Show thanksgiving DAY AT this writing thanksgiving day for 1896 has passed but it its incidents ants and history are ever interesting M te resting and never fail to fill us with delight i far back in 1631 when our beloved country was what might be termed a mere babe bab a little colony upon massachusetts bay there was a great scarcity of food among them and all seemed threatened with famine their condition at last became deplorable and their only hope was in a resort to god accordingly A y a day was fixed for fasting and prayer but bat before the day came the long looked looke for df vesse vessel 1 landed upon their shore laden inden with an abundance of food with hearts filled with gratitude the people of the colony when the day previously set apart came round transformed it into one of feasting and aua thanksgiving for over a century the states state a of new england have set get vart apart a day in autumn for giving thank to god for the manifold blessings of the year ar As time passed on it became a very pleasant and ampro pr enate t u de custom one state after an other awoke to the situation and adopted the custom until for sev am erd eral years pasta past the P president zes ident of the tze i j d azz united states lias has issued a 21 proda s M station adon for fai ajtay of public thanksgiving IN tair throughout out the union onion fl in november s usually the on one set apart apar for uj a k tune time honored i custom tom and is is 5 as abow w uia halid V in inmost of the ei gi v geert lafebre passed an S a 31 ft MIJ of ale afee wa ck i r i ajr f A days A mg m fig ia lepi 4 M i U P through the blessings of a divine providence were w sated from famine very soon however their boards were filled with plenty and with a due sense of appreciation and gratitude they set apart a day each year for feasting and thanksgiving this appropriate custom has therefore been perpetuated in utah from that early day up to the present time the ile recent proclamation of governor wells made last thursday a day of th thanksgiving anks giving throughout through out our state the people in accordance with a high sense of duty appreciation and gratitude met in their various places of worship and there held exercises befitting the occasion family reunions as a usual formed a prominent feature in the events of the day here the loved ones old and young whose walks and callings in in life had led them apart gathered once more arwind around the family hearth and board and again partook of the sweet blessings and joys of the old homestead the old turkey and the pumpkin pis pias were as sweet to the old folks as they were to the young and all will remember the day and welcome it again with delight |