Show GOVERNOR DECLARES THURSDAY ONE OF THANKSGIVING Chief Executive Calls Peo- Peo pie to Avow Their Grat Gratitude tude Governor Bamberger yesterday is issued issued is- is sued suel his proclamation mation declaring November November No No- vember 25 as a day for thanksgiving and prayer Ills His pr proclamation is as follows ii The r 1 close of the harvest season brings us to that period of the year selected by our forefathers in which to offer to our Creator expressions of gratitude for the blessings they had enjo enjoyed Their observance became a custom that has come down to us through generations and of or such worth has this custom been deemed that the legislature of the 1 State of Utah in its wisdom h haji seen fit to direct the chief executive lve ive of the state to set aside the last Thursday Thursday Thursday Thurs Thurs- day in In the in-the the month of November ea each each- h- h year as a aday day of thanksgiving ing and prayer and a legal holi holi- day In His great goodness our Creator Creator Creator Crea Crea- tor has again bestowed boun bounteous harvests upon the people of our commonwealth He has lt kept pt us apart from the strife and and dissen dIssen dIssension sion that have marred the peace of peoples in other parts of the world We Ve have enjoyed the blessings of peace prosperity ana anu the liberties of a free people It so happens that this is a year of or more than ordinary significance to American Three Thre Threat hundred years ago the first American American American Amer Amer- ican I legislative assembly called by free men of lawful age and full understanding convened in Jamestown Jamestown Jamestown James James- town Virginia It is these Institutions institutions institutions so sacred to the principles I t of liberty and justice that have been preserved to us by the boys in the trenches s and for which we have cause for special observance this year Now therefore I Simon Simon- Bamberger Bamberger Bamberger Bam Bam- berger governor of the great State of Utah do hereby designate and set apart Thursday November Novembers 25 1920 as a day of thanksgiving and prayer pray pray- er and a legal holiday and re respectfully respectfully respectfully re- re urge the people of the state to desist from their ordinary occupations on that date and de devote devote devoto de- de vote voto themselves to appropriate ob observance observance ob- ob servance of the occasion |