Thanksgiving Day at Guam

1900

Thanksgiving intelligence from Guam, although somewhat belated, was of a cheering sort, as befits the day.

The governor of the island, in his report to the Secretary of the Navy, in speaking of the services in honor of the day, held in the Roman Catholic Church, says that the congregation in attendance was so large that it completely packed the edifice and overflowed outside into "rows fifteen deep."

"The entire assemblage," the governor observes, "seemed to evince a sincere, earnest and devout interest in this their first American Thanksgiving day."

And throughout the island the people were equally and heartily responsive in their observances of the day, thus testifying to their "cordial and faithful acceptance of the radical change in government," concludes the governor. — Youth's Companion.