The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-08-10
CITY ID HONOR LEADER WITH SILENCE
Practically All Public Build ings And Offices To Be Closed Half Or All Of Day
 Friday Out Of Respect
0NL POSTAL SERVICE WI AT WINDOWS
S>c Will Cease On Bir- $,ngham For Five Minutes, sfrom 3 To 3:05 O'Clock;
 Services At Masonic Temple

Birmingham Is expected to be a very quiet city Friday, for practically all public buildings and offices will be- closed for half or all of the day out of respect to the memory of President Harding whose funeral will be held Friday afternoon in his home town, Marion, Ohio.
 The city hall and county court house will be closed after the morn ing work is done. The federal build ing will be closed all day. save the post office department, which will close from 3 to o'clock. Windows will be open from to II o'clock in the morning. There will be no car rier service.
 The American Red Cross chapter was notified by headquarters to sus- pend all activities for the day. Presi- dent Harding was president of the organization. Theatres will close from to 315 o'clock.
 All traffic in Birmingham will cease at o'clock in the afternoon for a period of five minutes. Many stores will be closed from to 4 o'clock in the afternoon, the period of the funeral services in Marion.
 The standard oil company has or dered all of it's service stations in Birmingham and the rest of Alabama to close from to 4 o'clock. Members of the Birmingham Retail Grocers and Butchers association and of the Graphic Arts of Birmingham will close their places of business during the hour of the funeral. Organizations that are members of the Chamber of Commerce will cease all activities from to S:15 o'clock, manufacturing plants and mines will observe the five-mtnute pause com mencing at o'clock.
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 Principal services of the day will be those conducted in the Masonic temple on Nineteenth street al Sixth avenue. where the pastors union will be in charge of the public memorial services commencing at 3 o'clock.
 The pastors union Thursday Issued the following statement to the pup lie:
 Tn accordance with the proclama- ton of President Calvin Coolidge and MT. D. E. McLendon, president of the Birmingham city commission a memorial service for the late Presi- dent Warren G. Harding has been arranged by pr. l.. E. Brubaker, president of the pastors union, and will be held at 8 o'clock Friday, Au- gust 10, in the Masonic temple audi torium.
 'In President McLendon's procla- nation he asked that all the stores be closed and that all traffic be stopped at o'clock for period of 5 minutes. Therefore, the services at the Masoric Temple will begin promptly at o'clock and the first few minutes will be given to silent prayer.
 The Pastors union hopes that all the merchants and corporations in the city will close their stores and offices for at least one hour !n order that their employees might join them in this service and pay their respects to the late President "Following is the program for the memorial service on Friday after noon:
 Program of Service The program of the services Is as | follows:
 HARDING MEMORIAL SERVICE Masonic Temple, Friday, August 10. 8 D. m.
 Dr. L. E. Brubaker, president of the Pastors union, presiding. Music will be in charge of MT. w. II. Maxim. Silent prayer. Hymn.
 Scripture reading. by Rev; J. B. Meacham, pastor of Second Presby- terian church.
 Prayer by pr. Robert N. Simpson, pastor of First Christian church.
 Song, Abide With Me-" by Bir- mingham Male quartet. Tribute to. President Warren G. Harding, from the city, by MT D. E. McLendon, president city commits sion.
 President Warren G. Harding, a churchman, by Rev. J. w. Partridge. pastor Fifty-sixth Baptist church.
 President Warren G. Harding, a fraternal brother by Dr. Morris Newfleld, Temple Emmanuel President Warren G. Harding, our executive, Dr. w. G. Henry, pastor Eleventh Avenue Methodist church. Song, Lead, Kindly Light" by Birmingham Male quartet. Prayer.
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