Arizona republican., 1915-11-13
A Proclamation of Thanksgiving

Executive Department, State of Ari- 1 zona.
 Regularly recurring in the cycle of human events comes the annual Day of Thanksgiving when the people of the worlds greatest Republic turn with fond reminiscence to the earliest days of their national life and earnestly, but joyfully perpetuate the custom of hold = ing special ceremonies and festivities commemorative of Gods ubiquitous beneVOIence for which the sturdy Sett- lers of New England'S bleak and barren coast, first gave reVerent thanks in unison nearly three hundred years ago. Today, in Arizona, Whither, with phe- nOmenaI encOmpassment of distance, that lofty civilization inaugurated by our Puritan forefathers has advanced with irresistible tread in obedience to DestinY's decree an intelligent, liberty loving populace, mindful of the per- petual, omniscient guardianship of Di- vine Providence, adhere to a time-hon- ored custom by gratefully acknoWledg- ling the beneficence of an omnipotent Creator with appropriate manifesto tions of gratitude for blessings bounti fully bestowed.
 There is, in truth. a wealth of Provi dential gifts calling forth from the SOV- ereign people of Arizona such eXpres- siOns of gratefulness as commonly characterize the observance of religious feastdays. For during the past twelve months, the commerce of the old World and the New has fostered in q way all most unprecedented the prosperity and development of the mines and ranches of the state, thereby giving greater in- centiVe and wider scope to the endeaV oIs Of those vino invest and those who toll. And, meanwhile, notwithstanding the great surge of human strife that has engaged the greater part of the civ iliZed world in deadliest conflict, both our nation and our state, through the gracioUsness of a kindly God have sue cessfully held alOof from the maelstrom oi- destructive warfare, thereby holding inViolate the tenetS of true civilization
 E,Xcelling, moreover in the scale of human valuation, all merely material benefits. however essential they may be. are those incalculable blessings Of a cpiritual, intellectual and civic nature whereby life is rendered richer and more colorful. and wherein modern civ ilization in our own state. as else where. finds at once it's justification and it's perpetuity.
 NOW. THEREFORE, I Geo. w. P. Hunt, Governor of Arizona. by virtue of the authority in me vested, Go hereby designate and set apart, Thursday No Vember 18th. A D., 1915, as a Day of Thanksgiving on which, in churches and at firesides, reverential thanks may be rendered unto God in grateful recog- hilton of countless blessings divinely conferred. And it is likewise earnestly urged that on the day set apart, the thoughtful and eVer-consideratc people of Arizona may be deeply mindful of the needy, the sick and the sorrowing so that those who bear the "cross and bitterness of life" may also find reason for Thanksgiving.
 IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand and caused the Great Seal of the State of Arizona to be affixed
 Done at Phoenix. the Capital this 9th day of November A. D.. 1915.
 (SeaD GEO w. P. HUNT,
 Governor of Arizona. ATTEST: SIDNEY P. OSBORN,
 Secretary of State