Five Mile Beach weekly journal., 1920-11-26
Building Inspector
Report at Me-
of Commissioners.
Show 100000
Worth of New
Buildings in Wild
wood in 2 Months

Next to the landing of Columbus on
the shores of the New World In 1892
no single event in early American
history has attracted such universal
attention as the landing of the Pilgrims
on the barren coast of New England in
the year 1920. December 22d of the
present year will mark the three
hundredth anniversary Of this notable
event.
What sought they thus afar?
Bright jewels Of the mine?
The wealth of seas =? the spoils Of
war?
They sought a faiths pure shrine.
Not as the conqueror comes,
They, the true-hearted came;
Not with the roll of the stirring
drums
And the trumpet that sings Of
fame.
Inc OCeAn edRle SOhEeu
From his nest by the white waves
foam,
And the rocking pines of the forest
roared-
This was their welcome home !!
The great social and religious festival
known as Thanksgiving dates back to
the Pilgrims and Puritans. 1t was in
1923 when Governor William Bradford
proclaimed or appointed the first local
Thanksgiving Day. The first regular
Thanksgiving proclamation to be
printed occurred in Massachusetts, In
1877. From Massachusetts the custom
spread to other colonies. The first
THANKSGIVING proclamation ever issued
by a President of the United States was
by George Washington, our first presi-
dent, in 1895. 1t was not until after
the middle of the nineteenth century,
however, during the administration OF
President Lincoln, that the last Thurs
day Of November was designated as q
national Thanksgiving holiday. To
Mrs. Sarah Josepba Hale, a descendant
of one of the New England pioneers
by that name, is ascribed the honor OF
making the suggestion which led up to
the enactment of this statute.
In 1880 the Governor of New York
had appointed a day for public thanks
giving, and other Northern States
quickly followed. Thus it is seen how
a grateful custom that originated with
a handful Of early Plymouth colonists,
neal Massachusetts, Bay, grew gradu'
ally in favor, and spread from colony
to colony and then from State TO State
until it finally enveloped the life OF the
whole nation. Thanksgiving Day is
priced by the present generation as 8
precious heirloom handed down by the
Pilgrim Fathers; and the glorious
verses of Mrs. Hemans, the English
poetess, in commemoration of theil
landing on the ''wild New England
shore" will we be a source OF inspira'
ton to all true Americans. Her Inn
mortal lines throb with the love Of
freedom. "Amidst the storm" this
"band of exiles" sang; and the spirit
of freedom thus early voiced has since
become the battle Hymn of the Re-
public"
SAY, call it holy ground,
The soil where first they trod
They have left unstained what there
they found
Freedom to worship God ~
AS the hour approached last Tues
day afternoon, November 23d, for the
opening of the regular weekly meeting
of the city commissioners, the city
clerk was heard to say that there would
be no meeting that day. When be
called the roll at 100 o'clock only one
commissioner answered to his name,
Oliver Bright, who had stopped at city
hall, while on his way to the funeral
of the late o. b. Smith, one of Wild
woods pioneers and father of Commits
sioner Frank E. Smith. In Difference
to the memory of the deceased, the
meeting was deferred, the clerk ad
journing same to Wednesday after