The Canon City record with which is consolidated the Canon City cannon., 1920-12-30
Christmas in
Canon City

The Christmas celebration in Canon
City and its surroundings this year
was one of great enjoyment to all
and was observed with general merri-
ment and festivity. This was fore
casted in the holiday shopping, which
was unusually brisk and universal for
a week previous to the advent of the
festal day. Never did local merchants
do more thriving business in holi-
day merchandise and never did the
public enter with more zest and earn
estness into the spirit OF the occasion.
There was generous buying and gen.
erous giving in all quarters. Every
body as far as possible was made
happy, either by gifts of some kind
or by kindly greeting from friends
and neighbors. Thousands of post
cards and holiday letters brought con-
gratulations and expressions of hap
piness and good will to the people of
the community from absent relatives
and friends and contributed their
need to the pleasures OF the day.
In scores of homes guests were en-
tertained at Christmas dinners, and
on every hand Joy was unconfned.
1t was day of pleasure to the resi-
dents at the Odd Fellows home; to
the aged and infrm at the county
hospital, to the prisoners in the coun-
ty jail and to the convicts in the pen
itentiary. All of them were the re-
cipients of a bounteous dinner and
+ gifts from friends Everybody had a
treat Of some kind and appreciated it.
as well as the occasion which prompt
ed it. The poor and the unfortunate
of the city were looked after by the
Elks' lodge. the Red Cross. the
churches. the benevolent organiza-
tions and societies and kindly dis
posed men and women in an individ
ual capacity. If there were any who
needed help and encouragement at
Christmas that did not receive it.
their omission was unintentional and
an oversight that is to be regretted.
II was the desire of everybody in the
Canon City district to make every
! body else in the community happy SO
far as possible. and they largely, at
least, succeeded in making good in
that ambition. The fine holiday
spirit abroad and the ideal Christmas
weather that prevailed, added their
full share to the enjoyment to the
Christmas festivities.
Never was Christmas more beauti-
fully and reverently commemorated
in the churches Of Canon City thin this
year. All of them were attractively
and appropriately decorated in cele-
bration of the nativity and the birth
of the Savior was honored in song
and special discourse. Everywhere
there were large congregations Of
worshipers on Sunday, which. in re-
ligious devotion, marked the Christ
mas-tide. The sermons were elo-
quent and the music elaborate and de-
lightful. In the Sunday schools 1t
was a day of giving to relieve the
suffering and destitution in lands
striken by war, famine and plague,
as well as to the poor and unfortunte
of our own land. There was hardly
a Sunday school in the city that did
not do something for charity: some
thing that would help alleviate suf-
fering and distress at home or abroad
The pupils of the Sunday school Of
the First Methodist Episcopal church
contributed s345 Sunday morning for
the relief of the war-stricken people
of Europe and the NearEast, be-
sides giving generously of supplies
for Beth Ell hospital at Colorado
Springs and the Mcclellan orphanage
at Pueblo. At the same time the
teachers and pupils of the Sunday
school of the First Presbyterian
church gave s4062S to assist in re-
lieving the distress among the fam
ine-stricken people Of China.
The Christmas services at the vari-
GUS churches Of Canon City in speech
and song and charity were all notable
and 1t is a matter of regret that The
Daily Record is unable to refer ex-
tendedly to all of them. They were
all highly crediable in character,
beautiful in their execution and sin
cere in their praise of the Worlds
Redeemer.
The Christmas services of the Sun
day school of the Christian church
was held Sunday night and was very