Grand Rapids Herald-Review Newspaper, November 29, 1911, Page 4

~ Conasset F EVI IT PAYS TO ADVERTISE COHASSET, MINNESOTA, NOVEMBER 29, 1911 BOOST FOR COHASSET ~THANKSGIVING’S: HILARIOUS ORIGIN Funny Side of Good Governor Bradford’s First Big Feed. By WILL ALLEN. OVERNOR BRADFORD ef the New England colony did not. as many people think, invent Thanksgiving in 1621, and if be claimed to it was an out and out in- fringement on previous patents, for Many people of many countries, even Yar back in Bible history, bad been wetting aside times for feasts and re- Qeicing when they cut their oats, corn, | squashes and other conveniences in the fall of the year. But nevertheless the governor and bis colonists no doubt broke the rec- SOME INDIAN WITH A CRUDE, PRIMITIVE SENSE OF EUMOR. ord for intensity of thankfulness, for, having so very little to be thankful for, the job could be done up in fine shape and not be neglected on any point. During the voyage over on the some what unsteady Mayflower if any one bad so much as suggested a hearty Thanksgiving dinner be or she would most probabiy bave been tossed over ibe rail, and some one of us today would be minus a pilgrim antestor. It is said that the rough trip over twas the rea! cause of the: pilgrims Btierly losing their sense of Humor ged always carrying around such long faces. hardsbips began right at ry reck, for everybody was Jost crazy to set foot on something solid, and naturally there were some jestiing and elbowing in the rush. The reck was never constructed for much of a crowd and, besides this, was real slick around the edges where the tide had washed up a few old jellyfish, so those who secured standing room only skidded off into the ocean without their rubbers on and got wet feet, whiw. as every one knows, is a bad thing to do in December anywhere along the New and coast. Of course these proceedings’ wound up with coughs, colds in the head and | sore throats, which filled up the hos- | pital from the start As is usual in M husetts, there wwas no policeman around to handle the crowd or all this might have been avoided. It was a mighty bad winter, and, according to the accounts of the sufferers themselves, “lyons” roared and “wolves sat on their tayles and grinned,” and if the Indians had not done any worse life would have been moch more attractive in Plymouth. But soon after landing in snooping ground a deserted Indian village sev- eral baskets of corn, two pumpkin seeds and a recipe for mince pie were found, so that a foundation for the first planting was assured, which at least gave the people something to look forward to. All this time marvelous appetites were being developed for the big feed fm the fall, for, not yet having become \3HE ONLY EEIFER CALF IN THE COLONY Yawiliar with the location of the best grocery stores and meat markets, the colonists were on a diet principally of Little neck clams (much cheaper then than now) and eels, which they trod eut of the mud at low tide with their | bare feet. This undoubtedly brought into play the stern bearing strensth of chererrar INT 1 unese O10 TeuoWws more than any- thing else, for what iron nerve it must | have taken. to, feel a cold, squirming eel suddenly ‘wriggle up: between one’s bare toes and not lose any dignity or give way to unseemly remarks! - Spring came, and the planting was Gone under very trying circumstances, for the would be agriculturists could hardly stoop over to bed in a grain of corn but that some Indian with a | erude. primitive sense of bumor would let loose an arrow. However. the crops did splendidly | and were well rrenaea. ecm BL es don aay be Wis The punipkins spr Place and were @ every day to save vines. extra shoots (technically known as '“suckers") were all cut off the corn ; and fed to the only heifer caif in the | colony in hopes that she might be in- | duced to grow up and become a ma- | ture cow some day. The harvest was so abundant that | they even spared one pumpkin for the and the |and by working all day and praying all night everything was at last got in. | Now, Governor Bradford noticed how tired, thin. and thankful everybody looked, and the most appropriate thing he could think of in the way of. cele- | bration was to set aside three days to ‘gee how big « hole they could eat in | the barvest. ; All fel! right in with this unique notion and set to with a will making preparations. Men were sent out gunning for tur- keys, geese and other feathered poul- j try, barring crows and Indians. The | ola fiintlock guns kicked so that while (the bullet killed one bird the pilgrim | progressing through the air in the op- posite direction would crush out the |Hfe of another unsuspecting fowl | which merely considered himself an jinnecent bystander until so rudely sat | | Dpon: However, this was a great saving of ammunition, and the hunters soon re- turned with bruises and game a-plenty. pie with brandy sauce and other evi- dence of a “heap big” free lunch, im mediately became friendly and fiocked in to town with their best feathers on and belts let out to the last hole. which we: follow to this day of al ways inviting outsiders: into: Thanks- | come withont asking: ; ; It was a merry time indeed. “Brery- body would sit down and eat awhile, then go out and run races with the Indians (which had been done there- tofore under very different circum- stances) until the violent exercise had 80 aided digestion that they could eat | again. So, taking it all in all, the feast-was | such a great success and took so with ; the public that Manager Bradford de- | cided to reproduce it every year, and | thus the grand old custom bas come | | “WOLVES SAT ON THRIR TAYLES AND GRINNED.” down to the present day, where some are overfed and some are underfed. That is where the old pilgrims got the best of us—they fared and shared equally in want and abundance. We sit down to overloaded boards and hurriedly give thanks, one eye shut and the other on the turkey, nev- er giving a thought to the rows and rows of little teeth with no drumsticks to gnaw or the thousands of mouths that would water at the very scraps from our tables. Let us back up a few hundred years in spirit this ‘Thanksgiving, good peo- and go out and fill somebody up ple. | that needs it. then come back to our own mex!s with that good old fash- | ioned thankfulness whetting up our appetites Simple Decorations For Table. As (hiaukssiving is a national cus- tom it be onies us to treat it hand- | somely and make it not only a feast to | the palate, but to the eye. Nothing pean do Uiis so well as the adornment j of the table with flower and leaf ane vine. ! If: you haven't a brilliant little scar- ltet poinsettia for the center of this | table, now is the time and place for the dish of ferns you brought in some time ago from the wet places before the frost had touched them to with- ered cold and for a wreath-like flat errangerbent spout IF Qn tee sua ENTIONAL DUPLICATE | children to make a jack-o’-lantern of, ; The Indians, getting a whiff of mince | This incident gavé rise te the custom j giving before they, get:.a Scsiciye to BIG GATHERING OF _ FARMERS MONDAY | The “get-together” meeting of the farmers of Cohasset and vicinity, | held at Village hall Monday after- | noon and evening, was one of the most successful affairs of its kind ; ever held here, over 100 farmers be- jing present in addition to the busi- ness men and others. Supt. A. J. McGuire, of. the North- east Experiment farm, spoke at the afternoon meeting on the valuation of cooperation among farmers,the.aa- visability of raising the same strains of cattle and the same varieties ‘of j ducts. He was followed by Prof. C. W. Thompson the extension dé partment of the state university, who spoke on the value of cooperation between the business men and farm- ers and the value of a scientific knowledge of farming. He was fol- lowed by Rev. C. E. Burgess, who gave a talk along the same’ line. The meeting was held to” sound sentiment regarding the erection of fe potato warehouse next year and it met the approval of all present. At the evening meeting. Prof. Thompson gave a very interesting | lecture on Socialism, its benefits and disadvantages. | Review’s “Other Guy” will enjoy a nice, juicy piece of bear steak through the courtesy of County Com- missioner M. O’Brien. | RGAE HEE: Eee Notice of Sealed Bids. 1 State of Minnesota, County of Itas-, ca, Town of Popple. Notice is hereby given that sealed bids will be received at the office of the town clerk of the town of Pop- ple, county of. Itasca and state of Minnesota for the building of a bridge over the Bowstring river, on Cooper .road in said town, up until “1911; the: span of said bridge to ‘be a combination..of wood and. steel :. at ‘yeast thirty (30) feet in the. clear. and -at least’ sixteen (16) feet over the ordinary stage of water; bidders ‘to furnish their own plans and speti- fications and. material with’ bids. No'bid over eighteen, hundred dol- ‘lars... ($18,000.00) will be , consid- ered. The board reserves the right | to reject any or all bids. The bids | will be opened at the Town hall. Dated at Popple, Minnesota, | Yember 25, 1911. GEORGE A. COOPER, No- | : Chairman, B. N. CONGDON, Supervisor, | JOHN JOHNSON, li Supervisor. jJ. IBBOTSON, Town Clerk. Noy. 29—Dee. 13. | ———— frac Ac as Roecker, the tailor, announc- | |es that hereafter he will call for and | deliver all orders of cleaning, ‘press< ) ing and repairing. The ’phone num- | ber is 77. | FOR SALE—my dwelling house an the Shamrock saloon building. Call jor address Pat Hoolihan, Minn. FOR SALE—Lot 2, 26-53-23 Store post office and school convenient. Would consider good, young team, not less than 2,500 pounds. Address box 104, Warba, Mina. 8 LOTS FOR SALH—two lots for sale, corner Sixth street and Leland avenue, next to the Hilling home. Inquire of Dr. Gendron. REGISTERED Poland China Boar at Sherry barn, fer service, U. C. Gravelle, August. Johnson peHany: Kindred Ave. eimn or che small 1eaves Of the wnor- tleberry (pressed immediately after plucking), with all their rich tints of | ' orange and carmine yet unfaded. it,” | however, you are so fortunate as to have an “akebia vine” anywhere on the premises you can have the prefer- able living green. This is a Japanese hardy vine, acclimated over here for perhaps a century, whose curious flow- ers of a reddish purple, male and fe male in one pendulous cluster,’ belong, to the heats.of suimmer, but whose small leaves are green and delicate even in midwinter. But if you have foregathered’ none” of these things you can purchase a little pot of maidenhbair fern and can lay the sprays around the centerpiece and up and down the table just before . the guests are seittéds as they shrivel | so soon., You can hardly have a ‘pret: tier ‘effect than this in its pure green” white contrast unless there is: added* to it a tiny boutonniere at every place, made oniy of a single bud, together with a leaf of the rose geranium. | Potatoes and other agricultural -pro- |. | In just a few hours, the Herald-| 10 o'clock, a. m., on“December . 23, | Cohasset, | EXPOSURE a Cohasset Cullings } Mise. Canfield called on friends at the “Rapids” Saturday afternoon. Mr. Walters’ sister arrived from Ashiand last week for. a short visit Mrs; -...C: Stivers, ‘af Superior, is Jutras. | 3 Mrs. Stockwell went to Hill City| Saturday“ to visit with friends for a few days: Mrs. Art. Clusia has! been very ill the ‘past week but is now getting along nicely. (Mr, and Mrs. F. E. "King, of Grand! Rapids, spent Sunday at the Henry Rannfranz“ home. Mr. and Mrs. C. M. Erskine were | visiting at the home of Mrs. Frank | | Song, Indian Lullaby, by Room. Recitation, Smile ‘Time, Daisy Com-, stock. Recitation, Pilgrim Boys, By 4 boys. Song, Thanksgiving Has Come, 2nd and 3rd girls. Irene Coleman. Recitation, Too Bad, By 4 Boys.s Song, Mr. Duck and Mr. Turkey, Pri- mary Room. Recitation, Grandma’s Pumpkin Pies, Eva Dunn. Rebus, Thanksgiving, 2nd grade. Song, A Grandmother’s House in the Country, By 1st and 2nd Prim- ary. up from Grand Rapids Saturday be | visit friends. | The Catholic Ladies’ Aid soctety | will meet with Mrs. H. P. Johnson, Thursday, December 7. | Mrs.” Harry Jones of Minneapolis} whois visiting at the Dr. Hursh’} home, has been ili the past week. | Miss Phoebe Smith . entertained | the C..B. I. club last Tuesday even-! ling. It is needless to state aaa | the young ladies had the “best ae ever.” At the first quarterly conference of | the M. KE. church, held Monday ev-| ening at the church, Dr. E. K. Cop- per, Disttrict Superintendent, found | |the conditions of the church in ,ex- cellent shape and ‘predicted @ most | successful’ year for Cohasset. | Thanksgiving services: will be held | at the M chureh Thursday .even- at at 8 o’clock.. Everybody ‘is cordi- | ally: invited to attend and to join in’ thé’ dxercises by expressing in! some way’ a reason for thankfulness, Dr. Hursh' ‘will occupy the pulpit. At 4’ business meeting of the young afternoon! the ‘following. were present,| Muriel ‘Brown, Evelyn. Lane, Gladys} McNaughton, Margaret Dunn, Goldie | Eadgette, clessie Newton, Anna Song, | Mabel Robideau and: Violet Voss. | “Silver Pitchers” was adopted as! the name of the organization. being useful as well as ornamental. | The hospitable home of Mr.. and) Mrs. J. M.: Stackhouse was the “lot great festivities Saturday” evening | last, the occasion being the erveta | wedding of the pair. A number - of .| friends. gathered and surprised them, | bringing. with them several dainty pieces of cut glass which were pre- | sented. to Mrs. Stackhouse amidst | much. merriment. After an evening | | spent int games, and social | enjoyment generally, re’ menis were served .by those in ch >, and | jat a late hour the gucsts departed, jcongratulafing their host and host- ess on -their fifteen years of hap-| j piness and+wishing them many more..| Those’ present were: Mr. and Mrs. Skocd6pole, Hanson, Gary, Stokes, | Fletcher, Gilmore, Rannfranz, Tracy, Mesdames Jellison and Kuehn, Miss- es Canfield and Cameron, Clyde Jel-| sison and Mrs. Reusswig, of Grand Rapids. music POPP ee heer ns Prien ore 1 COHASSET SCHOOL NOTES. Ida Sunnerson entered the first grade Monday. b-rhe new seats have arrived and | will be in place Monday, ‘Teachers and pupils expect to joy the Thanksgiving recess. “Thanksgiving exercises were held at the schoo] house Wednesday af- turnoon, the primary grades giving tlicirs at 1: 18 and the upper grades at 2:15 so that all interested might Visit both programs. They follow: Primary Program Song, Child's Thanksgiving, 2nd and 3rd grades. Rebus—Thankeg’ virg—by * Children. Recitation—1492—Irving Nadeau. Recitation—First Cous'ns+ Leslie | i ! en-| Primary | Hanson, { Song—The Brown ~Birds—-2nd and 8rd gradess. Recitation—The Bill of Fare—by 4 Boys. Recitation, Tommy’s Thanksgiving, - Clarence Parker. Recitation, Dolly, Its Almost. Thanks- giving, Laura Nelson. .| Recitation, The Popcorn Man, Ray- ‘Recitatin, Thes Popcorn Man, Ray- mond Goule. Recitation, The Reason Why, Chest- er Jones. 1 Hiawatha, by Primary Room. Siem Sida 1 a8 Upper Grades. Song, America, School. Recitation, The First Thanksgiving, Violet Voss. Recitation, Why We Keep Thanks- giving, Ama. Dunn. Recitation)’ Over the Seas; Robert McCabe. | Song, Thanksgiving, School. Recitation, Again Draws Near, Ber- tha Goulett. Recitation, Thanksgiving Prayer, by | Recitation, A Thanksgiving Letter, Gladys Cushman. Recitation, The Dinner That Flew! Away, Jack Carter. | Dialogue, Pilgrims, By Primary Children. Primary Recitation, Landing of the Pilgrims, | School. , Recitation, What November Brings, Stella McMann. Recitation, My Shadow, Myrtle Gou- , lett, Song, September is Gone, School. Recitation, Thanksgiving Prayer, Ha- | zel Coleman. Recitation, Once More, Lilly Payment | Recitation, Thanksgiving, Myrtle Coleman. : Recitation, The Festival Month, Frances Koplay. , Song, The Autumn Time Returns, School. ; Recitation, Old Fashioned Thanks giving, Roy Schneider. Recitation, Boys Wanted, Willie Cart- er. Recitation, Seeing Things at Night, Finley O’Brien, Recitation, Robin and Robert, Myrtle Goulett and Stella McMann. | Song, The Turkey Goblin, School. | Recitation, The Pilgrim Fathers, by Laura-MeCabe. Recitation, Waiting for the Children, Margaret O’Brien. Song, Song of the Hour, Several girls Reeitation, One Time There Came, Audley Lemieux. Recitation, Signs. Pansy Cushman. j Song, Over the River, School. of Thanksgiving, [Fall Fashions | All the latest in Feathers, Furs, Ribbons, Silks, etc., for neat and up- «eo to-date street and dress hats. "Also a fine line of Ladies’ furnish- ings. ....Come.in and look the ‘stock | © cover: Everything is fresh from the. ‘" astern markets. Ee" aie Seteteteteetntntet os Broo Hot teeteetonte 90oeeeeee Se se sal ta ss te ee i tes Up-to-Date Accommodaticns alee econteeton Soereatoetente John Nelson Proprietor Cohasset, - i seteetoete, soatoedondoetoets Minnesota Charles Brown thing Alwayson - Hand The Very Best ofEvery- | |