Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1911-11-28
THANKSGIVING!
The Day Promises to Be One OF
Great Pleasure to Our Git
liens in General.
All Needy Families Will Be Supplied
With a Dinner so Far as
Can be Learned.

| All Needy famiileS VIII DC 1oPFAA~
With a Dinner so Far as
Can be Learned.
The day of Thanksgiving is upon US
and already the air is permeated WlUli
| the aroma of stuffed turkey anu
| visions of the "meal that mother useo
to cook" on such occasions is cheering
| to the many who are in distant cities
and are now fastening home to par
| ticipate in family reunions. Those
| who are able to thus enjoy the Gay
must be happy, indeed, and to them
Thanksgiving day has its iullest
measure of happiness. Many who are
| thus d ed find also much pleasure
| in assisting TO make the day one OF
| thanksga Ing 10 those less fortunate.
| Wausau is fortunate in having many
who are not unmindful of tho needy
| about us; "For tbs poor We have with
| you always" and as they look upon the
| well rounded turkey, plum pudding,
ETC., they feel all the more in keeping
with the day to know they have done
something towards supplying the
wants of the poor. 1t is the little
streams that go to make the great
river and every mite of the many
helps to swell the fund which is
ample to supply the tables OF hundreds
of families that otherwise would
| barely contain enough to keep body
and soul together. In WauSau every
needy family, SO far as can be learned,
| will have sufficient for meal worthy
| of the occasion.
There will be Thanksgiving services
| at many of the churches, in the morn
| ing. The family reunions that will
take place on that day are too Rumer-
Gus for the PILOT to recount. The pa
tients at the county hospital, county
home and county Jail will enjoy suita-
BILE reminders of the character of the
day, in the form of specially prepared
dinners. Business will be generally
suspended throughout the afternoon.
| The sleighing was never better than
| at the present time and the jingling
of the sleighbells will be heard on
every hand. Truly, Thursday will be
great day for rejoicing as well as
thanksgiving in Wausau.
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There will be union service at the
M. E. church at 1890 a. M. at which
Rev. James M. Duer will deliver the
| sermon.
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There will be special services held
in st. Johns church at 7:30 a. M, IL
a. m. and 4:30 p. m.
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There will be Thanksgiving pro-
gram given in the evening at the Y
M. G. A. Among the sports arranged
are two basket ball games on roller
skates, wrestling, fencing, boxing and
other events. An orchestra will fur
nish music. Light refreshments will
be served.
At the Universalist church this
Tuesday evening the Sunday school
will give a Thanksgiving social, to
which all members of the congre-
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Our city schools will close on
Wednesday evening for Thanksgiving
vacation, giving teachers who live
out of the city an opportunity to
reach their homes on Thursday.
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Our citizens who are looking after
the details for furnishing dinner for
the poor of our city, have arranged to
have all supplies sent to the city hall
where they will be in charge of the
committee assisted by Frank Schnei-
| der, city poor commissioner, and Her
man MarQuardt. Baskets will be dis
| tributed from the city hall from 10 a.
m. until p. m. Names of worthy
| families can be telephoned to either
of the above named gentlemen. More
| money can be used to defray the eX-
penses and can be given either to. III.
G. Flieth or E. B. Thayer, and
amounts sent in will be fully account
ed for.
Services will be held in the German
M. E. church, commencing at 7:30
p. IN.
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On Thanksgiving evening the Wau-
sau Liederkranz will give dance in
Elks' hall. 1t promises to be one of
the very pleasant events of the year.
year. All are invited.
One source of enjoyment will be
missed by the young people at this
/ l. blAhO9 niltNll Will W
| ice skating. The river is not in
shape for this exercise, and the boys
| and girls must therefore satisfy their
pleasure in the roller Kinks, and no
| doubt those pleasure resorts will be
crowded. There is good sleighing,
| however, and it is presumable, that
if the weather acts: anyways gentle,
manly, the jingle of sleigh bells will
be heard on every street and byway
in the city.
| 1t is hardly necessary to say that
| there will be quite number of well
developed cases of indigestion by Fri
| day morning. An experienced physi-
clan always locks forward to Thanks
| giving as a season of work, for there
are people who use no more judg-
ment in eating than they do in vot-
ing or doing other things.
The origin OF Thanksgiving dates
back to the year $780, The fore
fathers and foremothers of the Pill.
grims had long before learned how to
make pumpkin pies and prepare
mashed potatoes, but there was some
thing lacking. For several years
after the Pilgrims landed on our
sod they were kept pretty busy dodg'
ing the Indians, to save their scalps
and had ne time to look for wild
game. But later, having concluded a
treaty of peace with the Delawares
it was decided to hold a golf tourna-
ment in Jamestown, which was to be
free from any of the red mans inter
ference. While the game was in prog
ress soGle of the balls were knocked