Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 29, Number 276, Decatur, Adams County, 23 November 1931 — Page 5

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j 0.0. I , THANKSGINING DAY 1931 1 ■ t By the Piesident of the United States of America • ■ A Proclamation | WE approach the season when, according to custom dating from the garnering of ‘ ! the first harvest by our forefathers in the New World, a day is set apart to give thanks ♦ eve., amid hardships to Almighty God for our temporal and spiritual blessings. It has t ♦ become a hallowed tradition for the Chief Magistrate to proclaim annually a national ♦ ♦ day of thanksgiving. ♦ ♦ W,i ° l i R TT? haf * CaU66 f ° r gr '’ t,tude t 0 ,hp Almighty. We have been widely blessed ‘ ♦ With abundant harvests. We have been spared from pestilence and calamities. Our ♦ ♦ institutions have served the people. Knowledge has multiplied and our lives are enrich- ! ♦ vv "s 11 T ap ! ,licatlon - Education has advanced, the health of our people has increased. ♦ 1“ * "" T Ve iu ”" a<l ' ' vi,h ! 'H m-n. The measure of passing adversity which has J come upon us should deepen the spiritual life the people, quicken their sympathies ! and spit it of sacrifice fc-r others, and strengthen their courage. Many of our neighbors ♦ are in need from causes beyond their control and the compassion of the people through- I out the nation should so assure their security over this winter that they too may have t full cause to participate in this day of gratitude to the Almighty. ! NOW. 1 HEREFORE. I. HERBERT HOOVER, President of the United States of America, do hereby designate Thursday, November 26, 1931, as a National Day of ♦ Thanksgiving, aud do recommend that our people rest from their daily labors and in I ♦ their homes and accustomed places of worship give devout thanks for the bjessings ♦ ♦ which a merciful Father lias bestowed upon us. ♦ ♦ IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand and caused the seal of the ♦ United States to be affixed. • ! ♦ J'ONh at the City of Washington this 3d day of November, in the year of our Lord 1 J . nineteen hundred and thirty-one, and of the Independence of the United States of ♦ | America the one hundred and fifty-sixth. J ! By the President: ♦ ♦ HERBERT HOOVER. ♦ ♦ Henry L. Stimson, Secretary of State J § §

I These Firms Open ’Till Noon 1 • * f I The B. J. Smith Drug Co. I Butler’s Garage : I Callow & Kohne Decatur Auto Laundry : I Cutshall s Cut Rate Drug Co. : | Holthouse Drug Co. ■ I These Firms Open All Day I I P. Kirsch and Son : I Campbell Super Service Station : ♦ Sheets Brothers ♦ I Bowman Bros. : Cort Theatre • Rice Hotel & Beauty Shop : Mrs. M. Moyer : I Elberson Service Station : I Adams Theatre : Boknecht Service Station : ♦ Millers Bakery : S. E. Black s ■

DECATUR DAILY DEMOCRAT MONDAY, NOVEMBER 23,1931.

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Accordingly, we, the undersigned business interests of Decatur take this means of ex- • pressing our thanks for your patronage. May yours be a most contented Thanksgiving. .

: These Firms Closed all Day Thanksgiving

I I : Holthouse Schulte & Co. I Vance & Linn ; Teeple & Peterson Pumphrey Jewelry Store : Mutschler Meat Market : Decatur Electric Shop Morris 5 & 10c Store Newberry 5 & 10c Store : National 5 and 10c Store ; Beavers, Fryback & Beavers Fisher & Harris I : ’ Kocher Lumber & Coal Co. Decatur Lumber Co. Economy Store Charlie Voglewede > Edwards Studio I American Home Shop Citizens Telephone Co., Office Lee Hardware Co. Henry Knapp & Son Lenhart, Heller & Schurger C. A. Douglas Co. I Vitz Gift & Baby Shop

W. H. Zwick & Son Yager Brothers Decatur Sales & Service, Inc., Ford Kellers Jewelry Store Neering Chevrolet Sales Wemhoff Monumental Works Winnes Shoe Store Kroger’s ’ Sprague Furniture Co. Saylors Motor Co. Riverside Super Service Deininger Millinery Ashbaucher’s Tin Shop Lankenau’s The Great Atlantic & Pacific Tea Co. August Walters, Plumbing and Heating Niblick & Co. Dr. H. Frohnapfel Commercial Print Shop State Auto Insurance Association C. E. Baughman’s 5 & 10 First Sfate Bank

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