The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-11-28
SOCIAL EVENTS
PACK TURKEY
DAY CALENDAR
Churches Plan Services;
Businesses and Schools
Will Close.
DANCES ARE SCHEDULED
ButIer-Tufts Grid Game Will
Be Afternoon Sport
Feature.

With worship, feasting and mer-
riment, indianapolis tomorrow will
observe Thanksgiving day in the
traditional fashion.
Housewives today bent knee to
creaking ice box doors; reverend
clergymen meditated in their
studies; choirs rehearsed Thanks
giving hymns; and festive souls,
young and old, laid out bib and
tucker for the round of holiday
entertainment.
Church bells will be calling the
thankful to sunrise service Thurs
day long before the guests at to-
nights preliminary social events are
ready to hear them.
Approximately one hundred
Protestant churches Of the city will
conduct Thanksgiving services I'M
der the plan sponsored a year ago
by the Church Federation of Indl-
annapolis, many joining in neigh
borhood services Some will be held
as early as a. m, while the ma
Jortty will follow at 10 or 1880
q. m.
High Mass in Cathedral
High mass will be celebrated at
3 a. m. at SIS. Peter and Paul cathe-
dral and other Catholic churches
throughout the city.
Industries, stores. banks and pub
lie buildings generally will be closed
throughout the day. Neighborhood
stores, however, will remain open
during the morning in some locan-
ties.
The postoffice will be closed all
day and there will be no mail deliv-
cries, excepting perishable and
special delivery mail. Collections
will be on the usual holiday sched-
ule.
Public, high and grade schools
closed at noon today, not to reopen
until Monday morning. Cathedral
high school will close at the usual
hour this afternoon, to reopen Mon
day. Catholic grade schools closed
today at noon, to reopen Monday
morning.
Annual Ball at MarOtt
Largest of tonight's social events
will be the annual THANKSGIVING
ball at the Marott hotel. Six hun
bred invitations have been issued.
knights of Columbus annual ball
also will be given tonight, in the
K. of c. auditorium, Thirteenth and
Delaware streets. A concert Is on
the program of entertainment.
One hundred seventy-five cou-
pies have made reservations for the
annual Thanksgiving dinner dance
at the Broadmoor Country Club to-
night
First of the civic organizations to
celebrate the holiday with
Thanksgiving spread" was the
Chamber of Commerce. Several
hundred attended the turkey
luncheon" at the chamber today.
While thousands of Indianapolis
families are gathered about the
"home fires" for home-cooked din
nerS and reunions Thursday, clubs
and hotels will be the scenes of
many formal dinners and dances.
Dinner at Columbia Club
Thanksgiving dinner will be
served at the Columbia club from
noon until p. M. followed at 10 p.
m. by the annual formal Thanks
giving ball. "Hoagie" Carmiehaels
Columbia club orchestra will provide
music for dancing.
At the Athenaeum, dinner will be
served, for members only, in the eve
ming.
One hundred twenty-five couples
have made reservations for the
Hoosier Athletic Clubs annual
Thanksgiving day dinner dance.
Stiles Collegians will play for the
dancing.
Although most country clubs have
closed for the season, turkey dinner
will be served Thursday noon at the
Meridian Hills Country Club. The
fox chase, which featured the pro-
gram there a year ago, will not be
repeated.
Dinner will be served noon and
evening at the University club.
Eighteen Thanksgiving day we'd
dings will furnish a topic for tete-
a-tetes at two sorority dances