Evening star., 1924-11-26
WASHINGTON LEADS NATION
IN THANKSGIVING OBSERVANCE
Capital Residents After Big Feast Viii Proceed to
Display Holiday Spirit in Various Forms
of Recreation.

follow the custom OF l6 successive
years and band together. The serv-
Ices will begin At 1880 o'clock in
Epworth Methodist Episcopal Church.
North Carolina avenue and Thirteenth
street northeast. The churches that
will participate are Douglas Memo
rial Methodist Episcopal, Eastern
Presbyterian, Epworth Methodist
Episcopal Church South, Ingram Me-
mortal Congregational, Keller Me-
mortal Lutheran and the Ninth Street
Christian
Rev. Kyle Booth of Ingram Me-
mortal Church will preach the ser
mon. Rev. J. o. Wrightson Of Doug
las Memorial Church will offer the
inVocation; Rev. S. T. Nicholas of
Keller Memorial Church will read the
Presidents Thanksgiving day brocla-
nation: Rev. c. r. Stauffer of Ninth
Street Christian Church will receive
the Offering, which will go to Sibley
Hospital, and Rev. Alfred E. Barrow
will read the lesson.
The national service Of the Baptist
Church will be held at Calvary Bap-
tist Church in the morning. Rev
DR.. Edward o. Clark. pastor of Chevy
Chase Baptist Church, will deliver the
sermon and special music has been
arranged.
Special music has been prepared
for the occasion by the Epworth
choir under the direction of Prof.
Louis A. Potter. Rev John Paul
Tyler is pastor OF the Epworth
Methodist Episcopal Church South.
Other outstanding church services
that have been announced for to-
morrow morning are as follows: A
union service at st. Paurs English
Lutheran Church, to be participated
in by Epiphany Church and Luther
Memorial Church: TRANSPORTATION
Episcopal Church, at 7:50 o'clock and
IL o'clock in the morning: Washing
ton Hebrew Congregation. at IL o'clock:
Mount Pleasant Methodist Episcopal
Church.
Church of the Ascension, at II
o'clock, choral eucharist; union serv-
ices at IL o'clock at All Souls Uni
tartan Church, participated in by the
Church of Our Father. Eniversalist; !;
union service at 1910 o'clock at
Rhode Island Avenue Methodist
Protestant Church, participated in by
Memorial United Brethren Church,
Bethany Baptist Church, lexington
Presbyterian Church, Lincoln Road
Methodist Episcopal Church and ST.
Paul's Methodist Episcopal Church.
Foundry Methodist Episcopal Church.
at II o'clock; Shiloh Baptist Insti-
the Covenant. at II o'clock. at the
Metropolitan Baptist Church, TWEEN
ueth annual sunrise service at :
o'clock, under the auspices of the
three Christian Endeavor Societies;
song services at Holiness Church,
colored.
This afternoon the Central Union
Mission will deliver to 215 needy fam
lilies a basket of meats and groceries
for their Thanksgiving dinner. John
S. Bennett, superintendent of the mis-
sion, has taken personal charge of
the work and is making each family
feel that it is an act of love and not
of charity. In addition, the mission
viii give a dinner tomorrow at its
temporary headquarters, 4S2 Tenth
street northwest, to all who apply.
The dinner will be served from noon
until all who apply have been served
At the missions children's emer-
gency home, where 80 tots are under
the care of Mrs. Bennett, a turkey
dinner will be served at noon. In
the evening representatives from
many of Washington's churches will
entertain the children. The mission
has been doing these acts of kind
ness on Thanksgiving day for the
past 40 years, ever since 1t first came
into existence.
Joseph H. Smith, who 25 years ago
held evangeltsic meetings in the
District of Columbia at the Hamline
NJ E. Church at the corner of Ninth
and p streets northwest. converting
as high as 100 men and women in
one day, is holding meetings in the
Wesleyan Pentecostal Church tomor-
row, Thanksgiving day. Three serv-
ices will be held. MIR. Smith will
close his services at the church on
Sunday evening.