Show 1 I HANKSGIVINQ DAY Proclamation Issued by Governor AVellK Yesterday Designating Thursday Nov liii Governor Wells yesterday issued a proclamation designating Thursday Nov 26 as a day of thanksgiving for the people peo-ple of this state The proclamation Is a follows The people of Utah ever appreciative of the continued rich blessings of nature vouchsafed In our glorious climate In the fertility of our soil and the treasures of our hills in a abundant yield a a return for our labors In the fields upon the ranges In the mines and manufactories manu-factories and profoundly grateful for the enlargement of our civil rights in being admitted to the Union as a sovereign sover-eign state acknowledge with reverence the allwlse providence that has been over us and that we may give proper expression to the gratitude of our hearts in uch manner as shall be most fitting < 1 u = Therefore I Heber M Wells governor of the state f Utah In pursuance of law and In conformity with > the proclamation procla-mation of the wlJ the United States designating Thursday Nov 28 a a day of thanksgiving and prayer do hereby request the people of this state upon that day to forego their customary labors and pursuits and assemble In their several places O worship and at their fireside altars to praise the Gver of all good and to further honor the day by remembering the poor and the unfortunate un-fortunate by acts of charity and good fellowship In testimony whereof I have set my hand and caused the great seal of the state to be hereunto seal afllxed this ninth day of November Novem-ber in the year of Our Lord One Thousand Eight Hundred and Ninety Sis and of the Independence Independ-ence of the United States the One Hundred and Twentieth and the first year of the state of Utah HEBER M WELLS By the Governor JAMES T HAMMOND Secretary of State |