East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1910-11-25
INDIANS ENJOY BIG
THANKSGIVING FEAST
DAY is FTTTINGLY
OBSERVED AT MISSION
Red People Join Together mt Tutuilla
and Partale OF Chicken and Many
Other Viands - Rev. Dickson
breaches Sermon.
q NJ. CornelisonN

1 oIt.t NOV. GO.-1
giving was fittngly observed at the
Tutuilla church (Umatilla Indian res
| ervation) and it was done in this way:
| Instead of the people having big pri-
vate dinners and remaining from
| church and inviting their friends to
| eat with them and so hindering 9TH
ers from obeying the proclamation of
our president, these people arranged
to bring their dinners to the church
and spread it in common in the old
church building which is used for all
such institutional purposes and
| hearty invitation was spread broad
cast to all, both Christian and non
Christian, to partake of the dinner
and attend the service to follow. The
basket dinners were supplemented by
many good things brought from town
by a farewell offering that had been
made the previous Sabbath when ar
| rangements for Thanksgiving were
considered. One hundred and eight
sat down and enjoyed to the fill (and
,, an Indian "fil" is a large and happy
one) a most delightful dinner. Final
| ly Parsons Motanic made a call for
more chicken and they gave him some
but when he bit into it he smiled, for
1t was just "jack-rabbit" There
were many other fine dishes that
would not be intelligible to our pale
faced friends so will not pc mention
ed.
BY 2 o'clock the people repaired to
the church where for one hour de-
untinnaI
by the Indian pastor Rev. Jas G.
Dickson. On opening the mission
ary, Rev. J. NJ Cornelson was asked
to explain the custom or celebrating
| Thanksgiving day and to read and
explain the presidents proclamation.
Following this Mr.. Dickson preach
ed an interesting Thanksgiving SER
! mon based on the first ten verses OF
the 136th Psalm. The service was
then thrown open for all the Chris
tians to bear a word OF Thanksgiving
testimony, interspersed with songs ana
| prayers. At the close II was an
nounced that a Thanksgiving service
would be held at the government
school conducted by the missionary,
to which all were invited. Robinson
Minthorn, an elder of the Tutuilla
church who had been sent to the
Kamiah First Church (Idaho) to at
tend an evangelistic meeting and to
invite all the people to attend and
help in a similar one to be held at
Tutuilla, was present and announced
that he had successfully carried out
his mission and that the six churches
of Idaho had promised to join Tu-
tuilla in an evangelical meeting to
begin Just after Christmas and ex-
tend into the new years week. And
that Revs. Wheeler of Kamiah, Sec
ond church. and James Hayes of First
church, would be the ministers 70
come and that the way was open for
as many of the people to come as de-
sired. The people were glad to get
this news and all will now begin to
prepare for these meetings..
The service at the government
school was a very happy one. Agent
e. L. Swartzlander had prepared a
good Thanksgiving dinner for the rs
or more girls and boys, and they were
all at the 1880 p m service, together
with the teachers and some OF their
friends. The program consisted Of
a dialogue piece given by nine small
boys and girls which recounted the
early history of Thanksgiving day with
which was mingled the predicament
OF Miles Standish and one John AL
den. Though our hero. Miles, was
not in position to feel very thank
| full at the loss Of his fair Priscilla,
the dialogue said, he proclaimed the
day and was thankful that John had
spoken for himself to win so fair a
prize. The missionary then spoke
about Fruit for a Thanksgiving Din
ner," produced by Gods word plant
ed in the hearts.