Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-12-21
DIR. PHILLIPS is
SANTA'S DEPUTY
Mont Alto Children to Have
Real Christmas Celebration
For First Time

Just because Old Mr.. S. Claus could
not manage his schedule in such way
as to personally visit a certain chill
dren's ward in the pine-clad slopes of
Mont Alto, doesn't necessarily mean
that he's forgotten the $50 odd little
folks whose Yuletide holidays "f'rever-
never" overshadowed by the spread
ing wings of the white plague" Not
at least when he's got such an agent
at hand as DIR. C. r. Phillips, chief of
the State antituberculosis dispensary
here, and chairman of Harrisburgs S
Red Cross Christmas seal sales COM
mittee.
DR.. Phillips has acted as a sort of
deputy Santa pretty well thus far,
even if he had to substitute his gaso-
line chugabout for regular reindeer.
On Pinc-Clad Mont Alto
For the first time, Christmas this
year will mean a real celebration with
oranges, candies and nuts and things
for the $50 youngsters at Mont Alto
tuberculosis natorium-through the
activities of DIR. Phillips. Which is
lot more wonderful when you realize
that thirty of these little folks are
Dauphin countians.
By merely making a request in the
name of Santa, DR.. Phillips got the
cooperation of Evans -Burtnett, tie
Bates market, Kreidler Brothers, the
Elks and George Barnes and Joseph
II. Frantz, two uptown grocers to the
extent of generous contributions of
nuts, oranges and so forth.
At the Dispensary
But DR.. Phillips didn't stop there.
Some $50 youngsters who undergo
treatment daily at the local dispen-
sary of course, will have their big tree
provided by the dispensary staff and
nurses and these firms are among
those who will contribute the toys
Dives, Pomeroy and Stewart, Bow
man and CO., Kaufman's Underselling
Store, Burns and CO., Bogar's Sport
ing Goods Store, the two Five and Ten
Cent stores, and the Twenty-Five Cent
Imperial.
School Days
Friends and patrons of the school
are invited to be present at the fourth
annual entertainment given by the
school to the students of the Susque-
hanna and Lochiel Open Air schools
The exercises will be held tomorrow
morning at 9:15 o'clock. The follow
ing program will be given: Overture
Tech Orchestra; devotional exercises,
led by Frank Gipple, president of the
Senior class; address of welcome
James Mcfarland; song by the school
"Adeste Ffdeles'; Christmas song,
Susquehanna building; Santa's shop,
Susquehanna building; THE Night
Before Christmas" Evelyn Mays,
Susquehanna building; recitation, II
Wonder" Ross Brown, Susquehanna
building; Christmas Gift, Gertrude
Peffley, Susquehanna building; Christ
mas Precaution, Girls of the fourth
and fifth grades of the Susquehanna
building; recitation, Edward Har-
lacher, Susquehanna building; Down
the Chimney" girls of the sixth and
seventh grades of the Susquehanna
building; recitation, Mildred johnson.
of the Susquehanna building: Saint
Nicholas" song by the SusquehannA
eighth grade girls; selection by the
Tech orchestra, Alone With You"
trombone solo part by Meredith Ger
mer: song, Three Kings of the
Orient" school; "A Day at the Open
Air School," by the Lochiel school:
song, Silent Night" by the Tech
school; Santa Claus himself then ap-