The Spanish Fork press. [volume] (Spanish Fork, Utah) 1902-current, 1908-11-26


Fare never tabulated. ~
So be careful lest AMIN. -
such nan should be lNTIU
Ipu into operation and MEM W
|!Ou aud Tours forced VDW
INTO the spotlight of
|puohcl'y because you gave thanks in too
EpFaFly manner. Indications a few DAYS
Niole the memorable holiday suggested
W corner In the turkey market in the
|uuule west, and for that reason the king
|pa ol the thanksgiving meal was attain. "A
'"e among those who perhaps a year &s
~ were not so fortunate when the @%
1ards were higher in price.
with over S0,0O0,O0O persons giving
nahKs-perhaps 100000 don't know
|ny-ln these United States there are
a"Vo'ooo turkeys consumed on Thanks.
Ewing day. The preparation of the birds -,
| 0l 'he table is one of the countrys great
, luustrles for several months before the
FuOlest takes place. Roast pig. duck
geese and chickens are also sandwiched
as thanksgiving delicacies, and their
PREPARATION for market and the festive
GARD Is also big proposition to the
pen who do the work.
SiXty-seven years ago the 3Oth of No.
ember was the first THANKSGIVING dav
3'er appointed for and observed in Chi.
Xago; observed, be it said, by the peonIe
generally. There probably were in The
population of between 1000 and OOo q
pulls as many New Englanders as there
3ere New Workers or Pennsylvanians mr. UN
&lhloans or southerners, and some amono q
3Aose from New England remembered
ne old home custom of giving special
uahks ana spreading an extra bountiful m,
the last Thursday in November and =
3ately observed 1t. But by the large major
the inhabitants it was entirely ignored
8ssbly by the most it was wholly unknoy
ne New England influence, however. was
post active of any and soon was the controls
fement In 1S41 it was sufficiently virile
ntroduce and establish the annual Tbankse
ng as an institution
Slxty-four years are but few in the life of
sntutions of city or country, but in {
aSe the period carries one back to within
ears of the incorporation of Chicago.
Iii lS4l the fifth mayor. Francis c. Sherm
as in the chair of municipal state. A nat
Connecticut. he was of Puritan ances
Wld had been brought up in reverence of
Mngous and social customs of New Engla
III Re came to Chicago in 1884, when the lega
ganized town was one year old, and at OF
Aarted in the business of keeping a boa
tMg house. The first year he was in this bI
ess he observed the Connecticut Thanksgiv
~ giving his boarders the first Thanksgiy
inner ever provided In Illinois,
10 facilitate matters he had not the best
Maueation-he betimes sent TO Buffalo for
of good apple cider, which was frequeI
PED on this occasion
d But this humble occupation of boardi
/, ouse Boniface did not content him for 10
had worked at brickmaking in Connect
n Xd Just then good bricks were much nee
a. chicago, and he was just the man to sup
III gem There was available clay without go
Mllher for 1t than to where Adams and Mar
re leets now cross each other and there he
"A his kiln, The first good house made of
m cks was his own. 1t was built in Ii
M Get, near Clark. He had now become
in 8dlng citizen. He took a good citizens
IN esl in public affairs and had political in
lhis Puritan born, this giver of the
nd anksgiving dinner in Chicago, waited
I'D n l years till he took his turn in the ma!
e and he made his occupancy of the OF
Ill norable by ordering his official clerk, TIL
hq Hoyne, to draw up the first procamat
~ public Thanksgiving ever seen in the W
Mayor Shermans Thanksgiving" as
unf qtorty of the citizens derislvely called
ara gladly observed by every New Engl
eri IIy in the place, but that was the ext
ThM us observance. Christmas was alread!
deX aler day in New York than Thanksgiv
bel In the other Atlantic states out of \
'~ [sahd and In the southern states Thar
Jug was mostly unknown. Settlers II