The Lamar register., 1908-11-18

at Thanksgiving cas-
ailties from overeating
NV never tabulated l1
80 be careful lest fWM
~;xI "A plan should be WLb
~ into operation and T33SN
you ana yours forced WW
INTO tIe spotlight of
pu' /ciy because you gave thanks in too
/ry manner Indications a few days
"'i"re the memorable holiday suggested
70 corner in the turkey market In the
riddle west. and foe that reason the king
pm OF the Thanksgiving meal was attain
"o'e among those who perhaps a year
ago were not so fortunate when the
birds were higher ia price
WIN over 80.0O0.00O persons giving
hanks--perha ps-fO: 600. 900 don't know
shy-in these United States there are
n'Vo'ooo turkeys consumed on Thanks
giving day The preparation of the birds -
tor inc table In one of the country's great
Industries for several months before the
Brub-.est takes place Roast pig duck. =
iiceSe and chickens are also sandwiched
w hs Thanksgiving delicacies and their
ptcparation for market and the festive
inard Is also a big proposition to the
men who do the work -
Sixty-seven. years ago the 3Otb Of M. =.
scmber was the first THANKSGIVING dov
ever appointed far and observed In chi
ctSp; observed. he IL said, by the peopIe
*cneraIiy There probably were in the
population OF between 1000 and 5000 :
i'wis as many New Englanders MS there -
werc new workers. or Pennsylvanians or
ohioans or southeroers and some amone =
those from New England remembered
d,e Old home custom OF giving special
tlanks and spreading an extra bountifpl ,noa
IA the last Thursday in November md nri
sstely observed IL But by the large maiorit,
III inc ihhaonants 1t was entirely ignored. o
pessibiy by tho most 1t was wholly unknown
The New England influence, however was III,
most active Of any and soon was the controllin,
element. In 1841 it was sufficiently viri,e I,
Introduce and establish the annual Thanksriy
ing as an tnstitution
Sixty-four years are hut few I'm the life of tb
institutions of a city or country but in thi
case the. period carries one back to within 1
years OF the incorporation of Chicago
In 1S41 the fifth mayor. Francis C. Sherman
was in the chair of municipal state A natiy
OF Connecticut. he was of Puritan ancestr
and had been brought up in reverence OF tn
DELICIOUS and social customs of New England
nc came to Chicago in 1884, when the legal
organized town was one year old. and at ono
started in the business of keeping n boarf
,ns house. The first year he was in this bus
aess he observed the Connecticut Thanksgiyin
hy giving his boarders the first Thanksgiyin
Inner ever provided In Illinois.
10 facilitate matters lie had not the best G
euucatfon- becirneS sent to Buffalo for bal
rel of good apple cider which was freuuentl
used on this occasion.
hut this humble occupation of boardin.
house Boniface did not content him for hon;
tic had worked at brickmaking in Connecticu
and just then good bricks were much needle
IN Chicago. and he just the man to suppl
them. There was available clay without goin
sarther for IL than to where Adams and Markt
streets now cross each other and there he Sc
w his kiln. The first good house made of hi
bricks his own. II was built in LAX
street. near Clark. He had now become
leading cifixena4 lie took a good citizens IL
terest in public affairs and had political inf,
ance.
This Puritan born. this giver of the frs
Thanksgiving dinner in Chicago. waited b,
tour years TIL he took his turn in the mayo
atty.
And he made his occupancy of the offic
memorable by ordering his official clerk, Thon
rs Hoyne. to draw up the first proclamatio
of public Thanksgiving ever seen in the ives
Mayor Shcrman's Thanksgiving til
majority of the citizens derisively called
Axas NgladIy obsaryed by every New Engan
family in the place. but that was the exteI
Of its observance. Christmas was already
greater day in New York than Thanksgvin
and In the other Atlantic states out of Ne
tcngIand and in the southern states Thank
giving was mostly unknown Settlers frol