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About Brookings-Harbor pilot. (Brookings, Curry County, Oregon) 1946-1978 | View Entire Issue (Nov. 22, 1951)
H e. the undersigned businesses and professional men of this area, are thankful to you people that yon are our patrons and friends. H r are thankful for the right and pnedege to sen e you. l i e hope your fortunes have been t ie best, and that your prospects are brighter. Let us pause a few moments today and re-count our blessings • di lf,2I’ 1wIlcn the ^Ignm Fathers held their first Thanksgiving in Uymouth Colony, they were not strangers to the custom/They had taken part in similar observances in both England and Holland. yet lhanksgiving as an annual national observance is firmly es tablished as a custom of the New World, in the United States' and Canada. And it was Abraham Lincoln who in 1863 formalized 1 hanksgiving as a regular national holiday in the United States. He was responding to the suggestion of Mrs. Sarah Josepha Hale, editor of Godey s Lady’s Boo{, and his words hold a timeliness for people today: 1 r 1 he year that is drawing to its close has been filled with the blessings of fruitful fields and healthful skies. To these bounties, which are so constantly enjoyed that we are prone to forget the source from which they come, others have been added, which arc of so ex traordinary a nature that they cannot fail to penetrate and soften the heart which is habitually insensible to the cver-watchful providence of Almighty God. In the midst of a civil war of unequalled magni tude and severity, which has sometimes seemed to foreign States to invite and provoke their aggressions, peace has been preserved with .ill nations . . . the laws have been respected and obeyed and harmony has prevailed everywhere except in the theatre of military conflict; while that theatre has been greatly contracted by the advancing armies and navies of the Union. “Needful diversions of wealth and of strength from the fields of peaceful industry to the national defense have not arrested the plow, the shuttle, or the ship; the ax has enlarged the borders of our settle ments, and the mines, as well of iron and coal as of the precious metals, have yielded even more abundantly than heretofore. Population has steadily increased . . . and the country . . . is permitted to expect continuance of years with large increase of freedom. No human counsel hath devised, nor hat any mortal hand worked out these great things. They are the gracious gifts of the Most High God, who, while dealing with us in anger for our sins, hath never theless remembered mercy. "It has seemed to me fit and proper that they should be solemnly reverently and gratefully acknowledged as with one heart and one voice by die whole American people. I do, therefore, invite my fellow citizens to set apart and observe the last Thursday in November next as a day of thanksgiving and praise to our beneficient Father who dwellcth in the heavens, And I recommend to them that, while ottering up the ascriptions justly due to Him for such singular deliv erances and blessings, they do also, with humble penitence for our national perverseness and disobedience, commend to His tender care all those who have become . . . sufferers in the lamentable civil strife and fervently implore the interposition of the Almighty Hand to heal the wounds of the nation, and restore it . . . to full enjoyment of peace, harmony, tranquillity, and union."—Rotary Magazine. CURRY COUNTY LUMBER CO PETE J. LESMEISTER AGENCY C. O. & I. L. LEONARD REALTY DAVIS TRUCK & TRACTOR KERR HDW. & ELECTRIC CO. CHAD'S FOUNTAIN & LUNCH E. E. HANSCAM & SONS FREEMAN'S CHETCO STORE OLYMPIA HDW. & SUPPLY CO CHETCO HOME & AUTO SUPPLY CUR-DEL CLEANERS BROOKINGS WATER COMPANY BROOKINGS GARAGE m S S grocery « market MOORE'S VARIETY & APPAREL DIMMICK'S BROOKINGS MARKET Y. & M . AUTOMOTIVE PARTS YOUNG'S 5 & 10 STORE BROOKINGS-HARBOR PILOT BROOKINGS PLYWOOD CORP SAMUEL A. HALL, Attorney ’ O. H. BENGTSON-DON PEDERSON PD P* ACKLEY, Attorney HENDRICKS FURNITURE COMPANY PINE CONE ENTERPRISES ARRELL'S CHETCO DRUG STORE BROOKINGS MACHINE SHOP FOX BROS. FREIGHT COMPANY ED & MENDY'S CHEVRON SERVICE BROOKINGS TEXACO SERVICE TYGART'S O. K. RUBBER WELDERS J. J. GALLAGHER, Sporting Goods PAR STORE ED INGRAM, Photographer BROOKINGS TA XI— Phone 4 5 2 SOUTHERN CURRY REALTY CO. KINDEL'S SHELL SERVICE BROOKINGS LAUNDRY BIG JIM'S TAVERN JAKE'S BARBER SHOP YOUNG'S GIFT SHOP B. & B. BURGER BAR
