Show thanksgiving M UNITED STATES OF MERICA territory of utah executive office the custom cna cua torm tomm of 0 setting Betting apart one day in the year to be devoted to thanksgiving and praise has halcome come down to us from the colonial period of our history in those early times the pilgrim founders of now new eng land established the custom which has become national in its observance et ef returning thanks af after ter the gathering of the crops to the lord of the harvest 1 I therefore ej in accordance cor dance with the proclamation by the tho president respectfully recommend that thursday the day of this the month of november be observed by the people of the territory as a day of 19 thanksgiving and praise plais for the great prosperity prop erity which has marked the year now drawing to a close and that the more wealthy remember the poor and needy in testimony whereof I 1 have hereunto set bet my handland han dand caused the great beal seal of the territory to be at af sean SEA SEAL ii fixed done at salt lake labe city this twelfth day of november A D 1883 ARTHUR L tuomas THOMAS acting governor |