Great Falls weekly tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1894-1???, 1896-11-27
LET ALL TODAY GIVE THAN
The People Of Great Falls Have cd
to Feel Grateful for
Blessings
OF the Past and to Look toryau
the Future With Much
Hope.

Thanksgiving day in this year d |
Lord 1896 comes to Great Falls With 1
ground covered with enov and g.l
weather prevailing. This is raby|
rare occurrence in this %locAlily. R
jingle Of sleigh bells has seldom ;
heard in Great Falls on ThsnksgFl
day, but there is nothing to prevent
Great Falls resident enjoying NJ
ride this morning, and the fuel de.a
at least, have cause to be thansf. I
this season.. When it comes to Id, I
residents of Great Falls general II
find a good deal to be thankful fur..l
past year aud much to look torTEf
in the future with hope and cobtaI
During the past year the growth OH
Falls and Cascade county in popaaEs
and material development has proud
at q steady and satisfactory uace II
vote cast last election would ludics: 4
increase Of population averaging NJ
10 per cent a year since two year: 4
The amount of money disbursed ii !
big pay rolls Of the county slt cI1s
shown an increase fully Re great \
record left behind us for the past I'd
one we have reason to be proud q 1
sidering the hard times that Lave H
prevailing all over the county
The future outlook is more erMHI
ing than it has been for MAI. d
There is certainly good grounttt \
lievlng that next summer vii. 81: 4
commencement Of enterprise !4si 4
give this section a great il-.
wealth and population. t3.9 I
points that way. Perhaps L.E T
pose ie served by Specializing a III
the future has IN store for tslra' -:
the way of the utilization Of T. u
proachable water power, but IT. ~
that those who are in a pOsittul , Z:
best what MIR. Hills plan az:
the strongest confidence III lnj-- .'
and it is no secret that Mr. } IL
and others, supposed to be N BIZ "a
dence, have spoken with al emp.
and particularly never used before.
the growth and activity which The .
ing year will bring to this city.
A glance into the past will ser:
strengthen faith in the future
only a dozen Thanksgiving day:
that Paris Gibson and a few otast
sons spent the national holiday il !
tie log house back of the rostotice,
facing toward First avenue south,
the city existed only in the mlnds@
Mr.. Gibson and h few more 5hLs
and determined men. Turkeys Te.'
obtainable luxuries and it ls prof
that an old hen would have hroJs
big price at the little boardjog n
If the city as it exists today baa
fully described on that Thanksg
day of 1884, it is more THAI QFoI
that the picture would have been q,
with ridicule by some Of the party
the pessimists were not as nupcTo.
they are now in Great Falle, It II
able the tribe we're not a~ltoge'tr'
represented even in the earl} ID!
the city's history.
Ii is not pessimists and croaaers
ever, that build up a city, and Ut
jorlty, even if they did not dream q
substantial progress a dozen N'ef'.'
show, doubtless looked torwaF'
hope and courage to the future
record Of the past Should pro
stimulus for the future, and 1t L.
TRlBUNE's prediction that the pr
of the city in the next two years y
as much greater than the present
pations Of most Of its reeldeol4
record of the past exceeded the
and expectations # the little tAFl
spent the Thanksgiving with t'Hfi
son in the postotiic alley - years I