Norwich bulletin., 1915-11-27
THANKSGIVING DINNER
 WITH SEVENTEEN COVERS.
MT. and Mrs. William Edwards Man ming of Yantic Were the Hosts.

MT and Mrs. William Edwards
 Manning, of Sunnyside, Yantic, ob-
 served the feast of Thanksgiving with
 royal hospitality, giving a dinner of seventeen covers. The company in-
 cluded MT. Manning's mother and two
 of his brothers. also the three sisters
 of Mrs. Manning. The guest of honor
 was the mother, Mrs. Lucy Elizabeth Manning of North Franklin, lovingly
 known to her many friends as Grand
 ma Manning"
 MT. and Mrs. William Henry Cad man and their daughter, Miss Alice B. Cadman of New London, MT. and Mrs. Oliver Woodwork and their son, Oliv- CT Woodwork, 2nd, New London, Ed ward Melville Manning, North Frank lin, MT. and Mrs. George Eber Man hing and son, Willard Manning. Yam tic, MT. and Mrs. William Edwards Manning, Frederick Fuller Manning, their son and their daughter, Lois Althea Manning. Yantic, Mrs. Sarah Mccall Spofford and Mrs. Nelson D. Robinson of Norwich, was the other members of the company. When gath cred around the dining table, all joined in singing Praise God From Where All Blessing Flow" and then was served a real old fashioned Thanks
 giving dinner, roast turkey with the f1Xings, cranberry sauce. chicken pie biscuits and butter. English plum pud- ding with hard sauce, apple, mince, and squash pies. assorted nuts, home | made candy, coffee.
 A supper was served at eight o'clock Yes, Thanksgiving is as old as his- | tory! For in the very beginning of Biblical writings, we find that the | Israelites set apart special days for
 thanksgiving, and so on down the ages. for reasons, divers and sun dry, have they been continued to ! Thanksgiving in America.
 The first of which there is any rec ord was conducted by an English min
 ister in 1875 on the coast of Newfound- Hand. The second of that days ob- servance is preserved in the ships lon. No featsing. nor festivity en- | tered into this solemn ceremony, but
 on their knees they returned hum ble and heary thanks to God for his strange and miraculous deliverances, 1 etc.
 The first in the United States was
 on the coast of Maine in 1907. But the
 Thanksgiving of which we are the descendants is 294 years old and came
 into being December 13. 1921.
 Plymouth colony in Massachusetts. | sent out ten men to trade with the
 Indians. They were much afraid of
 Q people to the westward, who came
 In harvest times and took away their
 corn, and many times killed their peo-
 pie. They returned in safety and | brought home a good quantity of
 beavers, and. wishing they had been | then selected, and thus they found
 the Lord to be with them in all their ways, in their outgoing and their in cominRs. for which let His Holy name
 have the praise forever to all posterity 1 George Bradford's Diary).
 It was for the safe return of this party and the cheering news of the friendliness of the Indians, that the
 day for public thanksgiving was ap- pointed, as we'll as for the bountifu; harvest and abundant provisions and
 for this first and great Thanksgiving feast, which lasted three days, there were clans and oysters, cod and bass
 and other fish, great store of fowls and water fowl, wild turkeys, venison, l etc, etc. So we find that the Thanks giving turkey is as old as the day it. self, and the spcrtive as well as the festal customs have helped to typify
 the bird with the day for turkey