The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1924-12-11
Downtown Business Mems
Association Plan Christ
mas Program.
COMMUNITY SINGING
Plan to Open Celebration Dec.
18th with the dwelling
of a Big Tree.

A Christmas celebration, featuring
a large municipal Christmas tree to
be placed in Market Square and the
singing of carols there for each night
from December 18th up to and in
Guiding Christmas Eve, is being
planned for Kenosha by the Down
town Business Mems association, ac-
cording to announcement made today
by Richard F. Francis, secretary of
the association.
The plans were made public today in
invitations sent to all of the churches
of the city and to civic organizations
inviting them to cooperate in the
program which is expected to bring a
realization of the holiday spirit here
to a greater extent than ever before
in the history of Kenosha.
This letter in part, explaining the
plan, reads as follows:
A Tree and Carols.
1t is an appropriate custom in most
of the cities throughout the land, to
have municipal Christmas tree in
their community, and this year the
downtown business men of Kenosha
have appropriated funds for such a
tree to be erected on Market Square.
This tree will be credit to our COM
munity and lighted every night with
hundreds of electric lights.
There is no more BETTING custom
during the Christmas season, than the
singing of Christmas carols near the
Christmas tree. A committee has
taken charge to have this plan car
ried out this year and you are cor
daily invited to have your. church
choir, children's choir, Or singing
society participate. We are extend
ing this invitation also to all churches
and societies with members of foreign
birth or extraction, to sing their
Christmas songs as they are sung
in their lands.
Opens on December Is.
It has been planned to open this
celebration on December 18th, at 1880
p. m. with the singing of Americas
most popular Christmas songs, sung
by everybody present and band ac-
companying the same. The singing
of these songs by Individual churches
or societies is desired to take place
on various evenings, starting with
December 10th, at 7:30 p. m. and
each night thereafter to December
oath inclusive.
A platform will be erected on Mar
ket Square from which the singers
may be heard. Announcements will
be made through our local newspaper,
stating the name of the church or
society singing on that evening.
You will agree with me, that this
gives also the various nationalities an
excellent opportunity to make the
public acquainted with the Christmas
songs of their respective country and
as sung in the native language.
1t will be highly appreciated by us
if you would inform us of your CO.
operation in this event, and on what
evening your singers would like
to sing
| The plan in more detail is described
! in a letter sent forth to members of
the association setting forth just
what preparations have been made
for the observance. This letter reads
as follows:
| % A big municipal Christmas
decorated with hundreds of colored
electric lights and maintained for
three weeks, beginning December 18th
to January 4th. All churches and
singing societies of Kenosha will be
invited to sing Christmas songs in
the evenings (from December 10Th to
January 4th), special invitations will
be given to the various nationalities
of foreign birth, to sing their native
songs appropriate for Christmas and
as they are sung in their native
countries. This will give the public
an opportunity to hear Christmas
carols as they are sung by foreign
nations. A platform will also be
erected on Market Square for these
singers.
(2) All lamp posts in the down
town district will be decorated with
evergreen and appropriate colors.
co Large, "a sheet advertising
posters will be placed in the out
skirts of the city, calling attention
to the down town shopping center and
the Christmas tree.
! In announcing the plans for the
| Christmas celebration, the committee
| invited all who are interested in the
singing where this is desired. Bands
ing to take part in this, to cooperate.
The various singing societies of the
city, it is hoped, will unite with
churches and other civic organizations
in the project. George E. Bickford
director of creation for Kenosha, has
consented to direct the community
singing where this is desired Bands
of the city viii also be asked to take
part in the program on some of the