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FRIDAY. NOVEMBER IS 1027
Who Starled Thanks§ivin§l
Nearly everybody celebrate;
Thanksgiving Day with gorgeou;
feastings and without giving Ju<
thought to the significance of the
day and perhaps without even feel
ing real thankful for the many thing*
with which wc are blessed.
This Thanksgiving season siartec
many many yrars ago and it i;
doubtful if thereat origin of it;
observ ance h really known.
However, America . Farming says
Governor Bradford, who ruled th<
Massachusetts colony back in the
days when .Miles Standish was then
most dashing military captain —
and their slowest wooer—, is credit
ed with originating our now nation
al institution of Thanksgiving,
After a winter of privation and sor
row, the Pilgrims had been blessec
with a bountiful harvest, so in the
fall of 1621 Governor Bradford de
creed there should be a season ol
feasting and thanksgiving. Severa
generations later this fall festiva
became national in its observance
"However, the custom of cele
brating the success of the harvest
threads back through early history
into ancient times. When Englanc
was peopled by the Saxons, Harvest
Home was an annual festival; the
Romans paid homage to Ceres, the
goddess of corn and harvests; the
Greeks of an earlier age celebratec
a feast called Thesmorphia, offering
thanks to Demeter for the bounty
of the harvests.
“The Hebrew’s Feast of the
Tabernacles is of still earlier origin
It was instituted by Moses with
one of the oldest thanksgiving pro
clamations of which we have any
record.
"Thou shalt celebrate also the
solemnity ot the tabernacles, when
thou hast gathered in the fruits of
the barn floor and of the wine
press.’’ commanded Moses. “Anci
thou shalt make merry in thy fes
tival time. . . Seven days shalt
thou celebrate feasts to the Lore
thy God in the place where the
Lord shall choose: and the Lore
thy God will bless thee in all thy
fruits and in every work of thy
hand, and thou shalt be in joy
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general thanksgiving for the bounty
of the harvest and in declaring i
feast of several days the executivi
order of Moses antedated that o
Governor Bradford by more that
3100 years. And who knows bu
what Moses got his idea from som<
earlier potentate.
“Regardless of its origin, colonia
or ancient, the fall festival o
thanksgiving lor the bounty of thi
harvest is one of the most beauti
ful that has come down to u
through tradition and history.
“Instead of a week, we now cele
brate but one day—we couldn
stand more. However, we stil
(..pling to two features of Thanks
'giving as instituted by good ok
Governor Bradford roast turke;
and lively music Our celebration
are “pepped'’ up with jazz; his wa
jazzed up with indian war chant
and dances
f NOTES AND COMMENTS !
The millionaire who dresses a
well as his clerk is more or les
eccentric.
A fortune awaits the inventoi
of a lifeboat that will float on a se<
of trouble.
Said an Irish physician of £
patient, “If he lives liil morning
he may pull through; but 'f ht
doesn't, there is no hope for him '
A dentist says that a womar
looses her teeth sooner than a man
Probably she wears thtm out with
her tongue.
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32 Years Ago! !j
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W ashington
County
Items gathered from issue of
The Roanoke Beacon published
Friday, November 22, I8C-5
,! Mr. George Rives, of Philade)
, phia, was here this week.
Mr. Jas. I. Bateman, of Cren
well, was in our town this week.
Mr. H. L- Freeman lectured in
Blount's Hail at Roper recently.
Messrs T. J. Lewis and Paul
\\. Brinkley have entered busi
ness as merchandise brokers.
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1 Miss Vonnie Leggett left Sun
day for Parmele to visit friends
and relatives.
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| Mrs. A. Barden inis been visit
j i n g relatives and friends ix>
Greenviiie this week.
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Mr. aiid Mrs L P. Horntba
returned Wednesday tram a visir
to friends and relatives in Nor
folk.
Miss Mattie Bennett who has
been here for some time as tin
guest of her sister, Miss Myrtle,
left Sunday morning for home in
Wiiliamston.
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Cards are announcing the mar
riage of Rev. YVitiiam Calhoun
' iVIerritt to Miss Mary L YVoodley j
in the M. E. Church at Roper on J
Thursday evening, December 5.;
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Misses Vickie Everett a n d
Maggie Whitfield, who had been
visiting their ousin, Mr. W. T.
Spruill, at Roper, passed through
our town or. Wednesday enroute
for their home in Rubersonviile.
, On Wednesday evening a party
[of invited friends assembled at
j ihe hospitable home of Mr. W. T,
-Spruill, near Roper, Die occassion
being a dance given by Mr.
Spruill in honor of VIi.-s< s Mag
gie Whi1 field and Vickie E\ erettJ
of Rober onville, two of the I
most bewitching young ladies of ! (
; a-l that section. '«
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ADMINISTRATRIX NOTICE
Having qualified as administratrix
of the estate of C. W- Snell, deceas
ed, late of Washington County, N. C,
this is to notify all persons having
claims against the estate of saiddec^as
ed to extiibit them to the undersigned
on or before the 6th day of October,
1928, or this notice will be pleaded in
bar of their recovery, AH persons in
debted to said estate will please make
immediate payment.
This October (5 1927.
EVA V.€NELL, Admx.
6t. Mackejs, N C
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