Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 41, Number 37, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 January 1909 — Holidays on Peculiar Dates. [ARTICLE]

Holidays on Peculiar Dates.

Holidays in 1909 will come in almost every case upon peculiar dates. July 4 falls on Sunday, leaving the small boy with small chance to celebrate. Christmas and New Year’s fall on Saturday. Carnation Day, or McKinley’s birthday, the first legal holiday of the year excepting, of course, New Year's which is a thing of the past so far as 1909 is concerned, on Jan. 29, falls on Friday, the “hoodoo” day of the the week. The birthday of Abraham Lincoln, the first martyr president, fares no better, falling on the second Friday of February. Washington’s birthday falls on washday, the fourth Monday of the same month. Memorial Day and July 4th both are on Sunday. Easter will be April 1L Labor day, the workingmen’s holiday, will be late in its month, September, falling on the 6th. aflanksgiving will be on the second to the earliest possible date, falling on Nov. 26. Next year it will fall on the 24th, but in 1911 will be six days later.