Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1889-11-23
THANKSGIVING Proclamation.

W~AsHINGToE, Nov. l. The following
Thanksgiving proclamation was issued
by the president this everIE.:
\ highly favored people mindful of
their dependence on the bounty ofdiVine
providence, should seek a fitting oc-
casion to testify their gratitude and as
ribe praise to him, who is the author of
their many blessings. 1t behooves
them to look backward with thankful
hearts oyer the past year bless God
for his infinite mercy in vouchsafing to
our land enduring peace, our people
4 freedom from pestilence and famine, our
husbandmen abundant ~harvests, and to
1 tn cir labor recOmpense of their toll.
Now, therefore, /, Benjamin Harrison,
president Of the United Stat7s, do earn
4 estly recomend that Thursday, the
twenty eighth day Of this present
ssanthwAqEepbeE-he ~setanart as a day,
of national thanksgiving and prayer,
and the people Of country, Ceasing
from the cares and labors of their work
ing days, shall assemble in their
respective places of worship and give
their thanks to God, who has ]prOspered
us on Il way and made our paths the
paths of peace, beSeeching him to bless
the day 10 our present and future good.
making it truly Ona thanksgiving for
each reunited home circle as for the
nation at large.
In witness Gnereof, | have hereunto
set my hand and caused the seal of the
United States to be affixed. Done at
the city OF Washington, this lst day of
Nov in the year ofoIr Lord one thousand
eight hundred and e~ighty-nine, and ofthe
: - 100. II A., EFA,tal CID. A..
one hundred and fourteenth.
BENJAMIN HARRISON.
By the president.
JAMES G.. BLAINE, Secretary Of State.
Executive Office, State of South Da-
kota, Pierre, November IL, lSS9.-Tne
president Of the United States in rec
ignition Of an appropriate custom of
the American people having peculiar
cause for rejoicing as well for the
material and spiritual blessings vouch-
saved them during the past year as for
the political victory resulting from their
long and ardu0us struggle, the executive
of this new state hereby recommends and
e~nioins that Thursday, November %,
1880, be set apart and solemnly con
secrdted as a day of thanksgiving and
praise TO the Almighty God for past
mercies and Of prayer tor future aid in
establishing the commonwealth ia
liberty, truth and righteousness that it
may abide for ever TO bless and be bless
ed us part Of the sacred Union.
In view Of the special privilege Of
commemorating the states nativity in
the very month thereof the executive
recommends that all business and labor
the day named ana rtTtr" III" pe5pRg.
assemble at their respective places of.
worship aud instruction and devote an
evening to holy praise and prayer and
and patriotic song and story, to the end
that the young may be inspired with
lofty purpose and the aged gladdened
with the remembrance OF work well
done and the heart ana homes of all in
spired with renewed faith to 20 forward.
The executive further and most e~rnestlv
recommends and e]njoins upon this day
the many may freely bestow from their
abundance material aidlto the few among
us who are in need, that none may feast
until all are fed, TO the end that the oc-
Casion may long be remembered both
for for the JOY that cometh from giving
and receiving and that Christian charity
and brotherly love may ever abide as
the chief cornerstone of the
wealth.
ARTUEp & Mr. vrrp