident association will feed $50
families: The method used by the
association is to furnish the names of
needy families to those who desire to
cause cheer by providing the un-
fortunates with Thanksgiving dinners.
Arrangements have been nearly COM
pleted to care for all the unfortunates
of, although few more dinners could
be we'll taken care of.
The Salvation Army is making an
effort to collect dinners for another
hundred families who would other
wise have no Thanksgiving dinners.
are being collected and distributed.
Although the backwardness of the
public in buying turkeys has caused
some to predict that most Thanks
giving dinners would consist Of
chicken or goose, the merchants de-
clare that today is the day the tur-
keys will be sold. Many a father de-
clares every year that next year he
will not be "held up for a Thanks
giving turkey but when the day before
Thanksgiving arrives he hies himself
away to a place where turkeys can
be purchased and writes a check for
a goodly sum, and the turkey is de-
ready purchased their Thanksgiving
turkey and it is now in process of
preparation.