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The Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 191?-19??, 1919-11-25
HARVEST FESTIVALS OF OLD
Greeks and Romans Had Days OF
Thanksgiving for the Fruitful
Gifts Of the Earth

Greece, In the months OF August and
September of each year, after the har-
vest had been gathered. celebrated the
great feast known as the Eleusinia, OF
the feast to Demeter of the beautiful
robe. Demeter, the great earth-mOth-
'er, was the goddess of cornfeIds and
harvests. Her daughter, PersephOne,
while gathering flowers one day, was
kidnapped by Pluto. Demeter searched
for her long by land and sea. and at
last learned that her lost daughter had
been married to Pluto, the dark spec
ter of the underworld, and that she
was now his queen in the realm be-
low. But Persephone had eaten a
pOmegranate seed and could remain
with her mother only part of the year.
This made Demeter angry, and she left
the gods and made her dwelling upon
the earth. She taught Celeus, king Of
Eleusis, agriculture, how to pillow, sow
and reap. This feast was one Of the
grandest of the Greek festivals.
The Romans celebrated harvest
festival called the Cerealia. 1t took
its name from Ceres, who was the
Denote" of the Romans, and the feast
was celebrated at some time in the
month of October. Sacrifices of the
best fruits and honey CAKES were Of
fered up in the temple. PROFESSIONS
were made to the fields by men and
women dressed in white and crowned
with oak leaves and poppies.' Ceres
was represented i'm a chariot drawn
by dragons, her head crowned with a
garland of corn ears, and holding a
basket of peoples in her hand This
festival was general holiday time,
Coming down to a more modern
time. we read of thanksgiving in Hol-
land and in England, the recollection
Of whose harvest homes" perhaps,
inspired the Puritans to inaugurate the
custom in this country. The first
Thanksgiving on American soil, ac-
rording TO the well credited chronicler,
Edward Winslow, was held in 1921, 10
months after the landing of the Pill
srims, when, the crops being garnered.
hey felt spring up within their hearts
/ feeling of praise and thanksgiving
t lasted almost week, and was par
icipated in by King Massasoit and
NJ of his braves, who were toasted and
for three days, the new
'omers showing their guests their pro-
iciency in arms, experiences in wres-
ling, etc. To show their prowess in
urn, "the Indians went out and killed
I've deer, which they brought to the
aud bestowed on the gov
rnor and upon Captain Miles Standish
nd Others" a fine contribution to the
east.
The Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 191?-19??, 1919-11-25
DAY OF UNIVERSAL PRAISE
~or All Its Blessings the Nation Lifts
Its Hands to the Lord in
Grateful Thanks.

Such sentiment as is aroused by the
great day whose yearly coming sounds
the note of praise for multimillion
souls, could not be set to poets verse
or framed in choral chant. Deep down
where underlying are the sentiments
that sanctify, reside the feelings cen
tering in the day whose glad advent
is tuned to thoughts of peace and
praise to the one above from whose
wide-Open hands bestowments come
such as have never yet been known to
other nations of the earth. Into the
churches at the usual hour the wOr
shippers will pour and from their doors,
when comes the end of praise and
song, will pass those worshipers again,
with loftier views and freer minds and
with their souls tuned to the senti-
ments that are expressed from all the
pulpits Of the nation ON the day on
which the people offer their thanks
to God.
For all the blessings to the land,
this day the nation lifts It's hands in
nuAAlDic khdlbts IOI All lHO DlSooAhkc
to the homes the land lifts up Its eyes
TO God in gratitude; for all the signal
signs of Gods goodwill the land will
give Its praise in thought, in word, in
act. Although the curtain of the fu-
ture falls across the vistas and the
prospect hides, no one has fear the
land will not be free from all the
harsh disorders of the earth, and saved
to sanctify the world anew to the
pleasant things of peace and lasting
joy. For the bright prospect of the
nations use in the fast-crowding years
to come, the people give their praise
and in their prayers they lift their
thoughts with faith to the Lord, who
says in perfect peace he keeps the
ones whose thoughts and hearts are
stayed on him. For all his ways are
his paths are peace, the
psallnist SAYS.
SO for its cheer, for its gift of peace,
so for the record of blessings felt and
those in prospect vet, the people give
their heartfelt thanks, making this day
that sees other nations wrecked by the
battles effect, day peculiar for its /.
cause for praise. And thus, though
sobered win the cheer abound in
myriad hearts on this great day for I
praise and giving thanks. :
The Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 191?-19??, 1919-11-25


We ebesFye Thanksgiving day d
keeping with the tlme-honored Gus
tom u. che Pilgrims.
/ Thanksgiving day was born In Iii.
hearts Of grateful :;ttle group o,
peopIe who had survived q narrowing
season.
Real thanksgivIngs ars those which
come spontaneously in moments Of
gratitude for delIverancc from dis
ltress, appreciation OF the beauties Of
life or enjoyment Of genuine friend
ship.
We are thankful that most Of oul
ltroubIes never happened and that
those which did passed over like the
storms.
The wealth Of the world has beer
filling our Golfers to overlooking. Min
Ions Of Mammon give thanks like the
blatant fatted calf, all unmindfuI Of
the fate Of the fattened and battened
We are thankful to have gone
through another year with it's alter
mating Joys and sorrows and await
with hope and fortItude the things the
next may bring forth.-lIIustrated Sun.
day Magazine Of the Boston Herald.
The Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 191?-19??, 1919-11-25
LET NOTHING MAR REJOICING
Surely This Year ,Aii Should Keer
Thanksgiving With Heart Full
Of Praise and Gratitude.

Now once again both you and / are
going to keep Thanksgiving. And
The Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 191?-19??, 1919-11-25
Remember Those Who Served.

The great spirits of earth have been
men and women who. with thanksgiy-
ing in their hearts and on their lips,
served faithfully the ages in which
they lived. They won the victories
and reconstructed the situations
through which our blessings have been
handed down to us. For their conse-
Grated services let us be truly thank
full. Nor in our thanksgiving must we
overlook the heroic service rendered
by cur own boys in the great, recent
conflict, and the supreme sacrifice
ny of them made They together
v Il their brave comrades of the ma
tons allied with us nsthe battle for
j. Ateousness, saved democracy for
t. world.
The Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 191?-19??, 1919-11-25

living; NOvember's tempests fiercely
blew-and yet they kept Thanksgiving.
Upon that day they didn't think an
epicure a sinner-they gathered all
their meat and drink and had one glor-
ious dinner. The Pilgrims, they were
cody men, the times were most re-
ligious; they thought it sinless, even
then, to found feast prodlgious. Let
us rejoice, as then they did, in sweet
and hard-earned freedom-let's hail
each woman, man and kid and take
'em In and feed EN- Ted Robinson
in Cleveland Plain Dealer.
The Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 191?-19??, 1919-11-25

Amt It fine to feel the nippin' of the brisk
breeze at your nose
When the old dead leaves go zlppin'
down the lanes. in scraggly rows,
When you've hay to feed the cattle, when
you love your fellow men,
And you've money you can rattle in
your trousers. now and then?
Amt It fine to wake from dreamin' Of
the home your boyhood knew
And to ma the glad sun beamin' Just
the way it-uead 70 do, b
Lona ago, about Thshksgivin'. when you'd
energy to epara.
When your pa and ma were livin'. and
the days were always fairf
IS. z. Kiser.
The Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 191?-19??, 1919-11-25
Made National ceIebratlon.

President Lincoln 1t was who APP
pciated the last Thursday in Novem-
her, 1864. as Thanksgiving day, and
each president of the United States
aince that time has followed Lincolns
example. In 1858 prOclamations of a
day for Thanksgiving were issued by
the governors Of twenty-five states
and two territories, and it only re-
manned for the president Of the United
States to make such proclamation Il
institute the national Thanksgiyse
dar
The Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 191?-19??, 1919-11-25
Time to Think Only Of BLESSINGS.

Let us take the right kind of inter
est in Thanksgiving day-a day that
is and always shall be very dear to
the hearts OF all women. Let us put
avarice and envy out Of our minds,
and think only Of, and be grateful for,
our biessings.-New York Evening
Telegram.
The Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 191?-19??, 1919-11-25
The Glorious GObbIsr

All hail the glorious gobbler!
When autumn skies are gray
He mounts his china platter throne
And rules Thanksgiving day;
IL Is a noble oval
With gilded garlands fair,
Or 1t may be an heirloom priced
or old blue willow ware.
Salute the glorious gobbler;
Though sometimes it's a hen
That dawns in appetizing brown
Upon our famished ken).
The Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 191?-19??, 1919-11-25

He wears his festal dressing
Contrariwise, within,
Receiving all his subjects true
In nothing but his skin.
Here's to the glorious gobbler!
Though far afield they roam,
Yet in his honor every year
The children gather home.
His drumsticks beat assembly
From mountain top to sea,
He wears a gold celery crown,
The king of birds is ne,
Long live the glorious gobbler.
With his attendant pies,
Mince, pumpkin, apple, cranberry,
And each of generous size.
OF all famous mOnarchs
From Ecuador to Spain,
He is the only one who boasts
An undisputed reign.
-Minna Irving, in New York Sun.
The Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 191?-19??, 1919-11-25

A INT It splendid to be Twin long
IA about this time O. year,
Just around before Thanksgivin'
with the mornings crisp and
l clear;
With the children's cheeks a-glowin', with
the future lookin' bright,
And the shops and mills a'goin' like red
blazes, day and night?
Amt 1t bracin,' amt it cheerin', when the
colts kick up their heels,
To approach the corn crib, hearIn tur-
keys goblin for their meals?
Don't it make a fellow kinda satisfied with
life and glad,
When it's got so hard to find a thing
that's goin' to the bad?
The Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 191?-19??, 1919-11-25

priye the food Of
taste, the wheat
en- bread of leav-
en-? We needn't
feed the garbage
can nor choke
the refuse hop
per; but let us
treat the inner
man, and do the
job up proper!
Let's emulate
the Pilgrim Dads,
by whom it was
in n e d f; al
though they did
not roll in scads,
their conscience
was cOntented.
Their crops were
short, the coun-
try new, twas
hard to make a
The Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 191?-19??, 1919-11-25

shall we ne dis
cOuraged by the
lofty cost of liv-
ing? And shall
we sparey dine
an d su p. still
II Oove reSquely
Win z - and
shall we pass the
Turkey up be-
cause we're used
to saving2
1 think I hear
you ans W e r
"Nay"! And /,
for one, won't do
1t; l shall cut
loose, Thanksgiv-
ing day, and Gag
erIy 60 to It'll I
shall not fuss
with low-priced
The Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 191?-19??, 1919-11-25

me modern day pilgrim while retaining principles
"s psms mas enlarged his scope of activity The spirit
eqay
democracy
other nations And then when the THANKSGIVING comes
all the people will
free nation Our photo shows the pilgrim today muainq his ~
tners VINO went forth he did
The Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 191?-19??, 1919-11-25

meat, with tripe or stringy mutton
I'm going to hop right in and eat until
bust button. With Jellies made Of
grape and ounce. no substitute to thin
'em; and pies Of good, old-fashioned
mince-with meat and brandy in 'em.
And if 1 want a sucking pig to sup.
plement the gobbler, I'll have i'll
don't care fig And also sherry cob
bier!
For never in the memory of any
body living have people seen, it seems
to me, so wondrous Thanksgiving.
The Hun is licked, the world is free,
the cruel war is ended-how can our
celebration be one feature short Of
splendid?
All no, we do not need to waste the
goOdly gifts of heaven-but why de-
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1919-06-24
MEDICINES VICTORY
DURING WORLD WAR
MANY STARTLING FACTS. NEAR
LY 100000 MEN REJECTED
BECAUSE OF DISEASE.

ATLANTIC CITY.-One of the
greatest victories of the war was the
triumph of modern medicine in the
control of acute infectious diseases,
but even greater benefit will result
from the fact that the war also open
ed the eyes of the government, as
well as the people, to the great in
road that chronic diseases are making
in our national economy, DIR. David
R. Lyman said at the annual meet
ing of the National tuberculosis AS
ISOLATION, which convened here today.
DR.. Lyman is president of the asso-
citation.
AS a result of the ravages of the
white plague" among Americas
manhood, startlingly revealed by the
draft board records, DR.. Lyman pre-
dicted the immediate creation of a
division of tuberculosis in the United
States public health service.
With the records showing that
nearly 100000 men were rejected for
the national army because suffering
from suspected tuberculosis, DIR. Ly-
man urged greater cooperation be-
tween public and private health au-
thorities.
Government officials as we'll as
health authorities from every state
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1919-06-24

in the union are here to discuss plans
for a new nationwide campaign
against preventable disease.
Dr.. Charles ]. Hatfield, managing
director of the national association,
pointed out that although tubercu-
iosis causes 10000 deaths annually
in this country the burden of the
fight against the disease was being
borne by voluntary associations.
Even their work. he said, is greatly
handicapped by inadequate laws.
That the spread Of tuberculosis IN
this country is due largely TO patients
who travel from one place TO anoth-
err. seeking 3 magical climate that
viii cure them and who have not suf-
ficient means 70 properly care for
themselves, was stated by James FL,
Pershing, who read report on In
digent Migratory ConSumptlves."
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farmers-went fairly crazy over the
Terrell county farm lands. The citi-
zens gave everybody an automobile
ride into the country, and it was a
revelation to the north Georgia visi-
tors. The lands are almost level,
with just enough of hills and dales
to provide good drainage. There is
little woodland remaining, and one
can see for miles from some elevation
over fields of cotton and corn. The
homefolk say crops are in poor shape
compared to last year, owing to con-
tinuous rains recently, and that the
cotton is being taken by the grass
and the boil weevil is just waiting
for his prey. But the farmers from
other sections of Georgia said things
looked mighty good to them.
There is hardly any of this fine
land to be bought The owners laugh
at offers of from 1925 to $3.50 an
acre.
Terrell county has quit betting all
its money on cotton, too. Jim Weav-
err, former mayor and large landown-
err, told me he had shipped carloads
of hogs to other markets besides rails
ing all his own meat. Many carloads
were shipped last fall.
Flour Mill, Too.
There is a big flour mill on the
great Elladale estate, which is kept
busy in its season with home grown
wheat and that shipped in for grind
ing from other sections. There are
many big peach orchards, and the
pecan industry is beginning to bring
in big money. One farmer has an
asparagus farm which paid him more
money per acre last year than his
best cotton fields.
Dawson is taking on a few city
airs, too. She has just passed a bond
issue for paving her principal bust
ness streets, and the entire issue was
bought by one of the local banks.
The county will issue road bonds in
short time, too. The existing roads
are the natural sand clay, an excel
lent road in summer, and according
to local motorists fit for use through
the worst of winter weather.
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CUTHBERT, Ga.-Editor of The
Dawson News: "And one said unto
him, Lord suffer me to go and bury
my father (build my fathers sepul-
chur is what he meant), but the Lord
said let the dead bury the dead. -
New Testament.
There appeared in a recent issue
of The Dawson News this advertise
ment: ITO all who are interested in
their loved ones in the Methodist
cemetery at Chickasawhatchee' com
municate with me at once" Now, the
bodies of three of my fathers sisters
were placed there, and several of the
children of one, Mr.. William Nancy
Hunter. My father, his two sisters
Mrs. Nancy Hunter and Miss Sarah
Rives, and his brother-in-law, Will
liam Hunter, were the cause of the
first church being organized at Chick
asawhatchee.
The preachers before then preach
ed at Uncle William Hunters; after
wards NJ ]. Crawford founded the
village of Chickasawhatchee, making
the first prohibition village in Geor.
gia, for spurious nor malt liquors
could not be sold within a mile of the
church. Later the Glenns, father OF
one of the state school commissioners
the Outlets and Golfers and DR.. Sims
came in, and later others.
In company with my friend, M. J
Yeomans, l went there a few year,
since, and old DR.. Lundy was the on
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1919-06-24
ARE DOING UP MANY
OF SPARRINC'C GUYS
BIG FIGHTERS HAVING TROUB-
LIE KEEPING TRAINING PART
NERS. ORDEAL TOO GREAT.

TOLEDO, O.-"Wanted, a few fall
guys"
They are needed here to report
at the casino, where Jess Willard is
doing a bit of light work preparatory
to entering the ring here July A with
Jack Dempsey.
The only requirement is great
capacity for punishment, To date
Big Jess has f1oored both his train
ing partners. Pack LAWN was the
first victim, Walter Monahan,. the
pride of the navy and Wizards
trainer in both his prior big battles,
was the latest to take the count
Manahan and LAWN are both game
but they want some one at least to
alternate with.
While the crowds are f1ocking to
the casino to see Willard, Jack Demp-
sey over at the Overland Club is TAX
ing things easy-and still sailing.
eve are not worrying about what
takes place over at Wizards place,
Jack Kearnes, his manager, said to-
day. "The bigger they are the hard
err they fall. l am satisfied with
Dempsey's condition and he is just
as confident as ever of coping the
championship"
The referee question was in the
fore again today. A ruling of the
Toledo boxing commission calls for
a referee picked by the commission;
Their man is Ollie Pecord, a local
product. Tex Richard will ask the
commission to waive the ruling and
permit selection of a nationally
known man.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1919-06-24
HAD BOILS ALL
OVER HIS BODY
ENTIRE SYSTEM SEEMED POIS-
ONED, AND BACK ACHED SO
BAD COULD HARDLY C E T
ABOUT. DRECO FIXED HIM UP
IN GREAT SHAPE.

81 want every one to have an equal
show, so please publish this letter for
their benefit" said Mr.. W. A. Evans,
of TIP N. jackson St., Athens, Ga.
"For sixteen years l worked at the
Athens Gas Co., until my kidneys got
in such shape that / believe my blood
was full of poison. I had boils all
over my body and my back was so
lame I was almost bent double, and
the pain was awful. Every one could
see the terrible predicament | was in !;
l was crippled up and suffering
agony; l don't see now how l ever
stood it.
zone day friend of mine said his
brother had bad kidney trouble and
that Dreco, the new root and herb
medicine, had cured him, and advis-
ed me to try it.
"Believe it or not, the first bottle
of Dreco made phenomenal change
in my condition, and now after taking
several bottles l defy. any one to
show better acting kidneys than
mine.
Compare the difference in me
now when I tell you l can lift 200
pounds and not hurt my back at all.
My step is firm and elastic instead
of dragging along as | used to. All
the boils and pains in my back are
only a memory, and I give all the
praise and credit for my wonderful
Improvement to Dreco."
Day after day people are telling of
the great change in their condition
from weak, nervous, rundown sys
tenn full of aches and pains to strong,
healthy, vivacious systems full of
vim, vigor and vitality through the
use of Dreco.
Dreco is now sold by all progress
sive druggists throughout the coun-
try, and is highly recommended in
Dawson by Lees Drug Store.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1919-06-24
Mr.. Rives Writes of The
Cemetery at Old Chickasawhatchee

| ly person or thing there that looked
natural. But my 'loved ones" are not
buried there nor anywhere else. They
have assembled to the other mansion
our Christ went to prepare, and the
mansions they inhabited here--hke
the one In which now have being
will do-have returned to the dust
from which they sprang. Monuments
lperpetuating the good men have done
should be erected, but they should be
in the form that will benefit the liv-
ing-an endowed bed in hospital,
fund to help poor girls and boys
to go through an industrial school
and prepare to better themselves, and
in doing so add to the happiness and
usefulness of humanity in the name
of some loved one, yes-but planklng
in a cemetery, no. Bury your dead
and my dead decently, mark the grave
if you wish, with simple slab OF
marble, but further than that is de-
nying the Lord that bought you, who
discouraged such impiety, when the
living had need-and they will al
ways have need of the things that
make for building up the Lords king
dom among men, by all the means
available to create "a sound mind IN
sound body" and through minis
tering to the physical needs of the
living persuade men to accept, honor,
obey and thereby have recreation
of God within them, the souls, by
faith in Christ.
Let the brother or friend of the
bodies buried at old Chickasawhat-
chez emulate the good deeds done
by the good people of my kin who in
habited those bodies, and let the
heaps of dirt covering their discard
ed houses be.
ANDREW P. RIVES.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1919-06-24
CREWS SINK BIG
GERMAN BATTLESHIPS
ONLY ONE HEAVY VESSEL IN
TERMED AT CLOSE OF WAR
is NOW AFLOAT.

LONDON, June 21.-All the Ger
man ships at Scapa Flow have been
sunk with the exception of the bat
tleship Baden. This was officially
announced this evening.
The German fleet was scuttled by
the crews opening the seacocks, ac-
cording to Thurso dispatch to the
Exchange Telegraph company. The
Germans swan ashore.
The statement, which was issued
by the admiralty, says:
According to the latest reports
from Scapa Flow all the interned
battelships and battle cruisers have
been sunk, except the battleship Ba-
den, which is still afloat Five light
cruisers rave been sunk, but three
have been beached Eighteen destroy
ers were beached by local tugs. Four
destroyers are still afioat. The rest
of the destroyers have sunk"
The Exchange Telegraph company,
which first announced the sinking of
the German warship, circulated the
following dispatch nearly two hours
before the official admiralty an
nouncement:
practically the whole of the Ger
man fleet lying in Scapa Flow has
been sunk by its German crews. Far
mers living nearby state the German
flag was hoisted as the crews proceed
ed to sink their vessels. The Kirk
wall naval office said that no infor-
nation was available to the press. "
The German feet was surrendered
to the combined allied fleet off the
Firth of Forth the morning of No
vember 81, 1918.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1919-06-24

Pluck is all right, but good luck
frequently leaves it at the post.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1919-06-24
THIS MILLIONAIRE WOULD
NOT HAVE AN AUTOMOBILE

WAUKEGAN, Ill.-Robert Dady
70 years old, Waukegan's largest
property owner, died at his home re-
Gently from the indirect effects of
injuries sustained in runaway sew
eral years ago. He was known for
many eccentricities.
Although rated among Lake coun-
ty millionaires at the time of his
death Mr.. Dady had never purchas-
ed an automobile.