Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1910-11-24
CITY OBSERVES THANKSGIVING
Most Business Institutions Are to Be
Closed Thursday.
CHURCHES TO HOLD SERVICES
Poor Are TO He Remembered with Tur-
key Dinners By Associated Chnri-
ties and church VIII Receive
Donation for Poor.

From the announcements made by the
various merchants and large business es-
Adjustments in the city Thanksgiving day
will be thoroughly a day Of rest and happl-
ness for Omaha. All the city and county
offices are to be closed most OF the day
and the business establishments, including
all the larger department stores and banks
will be closed all day,
In addition to granting their employees a
holiday, many Of the business concerns
are giving turkeys to them for the great
national feast.
The Associated Charities have prepared
for their regular annual activity for the
day In distributing food and delicacies
among the poor.
Foremost Of the large stores which have
voluntarily announced they will be closed
all day are the Brandeis, Benefits, Hay
denis and Orchard & Wilhelm stores. AL
most WITHOUT exception the rest Of Omaha s
retail establishments have followed the
same course. The shoe stores of the city
have agreed unanimously to be closed
Jewellers Observe the Day.
Following are the jewelry concerns which
have signed the agreement to be closed on
Thanksgiving day: Lewis A. Borshiem
Fred Brodegaard g. Co.. c. B. Brown g. Co.,
T. L. Combs & Co., Albert Edholm, NJ D.
Franks, Jos. p. Frenzer, Gustafson &
Hendricksen. s. W. Lindsay, A. Mandel-
berg, Ryan Jewelry Co.
Thanksgiving services at the Pearl Me-
mortal Methodist Episcopal church at
Twenty-fourth and LarimOre avenue, will
be held at o'clock In the evening. The
Christian Science congregations will hold
services respectively at the meeting place
at Twentyfifth and Farnam street and at
the Lyric theRter at Il o'clock in the morn
ing.
At the Peoples church services are to be
held at o'clock In the evening, consist
ing of pictures and a sermon of instruction
to the young people.
Thanksgiving day services will be held
In All Saints church. Twenty and
Dewey avenue, at 1880 g. m. The notice
of the union meeting at Trinity cathedral
came too late for All Saints to accept the
invitation and services will be held as US
ual. Donations Of all kinds are to be pre-
sented, which will be distributed to the
poor and to worthy charities.
On Thanksgiving evening, from ZsO to Q
p. m, an informal social will be given at
the Young Mems Christian association for
members and all young men of Omaha. A
Kaleidoscope will be uused during the even
ing to throw pictures and post cards upon
the screen. Some good music will prob
ably be furnished by members and other
enjoyable features, including refreshments
appropriate to Thanksgiving season, are
being prepared for. AS this will be en-
tirely formal, men oan come and go as
they desire.
Foot ball games will be played at Vim
ton Park between the Omaha High school
and the Wendell Phillips High school team
of Chicago, and on Creighton field between
Creighton University and the Dss Moines
college team. .r- re
Federal Building Closed.
Uncle Sam is a believer in observance Of
national holidays, and every office in the
federal building will be closed all day, with
the exception OF the postoffioe. where Sun
day hours win be observed. The postoffice
is the one cog of government machinery
which must not entirely cease activity. no
matter what the occasion. Postmaster
Thomas said that one OF his chief
reasons for feeling thankful is the
fact that the year Of 1910 has thus far been
the most prosperous in the history Of the
Omaha office, and when the figures for
1910 are completed q remarkable increase
over last years business will be revealed.
Inc city nan Will De closed all day.
Mayor Jim, still at Excelsior Springs, will
eat his turkey In some hotel at the Mis-
| souri, watering resort; Tom Flynn will
! carve a big bird at his home in Omaha, and
other attaches of the administration will
feast in their own way. entirely relieved
for the time being, OF official cares.
Clerical work in railroad headquarters
will be suspended. and everybody, from
general managers down to clerks. win take
day off. TrRinmen. OF course like SOL
diers, are always on duty and their turkey
will be grabbed from some lunch counter
along the road, as they sit perched upon a
high stool during a fifteen-minute stop.
| Union Thanksgiving day services will
| be held in the Hanscom Park Methodist
! Episcopal church, Twenty ninth and Wool
worth avenue, by the following group OF
churches: Third Presbyterian, ST. Mary's
Avenue Congregational, Westminster Pres
byterian. First Baptist, Grace Lutheran,
First Christian and Hanscom Park Metho-
dist Episcopal The Rev. Mr.. T. II. Nc
Connell of the Westminster Presbyterian
church, will deliver the sermon. idusic
will be rendered by the vested choir OF the
Hanscom Park Church. and by Mrs h.
N Hess. The service will begin at 1880.