The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-12-24
ANACONDA NEWS.
With FIR AND FESTIVAL.
The People OF the Churches We'll
come Christmas Day.
SANTA CLAUS APPEARS
To Hundreds OF Sunday School Chill
dren and Showers Gifts on Alto
Days and To-Morrow's Services
Throuehout the City

These are the immediate days when
those young women who bear upon
their shoulders the burden of Sunday
school classes impress into their pleas
ant service the young men of their
friendship, who thereby are made to
pay the tribute of much muscular ex-
ertion and some sweat of the brow, to
the merry end that dim church chan
GELS may have their solemnity relieved
by the presence of fir trees and Christ
mas greens, for the honor of the Yule-
tide day and the remembrance of hap
py+ things. 1t is the cheerful duty of
the young men friends to poise them
selves on church basement step lad
ders which are become rickety from
Want of use, and tie upon the Christ
mas boughs a multitude of bediZening
things from the realm Of the reindeer
sleigh, while the young women task
1nistresses stand abaft and direct. It's
a most delightful form of servitude for
the young man of friendship, even to
the attaching of Biblical texts and
parts thereof to pebbe-dashed walls,
and the young man does not exist who
would deny it or wish himself out of
the job
w great many young men have been
thus helping greater number of young
women, just now to brighten with
Christmas cheer the interiors Of all the
churches in Anaconda, SO that by last
night many fetes We're in readiness for
scores of eager boys and girls to whom
Santa Claus and the mystery Of the
Christmas tide have not vet become a
myth. All the churches in the city are
making special efforts of one sort or
another in favor Of the years birthday,
and not few of them have included
the gaily decked fir or spruce tree in
their programmes.
At the Presbyterian Church.
A Christmas tree that was. perhaps,
the tallest and biggest in the city stood
propped firmly into place in a corner
of the audience room of the Presby-
terrain church last night. Its lower
boughs spread out foot from the floor
and it's top tassel would have been lost
from view in the shadows of the roof
had it not been for the silver and gold
of the trimmings that flashed and
cleaned in the branches, This giant
tree did it's celebrating at O'Clock last
evening, when the Sunday school chill
tlren of the church gave their annual
Christmas entertainment. From the
boughs of the tree We're handed down
gifts for each of 200 scholars, and
real live Santa Claus rained fruit
and. candies and nuts with right
royal and generous hand
The other feature of the evenings
entertainment was the presentation of
the cantata, Tine Growing Of Christ
mas by the following dramatis per-
sonae-teachers and scholars of the
school:
New Years Day, Miss Meals class;
st. Valentines Day, Miss Hannah
Thomas; Washinstcn's Birthday, Bruce
Bettes: Children's Day, Mrs. Lymans
class: Independence Day, Mrs. Webb's
class; Thanksgiving Day, Mrs. White
hills class; Christmas Day, Mr.. Pickle;
Pages, Fred Gillmood and Howard
Toole; Crown Bearer, Ruth Maxwell;
Orchestra, Miss Morse, Thula Toole
Miss Wood. George Greenwood.
To-day Christmas services will be
held at the Presbyterian church. The
pastor, the Rev. F. B. Cleland, will
preach at II a. m. on Christ, the Com
ing One and at $50 p. m. on THE
the day will be under the direction of
Miss Macdougal and Mrs. Richardson,
organist This music will be rendered.
Solo, 20 Holy Night Adam, Miss Mac
dougal; anthem, 1.-The Wondrous
Story, G. B. Adams. choir; solo, The
Heavenly Messenger" Coombs, Miss
Macdougal, with violin obligato by Miss
Morgan; anthem, 20 Come, All Ye
Faithful" Adeste Fideles, choir: violin
solo, "Minuet," Mozart, Miss Nor
gan.
The Methodist Church.
The audience room of the Methodist
Episcopa! church had been frightened
with greens and two handsomely
trimmed Christmas trees. Last even
ing the members of the Sunday school
gave a pleasingly arranged entertain
ment, feature of which was the dis
tribution of a gift with candy, nuts
and fruit. to each of the $50 scholars.
Much labor and not a little money had
been expended in an effort to make
this the brightest Christmas festival
in the history of the church, and not
without success.
Following is the programme that was
rendered: Song, 'Joy to the World"
school; prayer by the pastor, Rev. Mr..
Cattermole; words of welcome by the
Rev. Mr.. Blabey; recitation, Joy to
the World" Is children: recitation,
Barefoot Bob" Clarence Preston;
song, GLORY Be to God Most High"
intermediate classes; dialogue, Christ
mas Wish,' Ethel Weaver and Alice
Egbert: recitation by Lena Trudeau;
motion song, "Twinkle. Twinkle" in