The Coconino sun., 1925-01-02

L E Il PP DE p Ar z VI E N T

that fingered about to complete their
banquet with smokes and expressing
the wish that each year had more
than onea "Kismus"
The Employees party which is sched-
uled for the last Saturday of each
month, fell on Christmas week this
year and while several of the mem
bers were away on leave, there were
enough remaining to have an enjoy
able social. Games of various. sorts,
such as basketball contest in which
Messrs. LeMieux and Young we're the
leaders, caused a lot of sport and
plenteous amount of noise. Mr..
Young and his experts won. Messrs.
Marble and Locker chose UP for a
roping contest and the formers side
proved more speedy in action and
were pronounced the winners. Dancing
filled in good portion of the pro-
gram and in the prize waltz, Mr.. and
Mrs. Jack Balmer carried off the
honors, Mesdames Locker and Mar
BILE and Miss Rhodes acting as judges.
Leupp's fine orchestra furnished the
music and for a proper setting in a
quadrille, three fiddlers were mounted
on a table a la old fashioned party
style and Wayland Crisp managed to.
keep the dancers tangled up by his
Texas nngo calling off" An inter-
prefer was loudly called for but to no
avail The program committee re-
sponsible for this enjoyable affair.
was Mrs. Taptuka, Miss Rhodes, Mr..
Hollem and Mr.. Greeley.
Several of the employees planned a
Sunday trip over into the Hopi coun-
try, but when the time came, decided
it was too chilly for an enjoyable ride,
hence remained by the fireside.
1t is unanimously agreed that
Christmas of 1924 was for the Leupp
school children one Of the most enjoy
able seasons of their experience. Gen
erous people of the east from numer-
Gus towns and states had provided an.
abundance of gifts, and old Santa
Claus loaded down on Wednesday
evening at the assembly hall. The
children put on splendid program of
music, recitations, ETC., and immed-
lately upon its close, the honk of the
auto horn announced the arrival OF OLD
Santa Claus in all his glory and be-
fore presenting his gifts short
speecn was delivered to explain that
the absence of snow had made an au-
tomobile trip necessary, even though
he preferred the reindeer. Two beau
tifully trimmed trees, made more at
tractive by numerous colored electric
lights, were laden with gifts, enough
to provide three toys each to the girls
and two each to the boys, not to men
Ition the bags of candy, nuts and fruit
provided by Superintendent Marble.
a generous Christmas dinner had.
been given the little folks, who were
served by practically all employees OF
the school, A large gathering of par
ents and friends at the evening OF par
gram marks their increasing interest.
in education.
Christmas rations were issued the
parents who came from a distance to
paw Christmas visits to their children.
The holiday vacation was rather
brief because of time lost recently
when the heating system was out OF
order. School closed Wednesday and
opened Monday.
The coldest spell Of the winter has
been registered in Leupp the past
week, and two or three mornings the
record showed two and three below.
No snow has fallen and we had a
green Christmas.
Leupp Boarding club enjoyed o.
feast of good things on Thursday and
every member was present. A Christ
mas tree centered each table and red
nut cups carried out the color scheme,
while Christmas bells and poinsettas
gave the dining rooms touch of the
season. Appropriate boxes filled with.
candy and nuts were the favors car
ried away. Through the kindness of
Rev. A. K Locker the club partook
of real fruit cake which was unani-
mously voted as first class. Rev..
Locker was a graduate in the art of
baking in his fatherland, Holland be-
fore coming to this country and he
enjoys keeping in practice while pro-
viding a treat for his friends. Be-
side this splendid cake, the club mem