Jamestown weekly alert. [volume] (Jamestown, Stutsman County, D.T. [N.D.]) 1882-1925, 1882-12-01
NO 10

Of jamestown, lots II and is blk Is and
lot 2 blk 7, Pingree, $3.50.
+ b Fanchett to Paullna Kokutt. both
OF jamestown, sw or NV ar sec 81 and se
or NV or sec 81 tp 14l r So, containing 70
acres 1855.
EP Wells, Of jamestown, to W H
Eustls, of Hennepln Go, MINI, lots 1sl,
1872 and 1873, Jones & Vennum's add $3.50.
| David Hammell and wife, of New Bal
timore, Mich, to Leonard Fried, Of Foun.
tain City, Wis, lot Is blk !, splritwood,
tllO.
Thanksgiving.
This Is the day appointed by the presi-
dent of the United States as . day of
Thanksgiving and praise and upon which
the'people are requested to assemble 1t
their respective places of public worship
and render up to the Giver Of all good.
heartfelt thanks for the blessings vouch-
safed us as nation and individuals the
past year, and to-day viii witness the inn
pressive spectacle of the greatest nation
upon earth, or that ever existed upon
earth, nation of fifty millions Of people.
recognizing God who rules the winds
and the waves, and presldes over the des-
tiny OF nations and renders unto Him that
homage and reverence that is due from
the creature to the Creator. It is trne
that each and every Individual will not
join in this, but the great mass of the peo-
pie will 1t is not lifeless and listless
form of ceremonial worship that will be
given to-day, but Is one in which the
hearts of the nation Will unite as one
great national, swelling heart of gratitude
sending up to the God of our fathers and
of our nation one united anthem az
thanksgiving and praise for the blessings
OF health, peace and prosperity the past
year. This day, which was instituted by
the Puritan fathers two hundred and
tlfty years ago, and is now regular re-
curing national holiday, has attained to
almost the equal of the time -honored
Christmas holiday, and is attaining =
higher degree of estimation and reverence
every year.
But this is not the only good feature Of
this holiday, and 1t may not be even the
best feature. Tits a day of family re.un-
ions; for cementing anew the bonds Of as
socla ton, and for the day living over
again the relation of father, mother, chill
dren, Reunited around the home fireside
the home table, in a home circle. the
nearest affinity on earth to the paradise
IN the heaven beyond. The dearest hone
IN LIE is that the family here may be re-
united in the Home Over There These
family reunions eradicate more vice and
inspire more virtue than all other int1n-
ences combined. Blest is he or she to-
DAY who can return as child to the pa-
ternal roofand hear again the voice Of =
mother. There is in the name that which
rouses to activity dormant virtues that
may be buried under load of SIN. For
the name of mother no power of language
has ever grasped, no depth of thought haa
ever discovered synonym. TODAY the
wanderer in strange land, though far
down the road to ruin and steeped in in
lquity, will have his thoughts turned
back to the old home, to the mother from
whose counsel he has far departed, and
oy 1t his deadened sensibilities win ~
aroused, his buried virtues viii rise
again, and he will be better man for the
DAY that turned his thoughts back toward
The home of his youth; to the mother who
lives, II not on earth, in the Heaven
above.