Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1919-11-25
THANKSGIVING DAY
viii Be Observed in Wausau-at the
Churches-in the Homes and at
the Hotels and Clubs

| unite III OlO-IaSmOneQ celeDratlOn. IL
is well to remember it this time who
| it was that gave us our national
Thanksgiving day. 1t was Mrs. Sarah
| Josepha Hale, of Philadelphia. This
heroine, who is in the Hall of Fame,
deserves place amongst the country's
mothers. While Thanksgiving Day
has been celebrated at no set date dur
ing nearly all the years since the time
OF the declaration. of independence,
Mrs. Hale has the distinction of bring
ing about the celebration at specified
time each year, which is on the last
| Thursday in November. She had been
| welding her facile pen in a Jealous
crusade for twenty years to establish
thanksgiving IS national festival
10 be observed upon uniform date
throughout the country, and finally
with the aid of President Lincoln she
brought order out of chaos, and she
is rightly termed 1.-THE Mother of
Thanksgiving"
President Wilson calls attention to
the TACT that a year ago our Thanks
! giving was for the cessation of the
great war, that through divine aid
the right was victorious and peace
mad come to the nations which had so
| courageously struggled in defense of
| human liberties and Justice"
We have no less to be thankful for
IN the events of the last year. IN
spite OF the confusion of our economic
lie we have prospered" he says
Our haryests have been plentiful, and
OF our abundance we have been able
TO render succor to less favored ma
tons. Our democracy remains un-
shaken in world torn with political
and social unrest"
For the future he asks that "the
American people reconsecrate them
selves to those principles of right
which triumphed through Gods mer-
c1ful goodness" and that with the
same spirit of unselfishness with
which we entered the war I'VE should
strive to aid by our example and by
our cooperation in realizing the en-
during welfare of all peoples and in
bringing into being a world ruled by
friendship and good will"
The churches will carry ont the
spirit of the day, in the language of
the time-honored request of the
thanksgiving day proclamations that
Americans unite in their homes and
IN their several places of worship in
ascriDing praise and Thanksgiving to
God, the author of all blessings and
the master of our destinies''
DOings in Churches
The First M. e. church and the
Universalist church will unite FOR
thanksgiving services to be held at
the Methodist church at 1890 a. M.
Rev. William J. Taylor will deliver the
sermon. his subject will be Thanks
gfving-1919." There will also be spec
ial music
At the Presbyterian church services
Will be held at 1920 a. m, with the
following program:
Organ Prelude-Pilgrim Chorus Waener
Choir" Ex alt ii i'm. AllYePeople" HanScom
Harry Sisson violin. DR.. R. Lyon cornet.
Invocation
Hgmn-667
Responsive Reading Selection No. 80. Psalm
I04. A-
Male ouartette-I will love thee Oh Lord
Messrs. YELLOW. Hooker. Humphrey
and Murray.
Reading of the Proclamation of the Presi-
Choir-"Great and Marvellous" Turner
Prayer-Mr. Eastwood.
Response-"Wonderfu Peace" Male
oaering-o ffertory- Graded Song Schubert
Otfertory Prayer
=, Dqet-Mrs. Frank Boettcher and Mr.. George
Choir-"I win Extol Thee" with violin)
u, Address America. Thankful OF Not?" Dr.
choir-''I WIN Magnify Thee. O God"
with violin and cornet)
Hymn-"America."
Benediction.
Organ Postlude-March Romano Gounod
AT st. James Catholic church, mass
will be celebrated at $3.50 a. m.
AT the German M. E. church services
will be held at 1880 in the evening.
st. Paurs Evangelical Lutheran
church will hold services at 10000
o'clock a. m. There will be a German
sermon.
At st. Stephens and lions churches
services will be at 1000 o'clock a. m.
There will be two masses celebrated
at ST. Mary's church, the first at GAS
and the second at 500 o'clock a. m.
st. Johns Episcopal church will
hold their services at 900 o'clock a. m.
There will be special menus at the
various hotels in our city and the
Wausau Club.
Dinners viii Be Supplied to Sixty
Families
The poor are to be remembered.
Up to date, sixty families have been
reported and each will receive a bas-
ket of meat, chickens, apples and
candy, according to the size of the
family. In all about 300 people will
be thus supplied with a bounteous
Thanksgiving dinner, made possible
by the generous people of Wausau.
The work of arranging the baskets
Will be done on Wednesday morning,
in charge of Frank E. Schneider, poor
commissioner and Mrs. Stockum, sec
rotary of the Federated Charities, and
the baskets will be delivered by auto
mobiles in charge of young ladies.
Nearly $500 has been handed in, with
out solicitation, and those desiring to
help along the good cause can hand in
their mite to H. G. Flieth, C. G. Krueg-
er or <. B. Thayer. Every cent will
be accounted for and the amount left
over, IL any, is left in the Thanks
giving fund" and used the following
year. Ninety-three dollars was car
ried over from last year There have
been years when the committee had to
supply enough to meet the expenses.
The names of those who give are new
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