Show DAY OF THANKSGIVING Governor Gov Wills W ls Sets Aside Thursday Nov 27 27 as a Public Holiday The Te annual Thanksgiving proclamation tion to the the people of Utah designating Thursday the of this month as the day on oh which public thanks should be rendered for the benefits which have been bestowed besto ed on the people was issued by Governor Wells yesterday The proclamation n follows in full to the revered custom initiated by the Pilgrim fathers In full ful accord with wih the desires of our happy and prosperous people p ople and in harmony the proclamation of the president presIdent president dent I Heber M Wells governor of the state of Utah Uth hereby herby designate Thursday the day pay of oC November instant as a day of praise and thanks thanksgiving thank giving ghin to God for the countless countess bless blessings blessings blessings ings and benefits showered upon the people of this state At no time in our history have the material materia educational and social com corn comforts comforts forts of life Ufe been so abundantly and universally bestowed us as t during the year now drawing to o Its close nor has the promise and potency of the future seemed so fraught frught with every earthly blessing uI I 1 therefore recommend that the peo people pie of this state in their places place of o worship and at their homes observe with reverent joy oy with uplifted hearts and with wide extended hands of good fellowship this Thanksgiving day dayla UIn la testimony whereof I have here hereunto hereunto hereunto unto unto set my hand and caused the te great seal of the state of Utah to be he hereunto affixed Done at Salt Lake Lk City this day of November 1902 By the Governor HEBER HBER M 1 WELLS uJ J T HAMMOND Secretary of 9 1 State |