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Show THANKSGIVING DAY, Tomorrow Is Tlianksglvlin? day, d day set apart by tho Pies, dent of the United States and the governor of the Stute to be used as u day for tho giving of thanks for tho Mousing!) nnd mercies bestowed upon our people" and Nation by an all-wlso and biMiullcciit Creator. "Thanksgiving day!" To our mind whnt memories the uamo conjures up of turkey, r.runhorrlo and pumpkin pic, of homo .reunions around the amplo board and.ilie good choer attending at-tending n general day of grace. Memory Mem-ory carries in back to our days of chlldlTood when Thanksgiving day was of all others our red -lotter day, How wo watched the fostlvo gobbler Jor days and weeks i beforehand and steadily calculated on his Incroasu In weight and fatness and then how proudly ho adorned tho center of tho table when the festive day arrived. Hut aside from the Idea of fcasUng comes the inoro sober thought of the object of tho day. Ilow by our martyr President Presi-dent Abraham Lincoln, In 1803 It wus sot npart ns a day for general thanks for hlesslngs ami victories enjoyed and for prayer for fill urn favors. Thanks-giving Thanks-giving day lias always to the Now Eng. hinder been tho day of days, but u'over until President Lfncoln's proclamation In 1803 has it been recognized' as a National day. Now, next to ( lirlstmas and tho Fourth of July It In our groat National and Stiitcliollday. 'It Is yoar the Nation and the pcoplo llnvu more occasion for Thnuksglvlng than for many years. We havo undod a successful success-ful war, tlio Nation's arms have estab- lis! oil- America foremost among the nations of the earth, mid while but a few mbnths ago wo we.ro In tho midst of tho conlllct of a great war mid our bravo soldiers and sailors were dying for our country, noy wo nro at poace and our beloved country greater than ovur. Our farmers may return thanks for bountiful harvests, our miners for Increased volume ,f mineral prgduc.Cs of-iho earth and all of us for lire, happiness hap-piness and prosperity. Lot Thanksgiving Thanks-giving day bo, observed by all I It will give us renewed zest to combat in tins battle of life, |