Missoula Thanksgiving – 1891
Missoula Thanksgiving – 1891
The following 2 articles appeared in the Missoula Gazette, November 25, 1891. This was not the Missoulian newspaper.
Why We Are Thankful.
When the sun looks over the mountains tomorrow morning on Missoula it will look on a fairly prosperous people. There is no yellow fever, no cholera, no smallpox, no famine, no abject poverty, no bridge, no sewers, no opera house, November. The people have a great deal to be thankful for. They are thankful that the Northern Pacific railroad runs through the city, affording communication with the outside world, and that supplies do not have to be brought in over the trail on pack animals. They are thankful that railroad employees live here and spend their money here. They are thankful that the Missoula Mercantile company has numerous employees and that they live among us and spend their wages here. They are thankful that the Hennessy Mercantile company has numerous employees; that they live here and spend their money here. They are thankful that the Tuttle Manufacturing and Supply company has employees who live here and spend their money here. They are thankful that the Missoula Publishing company has employees who live here and spend their money here. They are thankful that the Missoulian comes out once a week and not oftener. They are thankful that all merchants, mechanics, laborers, etc., are making a living if not making money. They are thankful that food, fuel and clothing are in abundance. They are thankful for good schools, good churches, good people, good horses, and good dogs. They are thankful for a bountiful baby crop. They are thankful for plenty of turkeys, also chickens, ducks and geese. They are thankful for cranberry sauce, pumpkin and mince pie, crisp celery, red cheeked apples, red cheeked girls and cider on the side, also raisins, nuts and coffee. They are thankful, if wine and cigars can not be had, for pipes, tobacco and whisky punch. They are thankful tea can be laced, and that lacing is procurable. They are thankful that the city council is nearing dissolution and that the city attorney is going in that direction himself. They are thankful for that one sweetly solemn thought which tells them that the county commissioners are in the sere and yellow and must soon drip from the tree which has borne its fruit in abundance. They are thankful that there will be a new deal all around next year, and that there will be the worst surprised set of political fossils ever seen in Missoula county. They are thankful that the old bridge still stands. They are thankful that Manager Barnes, of the Missoula Mercantile company’s clothing department, donated the legs of “them pants of his’n” to two orphan girls who now have new circulars for the winter. They are thankful that winter hats, bonnets, cloaks, wraps, capes, furs, boas, dresses, gloves, shoes and stockings have been bought and paid for. For other things that are, for other things that are not, for plump turkeys done to a turn, good stuffing, better gravy and the best appetites for tomorrow’s feasts the people of Missoula are and will be thankful.
Missoula Thanksgiving dinner – 1891
At the Murphy Coffee Rooms, under the First National bank will be served tomorrow a choice and neat Thanksgiving dinner. A sumptuous bill of fare has been provided and the cost of meals fixed at the low price of 35 cents. Meals served on and after 11:30 a. m.
Following is the menu:
Soup – Oyster. N.Y. Counts, Celery.
Roast – Turkey with Cranberry sauce.
Vegetables – Mashed Potatoes, Stewed Turnips.
Dessert – Homemade Pie, Mince, Apple, Raspberry, Pumpkin.
The above menu appeared in the Missoula Gazette, November 25, 1891.