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Show THANKSGIVING DAI". BUSINESS WAS SUSPENDED AND CEN-ERAL CEN-ERAL REJOICINCS REICNED. The Services in the Churches Were Most Interesting The Sermons Appropriate nd the Music Excellent The Patriotic Lessons Taught. The Thanksgiving day of 1S91 has past into history. It is a day when almost every human soul has some blessing for which he feels constrained to render thanks for to the Omnipotent. Over the lives of some, scarce a cloud had passed since the last Thanksgiving Thanksgiv-ing day was celebrated. They had especial j reason for rejoicing; those who were not so fortunate and to whom the year had brought many cloudy days, felt thankful that they had even a few hours of happiness. The day in this city was very generally observed, ob-served, and scarcely a heart so cold but what it was warmed by seeing the bright faces and the cheery countenances of those about them. If a cloudless sky, a warm sun, and a balmy atmosphere could lighten the load of care on the human mind, then certainly not one person in the city but should have becu happy, most people determined that they would be. They came out upon the streets and bestowed smiles and good wishes upon their friends and acquaintances, acquaint-ances, and as they looked about them and saw everything flushed with the mellow sunshine they felt that to be permitted to live in such a beautiful world was a blessing for which they could not be thankful enougn. It was a holiday, made so by the proclamation procla-mation of the national executive, by the governor of the territory in which they lived nd best of all by ctitom something so old that the human mind runneth not to the contrary. A- a holiday it was recognized, recog-nized, in homes luxurious, and in those more humble but which are brightened by the love and mutual confidence of husband a-nd wife, father, mother and children een in those homes which are grotesque in their poverty. In business lines it was invariably recognized, the strife for trade and prestige ceased, and employes were given a respite from toil and worry, which painted Nov. -tj, '!1, on their memories indelibly. The churches made it an occasion for special servues and beautiful sermons were preached on the lessons and the thoughts which the day breathed into life, and hymns of thanksgiving regaled the cars of angels. There w as no one uor no feature of t he d.iy forgotten and w hen tired heads had sought drowsy pillows, all energies felt revived and courage was renewed to take up liles uon ending struggle. C III' St If SEKVM E?. Ill the Methodist Kpiscopul church there w as a union serif ice, participated in by the l'i csl.ytcriuns. Mi lit t. , Con irrc srat iona ! Uts i:id the Lu.pt. f Any tlhlercnce in r.i.d; (viAteii these denominations was lu -z it i.. ar ;h' . ir u iit d p iver.-, a;id re-l re-l ! i i' f - r i s aeceuded to the same su-pr su-pr mo civcr of rtll jrood and perfect ir.'t.-. An auiuciucd choir had becu provided pro-vided for the occasion, and the music it rcu-dercd rcu-dercd was most beautiful and witchincr to car and soul. The TlianKssfivin proclamations procla-mations of the preMdtut and the irovernor were read at this service. The Iicv. Mr. Steclman offered the opening prayer, and Dr. McNicce preached the sermon, ser-mon, taking for his text the twelfth, thirteenth thir-teenth and twentieth verses of the 14Tth chapter of Pealnis. The .sermon, or rather the lecture, was a most noble effort, a mental feast, only equalled, by the gastronomic one spread during the day on a thousand tables in the city. Applause w as not forbidden (and w hy should it have been?), and.it burst out several times when the remarks were particular happy and apropos. The revernd doctor spoke of those thinys which the people had to be thankful thank-ful for, he pointed to errors of the past that tan be remedied in the futnre, he exhorted ex-horted his audience to live moral and Chris- tian lives, he urged patriotism as a necessity ne-cessity to a perfect srovernment and many other pertinent things. I There was another union service." It w as I held in the Jew ish synairofrue by the members mem-bers of that church and the I'uitarians. It was well attended. The Thaukstjivintr proclamations proc-lamations were read, the music was most excellent ex-cellent and inspirinir to those who attended at-tended the exercises. The rabbi Tacobson offered the prayer and Rev. Dr. I tter preached the tirst sermon, who took for his subject "Thanksjrivinsr Thoughts," It was a talk suited to the day, aud was of a patriotic character. lr. Utter waf followed by Kabbi Jacobson w ho took the thought of "Church and State," and delivered an address that enchained attention. Like all of the Kabbi' s sermons, this one displayed j strikins' oriirinalit3" in the handling of a very old theme. The services at St. Murk's were most en-terlainiiiir en-terlainiiiir t" the members of that con-erce;aUon: con-erce;aUon: ue particularly bright feature be in tr Hi' r-inirinif "I 'K' t'y choir. 1 lie Thaiiksij'i vinir proclamations were read and the text was taken from the lOM Psalm. At St. Paul's, the Rev. Mr. Lane preached a senium ou the thought: "Be Ye. Thankful." Thank-ful." II.-said: "The very fact that such a day had been designated as one of Thaiiksirivinir denoted that there, was something some-thing in the hearts of men which told them ail blessings were bestowed by some kind Father, and that they should and did feel thankful. THWKsoIVINC IX THE MIXES. Only a few mines throughout the territory from which advices could be obtained, suspended work entirely-. To some properties proper-ties such a suspension would entail serious consequences ; but there was scarcely a company com-pany which did not f;ive its employes a grand dinucr, as eletjaut and as appetizing as any man could sit down to. Turkeys were provided in abundance aud other good things were plentiful. DINNER AT THE HOTELS. There has for years been a rivalry anions: the hotel proprietors iu 'ion to exceed each other in serving their guests with a dinner on Thanksgiving day, and should an epicure be called to render a verdict ver-dict on the mmuH in Salt Lake hotels yesterday, he would have been bewildered. The reporters of the local press received invitations to partake of these hospitalities hos-pitalities from so many hotels, that they were perplexed which one to accept; but those which could not be accepted are appreciatively ap-preciatively acknowledged. The Newsboy's Dinner. ror the third time, the newsboys of the city accejited Colonel 11. C. Letts invitation to dinner. They accepted it, too, in a body, and w ith their hearts swelling w ith admiration admir-ation for their jiatrou who has never failed to remember the little urchins, who in storm and in sunshine, at early dawn aud late at night cry their wares njon the street. The boys' ajpetites had been whetted by the keen airand the exliilc rating atmos)herc, ind when they sat down to tho.se tables, groaning with ail good things, they were as hungry and as hajttiy a lot of "little savages as were ever seen iu a restaurant. Colonel Lett was out of the city, and his son VV. H. and wife did the honors. Governor Thomas called them to order (as if .such a horde of young htatheu eouid lie orderly ) and welcomed them in a brief speech on behalf of Colonel Lett. Then came the boys' opportunity, and Shady Stringer, president of their union, arose from neat of honor, and presented Will Lettagcdd headed cane for his father. His speech was a most hapjiy and graceful one, much more so than several which followed. Shady also presented Will Lett with some handsome, neckwear fur himself, all of which was a token of the esteem in which Col. Lett and son are held by the boys who know a good thing-when they sec it. Judge. Goodwin ae-ccj'tcd ae-ccj'tcd the jirc.i-ut for Colonel Lett in a few-remarks, few-remarks, in which humor, jiathos and good ad t ice wire ha;pi!y mingled. Then' Mr. Let' 1,( T of the ilniilil was called on and re- : f.p nlcd i:i a way which elicited,' n- j.H i-'e. Tin: Times representative was j asked for a speech and made a lamentable, failure The Iicv. Edwards asked the blcssiug and the boys fell to. When their stomachs could contain no more those tables looked as if struck by a tornado. , . . , |