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Show VILLAGE KNEELS TO OFFER THANKS FOR PLENTIFUL HARVEST NEW ENGLAND. N. D, Oct. M. The wheels of tlma turned backward 200 years here yesterday, when an entire village forgot the dizzy pace of the modern world and knelt as did their Puritan fathers to give thanka to the divine favor granting thera a bountiful harvest. Kpr years farmers of thl community com-munity watched ther crops wither nd die. Last spring the community joined in a common prayer for a more aiicceMsful season. Yesterday the peo-le peo-le gathered again to give thanka to the divinity who, they believe, heard and granted their prayers. Pastors of the Catholic. Congregational Congrega-tional and "Lutheran churches led the thanksgiving services, when 6 10 farm-era farm-era and their buuseholda who are not . "too busy to believe In modern day mlraclea" turned their facee upward In the old hymn of harvest and thanksgiving, thanks-giving, "Come. Ye Thankful People!" Peo-ple!" The harvest of the laat season ha been the most bountiful In the history of this community. |