Evening Republican, Volume 18, Number 306, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 December 1914 — The Different Churches Give Christmas Entertainments. [ARTICLE]

The Different Churches Give Christmas Entertainments.

The Methodist Sunday School Christmas entertainment Thursday evening was one of the best ever given by the school. The entire church and Sunday school room were crowded with children and their parents. The program consisted of songs, recitations, dialogues -by the children. As there were over fifty children on'the program it is impossible to give the names, but all did very weftl. A Christinas tree, sixteen feet high, was beautifully decorated. At the close of the program Santa Claus came and distributed gifts and boxes and bags of candy to the children. Four hundred candy boxes and bags were given out. The children and grown-up people all had a jolly time and all feel it was one of the best Christmas entertainments ever given by this Sunday school. The entertainment at the Presbyterian church Thursday evening consisted of a miscellaneous program of songs and recitations by the little folks from the primary department of the Bible school, followed by a tree. The program was in charge of Mrs. C. C. Warner and Mrs. A R. Hopkins, and the crowd that filled the auditorium seemed to enjoy every number from the addresses of welcome by Freddy Fendig to the closing song. The tree was well laden with good things, the distribution of Which (brought joy to the Children. Entertainments were also given at the Christian and Baptist churdhes, the former taking place Wednesday evening and the latter on Thursday evening.