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