Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1909-11-26
~S DINNER BIG AFFAIR
10th Turkey, 'Possum and Pie
-- on the Menu.
how NJ
yiduSi VIA, AMERICAN SERVICES HELD
DR..
the lkident, Vice President and Other
Attend SDect,I Evor-
harm
point
wher Catholic Church.
AMERICAN SERVICES HELD

Nebt -rrr,r-,,,-.. - - -
fore 1N''fiiINS O4>' NOV @o'-rresiuent Iait
the MS lainlLy hau genuine Ihanks-
hon9lg dinner today. In addition to the
or l4nmoth turkey which had been sent to
cret White House nv Horace voss q, Was
pI A., r. l., and the flfty-pound mince pie
by the bakers Of New York City
e was a twenty-slx- pound billy pos
B." said to be the largest and plumpest
M trapped in the Georgia woods, on
table at the White House dining room.
the presidents family except Robert
Joit is at school at New Haven, dined
WI him.
a pan-American Thanksgiving service
this morning in st. Patrick's Roman Catho-
lie church was attended by President Taft,
Vice President Sherman and several m m
bers of the cabinet. Cardinal Gibbons and
Mgr. Falconio. apostolic delegate to the
United States, were present.
The members of the cabinet spent the day
quietly here.
Throughout the city the day is being OBJ
served in the customary way. All the de-
partments of the government, the banks
and practically all OF the stores in the city
are closed
Dinner for Former Prisoners.
That Captain Joseph F. shlpp, former
| sheriff of Chattanooga, and his compan-
ions, who are serving jail sentences in
flicted by the supreme court OF the United
! States for contempt Of that high tribunal,
have a legion Of friends in their Tennessee
home was attested today.
These friends saw to it that the former
sheriff and his fellow Tennesseeans were
provided with a turkey dinner Of lavish
proportions.
CHATTANOOGA, Tenn. Nov. 25.-salva-
ton Army workers today found the wife
and children Of Henry II. Padgett in desti-
tute circumstances. Padgett is one Of the
codefendants with Captain Shipp, now con-
fined in the District of Columbia jail on a
contempt crarge Mrs. Padgett and her
children were dependent for a limited
Thanksgiving dinner on the bounty of a
nearby grocery and the Salvation Army
has started fund to keep the family in
bread until the husband completes his SEN
tence
FranISfurters Is Old Toms.
! ST LOUIS, Nov 25.-Frankfurters and
sauerkraut accompanied by boiled cabbage
and potatoes defeated turkey and cram
berry sauce in a referendum vote at the
ST. Louis workhouse today. As a conse-
quence the toothsome American bird was
not in evidence at dinner.
In contrast to the workhouse was the
quarantine station. Here an average OF
twenty-five pounds Of turkey was served
to each inmate, there being only one Of
them-Mong Wing. a leper. He is the only
leper in this part Of the world and there
fore perforce dined alone. He had also
the usual trimmings" and some celery,
which he had planted and cultivated him
self
The 700 insane asylum patients ate spring
lamb.
Half Million Turkeys I'm Gotham.
! NEW YORK, Nov. 25-More than 900 900
Thanksgiving turkeys were sizzling today
in the ovens of as many homes, while
hotels, restaurants and charitable insttu-
tons were packed with holiday diners.
| The Salvation Army announced through
Colonel william A. Mcintyre that It was
looking for a hall full Of gentlemen who
have not only stepped off the water
wagon, but have lost all hope Of regaining
a seat thereon"
The Bowery mission chose today TO open
its regular l o'clock-in-th -the-morning winter
bread line and gave a dinner to- 900 waits
Of the Bowery and Chinatown. The Astor
estate gave a dinner to 500 newsboys
Many brokerage and banking houses sent
| out breakfasts 20 the poor