Pawtucket tribune. (Pawtucket, R.I.) 1890-189?, 1892-12-27
IN CENTRAL FALLS.
Christmas Passed Off
Very Quietly.
SERVICESAT THE CHURCHES
Music Of 4 High Order Rendered in All
Of Them.

Christ mas passed of quietly In this vii.
lage, though 1t was very generally OBJ
served. An account OF the services at the
churches Is given below:
Holy Trinity.
At Holy Trinity Sunday three masses
were celebrated, the first at O'Clock and
the third at 10 80 being high masses. The
officiating clergymen were the reverend
pastor, Patrick Farrelly, and Rev Bernard
Redihan, his assistant.
Miss Mary e. Kelley, the talented or
ganist, presided at the organ and directed
the singing during both high masses. The
music was MoEart's Twelfth Mass, with
Weigand's "Le Tentur Coll" as an offer
tory piece. The following soloists were
supported by fine chorus: Sopranos, Miss
Mary Mclaughlin, Mrs. Katie Malony
and Miss Maggie McNamsra; altos, Misses
Emma Clegg, Katie Cooney and Maggie
Farrell; tenors, Messrs. Travers, Moore,
McKenna and Valley; bsssos, Messrs.
Coffey, Thornton and Harold. The diff
cult music was excellently sung and the
directress, Miss Kelley, 10 to be congratu-
lated on the splendid showing made by
soloists and chorus.
In the evening at 7: 80 O'Clock the chill
dren belonging to the Sunday school as
embled with their teachers In the base
ment Of the church and received many
presents Of beauty and value from two
heavily laden and handsomely trimmed
Christmas trees.
Dvtp 10 ha Aiatr hnt Ton nt 4 ha ntf ha
audience, which included many grown up
members of the parish as woll as several
ladies and gentlemen from nsig hboring
parishes. listened with pleasure to finely
executed organ selection by Miss Mary Il.
Kelly, and readings by Miss Lottie Lar
gan NICK itchsn and Miss Mary A. Smith.
Miss Largan- NJ itchen, who Ii bright
little lady OF ten Summers, won round
after round of applause for her very clever
rendering OF Little Mischief" and re-
sponded In an equally pleasing manner
with "Mary AIMS Narrow Escape" The
reading of Miss Smith, "An Incident OF
'ss," was a delightful Interpretation Of the
beautiful poem, and the psthstic words,
spoken In . voice of deep feeling and with
no little dramatic ability, brought tears to
tho eyes of many In the gathering.
The credit of perfecting and bringing
about the Christmas tree and enjoyable
entertainment is due to the Christian
Doctrine Society, whose members worked
together as one man to accomplish their
lsudable undertaking. II is gratifying to
chronicle their complete success. Every
child came filed with happy anticipation
and went home huppy In the realization
OF promises fulfilled.
French Catholic.
The services at the Church OF Our Lady
of the Sacred Heart on Christm mas Day
were very interesting and beautiful. They
were under the direction Of the rector
Rev. George I. Mahoney, assisted by Rev
Joseph X. Bourgeois. Three masses were
celebrated, OF which one was a low mass
The music had been specially arranged
for the joyous occasion by the organist
Miss Le Blanc, and was finely rendered
| by the regular choir OF the church. The
| interior Of the sacred edifice had been
decorated with evergreens and presented
q neat and tasteful appearance.
Baptist.
Unlike previous years there we're no
Christmas gifts at the Baptist Sunday
school gathering last night. Superinten-
dent McIlwrsith directed the rendition
OF q osntsta by the children and other ex
ercises OF pleasant nature served to fill
outa most enjoyable evening.
Congregational.
Ats O'Clock last evening the $50 children
belonging to the Congregational Sunday
school enjoyed Christmas festival and
| csntsts. A weli-losded gift tree was q
| pleasing feature, and each little heart
WAS gladdened by useful and beautiful
presents distributed by Santa Claus, Jo-
seph Mcintyre.