Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1900-11-21
A State Thanksgiving.

Very little is known in this section
about Thanksgiving Day. The name
of tho occasion is known, but as for it
being general celebration, that has to
como.
Governor McSweonoy has dono his
share towards reminding tho people that
there is a Thanksgiving Day, but ho has
to call on his newspaper friends and got
them to publish the proclamation, and
does not give tho newspapers chance at
that prosperity that il so generally hor
aided by allowing space rates or consent
ing to tho publication of tho proclama-
ton as an advertisement. But Governor
McSweeney knows that his newspaper
friends will holp push good thing along
and so here is tho proclamation:
PROCLAMATION.
In tho providence Of God wo have been
spared as q people and State for another
year. Pcaco and prosperity, health and
happiness have been vouchsafcd to us.
We have not been visited by plague or
pestilcnco. The labor of our hands has
been attended with success and the State
has grown in material wealth. New
manufacturing enterprises have sprung
up and we are fast becoming great
manufacturing people. The husbandman
and enjoys the fruits Of his labor. There
is good feeling among all our people, and
progress in all good and worthy deeds is
evidenced on every hand; our colleges
and schools are filled and tho cultivation
of the head and tho heart is keeping
pace with tho material development of
tho State.
To tho end, therefore, that we may,
with thankful hearts show our apprecia-
tion of tho many blessings which we en-
JOY and the tender care of our Heavenly
Father, l, NIB. McSwoeney, Governor of
tho State Of South Carolina, in conform
ity with the proclamation of the PrcsiA
dent Of the United States, do hereby ap.
point and set apart Thursday. tho 10th
day of November. 1000, as a day of
Thanksgiving and prayer to DO kept and
observed by all tho people of this State.
advise that all public Offices be closed
and all private business and labor of
every kind cease, and that our people as
scmble in thoir respective places of wor-
ship and give thanks to Him who is the
giver of every good and perfect gift for
the sod time and the harvest, and that
they bescech Him in humility to con-
tinue His goodness and gracious forbcar-
ance. That they also remember the poor
and the fatherless, for we arc told that it
70, Il II,
and evory gift to these will go to our
credit in the great book of remembrance.
In testimony whereof l have hereunto
set my hand and caused the great seal
Of tho State of South Carolina to be
affixed. Done at the Capitol, in the city
of Columbia, this 10th day of November,
"A. d. 1900. NJ. B. MCSwEENEY.
BY the Governor: M. r. Cooper, Secre-
tary of State.
During the morning Governor McSwee-
noy received message from the Now
York World asking for "ono sentence on
the bost cause for thanksgiving" Gov
crnor McSweeney thought hard about
tho matter and called in some of his
newspaper friends for advice One of
them suggested this reply 81 have bcen
reelected Governor Of South Carolina"
Another suggested, "Plenty of home
raised hog and hominy in South Caro-
lima" but all of those ploasantrios were
turned aside and Governor McSweenoy
sent the World this reply: "Peaco, pros
pcrity and good feeling throughout tho
country"
When Governor McSwccncy dictated
tho reply ho said ho thought moro of his
home State than any other, and that such
was the condition in tho Palmetto State.
Columbia Correspondence News and
Courier, November 10.