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 Holabird AdvocateProviding all the news we see fit to print since 2002!Wednesday, November 26, 2003 VOL. II Issue 11O AMERICA PREPARES TO GIVE THANKS We, the people of the United States, have a lot to be thankful for. You wouldn't know it to look at the Holabird Advocate Forum page, but we still do. So far this month only our Publisher, Jerry Hinkle, has listed what he is thankful for. And now he has one more thing. His car was having alternator trouble. His brother Darrel spent a lot of time digging in the snow at the Hinkle Automotive Used and Abused Car Lot to get to another alternator, take it of that car, and then put in Jerry's car. He has also been given the chance to see a sofa that Stephanie Herseth has sat upon. Do people in Holabird know how to party or what? Needless to say, the home office of the Holabird Advocate will be closed tomorrow. Today's edition has a collection of traditional Thanksgiving songs in the South Dakota Songbook. Our Publisher doesn';t know for sure where he will be spending the day, but he will be with his grandfather, wherever that may be. HOLABIRD SCRAPBOOK Here's an item from the Holabird Scrapbook from 1889: Mrs. Winans, a teacher at the school on the Sam Mason place south of Holabird, Mrs. Masom and her sister, Mrs. Frances felt a distict urge cityward-a wanderlust that would not be denied. But Mr. Mason had other plans for the oxen and wagon that day, and the case seemed hopeless, until Mrs. Frances said, "Well, we're going to Highmore. I have a yoke of oxen, and if I haven't a wagon, there's the stone boat". So they hitched the oxen to the stone boat and proceeded marrily, if slowly, to town. On nearing Highmore, however, pride overcame them, they tied up the oxen and walked the last mile. SOUTH DAKOTA SONGBOOK "We Gather Together" 1.We gather together to ask the Lord's blessing; he chastens and hastens his will to make known. The wicked oppressing now cease from distressing. Sing praises to his name, he forgets not his own. 2. Beside us to guide us, our God with us joining, ordaining, maintaining his kingdom divine; so from the beginning the fight we were winning; thou, Lord, wast at our side, all glory be thine! 3. We all do extol thee, thou leader triumphant, and pray that thou still our defender wilt be. Let thy congregation escape tribulation; thy name be ever praised! O Lord, make us free! "Now Thank We All Our God" Now thank we all our God, with heart and hands and voices, Who wondrous things has done, in Whom this world rejoices; Who from our mothers’ arms has blessed us on our way With countless gifts of love, and still is ours today. O may this bounteous God through all our life be near us, With ever joyful hearts and blessed peace to cheer us; And keep still in grace, and guide us when perplexed; And free us from all ills, in this world and the next. All praise and thanks to God the Father now be given; The Son and Him Who reigns with Them in highest heaven; The one eternal God, Whom earth and heaven adore; For thus it was, is now, and shall be evermore. "Harvest Home" Come, ye thankful people, come, raise the song of harvest home; All is safely gathered in, ere the winter storms begin. God our Maker doth provide for our wants to be supplied; Come to God’s own temple, come, raise the song of harvest home. All the world is God’s own field, fruit unto His praise to yield; Wheat and tares together sown unto joy or sorrow grown. First the blade and then the ear, then the full corn shall appear; Lord of harvest, grant that we wholesome grain and pure may be. For the Lord our God shall come, and shall take His harvest home; From His field shall in that day all offenses purge away, Giving angels charge at last in the fire the tares to cast; But the fruitful ears to store in His garner evermore. Even so, Lord, quickly come, bring Thy final harvest home; Gather Thou Thy people in, free from sorrow, free from sin, There, forever purified, in Thy garner to abide; Come, with all Thine angels come, raise the glorious harvest home.
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