The Goldfield news. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1904-1911, 1905-12-01
THANKSGIVING DAY IN CAMP
Everybody in doIdfieId Had Reason to be Thankful Except

the Turkey


voracious maws the ravage is COM
plete.
Throughout the length and breadth
of the United States yesterday thous-
ands of families gathered beneath the
home rooftree and gave over the day
to feasting and merrymaking. In some
instances the circle was complete for
the first time in years by the return OF
some world ~wanderer to the fold, and
in such cases the mothers heart was
indeed filed with joy and thankfulness.
The eyes dimmed by the long period of
watching and waiting grew bright
again as with tender solicitude she
ministered with trembling fingers to the
comfort of the truant and in the peace
full home haven the mantle of the
years fell away and the wanderer be
came a child again, just for a day.
Other circles there were in which the
vacant chair remained untitled, never
to be again occupied until that day
when all families are reunited in those
houses, not made by hands, in the
eternal city on the heights. Yet as the
family gathered around the Preside,
tender memories of the loved ones gone
before, and the knowledge that with
them all is well, brought peace and
thanksgiving to Borrowing hearts.
1t is doubtful if there was a per-
son in Goldield to whom the day dill
not bring something of thankfulness
and good cheer, and though in some
instances an element Of lonliness en-
tered into it's observance here on the
desert, far from home friends and fam
ily ties, there was still the memory Of
those happier Thanksgiving of the
past to look back upon. Goldfeld has
so much to be thankful for it is i'm
possible not to become lmbueu with the
CHEEKY spirit of optimism which pre-
walls among its residents, and to have
presented a lugubrious countenance
amid such universal festivity would
have taxed the jaundiced nature of the
most arrant pessimist. The turkey was
quite as important a factor in the mer-
rymaking here as in those less bolster
Gus commercial centers of the coun-
try's earlier civilization, and while
the family circles were not so large
the younger branch was sufficiently in
evidence to preclude any suggestion OF
race suicide.
Special services of song and praise
were held in the churches and many
families entertained friends who 9TH
erwise would have been forced to seek
the succulent turkey in the solitude of
some cafe. At the Montezuma Club
the members entertained during the
day and evening and numerous dances
and other social gatherings were held
at various points in the city. There
are few needy people in the camp and
to those few the Ladies' Aid society
brought cheer and a plentl0us larder.
The men of the desert have much for
which to be thankful, for although the
Almighty has seen fit to place horns on
the Lizards and thorns on the sage
brush, and has entirely overlooked the
planting of trees, he has placed to the
hand of man in the rock-guarded hills
a wealth of golden treasure such as
the world had hitherto never seen. The
wrestling of this wealth from its fast
nesses is the daily avocation of hun
dreds of brawny miners and that they
are doing so successfully is shown by
the constantly increasing production,
AS the output of the mines increases
the volume of general business is like
wise enhanced, and so yesterday the
people of the camp laid aside for the
while the thought of pay crack and
commercial transactions and united as
one great, happy, God generating fam
lily in the festivities of Thanksgiving.