Elks Prepare Annual Thanksgiving Offering For Poor And Needy Families
ELKS PROVIDE FOR
NEED) piLIES
Substantial Food Is Thanks
giving Offering—Memorial
Day Exercises
Benevolence and charity for the
living and reverence for the mem
ory of. the dead are among the fun
damental principles of the Benevo
lent Protective Order of Elks, and
Birmingham lodge, No. 79. is making
active preparations to put these
principles into effect.
On Thanksgiving Day some 300
poor and needy families will be the
recipients of the Elks bounty. when
large hampers of good substantial
food, including a 10-pound roast, will
be distributed. This is the annual
donation from the individual mem
bers of the lodge and not from the
treasury, each individual going down
in his pocket to provide one or more
of the baskets. $
Plans for the distribution of the
hampers will be made Tuesday
night. It is understood from Joe
Saks, chairman of the committee in
charge, that the requests for . the
food hampers made to the Elks this
year are greater than In those of
previous years and in order to meet
this additional expenditure, the com
mittee is calling on all members,
who have not sent in their annual
donation, to do so at once in order
that the Committees may make ar
rangements for meeting all the re
quests for the Elks bounty on
Thanksgiving Day.
Memorial Day exercises ol Bir
mingham lodge No. 79. B. P. O. E.,
will be held at .3 o’clock Sunday
afternoon. December 3, at the Third
Presbyterian church, of which Dr.
J. A. Bryan, honorary chaplain of the
lodge, is pastor. The committee in
charge has arranged an elaborate
program for the occasion and mem
bers of the order, their families and
friends, are cordially Invited to
attend.
