Show I NATIONAL HOLIDAY ou Y FOR GIVING civic THANKS TO BE B VARIOUSLY OBSERVED IN SALT LA LAKE Tomorrow is 18 Thanksgiving da da- da day Are Aro you thankful and if it not wh why not not Have Ja you your our loved lo ones about you out t Mayo Have you good health t Any Anyone one of ot these blessings should fill till your our heart beArt with withe e J 4 any parties of or nil all sorts anti and dinners If rat to tobo ho J given cn to celebrate the day in F It Lake but b before for telling of them p it would be bo as 35 well perhaps to tell ten t of the first Thanksgiving any fly celebrated in tho the United States State an and what hAt gave up iise for it The first I American Thanksgiving in was WUI observed ed in 1821 the year war after the tho landing of the Pilgrim Fathers in the Mayflower at Plymouth Rock flock and it was celebrated cele I I in gratitude for the abundant harvest of the year ear In Goodwins Goodwin's P Hf is the tho following I I nic Account nt I The liThe PH Pilgrims ims fond as ther were of 1 enjoyment had d since sinco landing known Known noI no rio I day of rest except tho the sacred da day of ot worship Now Nov that the summer Bummer was i p. p past and tho the harvest ended they de do l to have a period of ot recreation c combined with thanksgiving for their many mercies The governor Bradford Bradford Brad Brad- ford thereupon sent out four huntsmen hunts bunts men who in one da day secured enough h hame game ame to supply the whole colony for nearly a week Hospitality was waa extended extended ex extended tended to Massasoit chief of a nei neighboring neigh h- h boring tribe tribe- of friendly Indians who accepted and bron brought ht many people with i him burn The guests remained three days J d during tin which ic t they ey captured c d five deer to add to trio the larder or noses hosts me uti motley company indulged cd in a round of amusements and the colonists entertained enter tithed their visitors with military tactics taco tac tac- tac tiC ties tics and evolutions Without doubt religious ous services services opened each da day dat for lor br the Pilgrims were cheerful Christians who earned religion into all AU their affairs Thus heartily and r royally was inaugurated the great New En England festival of Thanksgiving ving For two centuries it continued to be a peculiarity peculiarity- of ot tho the eastern states but it has now become national its iu annual return return re re- return turn finding a welcome alon along the lake Jake lakeshore lakeshore shore hore and the tho gulf It and from the Atlantic At lantic to the tho Pacific In 1623 a public da day of thanksgiving ivin is noticed and one is is mentioned in a l letter of 1632 ft 0 I do not doubt that such Buch a n nf f festival was held after every harvest banest t and that it was so much a a. matter of or course that the records did not mention it an any more than they did the great rent training day with its sermon Bermon and holiday holi holi- i day features t I In Early Republic c Aside from these theM New En land England precedents pre pre- the the- continental con congress res mended days s of th thanksgiving nJ annually during the revolution and aed in iu 1784 1184 forthe for forthe forthe the return of peace peace peace-as an did President i ent I Madison l in 1815 Washington appointed I IlIch such lIch a day in 1780 1789 after the n adoption option of the constitution and in Ii 1793 for the general benefit and welfare of the us- us na tion The custom was revived in 1863 by br Lincoln and since that year the tho presidents dents have hae always i issued proclamations appointing generally the last Thursday in as s Thanks Thanksgiving ing da day Several parties partie and nd some flome dances arc scheduled I for tonight Thanksgiving in eve e. The largest probably will bo be the tho cotillion cotil lion l given ln at Fort Douglas ou I I at the post hall ball by tho the officers and their ladies assisted by the young oun officers p Another affair of some same brilliance will wiH be the tho fancy dress ss ball K given ven by Mr and Mrs Ire J. J E. E Jennings The University club will win entertain at nt ata nta a lar large e dancing party at the clubhouse On Thanksgiving Day Tomorrow a buffet luncheon will be served at tho the Country club All are requested to remember the Thanksgiving dinner for tho the State street orphanage and to make practical donations for it zt which will bo be gratefully gratefully grate grate- ate full fully received by the tho committee committee- in char charge e eOther Other dances to bo be given tomorrow night are a masquerade ball to be given ven by the Danish Brotherhood at the tho X L O. O r O. O i F. F han hall The local union of at the International Printing P Pressmen and Pressmen's Assistants Assistants As As- will hold a grand ball ban at the Odeon Union Thanksgiving Thanks vin services semet'S amon among the various evangelical churches of the city will bo be held tomorrow as fol follows follows fol- fol ol lows Jows The Tho First Methodist First Con Congregational First Presbyterian Baptist and aDd Central Christian churches wil will meet Inthe Inthe in inthe the First Methodist church at 11 a. a m m. the Rev Albert Buxton of the Christian church preaching the sermon the flit Methodist Phillips Con Congregational and Third Presbyterian will meet in in tho the Third Presbyterian church the Rev Bev P. P A. A Simpkin of the Phillips church preaching the sermon The Libert Liberty Park Methodist church churchwill churchwill will hold services by itself as 88 will also tho the two Episcopal churches churche St. St Marks Mark's service Ron beginning at 10 0 o'clock clock instead of at 11 as this hour is found more con can The Episcopal churches will hold bold holy hoy communion at 8 a. a m mA m. m A dancin dancing party will bo be given ven this e evening by bv the tho Knights of Columbus in Unit Unity han hall |