The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-12-24

| FAINT class: recitation, "At Midnight"
| Jennie Evans; recitation, EARLY
| Christmas Morning" Florence Axleson:
recitation, "A Song in the Air Flossie
mas. Blanche Cattermole; song. well
| come, Jesus, Welcome" intermediate
| classes.
| Baptist Church.
Monday evening at the Baptist
| church a Christmas tree and entertain
ment will be given for and by the Sun
| day school. The decorations for the
festival are about finished and present
! an unusually pretty and attractive
| scene. Santa Claus will Chamber down
| an open fireplace and toss boxes of
goodies to each child. The special nu-
| sic will be under the direction of Miss
May Redmond. The following pro-
Same Jesus" school; prayer by the
pastor, Rev. Mr.. jenkins; recitation,
| Welcome" Inez Thomas; song, "A
| Christmas Carol" school; recitation,
"A Little Girls Troubles" Myrtle
Howe; one-minute exercise by seven
! little children; recitation, Il Am Lit
| tile Girl" Martha May; class exercise,
| Jesus to Earthland Is Gomez recita-
| ton, "An Explanation" Gladys Lux
ton; anthem, THE Song of Jubilee
choir. exercise. The Message Of the
Christ Was Borh,'' Louie Thielkeld;
| duet by the Misses Redmond; recita-
ton, "a Christmas Psalm IneZ Hen
bricks; dialogue, Christmas Day"
Johnny Daughter and John Thomas;
"Bethlehem,' G. Thomas; exercise,
THE Name and the STAR" recitation
by Regi Goodwin: anthem, 'Hark! Ten
Thousand Harps,' choir. recitation;
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Baptist Church.
This evening services appropriate to
Christmas will be held in the Baptist
church.
At ST. Peters.
The solemnities of Christmas will be
opened at st. Peters church tonight
at a quarter of an hour before mid
night with a commemorative hymn by
the convent choir, with accompaniment
of harp, violin and organ. Then will
follow the solemn rite of midnight
mass, the music for which has been
most carefully selected and will he
artistically rendered by some of the
best talent of the city. The programme
follows:
Agnus Dei--Ivan la Flacke.
Gloria-Leonard.
Offertory, "Adeste Fidelis"
Credo--Rosewig.
misunderstanding.
Benedictus--Rosewig.
Agnes Dei-Ivan Ia Flacke.
Mrs. L. J. Baker will be the organ
list. Mrs. Collins and the Misses Nc
Cabe and Gleason VIZ lead the so
prano and alto, while the well known
voices of Messrs. Videot, McMullan
and Maginnis viii be heard in the tenor
and basso. The sermon will be preached
by one of the fathers from All Hallows'
college.
Dec. % will be jubilant in St Peters
church with the festal echoes of chill
dren's day.
Holy Innocents'' morning high mass
at o'clock will be celebrated by Rev.
A. r. Coopman and sung by the con-
vent choir. In the evening at t:5o
Christmas tree will be given for the
Sunday school children, and the fol-
lowing programme by the pupils of the
Ursuline convent will be rendered: Sal
utatory Miss A. Sullivan; duet; Misses
McHale and Kelly; "Minuet,' the little
boys; "Three Little Souls and The
Lesson of the Sunfower," by the iH.,
Nor class of elocution; Sailing Of
King Olaf" and "Coriolanus, by Mas
ter r. Nolan and the senior class;
"Grande Marche de Concert, Wallen-
Carol by the little ones, and Gounod's
And There Were Shepherds" by the
convent choir.
To this first feast of the convent
children all are most cordially invited
At ST. PauPs.
Christmas day at st. Pauls will be
observed with all the solemn church
pomp of that occasion. The special
music will include the rendition of Won
La Hache's chorus mass and two Sc
| lected Christmas anthems by a icholr
of 16 juvenile voices. Following are the
hours of service: Sunday, Dec. "a, mass
at $50 a. m. in the chapel of st. AIMS
hospital; mass at a. m in the church;
high mass at 10 a. m. in the church;
no Sabbath school or evening service,
| but instead "a service at p. m. in the
hospital chapel: midnight mass in the
| church. Christmas day, mass in the
| church at a. m; service in the nos
| pital chapel at $50 a. M; mass in the
| church at s a. M, sermon preached by
| the Rev. Father Lurquin, S. M, of All
| Hallows' college. Salt Lake, to the
French Canadians. special music by
| the Junior choir; at 1890 a. m. hlgh
mass in the church. with full choir; at
| 7:S0 p. m. Christmas evening service.
| Benedicta, with the administration OF
| the blessed sacrament, and the rem
! dering of "Adeste Fidelis by the child
ren's choir, 20 Salutaris' by J. Baker,
| the Gloria in Excelcis" by the child
ren's choir. Rossis "Tantum Ergo by
| Captain McGnnis and the doxology
| by the chUirs combined.
| On next Thursday afternoon between
| the hours of 2 and o'clock in A. Q. III.
| hall the IS teachers and $50 scholars of
| st. Paurs Sabbath school will cele-
| brate Christmas tree festival, which,
| by the plans laid for it, will be the
feature of the year in the young folk
| circle of the church. To this happy
| fete all the poor children of the city
| who have missed a visit from Santa
! Claus are invited with open hosoital-
| ity. 1t will be disappointment to the
| givers of the feast if they do not come
| and partake of the cheer of the day
| it matters not to what denomination
| they belong, or If to none. The COM
mittee of entertainment is Mrs. Peter
| Towhey. Miss Anna Franklin and Miss
| Alice Collins. The committee having
in care the preparation of the musical