The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1907-12-25
CHRISTMAS JOY
IN EVERY HOME
Celebration of Day Carries
Cheer to City'S Poor
and Unfortunate.
OBSERVANCE IN CHURCHES
RAY OF HAPPINESS ENTERS
JAIL AND PRISON.

Santa Claus dropped down the Chin
ney in thousands of Salt Lake homes
last night, and this morning old Santa
must be chuckling over the shouts of
wonder and delight of the children'
Every home blessed with healthy,
rpmping young Americans is probably
turned upside down by this time, and
will remain in that condition until the
youngsters, tired with play and dis
posed TO be somnolent after their
Christmas dinners, wander off to slum-
berland.
And while the JOY of Christmas is
Frightening the faces and filling the
hearts of innocent children, the days
more solemn meaning will not be for
gotten. At several of the churches the
birth of the Savior in the lowly place
at Bethlehem will be celebrated with
services of rejoicing over the message
he gave TO the world. This message
of love and charity will be remembered
not only by services in the churches,
but by gifts to the poor, the sick and
those who are inpriSon.
One of the first of the Christmas eel
ebrations was given last night at the
First Congregational church. II was
a Christmas tree, and a Santa Claus
and Mother Goose entertainment
About $50 children enjoyed the delights
of the occasion. The big Christmas
tree was Illuminated with electric
lights, and was a thing of beauty and
splendor. Each child was given a box
of candy.
Dinners for the Poor.
1t wasn't "a free4entertainment. There
was a stern dOorkeeper who rigidly
collected the price of admission, two
apples or two potatoes. The children
found great delight in paying their
way into the fairyland i'm this way.
Each apple and each potato was a
model of its kind and when the hall
was filled there were about ten bushels
on hand. These will be used today in
preparing Christmas dinner for the
poor. The Sunday school classes of the
/ church have arranged to provide din
ners 70, eighty-five poor families. Each
| child il TO contribute something to-
ward the Christmas baskets They will
meet at the homes of their Sunday
| school teachers today, and when the
/ baskets are filled they will be deliv-
| cred tc those for whom theyrare in
| tended.
/ Those who are sick and suffering in
/ the city institutions will be remem-
| hered during the day. There will be
! Christmas dinners and cheering visits
from kindly men and women. who.
with hearts filled with the Christmas
spirit, will find their enjoyment in
| bringing smiles to the faces of the I'M
| fortunate.
Even the prisoners who anguish in
the state penitentiary and in the jails
of the city will not be forgotten.
Entertainment at Pen.
At the state penitentiary today a
/ Christmas musical entertainment will
be given by the Christian Endeavor So
| ciety Each of the PA cOnyicts will be
given a box of nuts and candies. The
Christmas dinner will be an appetiz-
ing change from the regular prison
fare There will be roast pork, with
dressing: mashed potatoes with brown
gravy; bread, butter, pickles, coffee
milk, oranges, bananas, cookies and
mince pies.
At the city Jail the forty-fve prison
| ers viii also get roast pork, with dress
ing; mashed potatoes with brown gra-
Wy; celery, plum pudding and apples
and mince pies.
There will be a chicken dinner at the
county Jail. With the poultry will be
/
gravy; cranberry sauce, fruit, bread
butter and side dishes which will make
the various offenders think of home.
| Seven men were released from tbs
county Jail yesterday because it was
the day before Christmas. They might
have been compelled to anguish there
| longer, but as they were the fathers OF
families il was decided to let then
spend the day of rejoicing at theii
homes. Three of the men, F. X. Freed
man. Fred Johnson and j. Peterson
had become involved in a check trans
action which was satisfactorily adjust
ed by their friends.
Two others were Oliver LOOMS anC
Chris Anderson of Alta. They had beer
sent TO jail for celebrating not wisely
but too well, some other occasion. The
remaining two who made up the sever
were Austrians who had been jailed fol
! trifing offenses at Garfield.
Both the Salvation Army and tbs