The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-09-02
EAST LAKE ID. BE MECCA IF.
 UNION BODIES
Elaborate Program Of Con- test And Entertainment Is Planned With Handsome Prizes Offered To Entrants
ELKS EXPECTING GREAT CROWD LOCKWOOD PARK
Post Office And Public BuiId- ingS To Observe Day And Most Of City's Business Houses Will Close For Day

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 Labor Day. 1923, will be generally observed by Birmingham and the en- tire district as an occasion of jolu- fication and rest. labor to a large extent ceasing it's work for the en- tire day. with appropriate picnic and outing programs arranged at th@ various nearby resorts.
 The Birmingham Trades Council and affiliated local unions will csle-4 brate at East Lake park with a bass ket picnic and diversified progranz of fun which will include numerous contests for men, women and chil- dren, speaking by prominent labor leaders, vaudeville performance by local talent. baseball games. swim- ming contests and fireworks.
 A prize will be extended to tha most popular lady on the ground. Each local union is expected to enter one of their ladies as sponsor, and the one chosen will be crowned Queen of Labor for tho year 1898. The committee also has arranged 8. novel feature in nail-driving con- test for ladies, prizes to the wins ners.
 The committee in charge of tha celebration has attempted to plan Q program of general interest for members of the local unions and their families. They have outlined the following events for the day. with prizes for winner of each event; Largest family registered, horseshoe pitching contest, swimming contest for men, mems tug O war. ladies' ball throwing contest, ladies' naiis driving contest, ladies' tug O war. of age the following events have been announced: Candy race, boys 50-. yard dash, girls 50-yard dash. boys 75-yard dash. girls 75-yard dash. boys 1oo-yard dash, and girls 10o- yard dash.
 Liberal Prizes Given.
 Merchants of Birmingham were liberal in their donation of prizes for the picnic. Many handsome and valuable articles were given tho committee and others that have noE been announced, it Is stated. Ths following list of articles already has been received: Odum, Bowers S2 White, pair driving gloves; saka Clothing company. pairs mems company, 1 rocker; Hood & Wheeler Furniture company, 1 bridge lamp and shade; Oster Brothers Furniture company, polychrome mirror: Duke Brothers Furniture company, smoking stand; Hynds-Upshaw Paint company, S5 in merchandise; Louis Saks Clothing company, merchandises Federated Bank and Trust company two prizes of $2.50 each; E. J. Jones Grain company, l fifty-pound sack laying mash; Phillips-Lester com- pany. suits overalls; Liberty Over- all company, suits overalls; War; ren Brothers, baseball glove; Ja- cobs Drug company, 9 bottles toilet water; Theodos Candy Kitchen, 1 pound box candy; Parisian company, s5 sweater; Caheen's, boys ties; Hirsch's Millinery company, l child's hat; Gordon Jewelry company. bread tray; Wright's hat store, L cap; Guarantee Shoe company, 1 pair ct ildren's shoes; Ideal Millinery com panY, l pair ladies' hose; K K. Goods company, 1 ladies purse; En. dicott J ohnson Shoe company, ] ss pair shoes; Loveman, Joseph & Loeb, merchandise; Matthews Electric com pany, electric curling iron; Birming- ham Trunk company, 2 pocketbooks; Frutticher Electric company. l flash light; Dixie Coffee company, l1 pounds coffee; Moore -Handley Hard- ware company, electric fixtures; ln- terstate Electric company, electric fixture: Federal Bakery, l cake: EIks Plan Big Picnic.
 Al feature of the Labor Day activ- ities will be the celebration picnic, and athletic contest to be staged by Birmingham lodge No. 79, Benevo- lent Protective Order of Elks at Edgewood park, commencing prompt ly at 9 o'clock when the gates of the park will open, and closing at 9:30 in the evening with an ela- borate display of fireworks and aero- plane feats.
 The most complete and entertain- FV,1i1 1iu.r a ffTr a been perfected by the Elks' for this occasion, and Is announced in detail in today's Age Herald. Arrangements have been made to entertain tnou- sands of visitors, and many valuable prizes are being offered to winners of the numerous contests to be staged during the day.
 Aside from the definite programs arranged for the day, Monday will be generally observed as holiday by many individuals and business concerns.
 Letters were sent out Thursday by O. l.. Bum, secretary manager of the Chamber of Commerce, to each mem Der of the retail division of that organization calling upon them to close their places of business at noon Labor Day. Our idea Is to have the closing of retail stores at noon unan- imous," he said. There is an agree ment between the members of the retail division of the exchange to close at that time, and the other merchants usually follow suit" MT. Bum stated.
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 Others Close Early.
 Members of the Birmingham Retail Grocers and Butchers association will remain open for one-half day Monday, in order that food supplies might be bought after the Sunday closing. The afternoon of Labor Day will be unanimously observed as 8 holiday. members of the association state All housewives are urged to buy their fooG supplies in the morn ings. so as not to interfere with tho prompt closing or the grocers at noon Monday.
 Two carrier and one parcel post delivery of nsii only will be made in the business section. No deliveries will be made In the residential sec tion and no service rendered at the various windows at the post office substations, Windows in the post of rrtl1 ha tn ofa