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OVEltNOIt BRADFORD of the
New EngluiKl colony did not,
as uinuy people think. Invent
Thanksgiving lu 1021. and if he
claimed to it was ail out and out In
frlugeiueut ou previous patents. for
rnuuy people of many countries, even
far back In Bible history, had l»een
aettlug u.ldo lime« fur feasts and re-
joh lng when they cut their oata. corn,
a.|unMh«H vial other conveniences tn
the fall of the year.
But neverthel«^« the governor and
his colonists no doubt broke tbs roc-
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in the materials used by most bakers
and those that go into our goods. For
instance, some use cold storage eggs
that you would not or could not use
in the home, and can be bought for
15c a dozen. We use fresh ranch eggs
that cost us 25 and 30c a dozen.
Then again you may visit us at any
time, but you never find us using old,
rancid butter as others do. Only the
best flour and other ingrediants go into
our goods and at the same time we sell
you these goods at the same and even
lower price that city bakeries do.
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Something To Be Thankful For
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that there is a store like this where your money always
commands full value in high class furniture and stoves. Test
the matter by making your next purchase here. We will not
have to ask you to come again. You’ll come of your own
accord. We are headquarters for the best heaters made—no
exceptions—and our prices ARE the lowest. Over a dozen
sold in Lents this week. Get wise, follow the crowd.
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Us» Ing so »er> little tu la» thankful fur.
the Job could be d<<tie Up In tine shape
and not be negle. ted on any point.
During the voyage over on the some
what unsteady Mayflower if any one
hud bo inn. !i us suggested a hearty
Tliauksgn mg dinner he or she would
most probably have been tosued over
the mil, mid «owe one of us today
would la- minus a pilgrim ancestor.
It 1» said that the rough trip over
was the real cause of the pilgrims
utterl) losing tlielr sense uf humor
aud always carrying around such long
faces.
Anyhow, hardships begau right at
Plymouth rm k, for everybody wuh
Just craay to set foot ou aoiuethlng
solid, and naturally there were some
Jostling and elbowing in the rush. The
rock was never constructed for much
of a crowd mid. besides this, was real
slick arouiai the edges where the tide
had washed up a few old Jelfyflah. so
thoae who secured slundlug room only
skidded off Into the ocean without
tlielr rubbers on and got wet feet,
whli^i. as every one knows. Is a bad
thing to do In i>ecenil>er anywhere
Along the New Englnud coast. Of
course these processllngs wound up
with coughs, colds In the head and
sore throats, wlilfh tilled up the hoa-
pita I right from the start.
As is usual In Massachusetts, there
was no |M>llcemmi around to handle
the crowd or all this might have been
avoided, it was a mighty laid winter,
and. according to the accounts of the
aufferera themselves, “lyons" roared
aud "wolves sat on their tayles and
grinned.” and If the Indians bad not
done any worse life would have been
much more attractive In Plymouth.
But soon after laudiug In snooping
around n deserted Indian village sev
eral Imskets of corn, two pumpkin
seeds and a recipe for rulnce pie were
found, so that a foundatlou for the
Urst planting was assured. which at
least gave the people something to look
forward to.
All this time marvelous appetites
were being developed for the big feed
tn the fall, for. not yet having become
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oat.1 iiKiess cat .» in tri coixint
fnuilllar with the location of the l>est
grocery stores and meat markets, the
! colonists were on a diet principally of
little neck clams (much cheat>er then
than now) and eels, which they trod
nut of the uiud at low tide with their
bare feet.
This undoubtedly brought luto play
the stern tiearlng strength of character
1 of these old fellows more than any
thing else, for what iron nerve it must
have taken to feel a cold, squirming
eel suddenly wriggle up between one'«
bare toes and not lose any dignity or
give way to unseemly remnrks!
Spring came, and the planting was
done under very trying circumstances,
for the would lie agriculturists could
1 hardly stoop over to bed In a grain of
corn but that some Indian with a
crude, primitive sense of humor would
let loose an arrow.
However, the crops did splendidly
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IF YOUR NEIGHBOR HAS
ELEGTRIC LIGHT
and you have not, just step into his house some
evening after dark and compare its light with
yertir own. Study each point of convenience,
cleanliness, clearness, beauty, carefully and then
figure out for yourself if it would not pay you well
to have your house wired for electric light at
once. Electric light is cheaper and better to-day
than ever before.
If your house is located on any of
our distributing lines we shall be
glad to advise you about having it
wired and will give you more facts
about the efficient lighting of your
home.
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down to the present day. where sum
are overfed aud some are underfed
That is where the old pilgrim', got
the best of us-they fared mid shared
equally in waul and abundance.
We sit down to overloaded tswrd«
and hurriedly give thanks, one eye
shut and the other ou the turkey, nev
er giving a thought to the rows and
rows of little teeth with no drumsticks
to gnaw or the thousands of mouth«
that would water at the very scrap«
from our tables.
Let us back up a few hundred vear»
in spirit this Thauksgiving. good |>eo
pie. and go out and till sumeliody up
that needs it. then come hack to our
own meals with that good old fash
toned thankfulness whetting up out
appetites.
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and were well attended, you may tie
sure, for the clam and eel diet was
losing popularity.
The pump kill« spread all over the
place and Were diligently •bugged"
urn day to save the vines, and the
extra »boots (te< Imb iilly known a.
"sip kera''i were nil cut off the corn
and fed to the only heifer calf lu the
colony In bop<*« that she might be In
ducisl to grow up and become a ma
lure cow some day
The bar I ent was Bo nbumtiut thnt
they even »pared one pumpkin for the
children to make a jack-o'-lantern of.
mid by working all day and praying
nil night everything wns nt last got tu.
Now. Governor Bradford noticed bow
tired, thin mid thankful everybody
looked. and the most appropriate thing
lie could think of In the way of reh*
bratlou. was to art aside three days to
see how big a hole they could eat In
the harvest
All fell right in with this unique
notion and set to with a will making
pre) m rations
Men were «ent out gunning for fur
keys, gees,- mid other feathered poul
try. barring crows mid Indians The
old flintlock guns kicked so thnt while
the bullet killed one bird the pilgrim
progressing through the air In the op
posite direction would cru«h out the
life of another unsuspecting fowl
which merely considered himself an
innocent bystander until so rudely sat
upon
However, this wns a great saving of
ammunition, and the hunters soon re
turned with bruises and game a plenty
The Indians, getting a whiff of mince
pie with brandy same and other evi
dence of n "heap big" free lunch. Im
mediately became friendly and flocked
In to towu with their best feathers on
aud belts let out to the last bole.
Thia Incident gave rise to the custom
which we follow to this day of al-
way» inviting outsiders in to Thanks
giving before they get a chance to
come without asking.
It wns a merry time indeed Every
body would alt down and eat awhile,
then go out and run races with the
Indiana (which hnd been done there
to fore under very different circum
stances» until the violent exercise bad
so aided digestion that they could eat
again.
Bo, taking It all In all. the feast was
such a great success and took so with
the public that Manager Bradford de
cided to reproduce it every year, and
thus the grand old custom bus come
As Thanksgiving Is n national cus
tom It becomes us to treat it hand
some I y and make it not ouly a feast to
the palate, but to the eye. Nothing
cau do this eo well as the adornment
of the table with flower and leaf aud
vine.
If you haven’t n brilliant little scar
let iHilnsettia for the center of this
table, now Is the time and place for
the dish of ferns you brought lu some
time ago from the wet (»laces before
the frost had touched them to with
ered gold aud for a wreath like flat
arrangement about It on the snowy
cloth of the small leaves of the whor
tleberry (pressed immediately after
plucking), with all their rich tints of
orange nnd carmine yet unfaded. If.
however, you are so fortunate as to
have an "akebla vine” anywhere on
the premises you can bare the prefer
able living green. This Is n Japanese
hardy vine, acclimated over here for
perhaps a century, whose curious flow
ers of a reddish purple, male and fe
male In one pendulous cluster, beloug
to the heats of summer, but whose
small leaves are greeu and delicate
even In midwinter.
But if you have foregathered none
Ht these things you can purchase a
little pot of maidenhair fern and can
lay the sprays around the centerpiece
nnd up ami down the table Just before
the guests are seated, as they shrivel
so soon. You can hardly have a pret
tier effect than this tn its pure green
white contrast unless there Is added
to it a tiny boutonniere at every placa,
made only of a single bud, together
with a leaf of the rose irernnlum.
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