The daily morning journal and courier., 1906-12-26
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AAOW Ohf1stmaS Day hus ODberYeC aI
 East Pearl Street Church-Presenta-
 tlOn to the Rev. E. c. TuIIar-
 Other Local and Personal Notes.
 There was good cold and crisp wealth CT yesterday and the real Christmas article. It was a good day to stay in by the freside and partake of the Yule- tide cheer. Many juveniles enjoyed skating and coasting, and a few sleighs were out. Business was generally shut down, although many of the grocery and provision stores kept open doors until Il or 12 o'clock Station A closed at noon The carriers were glad to be able to enjoy half-holiday, and so were the attaches of the station after their arduous duties. The carriers suc- ceeded in cleaning up the accumulation of Christmas mail matter yesterday morning and distributed the same among hundreds of homes.
 A large audience assembled at the East Pearl Street M. p. church last evening at o'clock, the hour for be- ginning the Christmas festival for the Sunday school, The Christmas decora- tions were very pretty and attracted much attention. Tn front of the pulpit platform was an evergreen ladder, and reaching from floor to ceiling and on the rungs of this ladder were suspend ed hundreds of gifts for the members of the large Sunday school There were also gifts from pupils to teachers and from teachers to pupils, and the distribution was most joyous occa- sion and the joy was participated in by old as well as the young. The pro- | gramme was under the direction of the superintendent, Frank J. Mansfield, During the evening there was a sur prise for the pastor of the church, when Charles 0. Francis, chairman of the finance committee of the church, in behalf of many donors, presented to 1 him a roll of greenbacks, the amount being between $65 and $75, The pastor, l Rev. E. c. Tullar, was completely sur prised, and when MT Francis had fin- ished speaking the former voiced his thanks in appropriate words. He said that he was greatly surprised, and, while unexpected, the gift was greatly appreciated. Then came another sur prise, and this time for the deaeoness, Miss Harriet Briggs, who received a 1 purse containing about $35 in gold, a gift from friends in the parish. The l presentation was made by John s. San ford with appropriate words. Miss Griggs expressed her thanks and her great surprise, and spoke of the work that she was doing in the parish. Miss l Griggs has been attached to this church only few months, but during that time has done good work in visiting in the homes and cheering the sick, and doing very largely the work of an as- sistant pastor.
 The programme for the festival was as follows:
 | cessional-School. l Singing School.
 Responsive reading. 1 Singing-School.
 Prayer-Rev. F. c. Tullar.
 Recitation-Ro Warner
 Exercise by the primary department Christmas spelling lesson by nine girls. Singing School.
 l Recitation-Esther Crawford.
 Recitation Marguerite Elsimer. I Recitation Mildred Mansfield. l Song School.
 Recitation-Sav Little Christmas
 Master Ralph Perkins.
 Reeitation-son of the Angels-Mabel Benton,
 ! Original poem-Our Ladder-Read by
 Miss Calista Bristol
 Recitation-Florenc Grosvenor. l Singing School,
 Remarks by the pastor.
 Collection.
 l Singing School.
 Distribution of presents. | Doxology
 Mir. and Mrs. Henry I. Barnes and
 daughter Florence, of Exchange street, attended the Booth family gathering at the home of Mir. and Mrs. Walter Lew is in Hartford yesterday. Miss Barnes will remain over New Years.
 Mrs. Mary Santry, of New York, is spending the holidays with relatives on Lloyd street.
 Miss May Heaney of Houston street, spent Christmas with relatives in Coll chester,
 Frederick Butterfield of Welcome l street, left Monday for Ohio, where he is to take a college course in electrical engineering.
 Last summer 150 colored Bible pie ] ture cards were sent by the Junior Endeavor society of the Grand Avenue Baptist church to the Boston mission ary headquarters with the request that they be sent to some foreign mission ary who might desire them for use in 1 the work. On Monday a postal card was received from King Tung, Burma, acknowledging the receipt of the cards and stating that they would help very much. The card contained the picture of group of some fifty Burmans and
 bore a stamp of India, the cost of which is one anna.