Bisbee daily review. [volume] (Bisbee, Ariz.) 1901-1971, 1915-11-13
A PROCLAMATION or THANKS
GIVING
Executive Department
State Of Arizona.

Regularly recurring In the cycle of
human events comes the annual Day
of THANKSGIVING, when the people Of
the worlds greatest Republic tun
with fond reminiscence to the earliest
days of their national life and earnest
ly, but sullv perpetpate the custom
of holding special ceremonials and
festivities commemorative of Gods
ubiquitous benevolence for which the
sturdy settlers Of New England's bleak
and barren coast first gave reverent
thanks in unison nearly three hun
dred years ago
Today i'm Arizona whittier. with
phenomenal encompassment of dis
lance. that lofty civilization inaugur-
ted by our Puritan forefathers has ad-
vanced with irresistible tread in obedi-
ence to Destiny's decree an intelli-
gent, liberty-loving populace, mindful
of the perpetual, omniscient guardian
ship of Divine Providence, adhere to
a time-honored custom by gratefully
acknowledging the benehcience Of an
omnipotent Creator with appropriate
manifestations of gratitude for bless
sings beautifully bestowed.
There is. in truth, wealth of
Providential gifts calling forth from
the sovereign people Of Arizona such
expressions of gratefulness as com
monty Characterized the observance OF
religious featdays. For during the
past twelve months, the commerce of
the Old World and the New World has
fostered in a way almost unprecedent-
ed the prosperity and development Of
the mines and ranches of the State,
thereby giving greater incentive and
wider scope to the endeavors of those
who invest and those who toll And,
meanwhile. Notwithstanding the great
surge of human strife that has en-
gagged the greater part of the civilized
world i'm deadliest conflict, both our
Nation and our State, through the
graciousness of a kindly God, have
successfully held aloof from the mael.
strom of destructive warfare, thereby
holding inviolate the tenets of true
civilization.
EXcelling, moreover, in the scale OF
human valuation, all merely material
| benefits. however essential they may
be, are those incalculable blessings OF
a spiritual, in, intellectual and civic
nature whereby life is rendered richer
and more colorful, and wherein mod
I ern civilization in our own State, as
elsewhere, finds at once its justihca
ton and its prepertuity
NOW. THEREFORE l. Geo. w. P
Hunt, Governor of Arizona by virtue
of the authority in me vested, do here
| by designate and set apart, Thursday
/ November 25th, A. d., 1915, as a Da!
/ of Thanksgiving on which, in churches
and at hresides, reverential thanks
may be rendered unto God i'm grateful
recognition of countless blessings di
/ vinely conferred. And il is likewise
earnestly urged that on the day thu
set apart, the thoughtful and ever-con
siderate people of Arizona may b.
deeply mindful of the needy the sicl
and the sorrowing so that those whit
bear the cross and bitterness Of life
may also find reason for than6sgi'
ing.
I'M WITNESS WHEREOF. haV
hereunto set my hand and causel
the Great Seal of the State O
Arizona TO be affixed.
(SEAL)
Done at Phoenix the Capital thi
9th day of November, A. d., 1915.
GEO. W. p. HUNT,
ATTEST: Governor Of Arizona
SIDNEY p. OSBORN,
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