Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1922-11-22
OF YE Old TYNE
Humorous Description of Thanks
giving Celebration
Some Difference Between the observ-
anee % the Day Then and the
Festivities Of Today.

Prom picking the stufiing out OF
Wild turkey to kicking the stufiing out
Of a wild football player. Thanksgiving
day observance has undergone "A de-
cIded change, even within the ken OF
the present writer. who, az that, Is
quite old enough 10 gain a permanent
home among the mummies az the Me
tropolitan Museum OF Art. Roy X.
M0ulton writes in the New York Eve
ming Mail. There were days away back
IN Puritan times when people had n
lot 20 be thankful for and enough
sense % be thankful for II. IL Is still
true that a portion OF our great metro
politan population find time 60 tender
thanks in the old-fashIoned style. but
the rah-rnh Thanksgiving has been
with us some twenty years now. and
"a seems 60 be gaining momentum.
In the old days they used 10 leave a
platter strewn with the bones OF wild
turkey. and now Il is the general Gus
tom 70 leave the gridiron Strewn with
arms. legs ears and other more or less
important ImpedinSnta.
The history o. a Thanksgiving day
used 10 be set down BY the church
clerk. and now Il Is set down In Jazz
by the sporting writer. all ~ which
goes 10 show that civilization Is nov
ing. though We can't always decide
which way.
We oide Tyne Thanksgiving.
Know sc an men by thefe prefentf:
That /. Makepeace Wharburton.
governor. do nominate Thurfday. ye
twenty-fIxth 81 November. 10 be a
day OF Thanksgiving and day OF pray
or in remembrance Of the great bleff-
ings We have received during the paft
year. All and fundry Of the poi ula-
ton are ordered to attend fervice and
profoundly render thankf for peace
and PROPERTY or pay penalty on the
pIllorv. the ducking fool or the ftocks.
s.AIAKEPEACE WHARBURTON.
Governor"
Those were the days Of real Thanks
rivinrS. Peleg Prouty did not have 70
go 70 a butcher shop and barter his
soul. his house and lot and his Ford
FOR a turkey. He kissed his wife Pru-
dence. and the kids good-hy for maybe
the last time. and set forth for a wild
turkey. He carried over his shoulder
an S5-pound hlunderbuss with sprin-
kier attachment on the muzzle which
would scatter shot over a fair-sized
township and would kick Peleg for a
goal when Il went OF. II the Indians
got a bead on him first Il was good
night turkey. and II he got a bead on
them FIRST the sprinkler attachment en-
abled him 20 put the raspberry on
eight ar zen 81 them M once.
II Peleg got home all right with the
Wild turscv they had Thanksgiving.
II he dldu fhey had a funeral.
The family would 80 10 church IN
the morning and arrive there with sew
eral arrows sticking through their
clothes and hats. and after good old
Elder Hudnutt had preached for four
hours and n half and finally stopped,
the congregation had something 90 be
thankful for.
when the feast was ready. Peleg.
his wife. Prudence. and the children.
Steadfast. Charity. Prosper. Faith.
Cromwell and Milestone. seated them
selves about the table. the room would
suddenly nn with smoke for the reason
that there would be an Indian sitting
@ tie chimney top trying TO smoke