Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1899-11-04
PRESIDENT NAMES
THANKSGIVING DAY
November 80 Designated by Nc.
Kinley in a Proclamation
Issued Today.
HAVE MUCH TO BE THANKFUL FOR
Patriotism Has Been Exalted, Crops
Are Abundant, Labor Employed
and the Public Credit
Strengthened.

Washington, Oct. 26.-The president
today issued the following 1nanksgiv-
ing proclamation:
"A national custom dear to the
hearts of the people calls for the set
ting apart of one day in each year as
an occasion of special Thanksgiving to
Almighty God for the blessings of the
preceding year. This honored obsery'
ance acquires with time tenderer
significance. IL enriches domestic LIE.
IL summons under the family roof the
absent children to glad reunion with
those they love.
Seldom has this nation had greater
cause for profound thanksgiving. No
great pestilence has invaded our
shores. Liberal employment waits
upon labor. Abundant crops have re-
warded the efforts of the husbandman.
Increased comforts have come to the
home. The national finances have been
strengthened, and public credit has
been sustained and made firmer. In all
branches of industry and trade there
has been an unequaled degree of pros
perity, while there has been a steady
gain in the moral and educational
growth of our national character.
Churches and schools have -four
ished. American patriotism has been
exalted. Those engaged in maintain
ing the honor of the flag with such sig
nal success have been in a large degree
spared from disaster and disease. An
honorable peace has been ratified with
a foreign nation with which we were
at war, and we are now on friendly re-
lations with every power on earth.
"The trust which we have assumed
for the benefit of Cuba has been faith
fully advanced. There is marked prog
ress toward the restoration of healthy
industrial conditions, and under wise
sanitary regulations the island has en-.
joyed unusual exemption from the
scourge of fever. The hurricane which
swept over our new possession o.
Puerto Rico, destroying the homes ana
property of the inhabitants, called
forth the instant sympathy of the peo'
pie of the United States, who were
swift to respond with generous aid &c
the sufferers. While the insurrection
still continues in the island OF Luzont
business is resuming its activity, and
confidence in the good purposes of the
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lished throughout the archipelago.
"For these reasons, and countless
others, l, William Mckinley, president
of the United States, do hereby name
Thursday, the 30th day of Novembc'
next, as a day of general Thanksgiving
and prayer, to be observed as such by
all our people on this continent and
In our newly acquired islands, as well
as by those who may be at sea or So
journing in foreign lands; and | advise
that on this day religious exercises
shall be conducted in the churches or
meeting places of all denominations:
in order that in the social features ot
the day it's real significance may not
be lost sight of, but fervent prayers
nav be offered to the most high for
continuance of the divine guidance
without which mans efforts are vain,
and for divine consolation to those
whose kindred and friends have sac
rificed their lives for the country"